Watch Meet The Spartans Online Metacritic' title='Watch Meet The Spartans Online Metacritic' />Halo series Wikipedia. Halo is a military science fictionfirst person shootervideo game franchise created by Bungie and now managed and developed by 3. Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. The Covenant, led by their religious leaders called the Prophets, worship an ancient civilization known as the Forerunners, who perished in combat with the parasitic. Flood. The central focus of the franchise builds off the experiences of Master Chief John 1. Spartans, and his artificial intelligence AI companion, Cortana. Other characters, such as Noble Six from Halo Reach, are also introduced in the series. The term Halo refers to the Halo rings large, habitable superweapons that were created by the Forerunners to destroy the parasitic Flood. 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The games in the series are praised as being among the best first person shooters on a video game console, and are considered the Xboxs killer app. This led to the term Halo killer being used to describe console games that aspire, or are considered, to be better than Halo. Fueled by the success of Halo Combat Evolved, and by immense marketing campaigns from publisher Microsoft, its sequels went on to record breaking sales. The games have sold over 6. Strong sales of the games led to the franchises expansion to other media there are multiple best selling novels, graphic novels, and other licensed products. Halo Wars took the franchise into new video game genre territory, as a real time strategy game, while the rest of the games in the series are first person shooters. Halo is a military science fiction firstperson shooter video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed and developed by 343 Industries, a subsidiary of. American epic war film based on the 1998 comic series 300 by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. Both are fictionalized retellings of the Battle of. Football Releases. October 19, 2017 No. Spartans Face Indiana on Homecoming October 18, 2017 Assistant Coaches Press Conference Coverage October 18, 2017. A temporary Independence Day celebration in Watch Dogs 2 was suspended early on July 4 because it was enraging too many people who still play Ubisofts late 2016. Beyond the original trilogy, Bungie developed the expansion Halo 3 ODST, and a prequel, Halo Reach, their last project for the franchise. A high definitionremake of the first game, entitled Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary, was released on November 1. A new installment in a second series of games, Halo 4, was released on November 6, 2. Halo The Master Chief Collection, a remastered compilation of the four primary Halo titles, was released for the Xbox One on November 1. In October 2. 01. Halo 5 Guardians was released. In February 2. 01. Halo Wars 2 was released. The collective group of fans of the series is referred to as the Halo Nation. Setting and plot. In the distant past, a powerful race called the Forerunners fought an alien parasite known as the Flood. The Flood, which spread through infestation of sentient life, overran much of the Milky Way Galaxy. One of the races affected was humanity, who came into conflict with the Forerunners as a result. Exhausted by their war and after having explored all other options, the Forerunners conceived a weapon of last resort to combat the Flood, called the Halo Array. Using an installation known as the Ark, they built large ring shaped megastructures known as Halos. The Halo Array, when activated, would destroy all sentient life in the galaxy  depriving the Flood of their food, after which samples of the lost lifeforms would be reseeded. Delaying as long as they could, the Forerunners activated the rings and disappeared. Tens of thousands of years later, in the 2. United Nations Space Command, or UNSC  colonize many worlds thanks to the development of faster than light slipspace travel. Tensions escalate between the older and more stable Inner Colonies and the remote Outer Colonies, leading to civil war. The UNSC sponsors the Spartan II program to create an elite group of enhanced supersoldiers, whose purpose is to suppress the rebellion covertly. In the year 2. 52. Covenant. The Covenant leadership declares humanity heretics and an affront to their gods  the Forerunners  and begins a holy war of genocide. The Covenants superior technology and numbers prove decisive advantages though effective, the Spartans are too few in number to turn the tide of battle in humanitys favor. In 2. 55. 2, the Covenant arrive at the UNSCs last major stronghold beyond Earth  the planet Reach, in orbit of Epsilon Eridani  and launch an invasion of the planet. The last Spartans and UNSC military are unable to stop the Covenant from bombarding the planet. The UNSC Navy suffers devastating losses, and every Spartan but their leader, player character. Master Chief John 1. Following directives to avoid leading the Covenant to Earth, Cortana, the AI aboard the fleeing UNSC ship Pillar of Autumn, selects random coordinates that lead the ship to a Halo ring, Installation 0. These events form the backdrop to the first game in the series, Halo Combat Evolved. Over the course of the game, the Covenant pursue, damaging the Autumn and leading its crew to wage a guerrilla war on the rings surface. The Covenant accidentally release Flood imprisoned on the ring to nullify the threat, the rings AI caretaker, 3. Guilty Spark, enlists the help of the Master Chief in activating Halo. Cortana reveals that Halos activation would mean their own destruction. Master Chief and Cortana instead detonate Autumns engines, destroying Halo and preventing the escape of the Flood. Between the events of the first game and Halo 2, the Chief and a few other survivors return to Earth, warning of an impending Covenant attack this attack forms the first mission of the game. Meanwhile, the Covenant, unaware of the destructive nature of the rings, attempt to fire another ring, Installation 0. Earth. Helping the Chief to defend the Earth are Sergeant Avery Johnson and Commander Miranda Keyes. One race in the Covenant, the Elites, learn the truth about the rings and are led by a former Elite commander named the Arbiter also a player character to join forces with humanity to stop the firing of the ring. Though they are successful, the unexpected shutdown of the installation triggers a fail safe protocol, priming all the rings for firing from the Ark. Halo 3 picks up immediately after, with the Covenants leader, the High Prophet of Truth, and the remaining loyalist Covenant uncovering a portal to the Ark on Earth. A battle rages on Earth between human forces, the Covenant, and a Flood infected army. Eventually, the Covenant is repulsed and flees through a slipspace portal, and the Flood is purged from Earth, though much of Africa has been devastated in the battle. Watch Chasing Ghosts Online Free 2016. Chief, Arbiter, Elites, Johnson, Keyes, and U. N. S. C. troops follow the Covenant Prophet of Truth through the portal, joined by 3. Guilty Spark, who aids the Chief as he has no function to fulfill after the destruction of his ringworld. During the ensuing battle between humans, Covenant, and the Flood on the Ark, Johnson is captured by Truth to activate the Halo rings. Keyes tries to intervene, but is killed. Master Chief and the Arbiter, aided by the Flood, kill Truth and rescue Johnson. After finding out that the Ark is constructing a replacement for Guilty Sparks Halo ring, Installation 0. Master Chief decides to fire the unstable Halo, destroying both the Flood and the Ark. After finding out about their plan, Guilty Spark kills Johnson and tries to kill Master Chief, but Master Chief destroys Guilty Spark and activates the Halo. Master Chief and the Arbiter escape on the UNSC frigate Forward Unto Dawn, but the slipspace portal closes with Master Chiefs half trapped in space.