Stunning New Halo 4 Shots Surface

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Richard Walker

Showing Master Chief in his redesigned Mjolnir armour and a Cortana who will apparently be on her last legs in Halo 4's story, these new Halo 4 screenshots really do look the part, indicating that 343's sequel might just be the most attractive Halo yet by some margin.

There's even a look at the revamped Battle Rifle in some of the screenshots, as well as a look at a bit of multiplayer action, as the red and blue forces go head-to-head in Halo 4's Spartan training simulation.

All in all, Halo 4 is looking mighty fine ahead of its November 6th, 2012 launch, which bodes well for the Master Chief's long-awaited return. Check out all seven screenshots below.

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  • Looks good.
  • Screenshots are easy to make look good...game wont look like that though.
  • The multiplayer armor looks awesome.
  • id tap that
  • The 5th shot looks like a mech... that would make for some interesting gameplay
  • Sublime.
  • Halo has always been a game with beautiful graphics. I'm pretty sure the shots will represent the full games quality.
  • All these shots are in the GameInformer article.
  • Jesus, that BR looks gorgeous.
  • If that's the game graphics
  • ill pass out in joy :D
  • Cortana looks fucking NASTY good in that pic. Also @5 the Mech is in the middle of the multiplayer map "Warhouse". It's being built as you play around it in the facility.
  • jeez everyone is downvoting positive things about this...not many halo fans here..
  • ALL DEM THUMBS DOWNS...
  • Not so sure about the MP default armor/Mark IV. The visor is barely even there and the armor is too shiny compared to Mark V and VI. I'm not a big fan of the armor pieces on the fingers either. But that's all I'm not enjoying and it's just an opinion. The rest seems to be amazing and it will definitely be a buy. Looks very promising!
  • A far cry from the boxy Chief and Cortana of old. :D. Looks like a DMR in the last pic?
  • This isn't a CGI trailer, so these pictures display the game's actual quality. At first I was skeptical about this game, but 343 really won me over with Spartan Ops.
  • The game wont look anything like these screenshots. And cortana needs to lose the pornstar look.This is what happens when we let sex starved 40 year old virgins develop our games
  • @18 Yes it will. Those screenshots are taken directly from the game.
  • Multiplayer looks like power rangers.
  • All the Halo armor has always looked the same to me.
  • Looking good.. Halo never gets old unlike COD..
  • Whats with the morons saying the game wont look like it does in the screenshots? Skeptical cunts.
  • I'm loving the lighting on the third screen. It seems like they're holding the lighting effects to a much higher degree with this release. HaloTracker.com has a lot of information on Halo 4 for those interested, stay up to date and discuss the upcoming release with us.
  • Anyone know what the cube is on the last screen, bottom left?
  • the gun textures look top marks, the multiplayer armors look like a future paintball armor style and chief and cortana have changes so much.
  • I hate cortana so much!
  • @25 perhaps a supply block from halo wars.? jk.. the pics look insane..the insane polish, the colors really popping, the ragdolling, the LIGHTING (mmmm lighting).! everything just looks incredible and its gotten me even more excited...cant wait to see some gameplay video.!
  • Cortana is sexy, but should be making sandwiches.
  • 7 thumbs down for what comment 2 said , why ? he is right , screenshots always make games look better then what they actually are.
  • Looks good to me
  • I've played every halo game since the very beginning. They've gradually gotten worse and the fan base got younger and dumber. Count me out, they have to make real changes to make that game good, and they're not willing to keep the simple people happy.
  • Halo 4 < Black Ops 2
  • 1. These pics are NOT new. They were in the GI article that leaked a week or two ago. 2. "Warhouse" is no longer the name of that map.
  • @33 stupidity killed the gamer
  • @33 Someone will save you from the fiery hell you are currently in at least we can only hope..
  • looking forward to it :D
  • @23 Does the word "rendering" mean anything to you?
  • Good old screen shots that never look like the in game graphics. I remember drooling over the Dead Island stills only to be severely dissapointed when playing it. Still cant wait for this.
  • @25 my theory is some sort of armor ability or the overshield. As to what armor ability i have no idea
  • The Screens do look great. I'm impressed.
  • @18 would you rather look at a 'pornstar' cortana or cortana in a burka?
  • Too bad screenshots don't mean s*it.
  • To all the people having a dig/moaning about the game not looking like these screenshots, yeah its going to look shit isn't it? I mean come on, what do you expect? I think we can let them show off a few screenshots when we know the game will look amazing, I don't think anyone can critise Halo for its visuals.
  • Screens 2 and 4 in particular look amazing, if only the game looked this good in actual gameplay ;) I'm really looking forward to this, though I am slightly concerned by some of the CoD style changes they've made to the MP...
  • Pic 5 looks like the exoskeleton program that was before the spartan project hope we get to use it but with a energy pulse that powers it not a cable and 60 seconds battery life but limit it to a 3 shot Canon so its not a god weapon
  • I see a DMR!
  • Looks like good so far my boy loves the halo toys lol
  • Looks beautiful! The actual gameplay graphics look better than any I have seen so far. The lighting in this game is amazing also. Very excited and can't wait til November.
  • @13 they havent reached puberty yet, so they still cant tell a good game from a horrible one (MW2.5)
  • Im looking forwards to this more and more, but what I really want to see, is a campaign trailer, and a full on reveal of all the main features, aka, confirmation of forge and theater being involved, elites in custom, ranking, Armour unlocking, ect. ect. To the people complaining over the screenshots meaning nothing... -facepalm- please find yourself a brain cell, if the screen shots are taken from the game, that means they'll be taking the best examples they can, but its still from the game, yes, its at the best they can get aspects of it to look, only a moronic developer would take and random cap. Cant wait for some real campaign info other then the hints from the books.
  • @51 Look toward E3, thats usually when the big reveals happen. Is it just me or are the screenshots reminding anyone of a bit of Marathon, cause honestly its sort of got that feel to it. Which I'm all for because that was a pretty damn good game. The screenshots...well of course its going to look that way. Obviously no ones taken into account that maybe, just maybe, its at all possible the graphics engine is updated? Look at how much the graphics jump from game to game. Halo 2 was superior to Halo 1, Halo 3 was amazing back in 2007, then Reach in 2010? Go ahead and disbelieve all you want. Anyone who honestly thinks that Crap of Duty 9: Fail Ops times 2 is actually going to be good? Over THIS?? Seriously, what crazed, souped up drugs are you on? Its a simple look at development cycle and changes. Halo 4 is said to have been in development as early as 2009, giving it the typical 3 year cycle for Halo. Crap Ops? A year. Changes for Halo? Enough to keep the game fresh. CoD? Changes? WTF are changes?? Its better this time, we promise you.
  • Anyone else think the last screenshot looks like narrows from halo 3?
  • Why am I getting too many thumbs down, I pick halo 4 over black ops 2...
  • @42 neither.I'd rather look at a normal-ish cortana.Since she apparently chose her new model,why pick the one with MASSIVE tits? It should have no bearing whatsoever on her look.Halo has no strong female characters to turn into a sex symbol,so theyuse her
  • Aren't these just the screenshots from Game Informer where they talked about all the "improvements" they were making to the game where they somehow managed to not mention how everything they are adding/chaning is making the game exactly like CoD?
  • My dick hurts right now.
  • It wasn't Master Chief but some chick burned me.
  • giggity
  • well i will take these images with a pinch of salt- I mean wasn't the witcher 2 promised to have the best graphics on the 360 or something like that and it turned out GoW 3 and other games looked better. still, as the 360's flagship series, if anyone has the resources to make the best looking game on the platform its 343i
  • That's a nice back tat Cortana.
  • Love the 6th screenshot , can't wait for the Halo 4 campaign :)
  • Stunning? Just looks like another Halo.
  • I don't know why #2 is getting so many thumbs down, he's absolutely right. Nowadays, screenshots are always polished with Photoshop and are staged, they are also a PC render of the game, not the Shitbox 360 version we will get once the graphics are destroyed.
  • wait a minute r they showing us that we can us the DMR and the BR? and the last screenshot looks alot like an old level from halo 3. the one that had one big brige.
  • @33 Whilst I actually second that opinion, posting it on this article constitutes to nothing short of trolling. *Waits for inevitable thumbs down for merely stating a preference* OT: I'm still not totally sold on Halo 4. Admittedly, I loved Reach, but it failed to keep up the addiction to the progression system at the later levels (Brigadier, then I got bored). It looks superb and everything, but I still need a bit more convincing.
  • @16 Both the BR and DMR will make a return along with the Covenant Carbine. Also Dev kit on PC is always going to look better then the console release. But hey atleast this time its supposedly a true native 720 so it oughta look nice.
  • @2 Why not the shots aren't that amazing.
  • can not wait to play this game
  • I'm kind of disappointed they didn't wait until "Xbox 720" to make Halo 4. Then again, Halo 3 is one of my favorite games so I'm sure it won't be terrible.
  • love it ... big halo fan
  • zzZzzZZZzzzzZZZz...
  • It's beginning to look a lot lik Ha-lo! :sing song:
  • The shots are nice, but I don't like how they re-design every iconic weapon game after every new entry... I really started to lose interest when Reach came out because Halo generally stayed the same after 2, and anyone who isn't a blind fanboy will realize this. 343 industries has never made a video game on their own from scratch (Halo: Anniversary was simply a re-skin of the original Halo), so I feel my skepticism of their ability to deliver the expectations set before them on a AAA title is justifiable. Hopefully whatever changes they plan on making to Halo's multiplayer won't bite them in the ass. I want a beta before I put a penny on this game.
  • I'm agreeing with #74 on this one. I think a beta would be nice as well. However, most of the people from Bungie who had developed the previous Halo games are on the 343 team. So I'm not entirely skeptical on the development of Halo 4. I just hope they add more new things to the multiplayer. I think Halo Reach missed that opportunity by not taking advantage of the space battle on single player, and developing a multiplayer mode with that game play. Either way, considering I switched back to PC games and stopped caring about Xbox titles. I can't give up on the Halo franchise, I've grown up with it all my life when the first one was on PC. So I'm pretty excited for the new one coming out.
  • Cool am very excited
  • My god chief got a hole new sexy make over
  • @74 I know that the series has more or less stayed the same. I just don't care. I love me some Halo. Sue me.
  • looks like the dmr in that last shot regardless, they have already said the game will be in 720, not 1080, so it wont look as good as those screenshots. expect the grainy overtones that ODST had (was also in 720) such a disapointment
  • Awesome!!! Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • The game is looking good so far. But Im still confused as to why Master Chiefs armor and now the battle rifle has changed from Halo 3.
  • Get in my Xbox!
  • @79 Gotta remember that 3 - Reach haven't been true native 720. Agreed it won't look as good as those screen without some wicked colour calibration on your personal set and even that probably won't come out as well.
  • Greatest gaming franchise
  • @82/83 Obvious troll is obvious. Btw loving the new armor look.
  • 343 will do just fine with Halo 4, and anyone who has played Halo: CE Anniversary will know that. i honestly cant wait for this. i really dont care to much about the multiplayer because i've gotten thousands and thousands and thousands of kills over multiple different games, and they alllllllll have the same M-O. so i'll get this purely for the Single-player. multi-player is just wayyyyy to over-done/outplayed. no matter what name is in front of it.
  • UBER EPIC !
  • Looks good. I shall be getting it as the casual halo fan but is there any point to different armour in multiplayer or is it as pointless as the skins in gears of war? Always makes me chuckle seeing dom running aroung with a pink lancer!
  • Looks awesome!
  • These aren't new, they been out a while.
  • @15: this is not Mark IV, this is SPARTAN IV with MARK VII lightweight...but nevermind. BR looks awesome, DMR ok. I'm looking forward to see all the other weapons like carbine, new weapons.
  • I really want to like this game but i can't. no Elites as playable characters, no firefight and the story doesn't even follow on from Halo 3.
  • Guessing the bottom shot is the DMR, it looks weird.
  • i bet you will be able to customize your weapons scope now, hence the goofy looking thing on the top of the dmr i prefer the dmr to the br, its more effective weapon imo
  • Looks awesome!!! :)
  • Yawn more of the same old same old Halo, and people slag COD off for being samey...pfft...Halo should have been shelved years ago Roll on the red minus numbers and watch this comment slowly fade to grey as the fanboys all go mental with rage....just what we need another over hyped Halo title that people insist is legendary when it is just tired old pants.
  • 100th multiplayer armor looks great
  • Im a moderate halo fan and Im surprised to find myself so excited for this game as it is a huge step forward for the halo series and it's new found developers.
  • wheres you god now?!
  • Halo 5 may look like that (when it comes out for the next xbox), but certainly not halo 4...
  • can't wait!!
  • Halo, one of the few game series to consistently go down hill from the original. Still, I hope it has a couple of entries left, if only to keep whiny, high pitched, homophobic, racist, douche bags off games I actually play.
  • dmr looks awsome aswell, cant wait for this with both dmr and br it will be awsome, not sure on the new look spartens though look alot like eod which i've never liked too much, hopefully thats jkust the base and there's the full ammount of customization avaialabel
  • Can't wait!
  • Love the dedication from the Halo Fans here. Talking about how a game sucks, before they even play it; however it looks very good and I am curious how this one will turn out.
  • So Beautiful!!!
  • @106 I believe you are talking about COD there
  • Looks like hell of a game, it is Halo after all, cant wait for it:)
  • GREATEST GAME EVURRRR!
  • I will never understand why haters will open articles and rant negative shit when they know the true fans will get pissed off. I've been a Halo fan since '01 and I believe that 343 will deliver the best they can to make this game good, as were ALL HALO GAMES. No game is greater than the others - they were all amazing.
  • @106 - you're sad. that's all I have to say.
  • @115 I too believe all Halo games are great. They're different from each other because of the available technology at the time; but they're the same because of the pieces of story content they hold in each iteration. Bs Angel recently posted on Waypoint -Halo Bulletin May 9th- that among all of the things they're working on the Halo universe, is that they're tightening up the Halo Canon as much as possible. So the story is more rounded to people reading the novels, watching DVD's and playing the games. I love it because Halo story is second to none.
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