{"id":13706,"date":"2011-08-29T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"halo-4-5-and-6-to-be-the-reclaimer-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/13706-halo-4-5-and-6-to-be-the-reclaimer-trilogy","title":{"rendered":"Halo 4, 5, and 6 to be the \u201cReclaimer Trilogy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Put on your big surprise faces, everybody &ndash; 343 Industries has announced that Halo 4 will be the first in a new three-parter, dubbed the Reclaimer Trilogy. The Forerunners are finally getting their fifteen minutes &ndash; or three games &ndash; of fame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re investing heavily in the look and feel of Forerunner,&#8221; senior art director Kenneth Scott told attendees at the HaloFest event this past weekend (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-08-28-halo-4-5-6-the-reclaimer-trilogy\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing that connected people initially way back in the first Halo experience is that mystery. That&#8217;s where a lot of our pressure on the art team is going right now. We want the player to feel that initial experience of discovery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve lived with the Forerunner for 10 years now, and three, four games. What do we do to move it forwards so it still connects the player with a mystery but it hasn&#8217;t fallen into the abstraction that will happen over that period of time? There&#8217;s a lot of push there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Franchise development director Frank O&rsquo; Connor also confirmed that Halo 4 would be a &ldquo;direct continuationof Halo 3, and would &ldquo;deal with the fate of John and Cortana.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is John&#8217;s story,&#8221; creative director Josh Holmes explained, &#8220;but when you look at the two characters who are at the centre of this universe and their relationship and how important that&#8217;s been to Halo over the first 10 years, it&#8217;s something we really wanted to explore as a team.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Reclaimer Trilogy will feature the same classic Halo gameplay we all love and hate, as well as &ldquo;evolve&rdquo; is some spaces to keep it &ldquo;fresh and different&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Halo 4 is expected to be released in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, 343 Industries confirms Halo 5 and 6, just by the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}