Halo 4 E3 2012 gameplay reveals jungle setting and familiar-but-new guns, plus live-action!

Microsoft’s first trailer in the line-up was for Halo 4, much to everyone’s excitement. Showing off a live-action shot of the Infinity being taken down over the planet that Master Chief finds himself on, the setting soon moves into live gameplay as MC briefly takes on Covenant forces.

Before long, we find him squaring off with orangey AI constructs of some sort, and soon after, he’s using their guns. Light rifles and scatterguns, (the latter looking very suspiciously like a human shotgun) abound as MC guns down anything and everything that moves with judicious prejudice. It’s not long before he’s taken down by these new enemies, at which point we move on to a series of narrated scenes that seem to indicate Cortana’s sanity isn’t in nearly as good health as her bust.

The game’s looking very pretty so far. We’re all very excited, I trust?