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War Games is a new game mode introduced in Halo 4 that replaces the Matchmaking mode of previous games. Much like the matchmaking features of Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo: Reach, the mode contains several playlists that may be accessed by the player and provide an automatic matching system to pair players of equivalent skill.

It is said by 343 Industries that some of the playlists are static and some other ones will rotate in weekly updates. The first weekly update (from the week of November 12th 2012) included the SWAT playlist.

As of the 2/11 update, King of the Hill, Team Snipers, and Shotty Snipers have returned into rotation.

PlaylistsEdit

Below is a list of playlists that feature in Halo 4's War Games mode, as of February 5, 2013 arranged as they are in the Halo 4 playlist selection screen.

Infinity Slayer
Big Team Infinity Slayer
Castle DLC (exclusive to Castle map pack owners)
Dominion
Regicide
Flood
Capture the Flag
Grifball
Team Throwdown
Team Doubles
Team Objective (King of the Hill, Team Regicide and Oddball)
Team Snipers
Team SWAT (specified as SWAT in playlists)
Infinity Rumble
Team Action Sack

Removed PlaylistsEdit

Team Slayer Pro
Crimson DLC (exclusive to Crimson DLC owners)

CanonEdit

War Games is also the canonical explanation for multiplayer in Halo 4 due to the guise of taking place on the SPARTAN-IV Program training deck of the UNSC Infinity. It is suggested in the introduction cutscene to episode 1 of Spartan Ops that the Spartan-IV candidates are trained through combat with their peers.