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Overview
Halo takes place in the far future where humans are locked into a brutal war against a race of aliens known as the Covenant. Now these guys are are seriously evil. They can blow up and controll entire planets at a time, and they are so dang fast at doing this, so us poor humans cant figure it out that fast and are unable to get much information on them before they nuke us into oblivion. The race of aliens are getting closer and closer to Earth with the time ticking down before they completely annihilate our race. The line is finally drawn. In a huge battle by a human planet. One ship only survives: Pillar of Autumn. The commander of the ship decides to lure the Covenant as far away from Earth as it can so she programs the ship's AI to jump to some random location in the opposite direction of the home system. When you start the game up, you're knee deep in the center of the Autumn being evacuated. That giant ring construct is Halo and the secret thing that it holds is the part of the story that only you can discover.

Gameplay
You will fire roughly 4 million rounds at all differnt kinds of alien creatures and all kinds of vehicles by the time you get to the end Halo. It's definitely a first person shooter. But it's how you're motivated to deal all of that damage that makes the experience so enjoyable. And I'm not referring to the backstory of the game either. The artificial intelligence of the enemies is sophisticated enough and increases in difficulty at such a nice steady pace to that you are literally getting better the more you play.

There are also a handful of basic enemy types that you'll meet in Halo including: Grunts, Elites, and The cloaked Elites. The grunts are basicly chickens because, they like to attack when they know they have backup and then if you isolate them or so your agression they run away. Thats all im going to

Elites have an entirely different plan. They have shields like things, just like you. Once you can get their shields down, however, they panic and become even more aggressive with a running melee attack of some kind. The cloaked Elites, Jackals and Hunters are all just their own kind of trouble.

Graphics
Halo isn't 60 frames per second its 30, But where not talking like n64 and playstation here, no not at all! So 30 frames of beautifully rendered environments, enemies and particle effects a second still looks dang good on the Xbox. Go below for the Fierce-Gaming rating of this game

Presentation You could put this original piece of sci-fi up there with the best!	9.4
Graphics Outstanding surroundings, this is the future of videogames.	9.0
Gameplay Best story since aliens, truly the best of Xbox.	9.6
Overall Story good, graphics good, gameplay good....what's there not to like?!!	9.5