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.

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

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DopestDope_EvaPosted:

Bad idea for Microsoft/343. Firefight was (for some people) the main reason that people brought Reach after the campaign. They should have added Firefight and Spartan Ops into Halo 4 as standard as there needs to be more game options.

-Dope

-DeanoPosted:

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

yet cod stole theater ?


Does it really make a difference on where they got ideas from? Every idea originated from something else so who the hell cares?
If all games use ideas from others.. it will make them all better games by taking the best thing out of each ones. Plus there is only so many ideas to choose from.. you cant make every game completely new!

AntPosted:

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

yet cod stole theater ?


>Halo stole theater from xfire

TTG_KeoPosted:

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

yet cod stole theater ?

FrogPosted:

Pfft...
I loved Firefight and Spartan Ops sounds a bit like CoD. Firefight could be replayed... I don't think Spartan Ops will be relplayed much once completed. =/

griff321Posted:

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

Av3nGeRxATXPosted:

NOOOOOOOO! Firefight Is Awesome!

IglesiasPosted:

Tune I'm a little disappointed that they're making something similar to CoD. That's not a good thing. I hope this will still be fun, but I will definitely miss Firefight. I guess we will have to wait and see...

CoD stole theatre. Cry some where else man.

TacoElitePosted:

D: Why? Firefight was endless fun.....spartan ops doesn't sound like something you will play over and over again.

FamousPosted:

I cant wait for this game