“Halo: The Master Chief Collection” will feature “Halo,” “Halo 2,” “Halo 3” and “Halo 4.”  Each game has been remastered and will provide HD graphics and run at 60 fps. Aside from the campaign missions, players will also receive more than 100 mutliplayer maps from each game.

Players can dive back into the world of Halo when this collection is released on November 11, 2014. Check out the Halo site for more information and plenty of gaming pics.

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Additionally, Microsoft announced “Forza 5 Horizon 2.” It is set for release on September 30, 2014. “Horizon 2” is an open-world racing game with more than 200 different cars. Expect a full weather system as well as a day and night cycle.

“Evolve” started off with a new monster reveal. Gamers were introduced to the Kraken. A rather large monster that looks like a crossbreed of Cthulhu and a xenomorph.

Ubisoft came to town with some actual gameplay. “Assassins Creed: Unity” will be the first game in the series to introduce four player co-op play. The demo showed off a contract where four players were sent to cause a distraction, infiltrate the castle, and then finally assassinate the target. Watch as four players worked in unison to take out their target.

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“Dragon Age: Inquisition” showed off a lot of gameplay in the newest trailer. This trailer revealed more characters as well as some exciting new locations.

“Sunset Overdrive” continued with the over-the-top humor in the newest trailer. After a quick explanation of the creation of the monsters for “Sunset Overdrive,” the main protagonist set out to battle the creatures in an amusement park.

New DLC for “Dead Rising 3” called, “Super Ultra Dead Rising 3 Arcade Edition Hyper Remix Ex plus Alpha” is set to be the next round of content for “Dead Rising 3.” This new content takes the existing characters from the Dead Rising series and pits them against each other in a series of games. There are almost as many costumes in this DLC as there are adjectives in the DLC title.

“Fantasia” and “Dance Central” are the two new games from Harmonix. Both of these games will solely use the Kinect.

Lionhead Studios debuted “Fable Legends.” Players are taken on a quest of magic and danger through the land of Albion. Four player co-op was also introduced during gameplay as four different types of characters fought an army of enemies. Another first for “Fable Legends” is the villain system. A group of players team up to against a single player, known as the villain. While in villain mode, the game turns into a tower defense type of game as the villain deploys creatures against the team of heroes.

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“Ori and the Blind Forest” looked to be a stunning game.  This appears to be a buddy game as there is a panda/sloth-like creature and a little white rabbit. The two seem to work together to solve problems.

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Microsoft and 343 Studios is teaming up to bring a whole lot of Halo to the Xbox One. On November 11, 2014, Bungie will be releasing “Halo: The Master Chief Collection.” This is a collection of “Halo,” “Halo 2,” “Halo 3,” and “Halo 4” all on one disc. There will also be a collection of more than 100 multiplayer maps from Halo 2, 3, and 4. The collection will also include the live action show about Master Chief, “Halo Knightfall.” This is a nice piece of nostalgia before the release of “Halo 5: Guardians.”

Playdead, the developer behind “Limbo,” comes the new game “Inside.” The game has the same gritty feel as Limbo with just a few more added colors. This game looks to be just as creepy as its predecessor.

The next part showed a series of ID@Xbox games with claims up to 100 different games currently in development.  Check out the short list of some these titles. “Plague Evolved,” “Earthlock,” “Cuphead,” “Drifter,” “Lifeless PLANET,” “Slash and Dash,” “FRU,” “Grave,” “Threes,” “Fenix Rage,” “Woolfe Grin,” “Hellraid,” “Below.”

Laura Croft is set to return in 2015 with “Rise of the Tomb Raider.” No actual gameplay but an action-filled teaser trailer with lots of Laura falling down things.

New gameplay showcased “The Witcher 3.” The objective of this demo was to hunt down a griffin. During this demo Geralt chases down this giant beast and also saves a woman.

Microsoft ended the show with a quick look at “Phantom Dust,” “The Division,” a new IP with “Scalebound” and lastly “Crackdown.” Microsoft heard the public’s complaints about not having enough games and answered with this strong lineup of games.

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Hopefully by the time you read this, the United States has announced a victor in the Presidential Election, and the United States isn’t involved in another embarrassing and bitter recount like it was 12 years in 2000. Perhaps we have the same Commander in Chief for four more years, or maybe we have a brand new one? But there is one Chief that I definitely know I can count on being around for awhile, and that’s good old Master Chief, Petty Office John-117.

I remember, being an early adopter for the original Xbox, trading in a bunch of old PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and Dreamcast to help me afford an Xbox system preorder bundle pack at the local GameStop, which required three game preorders, one of which being the then unproven Halo: Combat Evolved by Bungie Studios. Halo had an interesting history, moving from a PC-exclusive real-time strategy game to an Xbox-exclusive first-person shooter. Prior to Halo, my love for Bungie was the action-strategy series Myth, which was a war game that had nothing to do with science fiction or technology.

I remember the Thanksgiving of 2001, just after the launch of the Xbox and Halo, where my brother and I spend the majority of the day working our way through the game.

It was an awesome experience that gave me faith in split-screen coop. Interestingly, this was the only Halo game that didn’t really offer any sort of multiplayer experience.

Flash forward to the year 2012, and Halo 4 has just been released. While the reviews are still coming in, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. The most interesting factor to me is that this is the first proper Halo game that didn’t have Bungie Studios leading the charge. Instead the Microsoft development studio 343 Studios has been handling the license, which Bungie continues to work on some still undisclosed project.

I think what is most surprising is that Microsoft hasn’t bastardized the license the way that I believe myself and other expected. Knowing that other publishers throughout history have released mediocre products that sold well simply because it had a well-known name, I was shocked to see how faithful the Microsoft-owned 343 Studios handled the license.

It’ll be interesting to see how many copies of Halo 4 sell, as the last several Halo release have had absolutely nothing to do with Master Chief. Halo War, Halo: ODST, and Halo Reach offered new protagonists and heroes. While some of them had abilities and the general badassery of good old Master Chief, none of those game actually featured our favorite Space Marine.

Because this Brutal Gamer is a democracy (see how I’m attempting to tie it back to the U.S. Election?), how do you as gamers feel about a new Halo game, featuring Master Chief, that wasn’t developed by Bungie Studios? Do you think it’s possible that a completely different developer could one-up Bungie’s legacy? Or is this something of a sin? If you’ve played Halo 4, has the license been handled faithfully, or should Microsoft have let the Master Chief story line die after the conclusion to Halo 3? Cast your vote, and let us know!

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