HALO 4
| Developer(s) | 343 Industries |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Studios |
| Composer(s) | Neil Davidge |
| Series | Halo |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360 |
| Release date(s) | November 6, 2012
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Media/distribution | Optical disc |
Halo 4 is a first-person shooter video game developed by 343 Industries and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. The game was released in most territories worldwide on November 6, 2012. Halo 4's story begins four years after the ending of Halo 3; the player assumes the role of theMaster Chief, a cybernetically-enhanced supersoldier. The story is mainly set on a Forerunner planet, where Master Chief encounters the collection of alien races known as the Covenant and ancient warriors of the Forerunner empire known as the Prometheans. Master Chief is accompanied by the artificial intelligence construct Cortana.
Halo 4 is a shooter game, in which players predominantly experience gameplay from a first-person perspective; the game perspective switches to third-person when using certain weapons, armor abilities and vehicles. The player's head-up display (HUD) shows real-time information on the player character's armor system, such asshield status, information on current weapons and armor abilities, and waypoints for goals and objectives.[4] The HUD also has a motion tracker that detects allies, enemies, and vehicles within a certain radius of the player.[4]The game sees the return of the Covenant as foes, and introduces a new type of enemy called the Prometheans, which are Forerunner constructs.[5] There are three types of Prometheans: Knights serve as leaders of the group and are considered as the deadliest of the Promethean forces; Crawlers are a weaker class which often attack in larger packs; Watchers are deployed by Knights, offer support and have the ability to shield or revive Promethean allies.[5]
MODES
Halo 4's story or campaign mode can be played alone or cooperatively with one other player in split screen, and up to three other players through Xbox Live
Halo 4 features a new story-driven episodic game mode, titled Spartan Ops, that can be played solo or cooperatively on two player split screen and on Xbox Live with up to three other players.
Halo 4 includes Forge, a map-editing tool that was first featured in Halo 3.
In the multiplayer component of Halo 4, titled Infinity multiplayer, players build their own custom Spartan-IV super-soldier and advance in their multiplayer career which spans across gameplay in War Games, Spartan Ops, and maps edited with Forge.
Halo 4 takes place in a futuristic science fiction setting in the year 2557, four years after the events of Halo 3.[21] The game's backstory and franchise novels detail that hundreds of thousands of years before the modern era, humans were one of several interstellar civilizations. Following a war with the parasitic Flood, the humans and their allies came into conflict with the Forerunners, a powerful race that upheld a policy of benevolent shepherding of other races they called the Mantle. After years of conflict the Forerunners beat the humans and stripped them of their technology and empire. The Forerunners soon fought the Flood themselves; after exhausting every other strategic option available to them the Forerunners activated weapons of mass destruction known as the Halo Array, killing all unprotected sentient life in the galaxy to deprive the Flood of their food. Life that the Forerunners catalogued was then reseeded throughout the galaxy.[22]In the 26th century, space-faring humanity (organized under the United Nations Space Command, or UNSC) comes under attack from the Covenant, an alien collective of species that worships the Forerunners as gods, and believe that activating the Halos will bring about salvation, not destruction.[23] The human supersoldier Master Chief John-117, along with his artificial intelligence companion Cortana, are instrumental in stopping the Halos from being activated, and the Flood from once again menacing the galaxy.
LATELY THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF COMPETITION BETWEEN HALO4 AND BLACK OPS 2
