Halo- A Legend for the gameplay | discountedgame 2

games Overview

Common elements
The series features several recurring science fiction and action game elements. The main trilogy featured first person shooter gameplay, along with third person vehicular gameplay. Since the second title, the games have had a multiplayer element. Halo structures, alien races, and cyborgs are prevalent science fiction elements that appear in the series. Halo introduced the concept of limiting the amount of weapons players could carry to only two; this forces players to pick weapons carefully. There is also the option to fight with melee attacks using weapons as a cudgel. Players can carry a certain number of grenades, which can disrupt masses of enemies or flush out entrenched foes; together, this "weapons-grenades-melee" format forms the "Golden Triangle of Halo" gameplay,which has remained mostly unchanged since the series' debut. In Halo: Combat Evolved, the player's health is measured in both hit points and a shield which can continually recharge.

Halo 2 introduced several new gameplay elements, chief among them the ability to hold and fire two weapons at once, known as "dual wielding". Players could now hijack vehicles from each other. Halo 2 was the first games in the series to fully support a multiplayer mode over Xbox Live, and used "matchmaking" to randomly pair players looking for certain types of games to streamline the task of finding matches. Halo 3 added several new gameplay features, including a class of items known as "equipment" and heavy support weapons. Bungie included a map-editing tool known as the Forge. Rather than creating entirely new maps and geometry, developer Bungie included a map-editing tool known as the Forge, which enables players to insert game objects, such as weapons and crates, into existing multiplayer maps. These alterations can occur in real-time in special multiplayer maps. Players can save their games as films and watch these saved films from all angles.


games Story
The three main games in Halo series focus on the adventures of the main character, Master Chief. The story of the entire series is set several centuries into the future. With the development of the "Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine", the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) began traveling across the galaxy and colonized other worlds. Humans colonized over 800 planets over the span of 200 years. Planets were categorized into "Inner Colonies" and "Outer Colonies"; the Inner Colonies are the oldest, closer to Earth and more developed than the others, while the Outer Colonies are often in rebellion. These rebellions led to the creation of the SPARTAN-II Project by the UNSC in an effort to hold the colonies together. Twenty-seven years before the events of the main trilogy, communication with an Outer Colony is lost and the ship sent to investigate is destroyed by the Covenant, a militaristic and theocratic alliance of alien races. The Covenant Hierarchs declare humanity an affront to the Gods and order its destruction. By 2535, almost all of the Outer Colonies have been destroyed by the Covenant; the alien's technological advantage proves almost impossible for the UNSC to beat in space engagements. These events are referred to in the video games, but their full descriptions are outlined in the novels Halo: The Fall of Reach and Contact Harvest.

The main story arc of the trilogy begins with Halo: Combat Evolved and is set in 2552. The Covenant arrive at Reach, the UNSC's last stronghold other than Earth, and vitrify the planet. The last SPARTAN-II thought alive, the Master Chief, escapes on the ship Pillar of Autumn to supposedly random coordinates selected by the A.I. Cortana which she had obtained from ancient Forerunner hieroglyphs. The ship arrives at the titular Halo, Installation 04, and is engaged by the Covenant. After being forced to the surface of the ring, the Flood, a parasitic alien species, is released by the Covenant and 343 Guilty Spark, a Monitor of the ring, leads the Master Chief to activate Halo's defenses in an effort to destroy the Flood. The Halo is designed to starve the Flood of food (sentient life) by exterminating life for thousands of light-years in every direction. Upon discovery of the Halo's method, the Master Chief detonates the fusion reactors in the crashed Pillar of Autumn, destroying the ring, and escapes in a Longsword Stealth Fighter.

In Halo: First Strike, the Master Chief travels back to Reach, located in the Epsilon Eridani system and links up with the few survivors of the vitrification. He and a few other SPARTAN-II's proceed to attack a Covenant space station and rendezvous point, where a Covenant fleet is massing to attack Earth. The space station is destroyed, buying time for Earth to prepare a defense. Soon after, in Halo 2, a small Covenant fleet appears at Earth. Badly beaten by the human forces, the Covenant High Prophet of Regret flees to Installation 05 taking the human ship In Amber Clad with it. At "Delta Halo", the Master Chief kills the Prophet of Regret. The successful assassination of the Prophet leads to the Brutes replacing the Elites as the preferred fighters of the Covenant, leads to a schism in the ranks. The Covenant Elite Arbiter, with the aid of Miranda Keyes and Sergeant Johnson, prevents the firing of the Halo by the Brute Tartarus, inadvertently putting the rings on standby; all the remaining installations can be activated remotely from "The Ark".

The Master Chief stows away on a Forerunner vessel headed back for Earth, where the Covenant have conquered the planet and excavated a Forerunner artifact in the Kenyan desert; this sets up the action for the final video game in the trilogy, Halo 3. Despite the best efforts of the now-allied Elites and humans, the High Prophet of Truth activates the artifact, which opens a slipspace portal to the Ark. The Master Chief and the Arbiter travel through the portal onboard an Elite ship and prevent Truth from activating The Ark. They then activate a new Halo ring being built to replace Installation 04—which Master Chief destroyed—in an effort to destroy the Flood once and for all while still sparing the rest of the galaxy. Because the ring is not completed the resulting pulse destroys the ring and damages the Ark. The Arbiter escapes the explosion, but the Master Chief and Cortana are left drifting in space; trapped in the severed rear half of their ship. The Master Chief puts himself in cryo-freeze as he and Cortana wait for their rescue.