Scott Grill




A leak on Friday from the packaging one of the McFarlane toys for Halo 4 reveals two of the mysterious enemies in the Xbox 360 shooter. If you don't want anything spoiled, we suggest you stop right now before continuing.

The images of the two unknown enemies are shown on the back of a Halo 4 Series 1 toy. Along with pictures of Master Chief, an Elite Zealot, Grunt Storm, Cortana, a Spartan Warrior and Soldier we see two new characters. One is called a "Crawler" and, as you would expect, it has four legs and an almost hulking dog appearance. The other is called a "Watcher" and looks like an alien character sitting in some kind of flying apparatus.

343 Industries is understandably playing the new enemies in Halo 4 close to the vest and does not want to give away any story details. What we do know is that Halo 4 takes place on a Forerunner Shield World which is a planet covered by a metal shell that protected it from the Halo ring weapons. Like 343 Guilty Spark and the Sentinels, these could be leftover Forerunner technology. They could also be Forerunners themselves or something much worse. [Ed: Those who read the recent Halo novels should know.]