Release date: January 2001
Platforms: XBOX, PC
Cumulative sales: 6.43 million units (XBOX version)
Halo: War Evolved is a first-person shooter. It takes place in the year 2552 AD on a mysterious ring belt called Halo. The story centers around a war between humanity and the Star League (Covenant) and several race nations of high-tech aliens linked by religion. Two days before the start of the game's story, the Star League sends its main fleet to attack the last of the human colonies, Planet Farsight. The human space fleet was almost completely wiped out, leaving only the Autumn Wind Pier (also known as the Autumn Pier). The Autumn Wind's Pier attempted to lure Star League forces away from the planet via a random hyperspace jump. The ship carries the last of the Spartan warriors (it is later revealed in the novel Halo: The First Strike that several Spartan warriors survived) - a group of bioengineered super-soldiers trained under the Spartan II program. --Spartan 117 John, the story's protagonist, the Master Sergeant.
The ship breaks out of hyperspace near a mysterious ring, which the Star League calls the "Halo". The trailing Star League fleet
hit the Autumn Wind Tunnel hard, Captain Jacob Keyes woke up the Chief Petty Officer and the other Marines in a deep sleep and decided to abandon ship, giving the AI Cortana on board to the Chief Petty Officer to lead the troops to the Halo, and forcing the ship to land on the ring. The story unfolds from there.
The game*** has 10 levels in which the Sergeant Major must fight side-by-side with Cortana, the AI system on board, to defeat the Star League and a mysterious creature, the Flood (translated as: Corpse Brain Worm in China; Flood Demon within the novel), and ultimately to discover the truth about what is happening on Halo.
Corpse Brain Worms: Corpse Brain Worms are creatures brought by the Forerunners outside of the galaxy; the Corpse Brain Worms had originally been sealed for transmission, but were accidentally opened up and spread throughout the Halo. They are an incredibly adaptable, lethal, and reproducing parasite that feeds on almost any sentient being. Platform:PC
Halo: CE is a player-made enhanced version of Halo: Combat Evolved on the PC. It adds some Halo 2 weapons, loadouts and versus maps. Halo: CE allows users to create their own mods by editing the kit.
This is a player-customized version. BUNGIE believes that the release of Halo 2 led to a significant drop in the popularity of Halo 1, and so they have decided to share their important tool: the Halo editing kit. Halo: CE doesn't require a CD-ROM and is available directly from the Internet, as legitimate players who already have a serial number for Halo 1 won't have to pay for a serial number for CE.
Currently, most foreign CE players can build their own maps, while Chinese players are difficult. And domestic players 117 Sergeant Major (Baidu ID) found this excellent map editor, has been 1 year ago to figure out the editor, and in the official website of HALOCE released their own work, won the 2010 global fourth most popular single-player adaptation of the map award, so that domestic players in the world of CE has a place. As the soul of the domestic CE community, Sergeant Major 117 continues to study HALOCE's map editor and related tools in his spare time, and will launch the MV made with HALOCE at the end of August 2010. 117 Sergeant Major's drive under the influence of xiaoshuige2009 (Xiaoshuige), Halo 04 SAR, 1941563 and other HALO enthusiasts have also participated in HALOCE's map editor. Have to participate in HALOCE's map editor research, although the number of works and poor influence, but it still has a certain potential, will be able to create excellent works. Release date: November 9, 2004
Platform: XBOX, PC
Cumulative sales: 8.43 million units (XBOX version)
Halo 2 is the sequel to Halo: Combat Evolved. The game*** has 14 levels. Two versions were released: the Standard Edition was released in regular XBOX game packaging with just a game disc and manual; the Collector's Edition was packaged in a specially-designed metal case, which contained, in addition to the game disc, an accompanying DVD video disc, extra booklets, and a slightly different manual for the game than the Standard Edition (with an added view of the Star Allies' army). The game brought in over $1.2 billion for Microsoft on its first day of sales and became the fastest-selling U.S. media product in sales history. More than 8 million copies have been sold worldwide since its release. A computerized version of Halo 2, developed by Microsoft Game Studios in conjunction with Bungie***, was released in 2007, and this version only runs on Windows Vista.
This episode featured a new protagonist in addition to the Master Chief Petty Officer, The Arbiter, a Star League Elite (elite) on a death mission for the Star League, which was dismissed as a Star League captain for failing to destroy the human fleet and the destruction of Halo 04. The move changed the role of the Star League's treacherous characters.
This is a dual story development game, with the story beginning with the Chief Petty Officer returning to Earth a month after he destroyed Halo 04. At the same time, Thel'Vadamee (later known as Kamikaze Martyr), the captain of the Star League's Ultimate Justice ship responsible for destroying humanity, was dismissed from his post and reviled by the League, but his execution was temporarily revoked because the League leader, the Prophet, understood the whole thing and was made Kamikaze Martyr (The Arbiter), which in fact meant he was to carry out suicide missions over and over again until he died a hero's death. At the time, the Star League forces stationed in the gas mines within the gas planet next to Halo 04 suddenly mutinied, forming a cult and separating themselves from the Star League's religion, and Kamikaze Martyr's first mission was to kill the leader of the cult. In fact, the Pagan had learned from Halo 04's "guides" that the Halo was built for a reason, and that it was a weapon capable of destroying all living things. But when he tried to explain this to Kamikaze Martyr, his impatience got him killed.
Shortly after the Sergeant Major's return, the Star League invades Earth, but this time sending fewer troops than ever before, it turns out that they don't realize that Earth is the home of the humans, and are merely trying to find something, so they are quickly repulsed, and end up leaving in hyperspace, and the humans follow suit, discovering a new Halo, Delta, and a new battle begins again.
Halo 2 adds several new vehicles and weapons, adds three types of enemies to the levels, The Truth of Prophet, Ghostface
(Brute), and Soldier Bee (Drone), and enhances the game's AI system, and the game is set up to be more realistic mechanically, and adds the ability to loot the vehicles' The ability to loot vehicles has been added to the game's mechanics. Unlike its predecessor, Halo 2 can be played on XBOX Live with other players*** to battle through the game. The original Halo game engine has been rewritten for this game with an improved physics engine, as well as regular mapping and HDR technology for the Halo effect. This game also tracks and evaluates each online online combat match by tracking and evaluating it. In addition to supporting LAN matches like its predecessor, Halo 2 also adds a split-screen multiplayer mode that supports XBOX LⅣE online matches.
※April 15, 2010 onwards the XBOX version of Halo 2 online matchmaking servers stop serving, all XBOX players will not be able to enjoy Halo 2 online matchmaking. Release date: September 25, 2007
Platform: XBOX 360
Cumulative sales: 11.07 million units
Halo 3, the final installment of the trilogy, was announced at the 2006 E3 Expo. The earliest promotional video released depicted the Sergeant Major walking across the desert and seeing a giant device that looked like a space elevator on the island of New Mombasa. As the Sergeant Major walks forward, Cortana says, "I challenge the gods and demons. I am your shield, I am your sharp edge. I know you, and your past and future well. This is the path to the end of the world." (I have defied Gods and Demons.I am your shield,I am your Swords.I know you; your past; your future.This is the way the world ends.)"
Cortana is inferred to have been captured by the Gravemind, the mastermind of the Bugs, as at the end of Halo 2. The sergeant major stops when he reaches the edge of the cliff, overlooking the Forerunner's work (aka the space elevator) that is surrounded by Star League ships. This sequence takes place roughly 1/3 of the way through the game's flow.
This **** is divided into 9 levels and has more bugs than ever before, with the addition of the Ghostface Beast Bugs and 3 new types of bugs. It is worth mentioning that the past Star League elite race learns the truth of Halo and allies with the human race, and its leadership is replaced by the Ghostfacers, which is the reason why Halo 3 specifically mentions about the creation of the Ghostfacers, and also restores the original novel's persona.
The story is a close follow-up to Halo 2, where the Master Sergeant returns to Earth and meets Kamikaze Martyr, and the two of them have been fighting side by side ever since.
The story ends with the destruction of the Ark, which controls all the Halos, and the deactivation of the 7 Halos. As humanity begins to rebuild, all of the released Bugs are unable to survive due to the loss of their leader (the Corpse Brain Beast), and the Star League collapses, Kamikaze becomes the leader of the Elites, and returns to his homeworld along with another hero, Elites Captain "Half-Mouth" Vatumi. The final animation of the game shows that after the Battle of the Ark, the Master Chief and Kamikaze are at the last minute piloting a chariot onto a battleship and heading back to Earth, but the battleship is accidentally sliced in half as it enters a fault line in space, with the first half of the battleship in which Kamikaze was on board returning to Earth, while the second half of the battleship in which the Master Chief was on board loses its power and arrives at an uncharted planet, floating alone on an ungravitationally unstable world. floating alone in a gravity-defying world. The Chief Petty Officer went into frozen hibernation, apparently, as a way for the game company to lay down a marker for the next installment, Halo 4. Halo 4's battles will likely take place on this unknown and distant planet. (This is the only RTS in the Halo series)
Release date: February 26, 2009
Platform: XBOX 360
Cumulative sales: 1.89 million units
Halo Wars is a real-time strategy game. It takes place 20 years before the story of Halo 1. In the game, the player will lead the entire crew of UNSC's Spirit of Fire to stop the Prophet of Pathos and Kamikaze Martyrs from excavating the Forerunner's ruins and stopping the proliferation of the Bugs and the conspiracy of the Star League Prophet.
The CG animation of this game is a major highlight, which abandoned the instant-acting animation that the Halo series has been using, and instead used CG to beautifully model the Marines, Elites, and Prophets, with its beautifully detailed graphics. And then a CG animated cutscene was released on PC.
There are many vehicles that have not appeared in the Halo series, each of which is distinctive, and each trooper has its own special abilities. Years before Halo Wars was released, Ground Control II: Project Escape had already adopted the setting of one unit with two states and special abilities. It was an inevitable event, and there was no way that the production staff could overturn a well-designed game for the sake of such a "special ability", as the gameplay would have changed drastically if a setting had been added).
In addition to the campaign, the player can choose from three commanders from each of the two races (UNSC and Star League) in the area battle mode, each of which has their own special units and special abilities.
This game was produced by Ensemble Studios, which developed the Age of Empires series.
Besides that, this is Ensemble's last title for Microsoft. Release date: September 22, 2009
Platform: Xbox 360
Cumulative sales: 5.43 million units
Late in 2008, a brand new Halo appeared on gamers' radar. Originally to be announced at the E3 gaming conference, Halo 3: Hell's Paratroopers (originally HALO3: RECON, later changed to HALO3: ODST) was finally announced, featuring Hell's Paratroopers and set at a time when the city of New Mombasa was destroyed in Halo 2.
The plot will focus on the protagonist "Rookie" searching for his lost teammates in the dark, star-aligned city of New Mombasa six hours after he is airborne, and with the help of the center computer, every time he finds a clue, he will carry out the battle footage related to this clue and his lost ODST teammates in the six hours! .. This Halo 3 sourcebook features many night battle scenes, and the new VI SR system has improved gameplay considerably. Our ODST is not as fragile as we thought, there is no energy shield system in this game, but it adopts a hybrid life value design similar to the Call of Duty 4 and Halo 1 blood bar: when attacked, the viewpoint will slowly turn red, and when injured to a certain extent it will start to reduce the blood bar above the HUD. Injuries can be recovered automatically, while the blood bar can only be recovered with a medkit.
This game has reduced the number of vehicles. However, there are still classic Halo vehicles such as the Cat Glaze, Judas Hog, Scorpion, Undead, Ghost, Ghostface Windjammer, and Siren.
This game eliminates the two-handed split weapon, because ODST is slightly overwhelmed by controlling an M7S microsurge with both hands, but in Halo 2, Captain Miranda holds a microsurge with both hands to strafe Kamikaze Martyrs, which was not taken into account during the design of Halo 3: Paratroopers from Hell... Is ODST not as strong as Miranda, who is a woman?
The VISR system is a special tool that the Navy has equipped for ODSTs, which brightens the image they see through their helmets several times at night, and through networking with the city's central control computer, it can outline the basic outlines of the city's buildings and fences in yellow, and outline enemy and friendly forces in red and green. This allows the ODST to travel in total darkness. The ODST also allows you to download city maps, set target points, and mark distances, so you'll never get lost again.
The plot of this work is mainly sad color, using linear plot trigger mode, about the hell of the paratrooper rookie ROOKIE in the new Mombasa looking for teammates experience and some of their teammates' memories. In terms of network battles, it supports multiplayer CO-OP to complete seemingly impossible missions with your friends. The graphics have been enhanced with some subtle enhancements, and the model details and texture resolution of ODST have been greatly improved compared to its predecessor. In addition, there is another versus disc for this game, thus revealing the richness of its versus section. Halo 3: Paratroopers from Hell is a great game that Light fans can't afford to miss. Release date: September 22, 2009
HALO3: Mythic, bundled with Halo 3: Hell Paratroopers, is a multiplayer, networked version of Halo 3, with only pairing and online functionality and no single-player missions. It has all of Halo 3's matchmaking maps built in, including all maps from the Heroic, Legendary, and Mythic map packs, as well as two new maps. Release date: September 14, 2010
Platform: XBOX360
The story depicts the events of Noble Team during the fall of the planet Farscape, with the storyline beginning with a series of reconnaissance, defense, and annihilation battles in response to the Star League invasion, and culminating in the final retreat from the fall of Farscape.
In the year 2552, in the face of the overwhelming power of alien civilizations, only the planet Zhiyuan can bring the hope of victory to mankind. There are huge reserves of military resources there, from training bases to industrial mineral production, Farscape can fulfill all the needs of war. It is also an impregnable fortress, housing UNSC's best and brightest, with powerful defense platforms in orbit around the planet. Its immense strategic importance was y hidden amongst the countless alien colonized worlds and remained undetected by its powerful enemies. That very year, however, the planet, a symbol of human military might, was in danger of falling. A massive Star League army finally killed the planet Zhiyuan, and only a very few warriors escaped from the battle. For all the other humans on the planet, their fate has long been sealed. Release date: November 6, 2012
Platform: Xbox 360
Four years, seven months and 10 days after the end of the Halo 3 story, the Master Chief returns to face his own destiny, as well as an ancient enemy that threatens the universe, as the plot of an all-new adventure continues.
On Dec. 11, 2552, the Chief Petty Officer and Cortana began more than four years of space drifting in the back half of the frigate Voyage to Dawn, which had been split in half by a leap into space. While the Chief was dormant, Cortana had rewritten the Thor's Hammer-6 armor's toughness program, upgrading the combat interface, armor capabilities, and changing its appearance. After seven years of "smart" AI life, she began to go insane, and her madness would continue throughout the course of the story.
On July 21, 2557, the Voyage to Dawn approached the Forerunner shield world of Requiem. Cortana's pale blue figure shimmers faintly on the hologram table, looking lonely and afraid ...... Cortana notices an unidentified boarding craft invading the deck and initiates emergency procedures to revive the Chief Petty Officer in the cryopod, and the battle for Halo 4 begins.