Halo 4: Game of the Year Edition

UPC: 885370670844

Platform: Xbox 360

Publisher: Microsoft Studios

Developer: 343 Industries

Category: Shooter

Style(s): First-Person Shooter

Synopsis: Microsoft's iconic space marine Master Chief returns to begin a new trilogy as gamers head to the Forerunner planet Requiem and battle a force more powerful than anything humanity has ever faced in Halo 4. Set four years after the Covenant War, the Campaign mode finds up to four players working together to help Master Chief battle a variety of foes, uncover ancient secrets, and deal with Cortana's instability. Halo 4 also includes the new Spartan Ops co-op multiplayer mode, in which up to four gamers can join forces for weekly objective-based missions and cutscenes.


Competitive multiplayer remains a key part of the Halo experience, with players creating their own Spartan-IV warrior and then accruing experience by taking part in various game modes. The War Games mode fits into the overall narrative, serving as a large training simulator in which Spartan warriors fight one another in a variety of multiplayer game types, including Slayer, Regicide, and Infinity Slayer. Players can now completely customize their loadouts with a primary weapon, secondary weapon, grenade, and a variety of armor upgrades like jet-pack boosting, camouflage, and a new kind of X-ray vision.


Gamers can equip new abilities by earning Spartan Points, and all the experience they accrue allows them to progress from level one to level fifty. When players hit level 50 they unlock Specializations, which, over the course of ten more levels, give them the ability to further customize their characters into eight specific classes like Pioneer, Rogue, and Operator. There are ten basic multiplayer maps, but an updated version of the Forge mode returns to once again let creative gamers edit and share their own map designs.


This Game of the Year edition includes the full original game as well as the War Games map pass (which opens up the Castle, Crimson, and Majestic map packs), the full first season of Spartan Ops, the Champions DLC bundle (which includes two multiplayer maps, a new game mode, and a collection of new weapons and armor), a Master Chief avatar cloak, and all the bonus content for the game's original pre-order and limited edition deals. ~ Christopher Brown, All Game Guide

Package Contents: Downloadable Content Codes

Controls: Joystick/Gamepad

the game requires Joystick/Gamepad.