E3 2015: Halo 5 Guardians News and Gameplay

<p><strong>Update 3&colon;<&sol;strong> Halo 5&&num;8217&semi;s multiplayer is going to support 24 players online&comma; the biggest Halo has ever enabled&period; The maps will also be around 4x bigger than previous Halo maps&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Update 2&colon; <&sol;strong>The Didact-like enemy I spoke of is known as &&num;8220&semi;The Warden&&num;8221&semi;&comma; and the Knight-like Promethean&&num;8217&semi;s are called &&num;8220&semi;Promethean Soldiers&&num;8221&semi;&semi; they&&num;8217&semi;re supposed to be the most relocatable Promethean enemy to Spartans&period; Halo 5 is also supposed to be the most replayable Halo game of them all&comma; thanks to the software of the Xbox One&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Update&colon;<&sol;strong> Obviously&comma; the story will be balancing back and fourth between Master Chief&&num;8217&semi;s team and Spartan Locke&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; kind of like how the Arbiter and Chief was played in Halo 2&period; Also&comma; Locke&&num;8217&semi;s team will have special features such as an &&num;8220&semi;Artemis Tracking System&&num;8221&semi; that Master Chief&&num;8217&semi;s team will be unable to use&period; This feature helps players find things like environmental opportunities or maybe weapon cashes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alright&comma; so we were graced by the presence of a new trailer for <em>Halo 5<&sol;em> followed by some gameplay from the campaign&period; We hear more on the conversation between Spartan Locke and The Arbiter&comma; with Arbiter telling Locke about the Master Chief being the &&num;8220&semi;best in his clan&&num;8221&semi;&comma; referring to the Spartan soldier group&period; Also revealing the location of Chief in his newest mission&comma; the Covenant stronghold&period; &lpar;&quest;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When we get into the gameplay of the campaign&comma; we find Spartan Locke taking command of his group &lpar;Including Buck from Halo 3&colon; ODST&rpar;&period; In <em>Halo 5&comma;<&sol;em> it seems we get a new group command feature&comma; where you can relocate and order your squad members to attack particular enemies&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s also what looks like a new execution move&colon; When your character is in the air&comma; you can select a spot for him to slam down and send a shockwave that kills nearby enemies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the end of the gameplay&comma; we see the Promethean guardian take form&comma; and Spartan Locke is greeted by a new Promethean enemy who seems like the Didact from <em>Halo 4<&sol;em>&period; Spartan Locke is tossed aside&comma; being told he isn&&num;8217&semi;t welcome as the Master Chief&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What are you most excited about with <em>Halo 5<&sol;em>&quest; Tell us in the comments below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center"><em>For more on Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s conference&comma; check out our <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;microsoft-e3-2015-conference&sol;">liveblog&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;