When it comes to placing Halo games in order, this one sits roughly between the events of Halo 3 and 4. It gives players the chance to control Spartan Sarah Palmer as she fights against the Covenant.
Even though the game released after Halo 4, lore-wise, its events occur before. Palmer is an interesting character in the Halo universe, and it's nifty to be able to experience a part of her story. Although the game had fairly mixed reviews, it garnered enough attention to eventually create a sequel. Halo 4 is the first game in the Reclaimer Saga and is also the first mainline Halo title to be solely created by Industries.
The story picks up four years after the events of Halo 3. Master Chief and Cortana are pitted against the Forerunner known as the Didact, as well as a splinter faction of the Covenant. The threat of the Didact pales in comparison to the tragedy of Cortana's onset of AI rampancy. As she and the Chief struggle to undo the Didact's plans, they have to contend with her deteriorating condition. Halo 4 put extra focus on the relationship between Master Chief and Cortana throughout the campaign, and the multiplayer underwent massive changes as well, incorporating loadouts as an integral part of the experience.
This game technically takes place during two time periods: partially during Halo 2 and partially during events after Halo 4. The game primarily focuses on the player hunting down an artifact called the Conduit.
This artifact was first located in the ruins of New Mombasa, but it got transported to a Halo ring. The struggle to obtain it is the main objective of the narrative.
Narrative takes a back seat to gameplay in this arcade-style title. This short entry in the Halo franchise barely whets the appetite for lore-hungry fans. Halo 5: Guardians is the middle entry in 's trilogy of Halo games. In under a decade, Bungie had become The Beatles of game design, flying a banner that read one word: Halo. Pong spelt backwards. It was released in free of charge. Bungie quickly followed up with Minotaur: Labyrinths of Crete which Jones wrote while doing an artificial intelligence class.
Up until this point, Bungie programmed games exclusively for the Macintosh, while nearly all other games focused on Windows. Their next game was another FPS called Marathon and is the first-ever vertical shooter, allowing players to look up and down as well as jump to higher ground. After a Macworld Expo, Bungie was swarmed with interest leading to a sequel, Marathon 2: Durandal , introducing co-op into shooters for the first time.
A trait which later became a Bungie staple. Following this, Bungie made a leap to strategy games with Myth: The Fallen Lords another critical success for the genre, winning several awards and earning a large online community. In , Bungie announced its ambitious next project, Halo: Combat Evolved. Originally conceived as a top-down, real-time strategy game, it soon grew into an FPS, a genre the company was now renowned for. When it dropped with the Xbox on November 15, , the applause was deafening.
Halo: Combat Evolved broke sales records, selling a million copies within 5 months, and now being shifted in tandem with all Xbox consoles. Fans instantly fell in love with the story of Master Chief, the Covenant, and the fearsome flood. The Spartan-II program is meant to suppress rebellions in a secretive manner. Shipping soldiers to various worlds, groups of soldiers take out those trying to create unrest in the galaxy.
While trying to keep rebellion at bay, human worlds are suddenly under the attack of the Covenant. This theocratic race of aliens is a collection of species reseeded by the Forerunners.
Because of this method of creation, the Covenant sees the Forerunners as their Gods. Thus, they begin a holy war of genocide against humans for acting as heretics against the plans of the Forerunners. One major stronghold is standing after the Covenant begin wiping out humans. Master Chief and an AI program, Cortana, escape from Reach and travel to random coordinates set by the ship, which just so happen to lead to the fourth Halo ring. From here, the games play out as Master Chief looks for a way to protect humanity, and in turn, the galaxy.
Image Credit: Microsoft. The history of Halo starts before the Xbox had hit shelves. The game also intended on releasing to PC and Mac at that time, but a delay occurred until Bungie developed the game, and Microsoft Game Studios published the title.
Bungie started work on Halo in as a real time strategy game. Soon after, the game moved to the first person experience that the game has stuck with. The game was also meant to release on PC, until Microsoft began work on the Xbox, its first video game console. Halo: Combat Evolved is often praised as the greatest shooter of all time.
Halo 2 released in on Xbox, and in on PC. The game utilized the new Havok physics engine, and added a ton of new features. On top of new weapons and vehicles, multiplayer became a major focus of the series. Thanks to the further developed Xbox Live, multiplayer modes like Slayer and King of the Hill became staples of the online gaming community.
A multiplayer map pack furthered the games lifespan, and pushing the unique player count to 6. The game also led to over million online matches, and over million hours of online game time. Despite its controversial cliffhanger ending, Halo 2 topped the original in sales, becoming the best selling game for the original Xbox.
In , Bungie and Microsoft worked together to release Halo 3, arguably the biggest game in the series. With saved gameplay video, file sharing, and map editors, multiplayer in Halo 3 only increased and improved from its predecessor. Plus, new weapons, vehicles, and gameplay features helped push the game forward. The team are talking about Noble Team stopping a group of Insurrectionists from hijacking a supply truck before they are called to investigate a loss of contact.
A first-person shooter game developed by Bungie was released in September and was included as part of the Halo: The Master Chief Collection in December for the Xbox Reach takes place in the year , during the Covenant invasion of Reach. The game follows a six-man special operations unit known as Noble Team. The player takes on the role of Spartan-B as they defend Reach from the invading Covenant forces. These soldiers were kidnapped as children, replaced by a clone, and trained to become the best soldiers in the world.
The first Halo novel to be published and was written by Eric Nyland and released in October It was reissued in August with additional content. The novel begins in and reveals the Spartans and their purpose as the Covenant war ramps up. The plot shows the brutal training and indoctrination the Spartans are put through. It also follows John as he undergoes intense biological enhancements.
This is how the Master Chief was made. Issue 1 was released in September , with the 4th and final issue released in February A hardcover collection was released in March Issue 1 was released in April , with the 4th and final issue released in October A hardcover collection was released in December Covenant tells the story of the early days of the human-Covenant war. Issue 1 was released in January , with the 4th and final issue released in June A hardcover collection was released in July Invasion follows the story arc of Covenant and covers the period of the Fall of Reach.
Issue 1 was released in June , with the 3rd and final issue released in August A hardcover collection was released in January Collateral Damage occurs in and follows Master Chief and Blue Team as they are deployed to an unstable colony world. The mission takes an unexpected turn, and the strike team realises that the mission is even more critical than first imagined. A novel by Troy Denning was released in September Set in , Silent Storm focuses on John He is assigned to counterattack the Covenant to give humanity the time it desperately needs to gather intelligence and prepare its defences.
A live-action film initially released as a web series in 5 episodes, with the first released in October The rest following every week. The film cut was released in December Forward Unto Dawn is set in and focuses on Thomas Lasky, who, as a young cadet, is inspired by John to eventually become a leader. Oblivion is set in , and several weeks after the events of Silent Storm, the Covenant are angry at their enemies unexpected strategies and is now more determined than ever to eradicate humanity from existence.
The Package follows John and a squad of Spartans attempting a top-secret mission to retrieve a valuable asset from the Covenant. This era focuses on the latter half of CE from September to November and gives us the main bulk of the Halo lore. The games in this era follow each other in quick succession, and very little happen between them. A first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and released in Dietz and was released in It was reissued in and included some content updates.
It was released in November on the Xbox Combat Evolved Anniversary featured remastered graphics and audio. It was released as part of the tenth anniversary of the original game. A graphic novel anthology published by Marvel Comics in Partnership with Bungie. It was first released in July before a new edition was released in Halo Graphic Novel consists of four short stories written by writers and artists from the computer game and comic industries.
Each story focuses on different parts of the Halo Universe, whilst the book also contains gallery art and page A novel written by Eric Nylund and released in December before being reissued in , including content updates.
Halo 2 takes place on Earth and around Installation 05, Delta Halo. After their mobile capital, High Charity arrives at Delta Halo, the Covenant becomes embroiled in a power struggle engineered by the Prophet of Truth, beginning an apocalyptic civil conflict known as the Great Schism. A short story although the longest in the Halo: Evolutions Essential Tales of the Halo Universe was was originally released in and was rereleased in It was also adapted into a motion comic by ONE.
A first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and released as a prologue to Halo 3 in September on the Xbox They were knocked off course and must fight their way through the Kenyan city of New Mombasa.
A novel written by John Shirley and released in November Broken Circle is Covenant focused and is split into two parts. The second half takes place in during the Covenant civil war known as the Covenant Schism. A novel written by Eric Nyland and released in October with an audiobook narrated by Jonathan Davis released in February With the Spartan-II program, now public knowledge tales of the super-soldiers fighting the Covenant have become the stuff of legend.
Still, they are going to need hundreds of soldiers and one more Spartan. A comic book series published by Marvel Comics was released in August , with the 4th and final issue released in April A legacy edition was released in Uprising fills the gap between Halo 2 and Halo 3. A mini-movie comprising three short live-action films intended as promotional material for Halo 3.
The all in one mini-movie was released in October A first-person shooter developed by Bungie was released in September and is the first Halo title released on the Xbox Halo 3 takes place after the events of Halo 2 and directly after the events of Halo: Uprising and spans over three different settings, starting on Earth with the East African Protectorate, followed by the Forerunners Ark Installation and finally Halo Installation Halo CE Anniversary: Living Monument is a website that commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Halo franchise, along with a live-action short that was released on Halo Waypoint.
In this era, between CE and CE, the tensions between the humans and the Covenant are growing whilst factions within the Covenant are growing more Hostile. A trilogy of books that describes how the tensions between the humans and the Covenant have been rising between Halo 3 and Halo 4.
The first novel in the Kilo-Five trilogy was written by Karen Traviss.
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