Halo 4 news

         


             Halo 4 is launching in a little over two weeks from now. Halo 4 is set to launch on November 6, 2012.  It was finalized and announced on Septemeber 26th by the development team. This has been a long awaited game release.

             Halo 4 takes place four years after Halo 3. The last thing we saw in Halo 3 was Spartan 117 drifting into the abyss on half broken Forward Unto Dawn Frigate ship.There was a distant planet in sight. The planet is in fact where Halo 4 is taking place. The Dawn crashes into the planet of Requiem, which is a artificially made Forerunner Planet. New enemies and challenges await John-117. The new enemies in Halo 4 are The Forerunners. They were always a legend in the Halo franchise and they are coming into battle known as the Prometheans. They are a highly technological advanced race that was thought to be extinct. the Prometheans are made up of the Knights, Watchers , and Crawlers.

            Halo 4 is also bringing in a whole new set of new weapons. the weapons are known as the Forerunner Weapons.(Promethean  weapons). As far as the UNSC weapons they are bringing back the Battle Rifle, but it has been completely redesigned. The rest of UNSC weapons that will be in Halo 4 are the assault rifle, DMR, Sniper Rifle, Rocket Launcher, Magnum, Shotgun, Rail Gun, Saw,Spartan Laser, and the Sticky Detanator. As most of these weapons are the same, the rail gun and saw are something new. The Covenant Weapons are the Carbine, Plasma Pistol, Needler, Energy Sword, Storm Rifle, Beam Rifle, and the Concussion Rifle. Out of the Covenant weapons the only new mysterious weapon I have noticed is the Storm Rifle. It has not been confirmed to be a Covenant weapon, but by the look of the weapon it seems promising. 
          The Newest weapons in the franchise are these new Promethean weapons which are Binary Rifle, Boltshot, Incineration Cannon, Light Rifle, Pulse Grenade,  Scatter shot, and Suppressor. Since these are the newest weapons I can provide details on a few of them. The Binary Rifle is a super powered Sniper Rifle. The Boltshot is a pistol like weapon that can also be charged up to have a close range shotgun effect.The longer you charge the weapon the bigger the bam the gun will provide. The incineration cannon is pretty sweet, the name of it should give it away.It simply one shots the enemy by incinerating them. Where ever the enemy is hit their body will disengrate around that focal point. The Light Rifle has two modes. It can be used as a rifle with fast bursts of ammo, and can be changed to a sniper like weapon were it will shoot out a single bullet to dish out more damage. The scatter shot is equivalent to a shotgun but has a really cool reload system as well  as some of teh other guns. When you reload the weapon it magically  forms peice by peice.( to find out more information on the Promethean weapons watch this video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=55zOTemj03k

            With the launch coming up Halo 4 will have a limited edition copy where you will recieve the map pack bonus as well as a pass to watch all 9 episodes of the Forward Unto Dawn Halo mini series. The game will come packaged as a two disc set. Disc 1 will contain the campaign, and disc 2 will feature the epic halo franchise multiplayer.