Halo 4 Officially Announced

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.

Cool

Edit: Finally! Also Really looking forward to Halo 4. Lets start the fight!

AWESOME!!

Halo 6 is gonna be effin sweet

The worst E3 show from Microsoft I can ever remember, not even the chief could save it for me.

yepyyep

I saw this coming, but it's still kind of strange. I am curious to see what they'll do with this though.

Wasn't expecting that. Call me stupid, but I thought they were done.

Just let it die? Seriously Microsoft, make some cool new IP's please!

Holy. Poo poo.

I knew It. I F**king knew it!

A new trilogy: An old trilogy!

So many questions, most importantly, WHO is developing this game and HOW much is it going to deviate from what Halo is,

hahahahaha 
 
oh god...

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.

new trilogy ON THE XBOX 360... I hope not - I want a new console

Halo 4, Gears 3 and ME3 were the best parts shown, but another Halo trilogy starting at 4? DAMN!

They said a new trilogy on the 360. That means that if they released a new Halo every 2 years that the third game would come out in 2016. That's not possible right? RIGHT?!

Fucking YES

Totally fine with a new Halo. Just don't put a 4 on it. Bungie should be shown more respect.

Gross

So many questions, most importantly, WHO is developing this game and HOW much is it going to deviate from what Halo is,

Wasn't expecting that. Call me stupid, but I thought they were done.

Awesome, hope it isn't an on rails Kinect shooter (like most of the other games MS showed at e3)

Alex working hard.

@JacDG said:

Just let it die? Seriously Microsoft, make some cool new IP's please!

Couldn't agree more.

Bring back Master Chief and slap a 4 on it, genius.

@ambigu0us said:

So many questions, most importantly, WHO is developing this game and HOW much is it going to deviate from what Halo is,

The trailer had 343 industries logo on it, so I assume they're making it.

I for one like John and Cortana and I would be really excited to play a character-driven story about the two of them.

I fuckin' love the Bungie Halos, but if they manage to make this new trilogy completely separate from the original with only MC and Cortana as the constants, I'm fully on board.

So many questions, most importantly, WHO is developing this game and HOW much is it going to deviate from what Halo is,

Great that it carries straight on from 3.

So many questions, most importantly, WHO is developing this game and HOW much is it going to deviate from what Halo is,

Makes a change from the kinect fucking hype that ruined that conference.
I love halo, so I'm pumped for this game.

Not a halo fan by any stretch. But you say gates, wrecked ships, and zero grav or antigravity and suddenly I'm cautiously interested.

Yeah, dawg, Halo 4 was announced like three hours before the press conference even started. Duh.

@Bismarck said:

@ambigu0us said:

So many questions, most importantly, WHO is developing this game and HOW much is it going to deviate from what Halo is,

The main question is "Is there purple"

Orange is the new purple.

An announcement that isn;t Kinect related... only took 2 hours.

FUCK YES!

@Bismarck said:

@ambigu0us said:

So many questions, most importantly, WHO is developing this game and HOW much is it going to deviate from what Halo is,

The main question is "Is there purple"

We're not talking about that right now.

Cool, I guess. Halo CE HD looks better.

HALO 4 5 AND 6 
 
JUST FUCKING CAUSE! 
 
:C

@Fattony12000: Ah, that makes sense. Wasn't paying enough attention.

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

He said a new trilogy for Xbox 360, didn't he? Does that put the kibosh on any new system talk? Assuming they do a new Halo every 2 years, this new trilogy won't be finished until 2016. I can't imagine the 360 still being their lead console then.

Will this game be on the new Xbox?

Pfft. Halo 4 is old news. It's all about Halo 5 & 6 now.

So that planet was definately a forerunner one. There is no one else in current fiction otherwise!

Woo! So excited for this.