The first new Halo game in the numbered series is bring some an exciting new mode called Spartans Ops, a mode that mixes provides players with serialized missions.
Halo 4 developed by 343 Industries will allow players to experience a cooperative episodic story that will add more details to the game's overall story, according to an Entertainment Weekly interview with creative director Josh Holmes.
"Each week there's a new episode of a CG series following a group of characters aboard this massive star ship called the UNSC Infinity," Holmes told EW. "Along with each new episode, there's five new missions, about 15 minutes each...these missions tie directly to the episode and then the actions taken within those missions set up the following week's episode."
Holmes also said that the mode is like a "second campaign for Halo 4 and that the gameplay should feel familiar to those who have played the a previous entry in the space exploration and war saga.
"We're kind of merging the delivery mechanism of serialized TV with a game, hoping to create an experience that gives players a reason to come back every week and really get engaged with this group of characters and the story they're embarking on," Holmes told EW. "We've tried to create cliffhangers at the end of the episodes so that you're left wanting to know what happens next."
According to the Halo Way Point site, "The designation "Spartan Ops" has been given to any and all on-record missions conducted by Spartans of the UNSC Infinity. For longtime Halo fans, however, Spartan Ops represents a watershed moment of immersive, story-driven cooperative gameplay delivered in addictive, bite-sized episodic pieces. Spartan Ops episodes run the course of a season, providing epic gameplay experiences driven by the powerful stories of the Spartans aboard Infinity, as they encounter the hostile alien world of Requiem."
Halo 4 is intended to be the first of a new trilogy of Halo series games, named the "Reclaimer Trilogy," and the first to be developed by 343 Industries. Master Chief will return as the main protagonist, and the AI Cortana returns as well. Halo 4 will release worldwide on Nov. 6 with the exclusion of Japan where the game will be released on Nov. 8.
The first official Halo 4 launch trailer was produced by "Fight Club" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," director David Fincher and was directed by visual effects craftsman Tim Miller. The two-minute trailer debuted last week on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." You can check out the 'Scanned' trailer here.
Microsoft's "Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn," the new web series consist of five web segments. Here are the first four segments; Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3 and Episode 4. Watch the new trailer for Spartan Ops Below....
