343 Announces New Halo: The Master Chief Collection Trailer & More!

343 is leading development on the HALO project with help from Austin-based developer Certain Affinity. According to Halo’s official site, 343 was going to show us some new stuff during the HALO Development panel and they delivered pretty nicely.

343 and Certain Affinity have finished their panel at RTX event hosted by Rooster Teeth. The developers discussed the design and vision of the project, with original Halo 2 development stories from lead Halo 2 multiplayer designer and Certain Affinity president Max Hoberman. If you’re a huge Halo fan, these are the highlights of the broadcast.

• The Halo YouTube channel uploaded a new trailer (above) for the game featuring The Arbiter, voiced by actor Keith David.
• 343 announced that Coagulation will be one of the six remastered maps.
• In addition to returning multiplayer game types, Halo 2: Anniversary will add new modes like Ricochet (from Halo 4), Race (with “a huge number of game mode options”), SWAT, Infection, and others.
• The Mongoose vehicle is being upgraded with mounted guns to become the “Gungoose,” which should be a nice addition to the Mongoose capture the flag mode, especially on the remastered Coagulation map.
• Responding to a question from a fan, 343 said it has no plans to give Halo 3 the anniversary treatment at the moment.

Announced during E3, Halo: The Master Chief Collection includes Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3, and Halo 4. All multiplayer maps and all Halo 4 Spartan Ops missions will be included. Each game will run at 1080p and 60 frames per second.

The game is scheduled to be released on November 11 for $60 on Xbox One.

343 also stated that it will announce more about the game at Gamescom this August.

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