Halo (series)

There is at least one work on this page not finished. Moegirlpedia is not a place for news. You are welcome to update this page if you have the clear and reliable sources.

 This article is about the video game series.

• For the moe point, please see Halo (moe point).

Halo (series)
Original Name	Halo
Translation Name
Genre	First-person shooter
Developed by	Bungie (2001-2010) Ensemble Studios 343 Industries (2011-) Creative Assembly (2017)
Published by	Xbox Game Studios
First game	Halo: Combat Evolved (November 15, 2001)
Latest game	Halo Infinite (December 8, 2021)

Halo is a series of military sci-fi first-person shooting games mainly developed by Bungie and 343 Industries and published by Xbox Game Studios, and has derivative works such as animation, comics, and novels.

Introduction

Halo Series Chronology
February 4-March 12, 2531 – Halo Wars 24 Jul-30 Aug 2552 – Halo: Reach September 19-22, 2552 – Halo: Combat Evolved Oct-Dec 2552 – Halo 2 2552/2557 – Halo: Spartan Assault Oct 20, 2552 – Halo 3: ODST Dec 2552-Mar 2553 – Halo 3 2554 – Halo: Spartan Assault July 21-25, 2557 – Halo 4 January-October 2558 – Halo 5: Guardians March 27-April 2, 2559 – Halo Wars 2 2560 - Halo Infinite

The Halo series is a sci-fi first-person shooter game franchise developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The story takes place in the "Halo Universe". This "universe" was created by Bungie for the series.

The first game, Halo: Combat Evolved, was released on the Xbox on November 15, 2001. The origin of the series' lore was the science fiction novel Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund, which reached a huge popularity at the time. Bungie Studios then created a new chapter for the novel, which opened up the story of the Halo world...

The Halo series has a high reputation in the gaming industry. The series presents the background story of the "Halo universe" through novels, movies, etc. (including the formation of the UNSC, the growth of Master Chief, the fall of Forerunner, Lasky's military school years, etc.) and details that are not mentioned in the game.

The series chronicles the war between human beings and the Covenant, an alliance from the Orion constellation that combines religion with alien races, in the future. The leader of the Covenant, High Prophet Truth, believed that humans would stop their great mission, the pilgrimage, so they killed humans for violating the law. Despite their stubborn resistance, they could not defeat the opponent's high technology. After the last and largest fortress of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC), Reach, was destroyed by the Covenant, the survivors who escaped found the remains of the Forerunners, the holy place of the Covenant, the "Halo"──The battle begins here.

The Halo is 10,000 kilometers in diameter and 30 kilometers thick. Its environment and climate are similar to those of Earth. Created by the Forerunners, it is also a weapon with enormous lethality. After activation, it will destroy all organic life forms within a diameter of 25,000 light years. The Halo contains the Forerunner's laboratory for keeping and researching The Flood.

The main characters of Halo are Spartan II Soldier S-117 John, also known as Master Chief, a genetically enhanced human being, and intelligent AI Cortana. Cortana uses a chip as a carrier, which can be placed on Master Chief's helmet, and can talk to the Master Chief at any time.

List of games

Title	Release date	Genre	Developer	Main character	Platform
Halo: Combat Evolved	2001.11.15	FPS	Bungie	Master Chief (John-117)	Xbox Microsoft Windows macOS
Halo 2	2004.11.9			Master Chief (John-117) Thel'Vadam	Xbox Microsoft Windows Xbox 360 Xbox One
Halo 3	2007.9.25				Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Halo Wars	2009.3.3	RTS	Ensemble Studios Robot Entertainment	Spirit of Fire
Halo 3: ODST	2009.9.22	FPS	Bungie	Rookie
Halo: Reach	2010.9.14			Noble 6	Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox Series X/S Microsoft Windows
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary	2011.11.15		343 Industries Certain Affinity	Master Chief (John-117)
Halo 4	2012.11.6		343 Industries		Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Halo: Spartan Assault	2013.7.18	TPS	343 Industries Vanguard Games	Edward Davis Sarah Palmer	Microsoft Windows Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox Series X/S iOS Windows Phone 8 Windows 10 Mobile
Halo 2: Anniversary	2014.11.11	FPS	343 Industries Saber Interactive Certain Affinity Blur Studio	Master Chief (John-117) Thel'Vadam	Xbox One Xbox Series X/S Microsoft Windows
Halo: The Master Chief Collection			343 Industries Saber Interactive Certain Affinity Ruffian Games United Front Games		Xbox One Xbox Series X/S Microsoft Windows
Halo: Spartan Strike	2015.4.16	TPS	343 Industries Vanguard Games	ODST A-5 (Chapter 1) Unknown Headhunter (the background of the remaining chapters) Unknown Spartan IV (actual operator)	Microsoft Windows iOS Windows Phone 8 Windows 10 Mobile
Halo 5: Guardians	2015.10.27	FPS	343 Industries	Master Chief (John-117) Jameson Locke	Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Halo Wars 2	2017.2.21	RTS	343 Industries Creative Assembly	Spirit of Fire	Xbox One Xbox Series X/S Windows 10
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition	2017.2.22		Behaviour Interactive		Xbox One Xbox Series X/S Microsoft Windows
Halo Recruit	2017.10.17	Virtual reality game	343 Industries Endeavor One	-	Windows 10 (Must have Windows Mixed Reality)
Halo: Fireteam Raven	2018.7.10	光枪射击	343 Industries Play Mechanix	Fireteam Raven	Arcade
Halo Infinite	2021.12.8	FPS	343 Industries	Master Chief	Xbox One Xbox Series X/S Windows 10

Game introduction

General introduction

Halo: Combat Evolved

Template:Outer image The story begins at the end of the novel, The Fall of Reach, after the Pillar of Autumn arrived at Halo 04, and the spaceship begins to counter the Covenant's attacks. After John-117, a Spartan super-soldier, is unfrozen from his cryogenic sleep, the story begins. Bungie first presented Halo in 1999 at Macworld Expo, boasting the joy of fans and the shock of Microsoft executives, Microsoft acquired Bungie in 2000, for an amount of $50,000,000. After the game's release in 2001, it was a brilliant success. In the FPS game market at the time, almost any FPS, like Doom or Wolfenstein, was about blitzing one's way to the end. It was refreshing, but it was easy to get tired of it. Halo came along and broke the mold. It wasn't about shooting endlessly, with a tight and moving plot and with exciting music and excellent graphics, even more critical is the intelligent local AI design, making Halo an instant must-have game that became the best game of the year at that time, and also saving Microsoft's game console, the Xbox, from the embarassment of being foot-stomped by the PS2.

Halo 2

Template:Outer image After its 2001 predecessor, Halo Combat Evolved, which was a big seller coupled with excellent quality, many gamers were starting to talk about a sequel. Bungie had also started working on a Halo 2, with the intention of creating a new title that is even better than Halo in terms of graphics, plot, and multiplayer. Thus began the process of rewriting the original game engine, and improving the physics engine, using regular mapping and HDR techniques for the halo effect, character modeling and materials for objects, all with a very significant increase in the number of polygons. The game's scenarios are much more expansive than those of the original, and the battle scenes are more realistic. After spending a year and a half on graphical improvements and completing the multiplayer mode, the plot had an awkward problem. As Microsoft replenished Bungie with more employees, causing a number of employees to be dissatisfied with stories that were half-completed, or an improvement in some areas, in the end, there was no other way, the whole plot of the game was rewritten from scratch. It was 2003, after the big E3 show. This also explains why the second level presented in the E3 demo played nothing like the second level in the final version. The original 60-level storyline was eventually neutered down to 14 levels. There are quite a few features that have been removed. By the time it was approaching the projected 2004 release date of November 9, Bungie ended up releasing the game on its estimated release date. On the day it went on sale, as gamers bought the game and played it on Xbox, a frustrated Bungie employee said: This is not at all what we expected to accomplish with Halo 2. The story begins with Master Chief returning to Reach trying to find surviving Spartan soldiers after destroying Halo 04, after rescuing a comparable number of Spartans, and hijacking a Covenant CAS-class attack carrier on his way back to Earth, Master Chief discovers a fleet of 500 Covenant starships stored and attempting to attack Halo 05, he neutralizes them. At the same time, Captain Thel'Vadamee of the Covenant's Brute fleet, charged with destroying humanity, is dismissed for poor pursuit of the Pillar of Autumn and failing to protect Halo 04. His death sentence is suspended at the request of the High Prophets, and he was named an Arbiter.

Notes