Eventually they fight their way through Covenant forces to a localized Cartographer. Halsey, Cortana's creator, can fix her condition. John-117 suggests trying to find a ship back to Earth to see if Dr. Cortana reveals her behavioral problem is due to her going into the first stages of Rampancy. John-117 awakens to find himself inside the planet. The hull breach blows the Spartan outside just as the wreckage passes through. However, upon reaching the pods, a Covenant cruiser collides with the Dawn, tearing through the escape pods. While making their way to the escape pods, Cortana starts acting erratically. The already weakened Forward Unto Dawn starts to disintegrate as it passes into the planet. Immediately after the cruiser is destroyed, a passage into the planet opens and activates a gravity well that begins to pull in every ship. Cortana notices the nearest cruiser has its shields down and suggests firing a tactical nuke at it. As John-117 fights his way through the Covenant boarders, it is revealed that it isn't one rogue Covenant ship on a salvage operation, but an entire fleet orbiting a Forerunner world. After progressing through part of the ship the assailant turns out to be the Jul 'Mdama's Covenant, to which John-117 expresses concern as he believed that humanity had a cease fire with the Sangheili. Cortana activates John-117's cryopod as an unknown assailant boards the ship. Several minutes of game-play and multiple preview clips of the campaign were shown before the trailer ended with a cryptic message from an 'unknown evil.'įour years, seven months, and ten days after the events of Halo 3, a mysterious energy passes through the aft section of UNSC Forward Unto Dawn. It was here where the new enemies were revealed to be Promethean AIs, and the return of the former Covenant's member species as foes was officially confirmed.

The game was then officially announced at the end of Microsoft's E3 2011 press conference with a short teaser trailer entitled ' Awakening.'ĭetails on Halo 4 were further expanded on in the 2012 E3 Expo, where Microsoft's E3 press conference revealed more about Halo 4 's game-play. Halo 4 was first revealed on Microsoft's homepage hours before the start of their E3 press conference, alongside Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary due to a mistake by the editing department. 9.2 Promotional/Trailer Images and LogosĪnnouncement E3 Expo 2011 Main article: Awakening.

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