E3: Cortana Goes Bonkers in Halo 4

[John Funk]

E3: Cortana Goes Bonkers in Halo 4

The Forerunners may be returning.

Microsoft kicked off its E3 2012 conference with the name that is synonymous with its Xbox console: Halo 4. Set a half-decade or so after the end of the Human-Covenant war, the UNSC sends a warship, now repurposed for peaceful purposes, to explore new worlds with humanity's best and brightest. Something goes terribly wrong, as something is wont to do.

Here's the trailer shown at Microsoft's press conference today at E3 2012:

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After being pulled through a vortex of sorts, the UNSC Infinity crash lands on a planet where - surprise, surprise - everyone's favorite Master Chief has apparently been chilling since the end of Halo 3. Once there, he finds Covenant patrols investigating the crash of the Infinity, but more significantly encounters a mysterious non-organic race.

Said non-organic race just may turn out to be the Forerunners that built the Halo rings in the first place. They have some nifty tricks that we haven't seen in the Halo series before, including tossing grenades back at the Chief and teleportation. Master Chief will also be able to use what seems like Forerunner weaponry, including a light-shotgun that vaporizes its targets.

However, it also seems as though the Chief's faithful AI companion Cortana is having a bad time of it. She's been in operation for 8 years, after all, and as she says herself, AIs begin to degrade after 7. The trailer ends with Cortana going berserk.

Halo 4 will hit shelves November 6th.

Check out the gameplay footage from the Microsoft press conference earlier today:

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See all our coverage directly from the E3 2012 show floor. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/conferences/e3-2012]

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[Silver Patriot]

I looks interesting. I really shouldn't have been surprised that Infinity would be involved in Halo 4, but I didn't see it coming.

 

[A Curious Fellow]

Okay... so where's the trailer?

 

[monkeymo4d]

Live action trailer followed by gameplay then followed by a trailer. Have to say 343 Im impressed

Full Trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N-CRrP9xjQ&list=PLE196726F02565118&index=1&feature=plcp

Bet microsoft sank a lot of money into this

 

[Emiscary]

Halo 4: proof positive the games industry will not innovate unless forced.

(Don't worry, we've got 2-3 more Halo games to look forward to by my estimation.)

 

[imnot]

Halo 4: proof positive the games industry will not innovate unless forced.

(Don't worry, we've got 2-3 more Halo games to look forward to by my estimation.)

No need to estimate, it's a trilogy

OT: I thought it looked very pretty, and actually surprisingly good.

 

[GoddyofAus]

To the surprise of noone, the conference was a tragic failure full of Kinect bullshit. Halo 4 was the only half decent thing shown.

"MS can get away with this because stupid morons bought into this gimmick" - random dude on GT.

3/10. What a joke. Too horrible conferences in consequtive years.

 

[Korten12]

Omg... It looks amazing... I can't wait... WANT IT SO MUCH!

 

[TheSapphireKnight]

After seeing an up close still of that biped, ain't no god damn forerunner based on what I have read in the Forerunner saga. The warrior race was supposed to be ugly but they are till essentially similar to humans.

I will be very disappointed if Forerunners were suddenly an "Ancient Evil"

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

So... It's a Metroid Prime game with Master Chief? Colour me unimpressed.

 

[Korten12]

After seeing an up close still of that biped, ain't no god damn forerunner based on what I have read in the Forerunner saga. The warrior race was supposed to be ugly but they are till essentially similar to humans.

I will be very disappointed if Forerunners were suddenly an "Ancient Evil"

Well the ending is sort of confusing, an upside down Didatic symbol and also red and not blue. So maybe it's actually precursors who are using forerunner tech? Although it wouldn't make sense...

 

[imnot]

After seeing an up close still of that biped, ain't no god damn forerunner based on what I have read in the Forerunner saga. The warrior race was supposed to be ugly but they are till essentially similar to humans.

I will be very disappointed if Forerunners were suddenly an "Ancient Evil"

Well the ending is sort of confusing, an upside down Didatic symbol and also red and not blue. So maybe it's actually precursors who are using forerunner tech? Although it wouldn't make sense...

I asumed it wasn't the forerunenrs, but mediant bias or whatever it's name was.

 

[superspartan004]

new enemies, new gameplay mechanics, new weapons.

yeah that's completely unoriginal

that and there's a thread right now saying Halo 4 has made too many changes.

people on the Escapist are never satisfied, It's no wonder I never post here anymore.

Oh and the enemies are NOT Forerunners people, its not that hard to figure out

 

[Korten12]

After seeing an up close still of that biped, ain't no god damn forerunner based on what I have read in the Forerunner saga. The warrior race was supposed to be ugly but they are till essentially similar to humans.

I will be very disappointed if Forerunners were suddenly an "Ancient Evil"

Well the ending is sort of confusing, an upside down Didatic symbol and also red and not blue. So maybe it's actually precursors who are using forerunner tech? Although it wouldn't make sense...

I asumed it wasn't the forerunenrs, but mediant bias or whatever it's name was.

05-032 Mendicant Bias was destroyed at the Ark, well presumably and highly hinted at it.

 

[Erttheking]

After seeing an up close still of that biped, ain't no god damn forerunner based on what I have read in the Forerunner saga. The warrior race was supposed to be ugly but they are till essentially similar to humans.

I will be very disappointed if Forerunners were suddenly an "Ancient Evil"

Somehow I doubt that the Forerunners spread all over the galaxy and didn't find at least one hostile race.

 

[imnot]

After seeing an up close still of that biped, ain't no god damn forerunner based on what I have read in the Forerunner saga. The warrior race was supposed to be ugly but they are till essentially similar to humans.

I will be very disappointed if Forerunners were suddenly an "Ancient Evil"

Well the ending is sort of confusing, an upside down Didatic symbol and also red and not blue. So maybe it's actually precursors who are using forerunner tech? Although it wouldn't make sense...

I asumed it wasn't the forerunenrs, but mediant bias or whatever it's name was.

05-032 Mendicant Bias was destroyed at the Ark, well presumably and highly hinted at it.

Ah fair enough, I just thought they had similar symbols.

Spoiler

 

[SacremPyrobolum]

I won't buy it, but I will watch people play it on YouTube.

Halo has always fascinated me with its lore.

 

[Korten12]

After seeing an up close still of that biped, ain't no god damn forerunner based on what I have read in the Forerunner saga. The warrior race was supposed to be ugly but they are till essentially similar to humans.

I will be very disappointed if Forerunners were suddenly an "Ancient Evil"

Well the ending is sort of confusing, an upside down Didatic symbol and also red and not blue. So maybe it's actually precursors who are using forerunner tech? Although it wouldn't make sense...

I asumed it wasn't the forerunenrs, but mediant bias or whatever it's name was.

05-032 Mendicant Bias was destroyed at the Ark, well presumably and highly hinted at it.

Ah fair enough, I just thought they had similar symbols.

Spoiler

Yes it is similar, a mixture of that and this:

Spoiler

After seeing an up close still of that biped, ain't no god damn forerunner based on what I have read in the Forerunner saga. The warrior race was supposed to be ugly but they are till essentially similar to humans.

I will be very disappointed if Forerunners were suddenly an "Ancient Evil"

Somehow I doubt that the Forerunners spread all over the galaxy and didn't find at least one hostile race.

Well the odd thing is that, they're using Forerunner based weapons, and aren't organic so they aren't natural...

I think it might be an experiment gone bad or maybe the Gravemind used Mecidant Bias to also indoctrinate other AI's.

Although my bet now is that Master Builder Faber is the villian, I just can't see the Didact being the villian. After being basically reborn through Bornstellar, the Didact has no reason to want to destory humanity. Hell he was against the creation of the Rings (although by a sort of ironic fate was the one who activated them in the end.)

 

[Saviordd1]

Wait, forerunners are VERY organic. They're kinda bird like to.

343, if you skullfuck everything we know about the lore just to make a quick buck (Halo reach) I will hunt you down.