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After tackling Metroid in Season 1, the second season of Game Informer<\/em>‘s Video Gameography podcast moves on to one of the biggest shooter franchises in existence: Halo. This week, we examine 343 Industries’ first stab at the series with\u00a0Halo 4.<\/p>\n

Halo 4\u00a0was released on the Xbox 360 on\u00a0November 6, 2012<\/span><\/span>, and was a big return for Master Chief, who hadn’t been seen since 2007’s Halo 3. Development of the game wasn’t perfectly smooth as\u00a0Ryan Payton, of Metal Gear Solid 4 fame, initially pushed the team to experiment with Halo’s sandbox. However, the game was still a massive hit. Join us as we talk about Halo 4’s powerful story, the new Prometheans enemy types, Halo’s obsession with the number seven, and what made the Spartan Ops multiplayer mode so disappointing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Join hosts Ben Reeves (@BenjaminReeves<\/a>) and Marcus Stewart (@MarcusStewart7<\/a>) and IGN executive editor\u00a0Ryan McCaffrey\u00a0(@DMC_Ryan<\/a>) as we unpack the history and impact of the first Halo game from 343 Industries. And for more Halo, be sure to check out our definitive ranking of every Halo game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Check out the rest of our podcast on the Video Gameography hub<\/a>. If you’d like to get in touch with the Video Gameography podcast, you can email us at\u00a0podcast@gameinformer.com<\/a>. You can also join our official\u00a0Game Informer<\/em>\u00a0Discord server\u00a0by linking your Discord account to your Twitch account and\u00a0subscribing to the\u00a0Game Informer<\/em>\u00a0Twitch channel<\/a>. From there, find the Video Gameography channel under “Community Spaces.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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After tackling Metroid in Season 1, the second season of Game Informer‘s Video Gameography podcast moves on to one of the biggest shooter franchises in existence: Halo. This week, we examine 343 Industries’ first stab at the series with\u00a0Halo 4. Halo 4\u00a0was released on the Xbox 360 on\u00a0November 6, 2012, and was a big return for Master Chief, who hadn’t been seen since 2007’s Halo 3. Development of the game wasn’t perfectly smooth as\u00a0Ryan Payton, of Metal Gear Solid 4 fame, initially pushed the team to experiment with Halo’s sandbox. However, the game was still a massive hit. Join us as we talk about Halo 4’s powerful story, the new Prometheans enemy types, Halo’s obsession with the number seven, and what made the Spartan Ops…<\/p>\n

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