Halo 4

Halo 4
Studio	343 Industries
Publisher	Microsoft Studios
Senior Developer	Josh Holmes
composer	Neil Davidge
Erstveröffent- lichung	November 6, 2012
platform	Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Windows
genre	Ego shooter
Game mode	Single player , multiplayer
control	Gamepad
medium	2 DVD-ROM , download
language	Multilingual
Age rating	USK PEGI

Halo 4 is a first person shooter and the eighth game in the Halo game series . It was released for the Xbox 360 on November 6, 2012 . Halo 4 is the first game in a new Halo trilogy called the Reclaimer Trilogy . While all previous titles in the Halo series, except for Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary , were designed by Bungie , the development of Halo 4 was passed on to 343 Industries by Microsoft. The game story starts four years after the events in Halo 3 . For the first time since Halo 3 , the Master Chief can be played as a protagonist again. The AI Cortana is also part of the game again.

Work on Halo 4 was announced on June 4, 2011 at E3 2011.

action

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The plot of Halo 4 is designed more for exploration and mystery than the previous games in the Halo game series, which were more based on the first-person shooter character. Most of the action takes place on the blood father planet Requiem. Bloodfather technologies are also much more in the foreground than in previous Halo games. The Halo 4 campaign is divided into eight missions.

Dawn

In 2557, four years after the events of Halo 3 , the Master Chief is still in cryostasis aboard the wrecked Forward Unto Dawn. The AI ​​Cortana wakes him up from hypersleep because there are various activities on board. Both quickly discover that the ship is circling over a Blood Fathers planet and is surrounded by an entire Alliance fleet. While defending themselves against the landed ground troops, they try to shoot down an intact missile on board. On the way to the rocket, the two of them encounter a strange glow in the ship that wanders through the ship like a scanner . At first it looks like the rocket is about to take off, but it is blocked by a piece of metal. The Master Chief manages to remove the piece of metal. The missile launches and destroys an Alliance cruiser. Suddenly, however, the glow from the Blood Fathers planet appears and this opens and begins to attract the ship and the Alliance fleet. The Master Chief tries to get into an escape pod, but the ship breaks apart due to the gravity around him. He is thrown back and forth between pieces of metal and eventually loses consciousness.

requiem

The Master Chief comes to in the crashed wreck on the Blood Fathers planet. Cortana admits that at the age of eight, she exceeded the normal operating time of an AI and started to degenerate as a result. So both of them, the creator of Cortana, Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, to find to save her. The two decide to hijack an Alliance ship to get to Earth. But before they can implement this plan, Cortana becomes aware of a badly disturbed signal. As it makes its way across the planet, the signal gets slightly better, so Cortana can identify it as an UNSC signal. You come across a cartographer whom the Alliance also wants to bring under their control. After a brief battle, Cortana gains access to a terminal and discovers that something in the planet's core is interfering with the signal. The UNSC Infinity, from which the signal originates, reports that they intend to penetrate the interior of the planet. Cortana wants to warn them, but the planetary core prevents this. The two decide to eliminate the source of interference. They make their way to a tower from which they can open a portal into the interior of the planet. On the way there, Cortana repeatedly intercepts radio messages from the Alliance, which, to the amazement of the two, tries by all means to take the tower. In front of the tower's entrance, they discover that not only the Master Chief wants to prevent the Alliance from entering the tower, but also Sentinel drones that are native to the planet. The duo enter the tower and make their way upstairs. Once there, Cortana has access to a console and opens the portal to the center. In addition to the portal, menacing figures appear. Before there is a fight, the Master Chief jumps into the portal with Cortana.

Blood fathers

The portal takes the Master Chief and Cortana inside the planet, where they discover a satellite that amplifies the Infinity's signal. With this satellite they want to warn the Infinity of the funnel and draw attention to themselves. But it is protected by a protective shield that is supplied by energy suppliers from two different locations. After destroying the first and on their way to the second, they get caught up in fighting between the Prometheans and the Alliance. After the chief kills the second one, they get the message from the Infinity that they are already at the funnel. The chief reaches the satellite through several portals, where he still has to fight his way through some wild fights. Finally he activates the satellite and sends a message to the Infinity. However, John and Cortana do not know that the satellite is a blood father ship. The blood father didactician comes from the satellite and subdues Alliance members and Prometheans. He explains to John that he wants to take revenge on humanity. He won't find out why until later. Finally, the didactician opens a huge portal to the surface and the core collapses. A wild escape with a ghost begins , which ends with a jump into a portal that leads to the surface.

Gameplay

Multiplayer

The actual multiplayer mode is called Infinity in Halo 4 , because the mode takes place on the ship of the same name and you are, so to speak, a crew member. It is divided into the following sub-modes: war games, Spartan missions and the forging mode. In Halo 4 , special emphasis is placed on configuring and adapting your own character and your own style of play in multiplayer mode. As in Halo: Reach, you can completely customize your armor, climb ranks and choose armor skills. What is new, however, is that you can configure different tactics and upgrade packages depending on the play style and also create your own weapon classes. In addition to the conventional vehicles Wraith , Ghost , Banshee , Warthog , Mongoose and Scorpion Tank, there is also the Mantis . This new UNSC vehicle is basically a large mech that has three different attack modes.

War games

As war games (ger .: Wargames) will in Halo 4 which is also of Reach: Halo known multiplayer mode called. The name refers to the history of the mode in the game as the Spartans are supposed to hone their skills in a large holographic room under the supervision of a war game AI . The classic showdown, the infinity showdown and regicide have already been announced as game types of the mode. There is also a new mode called Dominion, in which different bases have to be conquered in order to score. The Flood Mode has also been added, which is the successor to the Infection Mode from Halo: Reach . At the beginning there are two infected people (Flood) who have superhuman powers , against eight healthy people (Spartans) who have shotgun and pistol . The Floods must infect all Spartans with their claw, while the Spartans must survive three minutes to win. The floods can re-enter the game after they are dead, while the Spartans are eliminated as Spartans in the event of an infection and can only re-enter as a flood.

On December 10, 2012, 343 Industries released the first additional map pack called the Crimson Map Pack . The card package includes the three new cards Harvest, Shatter and Wreckage for the price of 800 Microsoft Points. This was followed by the Majestic Map Pack (with the Landfall, Monolith and Skyline maps) on February 25, 2013, and the Castle Map Pack (with the Daybreak, Outcast and Perdition maps) on April 8, 2013 for 800 Microsoft Points each.

Spartan Ops

In Halo 4 there is a new game mode called "Spartan Ops", which can be played either alone, via split screen or with up to three other players online and in which the player has to fulfill crimson missions in the role of a Spartan from the fire team. A new chapter appeared every week, each with five missions to be completed. The player is supported by UNSC Infinity and the Spartans Sarah Palmer and James Miller. Spartan Ops replaces the game mode firefight (ger .: Firefight ) from Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST . 50 missions have appeared so far.

Wrought

Also available as a game mode is the forge known from Halo 3 and Halo: Reach . The mode was not developed by 343 Industries, but by an outside studio called Certain Affinity , which was founded by a former Bungie employee and was solely concerned with developing Forge mode. Several new features and improvements have been announced. Instead of one, there are now several landscape backgrounds, the graphics have been improved and the controls simplified.

various

In German this time Tobias Kluckert lends the voice to the Master Chief . a. Gerard Butler was already dubbing . The character of the didactic was dubbed by Christian Rode .

Merchandising

→ Main article : "Literature" in the article Halo (game series)

• The soundtrack for the game was taken over by Neil Davidge . It appeared in stores in November 2012 with the title Halo 4 - Original Soundtrack and was produced by 7hz Records ; Soulfood took care of the release in German-speaking countries .
• A film adaptation called Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn was released with the game in late 2012. This is a live-action miniseries consisting of five episodes, which was released on October 5, 2012 on Halo Waypoint and YouTube . An uncut version and a making-of are included in the limited edition of the game. Performers include Tom Green , Anna Popplewell , Osric Chau , Daniel Cudmore , Mike Dopud and Ayelet Zurer . Directed by Stewart Hendler . According to the US daily Los Angeles Times , the series is said to have cost between four to eight million euros. The story is about the character Thomas Lasky, who is accompanied through his career.
• The series has been available on Amazon Prime since March 2017.

continuation

→ Main article : Halo 5: Guardians

At the E3 game fair in 2013, Microsoft officially announced Halo 5: Guardians , the developer is again 343 Industries. The game is the sequel to the Reclaimer trilogy. It was released on October 27, 2015.

Web links

• Official website for the game

Individual evidence

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17. ↑ Spartan Ops is to receive 50 free missions ( memento of the original from February 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Player radar article, June 28, 2012, accessed August 24, 2012.  
18. ↑ Comprehensive details on the improved forge mode ( memento of the original from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article from Spieleradar, July 20, 2012, accessed August 24, 2012.  
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20. ↑ herocomplex.latimes.com: 'Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn' will be the first 'Halo' movie