Put on your big surprise faces, everybody – 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 – or three games – of fame.
“We’re investing heavily in the look and feel of Forerunner,” senior art director Kenneth Scott told attendees at the HaloFest event this past weekend (via Eurogamer).
“The thing that connected people initially way back in the first Halo experience is that mystery. That’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.
“You’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’t fallen into the abstraction that will happen over that period of time? There’s a lot of push there.”
Franchise development director Frank O’ Connor also confirmed that Halo 4 would be a “direct continuationof Halo 3, and would “deal with the fate of John and Cortana.”
“This is John’s story,” creative director Josh Holmes explained, “but when you look at the two characters who are at the centre of this universe and their relationship and how important that’s been to Halo over the first 10 years, it’s something we really wanted to explore as a team.”
The Reclaimer Trilogy will feature the same classic Halo gameplay we all love and hate, as well as “evolve” is some spaces to keep it “fresh and different”.
Halo 4 is expected to be released in 2012.
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