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Halo 4 Officially Announced

New sequel marks the dawn of a new trilogy.

It's official: Master Chief is back up in your ass with the resurrection, and he's bringing a whole new trilogy along with him.

Simply titled Halo 4, the game will purportedly launch a new series of sequels developed by 343 Industries.

The new trailer closed out the conference in style, with a sequence involving Master Chief rescuing a glitching Cortana, and working his way through a semi-wrecked ship, all anti-gravity fabulous. The last shot showed the ship working its way into a massive portal. I'm just going to call it a Tannhauser Gate. Feel free to yell at me.

We'll bring you more on Halo 4 as it becomes available, but for now, chew on the slightly nebulous, but nonetheless tantalizing release date: Holiday, 2012.

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@Fattony12000 said:

Bungie ARE done with Halo. 343 Industries, however, are not. It'll be a FPS, it'll sell millions, it's Halo.

And it'll probably be pretty good- just like the rest of them.

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I don't understand why you have to count stuff in trilogies. Let's just have a continuing series.

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At first, I thought it was a Halo Kinect game judging from the footage of Master Chief flying through the ship. Didn't really expect 343 to be working on Halo 4, maybe a spin-off or something. I kind of liked where Halo 3 left off and opening that series up again with a potential to "ruin" it is kind of worrying. I hope it turns out good.

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I think people are taking the "new trilogy on the xbox 360" thing too literally. I think he just meant that a new trilogy is starting (meaning at least the first game) will be on the 360. The other two could be on either this or the new one. I think it would be safe to assume that one of them would be made  for the next system
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E3 has already made me happy with this announcement, and it's just getting started. Cannot wait.

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a full other trilogy, I wonder if it will have the steam to last that long.

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Edited By ArmedBear

Halo 4: The Blood Gulch Chronicles? Trilogy?
 
Ah, at least I'll get some more Red vs Blue out of this.

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Fuck yes! Get hype son!

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my brain is already drawing comparisons to the differences of original star wars trilogy vs the new trilogy.

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@Lebensbaum said:

Well, it worked for Star Wars... oh wait.

It did work for Star Wars, financially.

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I love it!

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this was my impression MICROSOFT press conference: Halo, Gears, Halo, BOOM, OUT

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No 360 logo in the trailer.

New XBox with Halo 4 launch title next year confirmed.

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The trailer has me excited.

Then again, I don't need much of Halo to excite me. ^__^

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i could go for some more halo i guess.

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Masterchief vs Dinosaurs. Please let this be the case

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@UlquioKani said:
Masterchief vs Dinosaurs. Please let this be the case
Agreed.  Master Cheif on a low tech planet could be awesome! :) 
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I'm kind of happy with this since it gives me a reason to keep my 360 until next year.  
 
And, I wanna see how the Master Chief + Cortana love affair continues. ;-)

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Thought we were done with Halo, I'm not looking forward to this at all. For a brief second I thought they'd announce something completely new and when I saw Master Chief I just turned off the stream.

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Why are they doing this? It's just gonna be an overrated boring ass game.

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Dumb. There's no reason to go back to Master Chief. There's plenty left in the Halo universe to explore. Why do the same shit that Bungie did for years?

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I didn't like Halo Reach very much, so I wish I was at least discerning enough to not immediately get excited just for the fact that "hey, it's Master Chief and Unicron's little brother," but... I can't help it. TOTALLY excited for Master Chief and Unicron's little brother!

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I'm afraid that without Bungie around to say "No", MS is just going to drive this series into the ground.

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I do worry that everything seemed a sequel to a sequel - where were the new IPs?

Perhaps the big 3 are playing safe with their franchises but this is not the future ... it's just putting extra sparklies on the past.

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Huh, an attack ship on fire, with what appears to be a glittering c-beam. Are they off the shoulder of Orion? Perhaps it is Tannhauser Gate after all.

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Halo 4: Master Chief Adventures

I like where this is going. Also this.

@UlquioKani said:

Masterchief vs Dinosaurs. Please let this be the case
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@wsowen02 said:

I'm afraid that without Bungie around to say "No", MS is just going to drive this series into the ground.

Don't be afraid. It's a definite. Don't waste your time fretting because nothing can stop it.

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@AuthenticM said:

FUCK YES!!!!!

You guys noticed how she was calling him "John"? Man, I have a feeling this is going to be a more personal journey.

Exactly what I was thinking. I had a mini freak out when I heard it the first time.

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Rubbish

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They're still milking it. Who guessed that? *sigh* Also it'll probably repeat Halo 1-3 with the first 2 being on 360 and the last being on the next console? Or maybe just 4 on the 360 and the next two n the next console. So they remake it again in 10 years....

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I have mixed feelings, though I am excited.

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I am interested on how 343 industries will do on Halo 4

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Oh Freaking YES!!!

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Wow how original, I would have been more excited for something else in the universe...

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Now who's Master Chief gonna shoot?

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I'm excited even though it's a known quantity. 

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I love the Halo series. Got a lot of entertaining out of those games, both from the campaign and the multiplayer. If they keep the quality up, I'm definitely down for some more.

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Not going to lie. This teaser absolutely worked on me. Interested to see what 343 Studios can do. Stoked for some Chief!!!!!

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So is this the start of a Marathon reboot?

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If it's a new trilogy call it something other than Halo 4.

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They said that this is a trilogy for the Xbox 360.  So they have time to release 3 more Halo games before the next console cycle.  One a year?

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Meh. 
 
edit: altho Combat Evolved HD sounds awesome. ;)

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@Creigz said:
Why are they doing this? It's just gonna be an overrated boring ass game.
That seems to be a winning formula these days.
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@Meatsim said:

Now who's Master Chief gonna shoot?

Robots!

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More Masterchief and Cortana action... please no flood 343!
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I think this would be better on the next generation of consoles.

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@Forever said:

Wow how original, I would have been more excited for something else in the universe...

Same

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Sweeeet. I'm in.

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Great teaser trailer.

More Halo is always welcome, mostly because they haven't quite sunk to the depths of annual carbon copy churnouts like a sports game or Call of Duty.

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