Master Chief back in Halo 4
At their E3 press conference in LA yesterday Microsoft made the announcement that gamers across the world have been waiting four years for. The Master Chief is back…
I’ll be honest, I may have cried a little manly happy tear. The return of “Big Green”, or Master Chief Petty Officer Spartan John-117 to give him his Sunday name, is a most welcome one for fans of the Halo franchise worldwide. The previous two instalments (the God awful real-time strategy, Halo Wars, and the rather excellent Halo: Reach) were prequels and so the Chief didn’t make an appearance, and the one before that was based on a different character during the time of Halo 3.
We last saw him at the end of Halo 3 entering a stasis pod on the derelict hulk of the ship that he, the Arbiter of the Covenant, and his companion Cortana used to escape the ring-world.
I’m trying not to get too excited, because there’s a catch. The new games are not being developed by the franchise’s previous gatekeepers, Bungie. Instead the torch has passed to 343 Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios created specifically to oversee the development of Halo; they even take their name from an in-game character, 343 Guilty Spark.
Already 343 have taken a minor liberty with the story – just a minor one – in that when the Chief bursts out of his stasis pod in the teaser trailer his armour seems to be equipped with some kind of rocket pack that he didn’t have going in.
On the plus side, the big shiny planet thing at the end of clip looks awfully like the description of Shield-World Onyx where, according to the supporting novels, the last surviving Spartans and their creator, Dr Halsey are holed up.
The new game will be the first in a new trilogy and, although it’s officially called Halo 4, it will actually be the seventh title to take place in the Halo universe, meaning the closing chapter of the new trilogy (presumably Halo 6) will be the ninth game of the series.
I can’t see it ending there though, if for no other reason than Halo: X is too good a name to let go to waste.
Here’s the trailer. Check it out for yourself.
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