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Halo 3
''Halo 3'' is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie for the Xbox 360 console. The third installment in the ''Halo'' franchise following '' Halo: Combat Evolved'' (2001) and ''Halo 2'' (2004), the game's story centers on the interstellar war between 26th-century humanity, a collection of alien races known as the Covenant, and the alien parasite known as the Flood. The player assumes the role of the Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier, as he battles the Covenant and the Flood. In cooperative play, other human players assume the role of allied alien soldiers. The game features vehicles, weapons, and gameplay elements familiar and new to the series, as well as the addition of saved gameplay films, file sharing, and the Forge map editor—a utility which allows the player to perform modifications to multiplayer levels. ''Halo 2'' had originally been intended to wrap up the story begun with ''Combat Evolved'', but development difficulties led t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halo (franchise)
''Halo'' is a military science fiction video game series and media franchise, originally developed by Bungie and currently managed and developed by Halo Studios (previously 343 Industries), part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. The series launched in November 2001 with the first-person shooter video game '' Halo: Combat Evolved'' and its tie-in novel, '' The Fall of Reach''. The latest major installment, '' Halo Infinite'', was released in 2021. Spinoffs include real-time strategy and twin-stick shooter games. Bungie began as a developer of computer games for the Macintosh platform. After the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2000, their in-progress game, which started life as a real-time strategy game, became ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', a first-person shooter exclusive to Microsoft's Xbox video game console. Following the success of ''Halo'', Bungie developed additional ''Halo'' sequels before and after regaining its independence from Microsoft in 2007. Microsoft establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forge (level Editor)
''Halo'' is a military science fiction video game series and media franchise, originally developed by Bungie and currently managed and developed by Halo Studios (previously 343 Industries), part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. The series launched in November 2001 with the first-person shooter video game '' Halo: Combat Evolved'' and its tie-in novel, '' The Fall of Reach''. The latest major installment, ''Halo Infinite'', was released in 2021. Spinoffs include real-time strategy and twin-stick shooter games. Bungie began as a developer of computer games for the Macintosh platform. After the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2000, their in-progress game, which started life as a real-time strategy game, became ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', a first-person shooter exclusive to Microsoft's Xbox video game console. Following the success of ''Halo'', Bungie developed additional ''Halo'' sequels before and after regaining its independence from Microsoft in 2007. Microsoft established 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungie
Bungie, Inc. is an American video game company based in Bellevue, Washington, and a subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment. The company was established in May 1991 by Alex Seropian, who later brought in programmer Jason Jones (programmer), Jason Jones after publishing Jones's game ''Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete''. Originally based in Chicago, Illinois, the company concentrated on Macintosh games during its early years and created two successful video game franchises called ''Marathon Trilogy, Marathon'' and ''Myth (video game series), Myth''. An offshoot studio, Bungie West, produced ''Oni (video game), Oni'', published in 2001 and owned by Take-Two Interactive, which held a 19.9% ownership stake at the time. Microsoft acquired Bungie in 2000, and its project ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' was repurposed as a Glossary of video game terms#Launch title, launch title for Microsoft's Xbox (console), Xbox console. ''Halo'' became the Xbox's "Killer application, killer app", se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Chief (Halo)
Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, colloquially known as Master Chief, is the protagonist of the ''Halo (franchise), Halo'' video game series and its spin-off media. The character first appeared in the 2001 video game ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', a science fiction first-person shooter that became a long-running franchise. The character also appears in spin-off ''Halo'' media such as the 2012 film ''Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn,'' the 2022–2024 Halo (TV series), ''Halo'' television series, and several graphic novels and books. The Master Chief is a towering supersoldier known as a "Characters of Halo#Spartans, Spartan", trained from childhood for combat. The designers intended for players to be able to project their own intentions into the character and thus reduced his voiced lines and concealed his appearance under his armor. In the video games, the character is voiced by former disc jockey Steve Downes, who based his performance on Bungie's description calling for a man of few wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windows
Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a Server (computing), server and Windows IoT for an embedded system. Windows is sold as either a consumer retail product or licensed to Original equipment manufacturer, third-party hardware manufacturers who sell products Software bundles, bundled with Windows. The first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The name "Windows" is a reference to the windowing system in GUIs. The 1990 release of Windows 3.0 catapulted its market success and led to various other product families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xbox One
The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to Xbox 360 and the third console in the Xbox#Consoles, Xbox series. It was first released in North America, parts of Europe, Australia, and South America in November 2013 and in Japan, China, and other European countries in September 2014. It is the first Xbox game console to be released in China, specifically in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone. Microsoft marketed the device as an "all-in-one entertainment system", hence the name "Xbox One". An Eighth generation of video game consoles, eighth-generation console, it mainly competed against Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U and later the Nintendo Switch. Moving away from its predecessor's PowerPC-based Computer architecture, architecture, the Xbox One marks a shift back to the x86 architecture used in the Xbox (console), original Xbox; it features an AMD APU, Accelerated Processing U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master Chief Collection
''Halo: The Master Chief Collection'' is a compilation of first-person shooter video games co-developed by 343 Industries in partnership with Certain Affinity and Saber Interactive, and published by Xbox Game Studios. The collection includes the first six main installments in the ''Halo'' franchise released between 2001 and 2012, originally developed by Bungie and 343 Industries. It originally released for Xbox One on November 11, 2014. At launch, the collection comprised the first four main entries in the franchise: '' Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'' (2011), ''Halo 2'' (2004), ''Halo 3'' (2007), and ''Halo 4'' (2012). Each game received numerous graphical and performance enhancements, including increases to resolution and framerate, while ''Halo 2'' was fully remastered as ''Halo 2 Anniversary'', receiving a full redesign of its art, audio and new cinematic cutscenes produced by Blur Studio to commemorate the game's tenth anniversary. The single-player campaign component of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
343 Industries
Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) is an American video game developer based in Redmond, Washington, part of Xbox Game Studios. Headed by Pierre Hintze, the studio is responsible for the Halo (franchise), ''Halo'' science fiction franchise, and develops ''Halo'' projects themselves and in collaboration with other studios. Originally named after the ''Halo'' character 343 Guilty Spark, the studio was created in 2007 to oversee the franchise after original ''Halo'' developer Bungie regained its independence from Microsoft. After co-developing downloadable content for ''Halo: Reach'', Bungie's final ''Halo'' game, 343 Industries released ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'' and ''Halo 4'', the latter starting the studio's "Halo (franchise)#Reclaimer saga, Reclaimer Saga" of the mainline games. History Formation Bungie was a video game developer working on their next project when they were acquired by Microsoft in 2000. Their in-development game, ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halo 4
''Halo 4'' is a 2012 first-person shooter video game developed by 343 Industries and published by Xbox Game Studios, Microsoft Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. ''Halo 4''s story follows a Human genetic enhancement, genetically enhanced human supersoldier, Master Chief (Halo), Master Chief, and his artificial intelligence construct Cortana (Halo), Cortana, as they encounter unknown threats while exploring an ancient civilization's planet. The player assumes the role of Master Chief who battles against a new faction that splintered off from remnants of the Covenant (Halo), Covenant, a former military alliance of Extraterrestrial life in fiction, alien races, as well as a new enemy: mechanical warriors of the Factions of Halo#Forerunner, Forerunner empire known as the Prometheans. The game features a new selection of weapons, enemies, and game modes not present in previous titles of the series. Development of ''Halo 4'' began in 2009 and continued until September 2012. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Video Games Considered The Best
This is a list of video games that video game journalists or magazines have considered among the best of all time. The games are included on at least six separate best-of lists from different publications (inclusive of all time periods, platforms and genres), as chosen by their editorial staff. List Publications The reference numbers in the notes section show which of the 53 selected publications list the game. * '' 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die'' – 2013 * ''The Age'' – 2005 * '' Collider'' – 2020 * '' Dexerto'' – 2024 * '' Digital Trends'' – 2023 * ''Digitally Downloaded'' – 2016 * '' Electric Playground Network'' – 2013 * '' Edge'' – 2000, 2009, 2015, 2017 * '' Electronic Fun with Computers & Games'' – 1984 * ''Empire'' – 2009 * ''Entertainment Weekly'' – 2003 * ''Esquire'' – 2018, 2019, 2020 * '' FHM'' – 2010 * '' Flux'' – 1995 * '' G4'' – 2012 * '' GamesMaster'' – 1994, 1996 * '' Gamecenter'' – 2000 * ''Game Informer'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xbox Live
The Xbox network, formerly known and commonly referred to as Xbox Live, is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Gaming for the Xbox brand. It was first made available to the original Xbox console on November 15, 2002. An updated version of the service, adding the Xbox Live Marketplace, became available with the Xbox 360 console launch in November 2005, and a further enhanced version was released in 2013 with the Xbox One. The service is used on the latest Xbox Series X and Series S and, in addition to a Microsoft account, is the account for Xbox ecosystem; accounts can store games and other content. The service was extended in 2007 across the Windows platform, named Games for Windows – Live, now defunct, which made most aspects of the system available on Windows computers. The Microsoft Store and Xbox app are now used to cross over the Xbox ecosystem into PC gaming, in addition to handhelds and mobile phones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 In Video Gaming
2007 saw many new installments in established video game franchises, such as '' Madden NFL 08'', '' NBA Live 08'', '' NBA 2K8'', '' Tony Hawk's Proving Ground'', '' WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008'', '' Super Mario Galaxy'', '' Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'', '' Halo 3'', '' God of War II'', '' Team Fortress 2'', '' Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', '' Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions'', '' Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'', '' Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', and '' Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga''. New intellectual properties included ''Assassin's Creed'', '' BioShock'', '' Crackdown'', '' Crysis'', '' Mass Effect'', '' Portal'', ''Rock Band'', '' Skate'', '' The Darkness'', '' The Witcher'', and '' Uncharted''. The year has been retrospectively considered one of the best and most influential in video game history due to the release of numerous critically acclaimed, commercially successful and influential titles across all platforms and genres at the time and remarked the bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
