A friend recently let me borrow Halo 3:ODST for my Xbox 360. I was stoked at the thought of playing it, despite not playing as the master chief. For anyone that knows me well, knows that the Halo franchise, more specifically the story, is one of my obsessions. I have read the first four books, played most of the games, and loved every second of it all. There was one point in my life, not even a few months ago, that I replayed Halo 3 and actually found tears rolling down my cheeks as the beginning cinematics started. Bungie has yet to let me down with anything they do to develop Halo. ODST was a great game with a really good story that can even be compared alongside the “first book of the Divine Comedy, Dante Aligeri’s ‘Inferno’.”
For those of you that don’t know, Halo is a franchise revolving around the super soldier Master Chief [John 117]. To go into detail, Dr. Halsey and Lieutenant Keyes meet 6-year-old John on a playground in Elysium City. Being trained to be the best soldiers in the world, the Spartan Program has John and the other spartans undergo a “radical series of biological, neurological, and physiological alterations,” which causes more than half of the soldiers to die or become disabled. In August of the year 2552, Planet Reach, UNSC’s primary Naval yard, training academy, major producer of warships and colony vessels, as well as a training ground for covert operatives and Special Forces, is destroyed by the Covenant. The Covenant are a “theocratic military alliance of alien races,” “united under the religious worship of the enigmatic Forerunners and their belief that Forerunner ringworlds known as Halos will provide a path to salvation.
That being said, Halo: Combat Evolved, the first Xbox video game, starts out with the Master Chief escaping Reach on the ship known as The Pillar of Autumn along with Cortana, an AI created by humans. Cortana is different from other AIs in that “she is a direct copy of a human being, Dr. Halsey.” They crash into the newly found ring Halo and that is where the game takes you. I won’t go too far in, seeing as the games help tell the story perfectly. I’d love to sit and share the whole story, but that is what the books that are already published are for. Definitely check out Amazon or any bookstore and some copies can be found.
Sites Sourced:
http://halostory.bungie.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_(Halo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(series)
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