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 named Master Chief. A first-person shooter developed by Bungie, Halo positions players on a quest to defeat the Covenant, and the powerful superweapons they control.” (A Brief History of Halo) The next game in the series was Halo 2. Halo 2, Released for Xbox on Nov. 9, 2004, the second game in the Halo franchise became the best-selling first-generation Xbox game in history. The game made more than $125 million in sales in the first 24 hours. “Players reunited with hero Master Chief, but could also assume the role of the alien Arbiter, who left the Covenant to fight alongside humanity.” (A Brief History of Halo) The third game in the Halo series was Halo 3. Halo 3, released on Sept. 25, 2007. Halo 3 was the first of the franchise released for the new Xbox 360 console. The third chapter of the battle to save humanity, Halo 3 takes the fight to future Earth, the fight was led by space marine Master Chief, the game's plot follows the end of the battle between the Covenant and the human race.
The fourth game in the series is Halo Wars. Halo Wars with a new third person look, was released in February, 2009. Microsoft released Halo Wars for Xbox 360, the first Halo universe game not developed by Bungie. Instead, Ensemble Studios crafte...
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...rosoft is expected to continue its Halo games under another developer. (A Brief History of Halo)
The new upcoming game in the Halo series is Halo 5. Not much has been released for the gamers that are dying to have this game. It will be made by 343 Studios, was first teased at E3 2013, and is said to be released in 2014. Halo 2: Anniversary is also said to be released in November 2014. News leaks of these games says that only one game is to be released then, which in turn means that one of the games with come out sometime in 2015. It is said that Halo 2: Anniversary will be released on 11/11/14. (Halo 5 Rumors and Leaks)
The Halo series has surpassed many gaming records and is a favorite among all gamers. The Halo series has been one of my favorite game series ever since I started on Xbox. Even though the developers have changed the game hasn’t and will never change.
So we get many things in the game. And like Black Ops 2 was a shooting game. It was the #1 game back then. But Fortnite came out and took over all the games. I think the old game back then were better because they look nice and there are a lot of fun.
Beginning with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which is set in modern times, the series has shifted focus away from World War II. Modern Warfare, released November 2007, was followed
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 a ruptured Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine. Kurt is sent ahead to scout it out, but as he gets closer to the engine, his equipment begins to malfunction. Eventually, the thruster pack he’s using malfunctions and Kurt is sent spiraling out into space without coms. Kurt is then recovered by ONI and wakes up a month later to be briefed of the SPARTAN-III program by Vice Admiral Margaret Orlenda Parangosky, Rear Admiral Ned Rich, Captain Aaron G. Gibson, and Colonel James Ackerson aboard the UNSC Point of No Return. Kurt is then promoted to Lieutenant, Junior Grade and sent to Onyx to reduce 497 volunteers to 300 trainees. Kurt test’s the candidates’ want for revenge against the alien juggernaut that destroyed their homes and families by making them perform a midnight high-altitude jump out of Pelican dropships. Any child who didn’t jump would lose their chance to be Spartans, and any child who jumped kept that chance. Even with the advanced training and Semi-powered Infiltration Armor (SPI), all 300 Spartans would die in Operation: PROMETHEUS. Kurt returns to the Point of No Return to be informed of the success of Alpha Company and to begin training Beta Company. Kurt learns that all of Alpha Company was wiped out in Operation: PROMETHEUS a...
Microsoft has been only been in this industry for fourteen years. They’ve only created three consoles so far, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. Their huge success with the Xbox 360 put them at the forefront of the battle. Their newest console, the Xbox One, was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in March of 2013 and released later that year in November. They told the world how revolutionary their console was with all of its innovate features. The console, weighing in at 6.3 pounds, is a monster of a device with 5 vents on each side of the console, it runs almost silent and experiences almost no overheating problems. Looking like a retro, 1960’s VCR, many people believe it is an ugly piece of hardware. Personally, I like the design of the console. It is big and heavy which makes it feel like a sturdy piece of technology. Inside the beast is an 8 core 64x AMD processor which runs at1.75GHz and features a Direct X 11.1 graphics card running at 1.2 Teraflops. It also comes with 8 GBs of GDDR3 RAM and a 500 GB H...
Title: "Halo: The Fall of Reach" Genre: Science Fiction / 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. What is the difference between a. and a. Spartans (super soldiers, highly advanced warriors, specially bioengineered and technologically augmented, the best in the universe - quiet, professional, and deadly) completed training camp on the planet REACH (human's last station of defense to stop the covenant from finding the location of earth).
...lah S.). The PlayStation 4 released November 15 of 2013 and had preorders larger than launch sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 at one million orders. The people have waited almost 7 years for a brand new gaming console. That 7 year wait has tremendously increased the demand for the new console.
Mass Effect is a series of three games with a sprawling universe to explore in every game and a massively immersive storyline. The games are set in the around year 2183, and everyone now has the ability to travel through space at ease, communicate with other alien races, and settle on other planets. Only the first two games of the trilogy have come out so far. The focus of this paper will be on the second of the two. One of the unique things about the Mass Effect series is that you are able to customize your character when you start the game and depending on the choices you make in the games the story will change dramatically. For the sake of this paper I will be assuming that the protagonist is a male, and the player has played through making good moral choices. John Shepard is the hero of these games. He also has a crew that help him along comprised of Jacob, Miranda, and Mordin to name a few. The villains of these games are the Reapers, an extremely advanced race of synthetic/organic warships, whose main goal is to harvest every living organic being in the galaxy. In the second Mass Effect game there is a second villain that comes into play, the Collectors. The Collectors are being directly controlled by the Reapers to harvest humans. The mystic guide for the first Mass Effect was Captain Anderson, and in the second game it is a man known only as "The Illusive Man."
Many people believe that the game PONG, created by Nolan Bushwell in was the first video game ever made. That, which is sad to say, is wrong. The first computer game was created by a man named Willy Higginbotham, in 1958 (Lecky-Thompson 2). In 1961, Steve Russell made a game by the name of Spacewar. Each game was given to
Video games, specifically home consoles, came to the US on October 18th 1985. The NES. Most games around that time were all bright and cheerful looking games such as Mario, Kirby, Legend Of Zelda, and Pokemon a few years later on the Gameboy. But as other game developers appeared, new types of games were made. The shooter genre and fighting genre of games came mostly on the Xbox and PS systems with a couple exceptions being on a Nintendo console(Doom, Goldeneye, Smash bros). Now shooter games
Video games have come a long way. They have evolved from the simple game of Pong into a complex, multi-platform, multi-genre, multi-billion dollar industry.
In conclusion, after reviewing all the facts and information about both the Xbox One and PlayStaion4. The PlayStation4 is clear winner in all categories of hardware, games, and price. The hardware for the PlayStation4 is slightly better than the Xbox One, the games for the PlayStation4 are better, and the price is better than the Xbox
The two do have a lot that are different about them but they do have some things that are the same when it comes to their customers. Both of them “bring a justice that is serving to the bad to show that good will always win.” (Barthes 10). People spend money to watch the wrestlers do amazing things that make the people wanting to stay to watch more. People want to see what new things that wrestlers have come up with like new music to showing off new finishing moves. Doing that will keep people coming to watch them perform for years to come. Call of Duty keeps people around by having a new game every year that is better than the last one with story and online play. Call of Duty has this thing of making a game from the past and then the next year to make a game from the future. By doing that then people can play in the old wars one year with crazy story and online play then turn around to buy the next game to have it be in the year 2210 or farther. Players that get the different year sets will not get bored if they just play one type of era and they will go out to buy the next Call of Duty to see what era they are in
I’m the type of guy that would go out and buy a Call of Duty game, pop it open and gather all my friends and jump right into it. Call of Duty is one of the most popular games out and many people love to play. It is competitive, it has online play, and you can also create a clan or group to play against other people around the world online. Call of Duty dates back to 2003 and really wasn’t popular then because it’s all about killing your enemy. Many parents didn’t want their child to play the game. Growing up, I didn’t know much about video games, so I wasn’t really into them until I started playing Call of Duty. Not only does it have military based features, it also has zombies and/or aliens features as well.
...ter this release, Call of Duty: Ghosts surpassed $1 billion dollars in sales within the first day alone. This was a huge success and surprise considering the older version of Call of Duty did not raise $1 billion dollars in sales until the 15th day after it's release.
Assassin’s Creed is a stealth video game series that was developed by Ubisoft Montreal. The first series was published by Ubisoft and was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on 14 November 2007. The series took inspiration from the novel Alamut by the Slovenian written by Vladimir. Despite the notorious for its violence and mild sexuality, the recommended age and rating of this game is to be consider as MA15+.