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Halo: Combat Evolved

by Bungie

2001
Shooter

Branching Story · Military · Sci-Fi

87
Excellent

About

After the fall of Reach, The Pillar of Autumn, the only surviving human ship, makes a random slip-space jump away from the planet, so as not to lead the Covenant to Earth. When the Autumn drops out of slip-space, they find themselves next to a large, artificial, ring-world. A Covenant fleet hiding behind the adjacent planet engages the Autumn, the biologically augmented super-soldier John 117, or the Master Chief, is taken out of cryostasis. He proceeds to the bridge while fighting hordes of boarding Covenant forces. The Master Chief retrieves the ship-board AI (Artificial Intelligence) Cortana from the Captain of the vessel, Captain Keyes. The Chief and Cortana board an escape craft and begin to drop towards the surface of the ring-world. The Chief is the only one in his escape pod to survive the impact, and sneaks away from the crash site. After gathering all the survivors from the Autumn, the Chief makes an attack run on a Covenant ship in order to save Captain Keyes. Keyes tells the Chief and Cortana that the Covenant call this world Halo. Cortana realizes that it has
Publisher
Microsoft Game Studios, MacSoft Games
Engine
Blam! Engine
Modes
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Themes
Action, Science fiction, Warfare
Perspective
First person, Third person
Age Rating
M — Mature 17+

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Release History

Nov 15, 2001Xbox
Mar 14, 2002Xbox
Apr 25, 2002Xbox
Sep 30, 2003PC
Oct 10, 2003PC
Dec 03, 2003macOS
Feb 11, 2004macOS
Dec 04, 2007Xbox 360
Also Known As
光晕:战斗进化헤일로: 전쟁의 서막