a5c7b9f00b In the 26th century, humanity draws the wrath of a conglomerate of alien races. This "Covenant" is intent on exterminating the human race, which they view as a religious affront. Still an fledgling interstellar race, humanity is constantly pushed back by the overwhelming numbers and furor of the Covenant. The only thing keeping the human race fighting is the fact that the Covenant do not know the location of Earth. Instead all operations are carried out from the planet Reach. Ships in danger of capture are required to self-destruct or make "blind" hyperspace jumps away from Earth. The humans do have a few tricks up their sleeves, though. The best is the SPARTAN-II program, designed to forge elite soldiers through genetic modification. A plan is launched to use the SPARTAN-II soldiers to infiltrate a Covenant ship and discover the location of the alien homeworld. But the plan fails, and the SPARTAN-II soldiers return to Reach for cybernetic modification to attempt the plan again. But the Covenant are just as devious, and launch a surprise attack on Reach, destroying many of the human fleet ships. Only the Pillar of Autumn manages to escape, making a blind jump away from Earth in the hope that the Covenant will follow and not search Reach for the location of Earth. The plan works, but the Covenant make it to the jump point before the Pillar of Autumn, and launch another attack. In desperation, Captain Keyes orders the "Hushed Coffin" unsealed, and the last surviving SPARTAN-II soldier, known only by his rank of Master Chief, is awakened from cryogenic stasis. His orders are to protect the Pillar of Autumn's AI construct, Cortana, from capture, so that the Covenant can't retrieve Earth's location from it. The Pillar of Autumn is abandoned, and the Master Chief and the surviving crew members find themselves stranded on an artificial ringworld, Halo. Faced with superior numbers and a seemingly inexhaustible alien fleet, the survivors must make their final stand on this ancient alien world. But Halo hides a secret, The Flood, a weapon so powerful it could destroy the galaxy. Can the Master Chief overcome impossible odds and stop both the Covenant and the Flood? Humanity's fate rests in the hands of one genetically modified cybernetic soldier. You are Master Chief, John, SPARTAN-117. You are the most efficient piece of military equipment designed. When you are defending the planet Reach, a training ground for other SPARTANS and marines just as you trained there, the Covenant, a race of creatures that are aliens to Earth, whose first message sent to the human race was "It is our gods' will to destroy you", overwhelm the planet's defenses and "glass" the planet(use all their fire-power to destroy whatever is left of the planet). You are on the Pillar of Autumn, one of the smaller ships of the UNSC forces that left Reach. It makes a blind jump into slipspace (and warp that forces the ship into an alternate reality, allowing it to go to places faster using coordinates) where you find the massive ring structure,Halo, looming before the Pillar of Autumn. The Covenant (who followed the Pillar of Autumn through slipspace) use all their power to destroy the Pillar of Autumn. You are forced to leave the ship and take a life pod to the only place that may actually be safe, the ring... You continue to venture the ring with whatever UNSC forces survive the devastating crash landing of the life pods. You discover the horrifying secret of why Halo is there and how to escape the ring world. But the Covenant are cunning and more advanced, and they never give up, not even if it means sacrificing themselves... This game imo is a game for the younger crowd. You cannot compare this game to good shooters like: DooM, FEAR, HALF-LIFE, QUAKE , etc.. This game isn't bad.. It's not great tho, not too good graphics, enemies of which you can 'lol' at and go trough whole the game using pistol and mêlée... This is the same for the 2nd and the 3rd game of Halo. Don't misunderstand me Halo isn't bad... Not at all enjoyable shooter, but it's corrupted with teens of 11 years with Mic's spamming whole the time.. ffs.. especially on Xbox Live. If you can get this on the 2nd hands or loan it. Gameplay doesn't take long too 5-8 hours. I know I'm sounding like a bitch but for me this isn't a good game as you read on the back of the case... This game is not highly re-playable 6/10 Halo is one of the coolest games ever!! The last level is a little hard though. I had trouble with it. But it is so cool!!!! If you own a X-box get Halo NOW! I don't like the graphics a lot though. But let's just focus on the good stuff. The flood to admit it, I thought it was scary. I mean they are pretty much skulls! "half-life" was a little better though. I have only played the X-box version of Halo once. I own the PC version AND ITS AWESOME!!!!!!!! I don't like the assault rifle in halo though its not very good. Halo 2 was better but still! I was playing Halo for 4 hours straight! If you don't have Halo, GET IT NOW!!!!! Well I think I've written enough so... That is all Halo: Combat Evolved takes place in the twenty-sixth century. Reach is a space colony where Spartan-II soldiers are recalled to, to prepare for a mission to discover the Covenant's home world. Two days before the mission was to begin, Covenant forces attack Reach and destroy the colony. However, the starship Pillar of Autumn survives the attack and initiates a hyperspace jump to lure the enemy away from Earth. Yes. After the credits end, the Monitor can be seen zooming through space, having survived Halo's destruction.
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