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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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Ooo i thought it was the end when bungie sold but hell... Im in.

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I heard they cut purple from the game. Fingers crossed for them keeping pink and baby-blue.

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It will be interesting to see how well 343 does with what has been a successful franchise. My interest in halo concluded with the Bungie iterations though.

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More Halo sounds fun. I've loved all Halo shooters so far so I'm excited to see what 343  can do.

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When the trailer started, I was excited to see a new IP. Not excited to see Halo 4 though...

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Not interested, thanks. 

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I guess that was a long enough break for Halo. But back so soon already?

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Glad to see it going to a new developer... Bungie was VERY over-rated IMO.

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Finish The Fight............the fight has only just begun!
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I love Halo and it's universe.................. so I'll reserve judgement on this 
Could be interesting in how they go with this

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Hmmm. so soon after Reach?

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Looks like there is still some milk in the old cow, but at this point it might start tasting a bit sour. I'm skeptical to say the least. After a decade of Halo I feel like I'm done with it. It's going to take a lot for me to go back. I have no interest in the remake of Halo1 and unless Halo 4 does something really new and fresh I can't see myself playing it.

I'd like a Mass Effect-style RPG in the Halo universe or maybe a LA Noire-type of adventure game or something like that. I'm not interested in just another Halo shooter.

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Office Space.

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Aaaaand I'm out a future $60.
 
You win Microsoft, be prepared to take my money.

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At first I was really underwhelmed by this, just more Halo. Then I realised I could totally go for some more Halo. Pretty stoked.

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@Reizarvg said:

At first I was really underwhelmed by this, just more Halo. Then I realised I could totally go for some more Halo. Pretty stoked.

I had the exact same reaction. "Meh" turned to "oh hell yeah!"