Report: Halo 4 ditching Firefight mode for Spartan Ops

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Microsoft and its development studio 343 Industries are currently working on Halo 4, the next game in the Xbox 360 sci-fi first person shooter series. Microsoft has been keeping most of the details of Halo 4 a secret but this month's Game Informer print magazine has a Halo 4 cover story that finally gives out quite a bit of information about the game.

A poster on the NeoGAF forums got a copy of the magazine and has written up what was revealed in the Halo 4 preview. We won't go over everything that the poster wrote (we really think you should buy the magazine) but we will talk about a couple of the more interesting facts that came up in the article.

One of the biggest changes in Halo 4 is that the popular Firefight gameplay mode won't appear in the game. Firefight, where up to four players have to deal with endless waves of enemies, made its debut in Halo 3: ODST and returned in 2010's Halo Reach. The game's single player storyline will still have four player co-op support.

However, there's also a new gameplay mode in Halo 4 called Spartan Ops. This will be a single-player mode that's similar to the Spec Ops co-op mode found in the more recent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare games. The plan is to release new Spartan Ops missions after Halo 4 is released and that ultimately it will be close to the regular Halo 4 single player campaign in terms of length.

Halo 4 is currently set for a fall 2012 release date and it seems likely that it will be Microsoft's biggest first party Xbox 360 game of the year.

Posted: Apr 13, 2012 11:05 pm

Source: http://www.neogamr.net/news/report-halo-4-ditching-firefight-mode-for-spartan-ops

Comments

Two_FacedPosted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

StimulusZero
AskingAlexandria-
griff321 Great another steal from call of duty... why cant halo just be original instead of set it self up for failure

Another steal From Cod? Theater Mode Sound Fimilair? i cant recall MW3 and Black ops comming out before halo 3 Infected? Sound Familiar i remeber that from halo 2. Cod points. Sounds a little like cR They call it spartan OPS dosent mean its copying from COD. in my opion both games are fantastic and i even play cod more. but if anything... COD is stealing from halo.

Halo made theater mode first

that's what he is saying dude! Halo had all the stuff before COD! and from what it sounds like, Spartan ops will be just like firefight but single player. Halo had mike myers, juggernaught, infected, theater mode, custom games where you can change player settings, and Tons of stuff first.

Trust me when I say this game will be far from COD. You might as well say they are copying because its a FPS.

StimulusZeroPosted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

AskingAlexandria-
griff321 Great another steal from call of duty... why cant halo just be original instead of set it self up for failure

Another steal From Cod? Theater Mode Sound Fimilair? i cant recall MW3 and Black ops comming out before halo 3 Infected? Sound Familiar i remeber that from halo 2. Cod points. Sounds a little like cR They call it spartan OPS dosent mean its copying from COD. in my opion both games are fantastic and i even play cod more. but if anything... COD is stealing from halo.

Halo made theater mode first

FirefanPosted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

Spartan Ops is nothing like Spec Ops. Now stop all your whining and raging.

VeszperrPosted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

My God they say they aren't trying to copy Call of Duty but they make "Spartan Ops"? Addition of Perks
instead of Armor Abilities? Stupid 343i sucks! Where's Bungie when you need them?

EViLxDR34M5Posted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

I dont c y people are bitching about firefight was good and Spartan ops is Spec ops. Im my opinion its Halo and any Halo game is better than CoD no matter what the 10 year olds say as it was my 1st game ever on my Xbox

Some_Small_GuyPosted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

Jtagger500 Spartan Ops Why?Fire fight was really fun in reach why would they take that out.

Well you kind of have to look at the Halo 4 343 timeline. The 343 division was created a few months after the release of Halo 3 in which they knew they were the one who were going to continue the story. For the most part they were publishing stories of what happens between the five year gap from Halo 3 to Halo 4. As of right now they've only made it two years in with Glasslands, but it reveals that the Elites are in a civil war and the arbiter may make a return. Getting back on track, if you read the leaked Halo 4 Game Informer scans you'll see the Halo 3 style in a lot of things. Like the elites are hunched over again, the AR still looks like the Halo 3 AR but still looks great, and guns like the covenant carbine are still in the game. It's not like they have taken things from Halo Reach though, and by that I mean the DMR will be returning as well. Getting to the point, Firefight was a creation of Bungie and 343 thinks Spec Ops will be better. Plus, for the first year we will get a new mission every week. Sounds cool to me to see what they are making the Spartan V's do.

LaserFlipPosted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

griff321 Great another steal from call of duty... why cant halo just be original instead of set it self up for failure

Another steal From Cod? Theater Mode Sound Fimilair? i cant recall MW3 and Black ops comming out before halo 3 Infected? Sound Familiar i remeber that from halo 2. Cod points. Sounds a little like cR They call it spartan OPS dosent mean its copying from COD. in my opion both games are fantastic and i even play cod more. but if anything... COD is stealing from halo.

XeX_XENONZPosted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

griff321 Great another steal from call of duty... why cant halo just be original instead of set it self up for failure

There hasnt been one halo that has failed completely yet. Oh, and HALO was made about 6 years before Call of Ten Year Olds who know nothing except for "UZ CHEAPZ GUNZ TO GET KILZ AND ACT LIKE I GOOD" duty. Halo brought FPS to consoles and without COD and all of its terribleness wouldn't even be here. Stupid down syndrome kid....

FirefanPosted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

Adding (clarifying) to what I wrote below, each week, "a new CG movie sequence" will be released, along with,"five objective-based cooperative missions". The mode is described as being,"structured like a TV season". The magazine doesn't say how many weeks long they plan on making Spartan Ops, but I think it's safe to say they are starting at launch.

FirefanPosted: Sat. Apr 14, 2012

I read the entire article in Game Informer. Spartan Ops, other than the name, is almost completely different from Call of Duty's Spec Ops. Spec Ops is just random and short missions for a little fun when you get bored of the multiplayer (my opinion). Spartan Ops is actually going to have a whole lengthy story to it that relates to the single player campaign and what is going in in the Halo universe at the time. I think it said they plan on releasing 3 or 5 missions every week that continue the story. Also, I could've sworn that the article said it was co-op for up to four players, but maybe that was something I assumed.

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