Halo
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It's All About The Story (the music is pretty good, too)
This page was last updated on September 29, 2022.
(Sorry, no cheat codes or achievement tips here. Zero-shot speedruns are the goal.)
The Story
Halo Web Sites
Red vs. Blue (Halo and comedy, together)
Your Essential Halo Guide -- 27 images and brief narrative of the Halo universe, at Gamespot.com
Halo Canon -- A YouTube Channel all about the Halo Universe; look at the Canon Fodder playlist first
Halo Canon on Facebook -- Grimbrother One
Older Sites (no updates)
MahaloVideoGames Halo Reach on YouTube (no updates since 2010 and Halo:Reach)
Ascendant Justice (Halo blog; no updates since 2009; developers moved to Halo Waypoint)
Videos
Spartans Never Die (fan-made video combining clips from several cutscenes and trailers)
Halo TV Ads -- TV ads for Halo:Reach and Halo 3
Halo Landfall Short Film by Neill Blomkamp
Producer Peter Jackson announced in 2007 that completely untested director Neill Blomkamp would be directing a Halo movie. There were funding problems, and creative differences between Microsoft, Bungie, and Jackson. Blomkamp worked on the movie for five months, but stopped his involvement in October 2007 to work on his first full-length movie, District 9, which was released in August 2009. After the Halo movie fell apart, Blomkamp was hired to direct three short films to promote the September 2007 release of the Halo 3 video game. As early as October 2007, fans compiled the three short films into a single film just over six minutes in length, and made the project available as Landfall. This is perhaps the closest thing we have to imagining what his Halo movie would have looked like...
Neill Blomkamp's Halo 3 Landfall (Youtube, 720p HD; 6 min 17 sec)
Halo Cutscenes at Halo.Bungie.org
This is where you can view the animated scenes ("cinematics") that connect one gameplay session with the next.
Halo: Combat Evolved (Halo 1)
Gameplay videos on YouTube (HD)
Pillar of Autumn (Part 1 of 10)
Halo (Part 2 of 10)
Truth and Reconciliation (Part 3 of 10)
Silent Cartographer (Part 4 of 10)
Assault On The Control Room (Part 5 of 10)
343 Guilty Spark (Part 6 of 10)
The Library (Part 7 of 10)
Two Betrayals (Part 8 of 10)
Keyes (Part 9 of 10)
The Maw (Part 10 of 10) (27:22)
Halo: CE -- Mahalo gameplay Youtube video playlist
Halo: Combat Evolved Cutscenes at Halo.Bungie.org -- The videos that tie one part of the game story to the next.
Halo: Combat Evolved Aniversary Cutscenes
Halo CE Anniversary Terminal Videos
Halo 2
Gameplay videos on YouTube (HD)
Halo 2 Missions
- Cairo Station
- Outskirts
- Metropolis
- The Arbiter
- Oracle
- Delta Halo
- Regret
- Sacred Icon
- Quarantine Zone
- Grave Mind
- Uprising
- High Charity
- The Great Journey
Halo 2 Cutscenes
Halo 2 Cutscenes at Halo.Bungie.org -- The videos that tie one part of the game story to the next.
Halo 3
Gameplay videos on YouTube (HD)
Sierra 117 (Part 1 of 9)
Crow's Nest (Part 2 of 9)
Tsavo Highway (Part 3 of 9)
The Storm (Part 4 of 9)
Floodgate (Part 5 of 9)
The Ark (Part 6 of 9)
The Covenant (Part 7 of 9)
Cortana (Part 8 of 9)
Halo (Part 9 of 9)
Halo 3 Cutscenes
Halo 3 Cutscenes at Halo.Bungie.org -- The videos that tie one part of the game story to the next.
Halo Wars
The gameplay for Halo Wars uses the style of Age of Empires (or Civilization), and is a completely different from the first-person shooter style of the other Halo games. On the Halo timeline, Halo Wars takes place in the Outer Colonies, 21 years before the fall of Reach.
Halo Wars Cutscenes
Halo Wars Cutscenes at Halo.Bungie.org -- The videos that tie one part of the game story to the next.
Halo 3: ODST
Gameplay videos on YouTube (HD)
Halo 3: ODST Gameplay Walkthrough, No Commentary (53 videos) -- Mahalo Youtube video playlist
(watch the series in sequential order)
Halo 3 ODST Cutscenes
Halo 3 ODST Cutscenes at Halo.Bungie.org -- The videos that tie one part of the game story to the next.
Halo: Reach
Videos on YouTube (HD)
Halo: Reach - Deliver Hope (extended)
Halo: Reach - Birth Of A Spartan (extended)
Halo: Reach - Once More Unto The Breach (a "making of" video)
Halo: Reach Gameplay Walkthrough, No Commentary (28 videos) -- Mahalo Youtube video playlist
Halo: Reach Cutscenes
Halo: Reach at Halo.Bungie.org -- The videos that tie one part of the game story to the next.
Halo: Reach (All Cut Scenes) -- Gamer's Little Playground compiled 2 hour video
Halo 4: Infinity (Spartan Ops)
Gameplay videos on YouTube (HD)
Halo 4 Walkthrough, No Commentary (4 parts)
Halo 4 Spartan Ops (10 episodes) (HaloWaypoint Channel)
Halo 4 Spartan Ops, Season 1 Movie (all in one, 53 minutes) (NakedHalo Channel; lots of ads)
Halo 4 Cutscenes
Halo 4 at Halo.Bungie.org -- The videos that tie one part of the game story to the next.
Halo 4 Spartan Ops at Halo.Bungie.org -- The videos that tie one part of the game story to the next.
Halo 4 Terminal Videos at Halo.Bungie.org -- The videos that tie one part of the game story to the next.
Hunt The Truth
A podcast was created as a prequel to Halo 5, supposedly documenting Master Chief going rogue.
"HUNT the TRUTH is a fictional investigative audio series set in the universe of HALO. Starting just before the events of HALO 5: Guardians, season one of HUNT the TRUTH follows journalist Benjamin Giraud as he investigates the story behind the Master Chief, humanity's greatest and most mysterious hero. As inconsistencies in the story emerge, Ben is faced with toeing the government line or cutting rank and breaking the conspiracy wide open. The second season picks up with rebel leader, FERO. As FERO is forced to confront ghosts from her past, something far more sinister begins to stir in the outer colonies."
"This is like listening to a really good audio book." "When an audio series is so much better than an actual campaign."
"Hunt the Truth" Seasons 1 and 2 on Youtube -- Almost 6 hours of both seasons of the podcast, as a Youtube video (actually just the audio).
"Hunt the Truth" on Youtube -- Three separate playlists of audio-only videos. Season 1 (all 13 episodes plus intro) and Season 2 (all 6 episodes plus intro).
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo 5: Guardians Complete Game Movie (YouTube; 2 hrs. 37 mins.)
Halo 5: Guardians -- Cimematics and important parts of game play (YouTube; 1 hr. 46 mins.)
Halo 5: Guardians All Cinematics (YouTube; 46 mins)
Halo 6: Infinite
Wikipedia article for Halo 6: Intinite
Halo 6: Infinite Gameplay Trailer (2020) (YouTube, 2:54 minutes)
Halo 6: Infinite, UNSC "Pilot" rescuing the Master Chief (YouTube, 6:12 minutes)
Halo 6: Infinite, UNSC Pilot and Master Chief Land on Zeta Halo (YouTube, 9:13 minutes)
Halo 6: Infinite, Gameplay (YouTube, 6 hours, 12 miniutes)
Tools
DivX Player -- Plays MKV files
VLC Player -- Plays all formats
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