Fans Piece Together the Halo 4 Box Art

Soviet Heavy

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Really nice. While a lot of people seemed to ***** about John's different armor making no sense from a story perspective, seeing as he was trapped on a ship, I really like his new uniform. Looks just as strong as the MK 6 and yet more flexible.
 
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I just hope they kept trying with this one. I liked halo reach the most because it had actual variety, (admittedly cliched) characters, and a few instances of inventive gameplay. Halo has a very nice formula but they never really got creative with it until reach.
 

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If it's as good as Reach, then I'll buy it straight away.

My only concern is their won't be any good characters besides Cortana. That was the thing I loved about Reach's campaign, plenty of interesting characters, mixed with a bit of loneliness at times.
 

Amnestic

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CardinalPiggles said:
If it's as good as Reach, then I'll buy it straight away.

My only concern is their won't be any good characters besides Cortana. That was the thing I loved about Reach's campaign, plenty of interesting characters, mixed with a bit of loneliness at times.
Honestly I think just having Cortana could work if they make Master Chief a little more vocal during gameplay. Having it focus on the interaction and relationship between those two characters has the potential to tell a pretty interesting character story.

Having a few extras would be nice though.

[sub]Also we need an ODST sequel. Make it its own series of squad-based shooters. ODSTs are way more interesting a concept than SPARTANs.[/sub]
 

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Amnestic said:
[sub]Also we need an ODST sequel. Make it its own series of squad-based shooters. ODSTs are way more interesting a concept than SPARTANs.[/sub]
I thought the ODST's were just a load of roughneck thrill seekers, that's the impression I got from The fall of Reach(?) novel anyway.
 

Amnestic

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CardinalPiggles said:
Amnestic said:
[sub]Also we need an ODST sequel. Make it its own series of squad-based shooters. ODSTs are way more interesting a concept than SPARTANs.[/sub]
I thought the ODST's were just a load of roughneck thrill seekers, that's the impression I got from The fall of Reach(?) novel anyway.
The game...really doesn't portray them like that. I'd compare them to the Delta Squad [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_squad] team in Republic Commando, except voiced by half of the cast of Firefly (Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin). They've all got their own characters to them and the fact that they're not supposed to be one person armies like SPARTANs (even SPARTAN IIs like Noble Six) means there's generally more options open for squad banter so making an ODST Squad-based shooter title makes sense.

Nathan Fillion's character actually has a chance to show up in Reach for a brief cameo New Alexandria as one of the airborne escort missions.
 

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Terminate421 said:
This is why my hope for Halo 4 just went up, little things are what make Halo special
Same here. The box art looks quite good... different to a lot of modern shooter's box arts recently, and its good that it shows off the sci fi aspect. Reach's box art could have just been for any modern fps.
This pushed me from a 50% chance to buy to a 75% buy.
 

CardinalPiggles

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Amnestic said:
CardinalPiggles said:
Amnestic said:
[sub]Also we need an ODST sequel. Make it its own series of squad-based shooters. ODSTs are way more interesting a concept than SPARTANs.[/sub]
I thought the ODST's were just a load of roughneck thrill seekers, that's the impression I got from The fall of Reach(?) novel anyway.
The game...really doesn't portray them like that. They've all got their own characters to them and the fact that they're not supposed to be one person armies like SPARTANs (even SPARTAN IIs like Noble Six) means there's generally more options open for squad banter so making an ODST Squad-based shooter title makes sense.
Don't get me wrong I think it sounds like a great idea, but I would have thought they would turn out more like the roughneck squad from Starship Troopers than the Bad Company from the BF series (which I thought were great).

This is all of course not going to turn out like we hope even if it does get made, but we can dream.
 

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Having had studied videogame box art both as a recreational pass time for about five years and at an academic level this past year, I can safely say that this is the best I've ever seen from the industry. Just... fucking... wow. I really hope this marks a change in how box art is done, because I'd buy this just to put on display. In fact, can I get a poster of this someplace?
 
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Amnestic said:
CardinalPiggles said:
If it's as good as Reach, then I'll buy it straight away.

My only concern is their won't be any good characters besides Cortana. That was the thing I loved about Reach's campaign, plenty of interesting characters, mixed with a bit of loneliness at times.
Honestly I think just having Cortana could work if they make Master Chief a little more vocal during gameplay. Having it focus on the interaction and relationship between those two characters has the potential to tell a pretty interesting character story.

Having a few extras would be nice though.

[sub]Also we need an ODST sequel. Make it its own series of squad-based shooters. ODSTs are way more interesting a concept than SPARTANs.[/sub]
From what I read in Game Informer about the relationship between the Chief and Cortana as she decends into rampancy, if done right it could be a really moving story and flesh out the Chief as a more three dimensional character. I think Halo 4 has a lot of potential