With the release of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary on the horizon, here are some early story details, which we can expect to see in the game!
A remaster of the original Xbox classic title, Halo: Combat Evolved, Anniversary follows the same plot established in the first installment.
Take a look at the Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary E3 2011 Debut Trailer!
Halo takes place in a science fiction universe created by Bungie Studios. The overpopulation of Earth and the realization of faster-than-light travel have caused the human race to colonize other planets. A keystone of these efforts is the planet Reach, an interstellar naval yard and a hub of scientific and military activity. A secret military endeavor, dubbed the SPARTAN Project, was established on Reach to create an army of biologically engineered, cyborg “super-soldiers”. Twenty-seven years before the beginning of the game, a technologically advanced collective of alien races, the Covenant, began to attack human settlements, declaring humanity an affront to their gods.
The titular Halo is an enormous, ring-shaped artificial space habitat/planet, which (according to Bungie Studios) has a diameter of ten thousand kilometers. Halo sits at a Lagrange point between a planet and its moon. Centrifugal force created by the rotation of the station provides the ring’s gravity.
The player character is Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, one of the few surviving super-soldiers of the SPARTAN-II project, and the main character of the Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Accompanying the Master Chief is the Pillar of Autumn’s feminine artificial intelligence construct, Cortana, who resides in a neural implant connected to his battle armor, codenamed MJOLNIR Mark V. The Pillar of Autumn’s captain, Jacob Keyes, is also a major character. Playing a mainly antagonistic role in the game’s events is 343 Guilty Spark, an eccentric artificial intelligence responsible for monitoring and maintaining Halo’s systems.
Hell bent on humankind’s extermination, a powerful fellowship of alien races known as the Covenant is wiping out Earth’s fledgling interstellar empire. You and the other surviving defenders of a devastated colony make a desperate attempt to lure the alien fleet away from Earth.
Shot down and marooned on the ancient ring-world Halo, you begin a guerilla-war against the Covenant. Fight for humanity against an alien onslaught as you race to uncover the mysteries of Halo.
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will hit shelves in American on November 15th 2011! There have been no announcements yet regarding the release-date of the European release.
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