Halo Infinite’s new marketing campaign trailer has Master Chief chasing Cortana

Microsoft has finally revealed a brand new take a look at Halo Infinite’s marketing campaign mode, marking the primary time that developer 343 Industries has proven the marketing campaign since its preliminary gameplay reveal in July 2020.

The new six-minute trailer exhibits off loads of Infinite’s new gameplay and programs in a brief period of time, together with new weapons, new enemies, menacing bosses, and a brand new AI companion character that can be accompanying gamers known as “The Weapon.” The overview additionally exhibits off a few of Infinite’s new open world gameplay and RPG fashion gameplay additions, which embrace optionally available bases and targets for gamers to pursue and selectable upgrades for tools.

Set after 2015’s Halo 5: Guardians, Infinite is the primary mainline Halo recreation in over 5 years and can look to select up the story of the unreal intelligence revolution led by Master Chief’s former ally Cortana that served as Halo 5’s cliffhanger. Infinite can even decide up story threads from 2017’s real-time technique spinoff Halo Wars 2, which launched the most recent pressure of Halo’s traditional Covenant antagonists, the Brute-led “Banished.”

Halo Infinite’s initial gameplay reveal was seen by many as underwhelming, spawning disappointment within the purportedly next-gen visuals and the notorious “Craig” meme that dunked on a close-up shot of a very poorly rendered Brute.

With Halo Infinite set to launch in just some weeks on December eighth, the brand new marketing campaign overview isn’t simply an opportunity for 343 Industries to provide gamers a greater thought of what to anticipate from the sport when it arrives, but additionally an opportunity for redemption and to raised promote followers on Infinite’s potential after its lackluster first impression.

While 343 Industries has largely been retaining Halo Infinite’s marketing campaign beneath wraps (till in the present day’s reveal, at the least), the studio has been letting gamers check out Infinite’s free-to-play multiplayer mode in a collection of preview weekends. These weekends have had a much more optimistic reception as an thrilling evolution (and in some ways, a return to type) for the franchise.

Halo Infinite was initially supposed to launch alongside the Xbox Series X and Series S final fall, however the recreation was delayed to 2021 resulting from quite a lot of growth challenges, together with the continued COVID-19 pandemic. It’s now set to reach on PC, Xbox Series X / S, and Xbox One platforms on December eighth, though the sport will ship with no few key options, together with the marketing campaign’s co-op mode and the favored Forge multiplayer map editor, each of that are slated for a 2022 launch in a future replace.