{"id":17582,"date":"2014-10-16T07:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T12:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=17582"},"modified":"2014-10-16T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T12:48:17","slug":"halo-spartan-strike-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=17582","title":{"rendered":"Halo: Spartan Strike announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Halo: Spartan Strike is a new top-down shooter. While not a sequel to last year’s Spartan Assault, it does have it’s similarities.<\/p>\n

This time, the story takes place during the events of Halo 2. Many improvements have been made for the new shooter. Fred LaPorte, 343 producer, states the following in an interview with IGN (paraphrased):<\/p>\n

\u2022 You can drive a Warthog now in the top down shooter.
\n\u2022 A new vehicle called the Kestrel VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) will be introduced!*
\n\u2022 Prometheans are brought into this game as well.
\n\u2022 When you buy it for one Windows device, you get it for all the other ones that support Spartan Strike.
\n\u2022 Difficulty in the game will get harder as you progress to later levels.
\n\u2022 20 Achievments, 3 of which will give you an avatar, emblem and nameplate for the Master Chief Collection.
\n\u2022 Single player only, no multiplayer planned, ala Spartan Assault’s Flood Missions.<\/p>\n

* What’s cool about this is that the VTOL is the SAME vehicle that Mega Bloks made last years as one of their ONI Reap-X sets!<\/p>\n

The game comes out on December 12 for Windows Desktop, Suface tablet and Windows phone. It will cost $5.99. Spartan Strike will also be available on Stream for the same price.<\/p>\n

The game will again include weekly challenges and leaderboards, as well as rewards redeemable in the Master Chief Collection. One VERY important thing to note, NO microtransactions! YES!!! They decided to get rid of those for this game. I think that’s a GREAT decision.<\/p>\n

No official word on it coming to the XBOX, but considering Spartan Assault’s transition to XBOX, it’s likely. Spartan Strike will probably follow the same time frame as well.<\/p>\n

Here are some screen shots from the video trailer\/discussion of Halo Spartan Strike (click to make bigger as usual):<\/p>\n

This of course is the start screen. Very similar to Spartan Assault. I very much like the logo on the right of this screen shot.\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

A sample shot of the load out screen. Again, bearing a strong resemblance to Spartan Assault.\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

Many of the following are the overview shots of either the full letter mission maps or the specific mission maps. For example, “A” is immediately below, while A-4 is below that. The game starts out in New Mombasa.\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

Here we see the Warthog in action!\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

As we see from the shot below, we are also playing on a Halo. YEA!\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out that Promethean Knight Commander in the pic below to the right.\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

The Incineration Cannon makes an appearance in the game as noted at near center of the screen shot below.\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

A Promethean Knight Battlewagon on the prowl.\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

This screen shows us mission specific ops. The yellow circles are where your thumbs go for controlling the character. Again, much like Spartan Assault. However, there is some added room to allow for your thumbs to roam beyond these points.\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

In mission “D”, we are in New Phoenix.\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a>\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the Kestrel VTOL as mentioned.\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

BTW, here is the Mega Bloks toy of it from last year.
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\nand here’s the link to the review of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

the Kestrel in action.\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

Now how did the Prometheans get to Earth???\"Spartan<\/a><\/p>\n

So there you have it. I for one loved Spartan Assault. I have it both for the 360 and the One. I can’t wait for Spartan Strike to come to the One.<\/p>\n

-Sal\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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