Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)

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Details

Release Date

November 15, 2001

Type

Main Game

Developer

Bungie

Publishers

Microsoft Game Studios, MacSoft Games

Platforms

Xbox
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Mac
Xbox 360

Game Modes

Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

Engine

Blam! Engine

Languages

English
French

Genres

Shooter

Themes

Action
Science fiction
Warfare

Player Perspectives

First person
Third person

Also known as

Halo CE HD
Halo HD
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Halo CEA
Halo: El Combate ha Evolucionado
光晕：战斗进化
Halo: Kampf um die Zukunft
Halo: CE
Halo CE
Halo
Halo 1
Halo: Custom Edition

Franchise

Halo

Age Ratings

ESRBM• Blood and Gore · Violence
ACBMA 15+
PEGI16• Violence

About

Bent on Humankind's extermination, a powerful fellowship of alien races known as the Covenant is wiping out Earth's fledgling interstellar empire. Climb into the boots of Master Chief, a biologically altered super-soldier, as you and the other surviving defenders of a devastated colony-world 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.

Storyline

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