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Every Sunday between the hours of 8pm and 10pm, GRcade members meet up on Live for some sexy Halo 4 multiplayer action! If you'd like to join in, please post your GamerTag in this thread and add the following list of people to your Friends List:

GRcade Username - Xbox Live GamerTag
JChalmers - Sir Chazmers
Anung - Windownig
Shadow - FlawlessC0wboy
Minto - mintoisgod
Evanswolves - evanswolves82
Mr Yoshi - Mr Yoshi AU
Floex - F Heonix UK
Skippy - Skipper2627
LeeMa - LeeMa
DayumChris xD - DayumChris xD
Akai XIII - Akai XIII
Seven - SevenFisher
Superking - Super KingUK
Shalashaska - Redbull Ninja
Rik - Riky
Garth - GarthVaderUK
joer - joer131
joer's lady friend - Mimms88
Diceman - Diceman1980
NickSCFC - RandomLovePump
Cuttooth - Cuttooth89
SugarDave - Dajman15
Hime - Hime123
tomvek - tomvek
Caped Chameleon - caped chameleon
Dblock - BlaRiX Da KiNG
Shafto - Crafty Shafto
JiggerJay - JiggerJay
CrystalGipsy - CrystalGipsy


REVIEWS

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360 ... ic-reviews


LINKS

- Halo Waypoint (official Halo website)
- 343 Sparkast (343 Industries' Halo podcast)
- The Little English Halo Blog (Shadow's Halo blog)
- Halopedia (unofficial Halo encyclopaedia)


VIDEOS


SCREENSHOTS

Click here to view a bunch of Halo 4 screenshots!


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Return of the Chief!

I knew it was coming.

This will be released 5 years after Halo 3 came out, one hell of a wait...

Hope it's not the same.

The first game still remains to be my favourite

Rubix wrote:Hope it's not the same.

The first game still remains to be my favourite

A new HD graphics engine would be nice.

NickSCFC wrote:This will be released 5 years after Halo 3 came out, one hell of a wait...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LpbEr0E5hE

Found a great vid here, combines the Halo 3 ending and the Halo 4 teaser:

What's the betting it will be rubbish now Bungie isn't at the helm?

If the next Xbox comes out fall 2014, surely Halo 5 will be a launch title?

Saying that, Halo, Halo 2 and Halo 3 were all 3 years apart.

Beans wrote:What's the betting it will be rubbish now Bungie isn't at the helm?

343 has some very talented people on the team with a lot of big Halo fans among them (including several ex-Bungie guys and Frankie overseeing everything), sci-fi writers like Greg Bear on board expanding the Halo universe (see Halo: Cryptum), and a lot of money and support from MS - they've done a great job with the stuff they've worked on so far so fingers crossed. Frankie mentioned they've been working on Halo 4 for a couple of years now BTW.

He probably meant Halo 5.

Beans wrote:What's the betting it will be rubbish now Bungie isn't at the helm?

I bet it will be even better for it. They're going to be determined to make it a winner because all the naysayers will be doubting them.

I personally thought it was time for new blood since - in my opinion, at least - the single player quality has been going steadily downhill since the first.

If the multiplayer gets dedicated servers and custom games browsing, and plays like Halo 3. It'll be phenomenal.

Looking forward to it. I've never really got into the fiction and I wouldn't really consider myself a big fan but the games are always fun so bring it on.

I'm a sucker for a big name sequel but this is THE sequel that I've been waiting for. Return of the Chief has been a long time coming - can't believe it would've been 5 years since the Chief's last appearance. Honestly speaking i haven't really liked many of the characters in the subsequent Halo games since Halo 3 so i can't wait for the Chief/Cortana combo to be re-united so to speak. I've got a lot of faith in 343. I'm not a huge multiplayer man i'm more about the campaign and with this being their first proper Halo game i can see 343 wanting to play things safe. With Chief and Cortana likely to be landing on some unknown planet, i wonder if they'll look to create a sense of almost fear and vulnerability. With potentially unknown enemies and such, i think there's a lot of potential here for 343 to do something brilliant here.

Loved the CGI trailer...i wonder how far off the next round of consoles will be in terms of graphics and stuff. Will this be running off a new engine though? The Reach engine? With the next gen possible coming soon will they create a new engine now for Halo 4 and just upgrade it for the next gen?

But how can a spaceship with a breached hull be on fire?

Anung wrote:More Halo Honestly strawberry float the haters I don't care as long as I gets me more Halo. As I've said in the other thread I hope they can build up a universe with a similar scope to what came before because whilst the Halo series hasn't always had the best storylines or game play the universe itself always had me coming back for more.

Exactly how I feel Anung

Can't wait to see the new engine running and finding out/seeing the new enemies. I think 343 will do a fantastic job with this, they've put together a really good team to work on it.

Fatal Exception wrote:But how can a spaceship with a breached hull be on fire?

Big sphere thing maybe has its own atmosphere, like a Halo ring.

Jonathan86 wrote:

Beans wrote:What's the betting it will be rubbish now Bungie isn't at the helm?

I bet it will be even better for it. They're going to be determined to make it a winner because all the naysayers will be doubting them.

I personally thought it was time for new blood since - in my opinion, at least - the single player quality has been going steadily downhill since the first.

I agree. Halo is one of my favourite game series but even as a fan I could see it was gradually becoming a bit stale under Bungie as it is now. Besides there are some ex Bungie staff in at 343 who know the series and what makes it great. Can't wait for either of them, Microsoft may have had a crap conference but Halo 4 has to be the highlight of E3 as far as I'm concerned.

Garth wrote:

Fatal Exception wrote:But how can a spaceship with a breached hull be on fire?

Big sphere thing maybe has its own atmosphere, like a Halo ring.

Oxygen escaping?

Same raspn I give for the Death Star explosion.

Fatal Exception wrote:But how can a spaceship with a breached hull be on fire?

I don't think Halo's ever really tried to give an accurate representation of outer space.