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Microsoft details Halo 4 release

Master Chief is back

Microsoft has said that the keenly awaited Halo 4 will be launched worldwide on 6 November 2012.

The Master Chief's next outing will see MS' in-house developer 343 Industries' raise the standard of "blockbuster interactive entertainment", the software giant said. Of course it will.

Set four years after the events that take place in Halo 3, the new adventure promises to clear up confusion surrounding the fate of the Master Chief and his AI companion, Cortana, pitching the armour-faced hero against an ancient evil threatening the universe.

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343 designer Brad Welch talked up the emphasis on the Halo 4 single-player story, customisable loadouts and the new multiplayer features, which includes free-for-all deathmatch modes and the ability to see through walls, Game Informer reports.

I bet this man is feeling pretty smug in his Master Chief suit now. ®

Re: oh no not again.

Agreed - although IANAP (I am not a programmer) I wouldn't have thought the cost to port from the XBox to the PC would be that expensive. And while the PC version wouldn't necessarily sell as well as the console version, there would still be *some* profit there, surely?

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Re: Keenly awaited?

Keenly awaited is what Bungie's next outing is, now that they're not tied to MS (and in the same building as the Skyrim team.) Known as 'Destiny', it seems to be some sort massively multilayer on-line galaxy-exploring trading space combat game, possibly, maybe hopefully.

A fleshed-out 'Elite', in other words.

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Re: More dull plot

Agreed- like The Matrix, the plot of the first episode worked very well - you knew who was where the goodies and roughly what said goodies had to do. When the plot gets expanded out for sequals,I quickly lose track of things.

And yep, 343i really messed up the DLC deployment. Those who've bought it find the population in each lobby too low to get a game.

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oh no not again.

Look...

I like Halo A lot!

So much I bought version 1,2,3 and any map addons.

But I feel left out in the cold so I am no longer going to buy it if there is no PC version.

The technology is there to support PC version with enhanced security using MS login routines.

Microsoft really knows how to alienate its user base.

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More dull plot

Absolutely love the Halo multiplayer "deathmatch" modes especially when played with chums. Hope they don't go even more overboard on DLC this time that not everyone downloads thus fragmenting the experience and causing people to drift off to other games.

Can't stand all the ultra sincere campaign guff so can't really comment on those.

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