As the resident Halo nerd I try to keep Giant bomb updated with juicy Halo 4 stuff, here is something that just dropped.

Link to the article http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2012/jun/04/e3-2012-halo-4-interview

Frankie also says that Spartan Ops could potentially last years, coming in forms of seasons like a TV show. This could be a revolutionary new feature, I for one am really excited to see Halo 4, and so many other games tomorrow.

E3 HYPE TRAIN!

While I don't care about Halo that much, I'm impressed at how good it looks. Granted that these are screenshots, I still like the look of it.

Dat skybox.

@MAN_FLANNEL: I was about to change the caption of the first screen to say that, ha!

Yep, that's Halo alright. Can't wait.

This isn't meant to be negative but that sure looks like more Halo.

@EXTomar said:

This isn't meant to be negative but that sure looks like more Halo.

Too be fair this is the largest visual change yet in Halo.

The art style of characters and weapons is quite different from the past titles.

I wish they weren't so small.

Oh, Frankie... always such a suave frontman when it comes to trickling out new info. A full co-op campaign that coincides with the main story sounds interesting. As far as longevity, that will depend on how good the characters and overarching fiction are. Surely it can't be easy to pump out that many fresh combat scenarios on such a frequent schedule either.

@Lebensbaum: I'm glad Frankie is large and in charge, he loves Halo, and I trust he will try his best to do well by it.

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Man, those Spartan 4s are looking awesome.

I hope there is a tonne of armor to unlock and customize with. I've spent way too much time in the Spartan armor menu in Reach heh. I just love Halo's aesthetic. It just nails the space marine thing perfectly. I shouldn't let my expectations get too high but I'm really pumped for Halo 4.

Hoping for a great campaign and a fine tuning of the mulitplayer suite. Reach's online was multiplayer bliss for me. I always have fun. From what they've shown it looks like they're improving it for 4 in all the ways I hoped they would. There will be so many different ways to play it's gonna be sick.

I put a couple hundred hours into Reach and I can easily see myself doing the same with 4. Don't let me down 343!

@Scodiac: I really do love the look of the Spartans in Reach.

Damn, that first picture was amazing!

@big_jon: Do you like what you've seen so far of the Spartan 4s?

Spartan Ops has potentially sold me. I'm not a big competitive multiplayer person, but more co-op features are exactly what these games need, in my opinion.

But I need to see more first. I don't really believe that it'll last for "years". I mean, what about Halo 5?

@Scodiac said:

@big_jon: Do you like what you've seen so far of the Spartan 4s?

No, not really so far.

Good to see that 343i is keeping up the Bungie tradition of impressive skyboxes :D

Game is looking good, though I'm not convinced about the MJOLNIR armor for the Spartan IV's. Though I guess with the technological leaps the UNSC has made in the years between Halo 3 and Halo 4 coupled with the fact that NOBLE Team was using MJOLNIR armor despite being Spartan IIIs (expect for Jorge of course), it doesn't seem to far out to have reached a point where the UNSC would be capable of producing large quantities of the newer MJOLNIR armor.

@big_jon said:

@Scodiac said:

@big_jon: Do you like what you've seen so far of the Spartan 4s?

No, not really so far.

I really like the armor in the pic you posted in this thread but some of the other armor I've seen from the pre-order bonus stuff didn't exactly do it for me.

Is it just me or did the graphics make a HUGE graphical jump from Reach?

I'm a MASSIVE Halo and Chief fan but surprisingly, I was never hyped for this as much as I was for other Halo titles.

Played some Reach earlier today and I'm now ready for some Halo 4 footage! BRING IT ON!

Don't like how radically chief's armor has changed despite it still being V3(?)

That article is really bad.

The screen shots look very nice, 343 has developed themselves some impressive tech. Does anyone know if they built their engine from scratch or are they working off of Bungie's stuff from Reach?

I realize it is still going to be Halo, but I hope playing it at least feels like a fresh experience.

Any game can look that great if the images are of that size, downscaling does wonders.

It's still a nice skybox though.

I'm not so concerned with the tech side as the design side. More and more Halo is becoming Half-Life in that it is anachronistic: They play the way they play because that is the way they work while every other moved on. I don't envy their position where if they change too much they get screamed at but if they change nothing they may have a hard time picking up new players. I'm not looking for a complete redesign but we need to see some deep details that are more concrete than flowery.

@Nilazz: Same engine.