Halo 4 is one of this year’s most anticipated titles. The true sequel to Halo 3, the “finale ” to what is considered the greatest console shooter series of all time. Halo 4 promises to expand upon the series lore and provide a new trilogy for our hero, John-117 and his sexy cyborg sidekick Cortana. It also aims to be the new game for all Halo fans to play online on launch day, being given a massive new mode and set of accessories and console to go with it.
But what if Halo 4 doesn’t quite live up to the hype? What if it’s freaking amazing? It could go either way, and because of that, I’m here to go over where the game could blow us away or make us want to blow our heads off.
Where It Will Succeed…
4. Intriguing New Story
Halo 4′s plot revolves around a new race, the Prometheans. The Prometheans are an army of the Forerunners, the supposed creator of the Halo rings. Halo 4′s plot is said to use mystery elements and be a more darker and creepier tone than Halo games before it. It seems like a solid idea, make a new Halo trilogy that feels different, but with plot elements and gameplay ideas that are more traditional. Having new enemies doesn’t mean that the Covenant won’t still show up, though.
They’re still in the picture, and still very much an enemy of the UNSC military. The dual plot line, along with the idea of Chief and Cortana being stranded, AND Cortana’s slow death beginning in Halo 3 makes for a very full plot. Here’s hoping it contains the same scope and emotion of Reach and 3.
The best part about the story is that they tried a different plot line. They haven’t found some convenient excuse to reignite the Covenant war. This is no last minute clean up. Although certain plot lines and characters will return, the Chief mostly has a clean slate for this installment, and the eventual Halo 5&6. I hate it when a new developer comes in and ruins something that another made great, like Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier. Let’s never speak of that “game” again.
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Terrific game, I wish one day that the entirety of the worlds population is lucky enough to een read the story
I don’t see how you can speculate on things you have not seen yet. Your reasons it will fail are unfounded. You haven’t heard the soundtrack nor played the game. Honestly, I’m looking at this list as all reasons it could succeed. 343 is saving the Halo franchise from becoming another Madden.
I’m glad Bungie isn’t developing Halo 4 ! They obviously and had shown that they lost interest and passion in Halo already since Halo3. Their lack of passion for Halo is eveident in Halo Reach. To a certain degree, I felt that Halo Reach is just used by them as experiment for their new IP. Even though I respect Bungie and totally appreciated what they have done from Halo CE to Halo 3 and even Halo 3 ODST, I’m very disappointed on how they treat Halo Reach ! The problem is that Bungie isn’t fan of its greatest creation to date anymore. 343 is custom built from the ground up for Halo, Go and see 343 jobs posting sites, almost all the design and even engineering jobs require Halo you to be a Halo fan.
What makes you think they lost interest in Reach? It seemed alright to me.
Negative #1 is void as you haven’t even listened to the guy or given the music a chance – it’s pretty good. Also, Martin left of his own accord as I believe, I really doubt Microsoft wouldn’t have busted their butt and wallets to get him in on this.
Further, Negative #2 should actually be a positive. Although Bungie started the series, they seriously neglected the novel canon and Halo 2, 3, ODST, and even Reach suffered for this reason. 343 is a much more dedicated group of Halo fans, Bungie was clearly getting tired and bored with the series and I’m so glad that Halo 4 is happening. I am a hardcore Halo fan and everything (save the semi-COD changes to multiplayer) about this game is a catering to fans by fans, in my opinion. Guarantee this will be the greatest Halo since the original (I won’t go into arguing it’ll be better, lol what a hellstorm I’d imagine)
for real you think it bad because it not bungie my god look at the game they made after H3 odst was better than reach and i mean certain forms of cancer are better than reach so thats saying nothing they just stopped caring im glad bungie gave it up another bomb and id have givin up on halo
Why do people hate Reach so much? I loved it, it was my favourite. The music, the story, the graphics, the gameplay and the multiplayer were all the best of the series, to me at least. I like how well it tied in the opening of Combat Evolved. Help me understand the hate.
Reach wasnt all that bad. Theres recoil!- guess what its a different type of spartan. music was enjoyable(especially oni-sword base level)…The maps were the same as the campaign!- so was all the other halos… ———-
halo 4′s soundtrack is very good actually, im just waiting to see how it functions with the campaign. Sadly, i thought they could have still kept the humming monks halo theme :( . Bungie f’d up-hopefully 343 will fix any scars that may have been made previously.