


The game's popularity led to labels such as " Halo clone" and " Halo killer", applied to games either similar to or anticipated to be better than it. Halo was a critical and commercial success and is often praised as one of the greatest video games ever made. During development, Microsoft acquired Bungie and turned Halo into a launch game for its first video game console, the Xbox. Initially, the game was a real-time strategy game that morphed into a third-person shooter before becoming a first-person shooter. Players battle aliens as they attempt to uncover the secrets of the eponymous Halo, a ring-shaped artificial world.īungie began the development of what would eventually become Halo CE in 1997.

The Chief is accompanied by Cortana, an artificial intelligence. Halo is set in the twenty-sixth century, with the player assuming the role of the Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier. It was later released as a downloadable Xbox Original for the Xbox 360. The game was ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X in 2003. It was released as a launch game for Microsoft's Xbox video game console on November 15, 2001. Use a variety of unique gadgets to probe your surroundings, track down mysterious signals, decipher ancient alien writing, and roast the perfect marshmallow.Halo: Combat Evolved is a 2001 first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox. Strap on your hiking boots, check your oxygen levels, and get ready to venture into space. Every secret is guarded by hazardous environments and natural catastrophes. Visit an underground city before it's swallowed by sand, or explore the surface of a planet as it crumbles beneath your feet. The planets of Outer Wilds are packed with hidden locations that change with the passage of time. What lurks in the heart of the ominous Dark Bramble? Who built the alien ruins on the Moon? Can the endless time loop be stopped? Answers await you in the most dangerous reaches of space. You're the newest recruit of Outer Wilds Ventures, a fledgling space program searching for answers in a strange, constantly evolving solar system. Winner of Best Game at the 2020 BAFTA Games Awards and named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
