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Halo 5 Guardians: first details on the campaign and multiplayer news from Game Informer

As expected, begin to arrive from the web the first information campaign on Halo 5: Guardians from the latest issue of Game Informer. We already mentioned the presence of the co-op at 4 and two team players who will Master Chief and Spartan respectively Locke; Let's see what else awaits us, with an eye to news of multiplayer.

Let's start with our teammates, and as already seen will be the Blue Team when we Master Chief and the Fireteam Osiris when we're playing you Spartan Locke. As mentioned, the 3 additional characters will follow us in mission controlled by AI, and we can give commands to them. The simplest is to attack an enemy group: simply point the enemy and press up on the D-Pad to launch our companions in the assault. Other commands include the collect certain weapons, use the turrets, driving vehicles etc.

The magazine explains that the Spartan Locke team will have more advanced technologically than the Blue Team; can e.g. highlight items of interest in the environment. All members of the two teams but constantly will interact with each other and with us talking and exchanging jokes, delving so both the history that its characters; will take the place of Cortana, who kept company with the player during the previous titles. It seems, however, that Leeds will be present in some way: the magazine describes a scene where the AI seems to Master Chief, but we prefer not to bring it back to not reveal important plot elements.

Teammates are also involved in new to the world of Halo: when mortally wounded, now we're not going to die just as they did in previous titles but will remain at the end of life for a short period of time; During this time our companions-regardless of whether they are controlled by the AI or by our friends-will bring us back into the match to ravvivarci. When a friend will take control of one of our companions, in addition, the game will increase the difficulty of the enemies to balance the level of challenge. The levels will have multiple paths to the same goal.

And speaking of the cooperative, Game Informer explains that the Live Gold will not need to play with our friends; your subscription will only serve for the competitive multiplayer. This is an unprecedented news for Xbox, that might make its way in other games. Will instead, unfortunately, to support co-op split-screen.

As for the story, Game Informer explains that the game will begin before Master Chief is on the run, and will see beginning Blue Team members at our side; It is unclear, however, whether it will be a flashback set in the team's past. The game will be set 8 months after the end of Halo 4 , when cataclysmic events put so guardians-the huge entity in the first trailer of Halo 5: Guardians -put at risk entire star systems. On the technical front instead we discover that the game was completely recreated from scratch without the sound effects created for the previous titles.

Interesting news are coming even on multiplayer: the game will hit stores with 20 maps , to which will be added via DLC completely free other maps will be released 15 all by June 2016. But the most interesting information is this: the Halo multiplayer experience 5 will present " completely new and epic ", something that incorporates for the first time all sandbox elements of Halo. 343 Industries defines this new experience as " a dream for us and all our fans ." Will be officially revealed at E3.

For now, but may soon emerge more information: stay with us!