It closed out the festivities last year, but this year Halo 4 is taking center stage during Microsoft’s E3 2012 Press Conference. 343 Industries‘ take on the exploits of Master Chief has been nearly three years in the making, and it’s all coming to a head at this year’s event.
Not only will Halo 4 be dominating the Holiday season, or more specifically the month of November for Microsoft, it will be kicking off the publisher’s press conference on Monday. While last year started off with a Modern Warfare 3-themed bang, this year Microsoft is focusing on their platform exclusive juggernaut by giving the first demo of the game’s single player campagin.
There’s unfortunately no context for the Halo 4 campaign footage, only that it will be close to 10 minutes in length and must feature some spectacular action. 343 has already said they plan to do some pretty interesting things with Master Chief, and it’s been so long since we’ve seen him in action, both of which puts a lot of pressure on the gameplay demo.
Though 343 Industries wouldn’t tell GameTrailers what players can expect out of the footage they did say it is a full gameplay demo, and that this campaign is the most ambitious Halo campaign to date. The only trailer for the game, the one that debuted during last year’s E3, showcased some particularly stunning pre-rendered visuals, but now it is time for the game’s new engine to shine.
Along with an exciting new campaign, Halo 4 ships with 343 Industries’ take on the multiplayer modes players have come to know and love. There will be co-op across the entire campaign, a competitive multiplayer that justifies the red vs. blue dichotomy, and a new mode that can best be likened to Call of Duty‘s Spec Ops mode.
While those multiplayer elements might not be on display during the press conference their presence should be felt on the E3 show floor, and we will be sure to bring you all the details. For those that want to tune in, the Microsoft E3 Press Briefing airs Monday starting at 9 AM on Spike TV.
How would you like to see 343 Industries pick up where Bungie left off? Do you think that Halo 4 will be the centerpiece of Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference?
Halo 4 releases November 6, 2012 for the Xbox 360.
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Source: GameTrailers
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I am tired of people saying that Spartan Ops is just like Spec Ops because of ops in it… If you have read into it, you would note that it will be completly different…
areed. they are nothing alike.
Finally, another Call of Duty killer sahn!
Spartan Ops is nothing like Special Ops, and even if they did copy Call of Duty it’s not like they haven’t copied us plenty. Elite is a copy of waypoint, team deathmatch is a copy of slayer, domination is a copy of territories, and flatout their competitive multiplayer copied halo’s competitive multiplayer… Halo copied the word “ops.”
if they copied ops than thats from the military not cod so we’re good
First off, it’s not like Halo was the first game ever to have a team deathmatch game type. If anything, they copied it from another game and called it slayer. Domination is a fairly popular game type for many games also.
They copied competitive multiplayer? No one wants a game to not be competitive. Every good multiplayer game in existence has had to have competitive multiplayer.
Believe it or not, Slayer was first. 2001. COD adapted it into death match.
However, Bungie adapted Horde mode into Firefight. (I believe Horde came first… Anybody know for certain?)
Anyhow, point being, Ideas are modified into different versions of the same thing all the time. Don’t worry about it.
@Jacob
Seriously dude, I hate when people think COD copied Halo in those regards, or vice versa, or from any game.
Let me paint a picture:
Imagine if the first game to come up with an idea actually kept it. NO game would have team deathmatch, except for that game back in 2001 that invented it. NO game would have an open world, because someone already did it back in 2003. NO game would have customization except for that old game… etc etc
Get it??
So stop bashing COD because you feel it “copied” your precious Halo.
lol cod was out before halo smart one sop the game modes dont cont
I’m looking forward to watching the Halo 4 demo. Anyone else???
I can’t wait for halo 4 and master chief to return. Halo is the reason i still have my Xbox 360.
Right with you!
Bring it ON! Yeah baby! Halo 4!
True…. But with out halo there would be no Xbox….halo saved Xbox…and I agree I have Xbox BC of halo
Hey Guys, Well “Halo” IS “Halo”.