Halo: Combat Evolved Essays

  • Halo 3

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    "Halo: Reach for us is not Halo 4," says Executive Producer Joseph Tung, who was originally Halo 3's Multiplayer Producer. "It's not a continuation of the Master Chief story, nor is it the start of a new trilogy. For us, it's a completely standalone game." Gone are the bright greens, luminescent blues, neon purples and glow-in-the-dark pinks. The little Grunt aliens don't squeal jokes or make pratfalls. Don't expect that Gregorian choir Bungie has on retainer to chant the all-too-familiar theme

  • HALO:The Flood

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    HALO:The Flood Today I am going to tell you about a great book I read lately. It is called HALO:The Flood. The Flood is based on the award-winning Xbox game, Halo. This book was interesting because it tells the story through several different perspectives. Some of the perspectives include: the super-soldier, Master Chief, an alien, another alien, a sergeant, and a few soldiers. Although some new character perspectives are introduced in some chapters, the characters die later in the chapter

  • Red vs. Blue vs. Modern Media

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    casual play was followed by joking and talks of the game in general, and goofing off was used to provide pure entertainment. A group of people going by Roosterteeth took full advantage of this last “lets-play”. Over ten years ago, a game known as Halo came out and was played by millions. One thing that made it interesting was that the multiplayer came with a theater mode. One player could go flying through the air and act as camera as the others ran around as the default space suit su... ... middle

  • Bungie Inc

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    headquartered in Washington. Since its inception, Bungie Inc. has been focusing on developing role playing games which captivate the youth, giving them a sense of living the game. Bungie Inc. was instrumental in the development of the video game franchise “Halo”, which proved to be a blockbuster, after being acquired by Microsoft. Games like Pathways into Darkness, Marathon, helped establish Bungie Inc. as a force to reckon with in the gaming industry. Early in 2007, after the success of the

  • Halo: The Fall Of Reach

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    Title: "Halo: The Fall of Reach" Genre: Science-Fiction State major events - Major events are those revolving around, leading up to, and resulting from the conflict or major problems in the work. 1. Spartans' (super soldiers, highly advanced warriors, specially bioengineered and technologically augmented, the best in the universe - quiet, professional, and deadly) completion of training camp on the planet REACH (human's last station of defense to stop the covenant from finding the location

  • Game Analysis of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

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    Halo: Ghosts of Onyx begins in the year 2531 with a raid on an Insurrectionist base by the SPARTAN-II Blue Team. Their goal was to recover stolen FERNIS nuclear warheads, but were captured by rebel general Howard Graves; a former UNSC Marine who defected to the Insurrectionists. However, Spartan Kurt-051 manages to slip away from the team before they are captured, and helps the rest of Blue team escape Insurrectionist capture. One month after the raid, Blue Team is put on a mission to investigate

  • Noah and the Ark

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    Noah and the Ark The story of Noah and the ark is probably one of the most read stories of the bible. Perhaps it is because of the great tragedy it portrays, or because it is a story of salvation. Noah and his family along with the animals were saved from the flood, while the other people and animals perished as a result of it. Growing up the story of Noah and the ark was one of my favorites; Quite simply because of the drawings depicting the story. They appeared so beautiful, when after many

  • The Spartan-II Project

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    It all started with the Spartan Project, without it The Spartan-II project never would have been born, it was to make a special forces team that would be better than a large army filled with foot soldiers. Large scale armies were too costly the damage was becoming too great from the losses. This new idea was cheeped saved the lives of soldiers and well over all would be able to getting the job done better. At this point combating with the insurgents was becoming too much for the UNSC to manage. But

  • An Essay On The Halo Series

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    The Halo series is one of the most popular series for the Xbox and Xbox 360. Halo is in a tight race with the Call of Duty series but they are significantly different. Halo is exclusive the Xbox but Call of Duty is for both Xbox and PlayStation. The first game of the halo series was Halo: Combat Evolved.(Halo: CE) The game was released for Xbox on Nov. 15, 2001. “The original Halo made for the PC introduce gamers to the war torn world some 500 years in the future, and a specially engineered supersoldier

  • Violent Video Games Do NOT Cause Violence

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    People have always been looking for a reason why horrible things happen. The media is quick to blame video games as the target and cause of many shootings that have occurred, ever since Columbine and Quake. People have been blaming video games for violence for years now, ever since violent video games have been made. News reports blame video games more and more for each shooting, telling the public how this person played video games for x amount of hours a day, and that video games caused him or

  • How Did Microsoft Build The Xbox

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    He said that’s it’s a good console. Microsoft made a lot of money selling the consoles”( Chris William). The console is still efficient as in today, its graphics and games still hold up today. The most popular game on the original Xbox was Halo: Combat Evolved. When I was a kid, I played that game 24/7. It’s really incredible how it can do a lot of things just to the first console. Microsoft even thought to put Ethernet so people can play with each other online or local. Back in 2000 people didn’t

  • The History Of Microsoft Corporation

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    Microsoft Corporation is an American Multinational company that deals in the development, licensing, manufacturing and after-sale services of Computer Operating Systems, personal computer software’s, consumer electronics and personal computers. Microsoft has a line of world-wide famous products including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, Xbox and Internet Explorer. According to Forbes with a market capitalization of $234.83 B, Microsoft is the second most valuable company in the world with