Halo: Combat Evolved

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Halo is a first person shooter that takes place on a mysterious ring world named Halo. Set in the year 2552 AD, it focuses around a stage in a war between Humans and an alliance of technologically superior alien races known as the Covenant, united by their fanatical religious beliefs. The protagonist is a highly trained and bio-engineered cyborg, and a subject of the SPARTAN-II project, a classified assignment to create a handfull of super-soldiers, originally intended to furtively board a Covenant warship with the intent of finding the location of the Covenant homeworld. However, the planet Reach, where all but one of the super-soldiers are on a mission, is invaded by the Covenant, and all life on the surface is utterly annihilated. Only one vessel escapes, the Pillar of Autumn, carrying the last SPARTAN-II, who is known only as the "Master Chief".

Just before the Pillar of Autumn is attacked and easily taken over by the Covenant Warships in pursuit, Captain Keyes, the highest ranking officer on board, lands the ship on the mysterious ring-shaped world known as Halo, while many marines and the recently defrosted Master Chief (who was in cryogenic stasis) escape to Halo in lifepods, despite the many attempts of the Covenant forces to stop the humans from landing on the supposedly sacred ring.

In the ten levels of the game, the Master Chief must, with the help of the AI construct Cortana, and occasionally with the (often useless) help of marines, fight off the Covenant forces and the two other factions (the Flood and the sentinels of 343 Guilty Spark) which are unveiled during the game, and the Master Chief must discover the true purpose of Halo.