Halo 4

Acert93 said:
Reach had 2 way split screen for campaign but 4 for MP iirc. If normal MP goes split screen only then it better look fantastic. And while I liked 4 way local it is HARD to see squat.
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IMO 4 way local was pretty damn playable and great for when you had friends over - the only real problem in Reach was the stupid UI design issue to not truncate the killfeed and so it would frequently end up obscuring your reticle.

However, the game details page for 4, does not bode well for fans of local multiplayer:
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Product/Halo-4/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d530919?nosplash=1


Features

Offline players 1 - 4
Offline co-op 1 - 2
System Link 1 - 4
Dolby Digital

Online features

Online multiplayer 1 - 16
Online co-op 1 - 4
Content downloads
Leaderboards
Voice chat
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This is in addition to earlier news from a Gameinformer interview with the MP designer:http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...ges-to-halo-39-s-competitive-multiplayer.aspx
All the traditional split-screen modes will be supported as well, including 4-player local split-screen and 2-player split-screen online.
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Not only does it not seem to support taking 4 players splitscreen into online MP but system link seems to only support 1-4 players. Which either means only 1 player per 360 (when playing with a total of four 360s linked) or 2 players per 360 (with two 360s linked).

If that's true, then I don't see my friends playing much Halo 4 MP since we usually are only able to set up two 360s and TVs and it has always worked great with Reach and 3 where you could have 8 people playing. So that would be a huge disappointment.

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Also, I noticed the Halo website has been updated to show all the different armor abilities and loadout options:
http://halo.xbox.com/halo4#!halo-evolved/gameplay/31afe32b-0e07-45c0-9424-3adc6e1eadca
 
I've just pre-ordered along with Borderlands 2. These and Last of Us (along with Dragons Dogma and Kingdoms of Amaluar) are probably going to be the last purchases I make on this gen of consoles.
 
(((interference))) said:
If that's true, then I don't see my friends playing much Halo 4 MP since we usually are only able to set up two 360s and TVs and it has always worked great with Reach and 3 where you could have 8 people playing. So that would be a huge disappointment.
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Headphones and 22" LCDs are cheap, what seems to be the problem? If you're a semi-serious gamer having a couple of spare 22" LCDs shouldn't be a problem? Seems much less cumbersome than "Lan Parties"...
 
RudeCurve said:
If you're a semi-serious gamer having a couple of spare 22" LCDs shouldn't be a problem?
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Aw come on, what the hell is this shit? Why are you confusing income and space with passion or fun?

We had a load of fun with Halo 1, two tvs and two Xboxes back in the day. The fun happened when it happened, without having to buy and store spare consoles and tvs. If you have money to spend on two spare 22" tvs you have money to spend on more games and consoles, which is what any semi-serious gamer would prefer to do.
 
antwan said:
Looks really cool and surprisingly high production! If they can keep that up for the full 90 minutes then we have a winner!
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Looking good. Thinking about this, they even brought in Ayelet Zurer (Munich, Angels & Demons) - an actress who actually did military serice.
 
swym said:
Looking good. Thinking about this, they even brought in Ayelet Zurer (Munich, Angels & Demons) - an actress who actually did military serice.
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That is correct! I believe she is from Israel which means she has to do training and service.
I also recognized the actress from "Narnia".

I think it will be really great, given the actors who are taking part in this project
 
Laa-Yosh said:
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/07/11/halo-4-forward-unto-dawn-will-be-the-first-halo-movie/#/8
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Original production cancelled due to budget concerns, yet MS financed it for 5-10 million? :p
Goes to show, that if you don't use big name actors you don't end up with a big time budget.

Acert93 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca3Y8Ws3plI&feature=g-u-u
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Looks badass from the trailer. Hope the whole thing is as good as the trailer looks. Loved it when MC showed up.

Regards,
SB
 
Silent_Buddha said:
Original production cancelled due to budget concerns, yet MS financed it for 5-10 million?
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I think it had more to do with the way MS constructed the deal... They basically didn't take any of the risk, it was all to go on the studio's side but they did want a large cut of the profits.
At the time there weren't any game-based movies that were big successes and Blomkamp wasn't a big name either, so everyone declined.

This web-movie may be an investment to demonstrate the big screen possibilities in the franchise - if it becomes a success, and H4 sells upwards of 10 million as well, MS may make another attempt at the big screen movie. SF-action movies are just becoming big again, we had three Transformers movies, Pacific Rim is coming, Elysium is also quite promising and District 9 has already put Blomkamp on the map (although who knows if he wants to give Halo another try) so perhaps the project isn't completely dead yet.
 
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