Halo Infinite campaign gameplay overview features a new dynamic sandbox

What you could know

• 343 Industries has shared several particulars about Halo Infinite’s marketing campaign in a brand new marketing campaign overview video.
• The video primarily focuses on the dynamic, open-world-style marketing campaign gameplay and new details about the story.
• The Halo Infinite marketing campaign will probably be out there for $60 and can launch alongside the sport’s multiplayer on Dec. 8, 2021.

Halo developer 343 Industries has shared several particulars about what gamers can anticipate from the Halo Infinite marketing campaign expertise in a brand new campaign overview video. This features a detailed look at the sport’s gameplay, notes about Halo Infinite’s story and writing, and extra. Notably, this marks the primary time we have seen the Halo Infinite marketing campaign shut up because of the authentic gameplay revealed in 2020.

The video primarily confirmed lots of Halo Infinite’s gameplay options which are supposed to make the expertise feel extra open, dynamic, and non-linear than earlier entries within the franchise. These embrace the sport’s day/evening cycle, enemy patrols, facet goals within the open world that require you to save lots of Marines or filter out Banished strongholds, named Banished minibosses, and upgrades that you may receive for Halo Infinite’s numerous Tools items by discovering Spartan Cores in-game. There may also be areas the place you’ll be able to name in items of ordnance, like weapons or autos, to make use of as you discover Zeta Halo. Take a look at the new footage beneath:

The video additionally confirmed off some model-new hints about Halo Infinite’s story. One of many driving components of the plot will probably be to search out what occurred to Cortana after Halo 5, during which she took management of the Forerunner Guardians and subjugated the galaxy. Moreover, the video additionally confirmed some new scenes of the Banished’s chief Struggle, Chief Escharum, and a lethal Spartan-killer Elite named Jega ‘Rdomnai. “The Harbinger” that was briefly talked about within the 2020 gameplay footage was revealed as effectively, and they seem to be a completely new character that claims “The Forerunners’ lies are at a finish” and that “she is the Harbinger of the reality.”

In contrast to Halo Infinite’s free-to-play multiplayer, the Halo Infinite marketing campaign expertise prices $60 (notably, you’ll unlock some campaign-exclusive gadgets in multiplayer). Alternatively, you may get entry to it if you happen to are an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will also get monthly rewards. The marketing campaign will launch alongside the multiplayer suite on Dec. 8, 2021, on the Xbox Collection X, Xbox Collection S, Xbox One consoles, and Home windows PCs.

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