Your First Look at Halo 4

[Lazaros Paok Fc]

Last week at Microsoft's Spring Showcase, I and a whole bunch of other reporters got our first look at this fall's Halo 4. The fourth proper entry in the franchise (not counting ODST and Reach) will be released this fall, and will feature longtime series star Master Chief in an all-new adventure.
Halo 4 will be the first Halo game not made by Bungie, who created the series ten years ago. Instead, the game is being created by 343 Industries. At the event, 343's Frank O'Connor and Kiki Wolfkill showed us the above video, and shared some information about the coming game. Vague information, but information nonetheless.

The first thing they showed us was Master Chief himself, whose armor has been slightly redesigned for the new game. (If you recall, the armor he was wearing in the game's E3 debut last year wasn't his final, official look.) We'd already seen an action figure depicting Chief's new look, and this screenshot confirms his lighter, more flexible new armor.



The video above is mostly a bunch of the Halo 4 team talking about (surprise!) how totally awesome they think Halo is, but you can get a sense of the multiplayer from watching it. It sounds as though multiplayer will be tied more to the fiction this time around, with a story-based reason explaining why so many spartans are duking it out all over the galaxy.

The maps won't be lifted from the campaign but rather have been created specifically to allow for balanced gameplay. When asked about balancing the multiplayer for MLG pro-gaming, O'Connor said that they are taking MLG seriously, but didn't go into detail as to what exactly that meant.

In multiplayer, characters will control Spartan 4s, which are a new type of Spartan super-soldier; there will be a wealth of customization options for your Spartan. Some of those options will be cosmetic, but some will be functional.



As for the solo campaign, O'Connor and Wolfkill remained tight-lipped. O'connor did say that this is going to be "a more personal sory," but that he "wouldn't expect Master Chief to start chatting people up or anything." They repeated several times that they have ripped everything apart and all of the game's features had been either rebuilt from the ground up or massively overhauled.

There will be new sound effects, some of which we got to hear as Wolfkill walked around an empty multiplayer level—the guns sounded punchy and clear, and her Spartan's footsteps were loud and metallic. Longtime Halo composer Marty O'Donnell isn't on the game, and they said that there will be more information about the composer soon.

They also hinted at some sort of coming announcement that will be a "crossing of the rubicon" for the Halo series. While hype is hype and blind items are blind, it did sound as though they are convinced that some aspect of Halo 4 will be seen as a large change to the core of the series.

This game, O'Connor said, would "define the next ten years of Halo." Sounds ambitious. We'll have more information on Halo 4 as it slowly…trickles…out… leading up to release of the game this fall.





Your First Look at Halo 4

[Androiduser38]

Now im a PS3 player and will always be. But HALO seems like one of those cool games you would want to play.What does HALO compare to as in a PS3 game. Resistance 2 and Killzone 2? Do you think Resistance 2 for PS3 could top HALO for Xbox? Now i know its going to be hard to say cause if you own a Xbox im sure you going to say halo,if you own a PS3 then im sure you might say Resistance2.But what if you own both?

[Lazaros Paok Fc]

i am a ps3 user but resistance was call of duty with alies nothing else!!! i will propably ffind halo on a torrent site and download it for my laptop!

[Androiduser38]

i am a ps3 user but resistance was call of duty with alies nothing else!!! i will propably ffind halo on a torrent site and download it for my laptop!

Yeah that makes pretty much sense. Just not knowing much about HALO and hearing good things about it made me realize if i was missing anything but not getting a Xbox as well. I'm just to dedicated to PS3. Thanks for the input

[Lazaros Paok Fc]

i played all the previous halos on my pc and now on my laptop!!!! thank god there is piratebay :P

[Androiduser38]

i played all the previous halos on my pc and now on my laptop!!!! thank god there is piratebay :P

I hear you there. What do you think of the pc version?

[Lazaros Paok Fc]

first you need and average to good or very good pc and secondly i have that i cant play online cause its cracked :P

[Androiduser38]

Thats to bad. I might try a pc game one day. Just never been into playing on my computer

[Flasher]

First Demo Gameplay:

[Lazaros Paok Fc]

lol look at this **** game for kidz looks like a disney cartoon with lazer and space man WTF IS THIS **** THIS IS NOT REAL WAR get a FUKKEN KLUE

man halo was and will always be the top game about futuristic warfare.. Not even black ops 2 can touch it. If you havent played the series plz dont comment.. Thx