E3 2012 is in full swing, and so is the fusillade of trailers being fired out as the show goes on.
We’re on the floor with the full hands-on break down of Halo 4’s exciting multiplayer - including its new ‘Spartan Ops’ mode - but in the meantime developer 343 Industries has a new trailer taking us inside walls of the UNSC vessel/player hub, Infinity. Also be sure to check out the latest teaser for The Elder Scrolls Online and the feature trailer for Square Enix’s promising Hong Kong crime thriller, Sleeping Dogs.
Halo 4 Multiplayer
Story-integrating multiplayer might not be the main reason gamers lay down $60 on a title (and, in the case of Xbox Live, another $60 for a 12-month online subscription), but it’s seen a recent renaissance with triple-A names like Assassin’s Creed, Max Payne 3, and now Halo 4. To help demonstrate, the latest trailer from 343 Industries out of E3 2012 takes us aboard the UNSC starship Infinity - the hub of Halo 4’s multiplayer experience that tethers a highly customizable player persona between the dual components of Spartan Ops and War Games.
The Infinity has a campaign-rooted back story behind its crew - the leaders, the deckhands, and a new team of Spartans dubbed “Majestic Squad” - and Spartan Ops is where we’ll see the rest of it unfold. A weekly series of episodic content will be delivered to the mode free of charge, which 343 says will offer new objective-based missions, story insights on the Forerunner world of Requiem, and opportunities for players to rank up their multiplayer character. It’s also playable via solo and four-player co-op formats.
War Games, by contrast, is classic Halo: competitive player-v-player fragfesting across 10 orginal maps, replete with new and old game modes and the addition of Forerunner weapons. Furthermore, both Spartan Ops and War Games will afford ways to customize armor and gear for enhancements on the battlefield - a move beyond the purely aesthetic tailoring offered in Halo: Reach.
Halo 4 releases on November 6, 2012, exclusively for the Xbox 360
