101 Facts about Halo

greetings mother factors and welcome to this especially spacey edition of 101 facts but with guns my name is chris and i'm here to guide you haphazardly through a space adventure where people with big suits wear big helmets and have big guns can you guess what i'm talking about and don't look at the title yeah fine it's halo but how did a virtual cactus nearly ruin halo 5. is it possible to play a billion games of halo 3 in less than two years and like where do we go now where two out of these three questions are going to be answered so give us a like and subscribe you lovely human and keep in mind that you might want to disable ortana k for this video if you're using a windows device as we mouthwash straight through 101 facts about halo number one okay let's start from the beginning halo is a military science fiction game franchise created in 2001 by american game developers bungie and is currently developed by 343 industries whilst being owned and published by xbox game studios which is owned by microsoft number two in a nutshell the halo games focus on an interstellar war between humans and a group of extraterrestrials called the covenant the games follow master chief john 117 alongside his group of soldiers called the spartans and his ai companion cortana number three before it became the halo we know and love halo was supposed to be an indirect sequel to bungie's first person shooters marathon and marathon 2. after some development hell bundy's executive vice president used contacts at apple to get an audience with steve jobs number four old stevie bloody loved it and agreed to debut their games at the 1999 mac world conference and expo announcing it would be released on mac os and windows number five more development issues ensued with glitches on previous game releases needing expansive fixes eventually take too interactive famous for grand theft auto bioshock and the borderlands games brought some shares and publishing rights from the bungie number six during this time the company contacted ed fryes the head of microsoft gaming studios at the time to discuss a possible acquisition of the company lucky for them the team were working on their first ever games console the xbox number seven microsoft formally announced the acquisition of bungie on the 19th of june 2000 and their game halo would be an xbox title only and the tentpole launch game for the brand new xbox console number eight with that though came a lot of new pressures in particular a strict time frame and deadlines to meet the team had to finish the game ready to ship within a year to get this done a lot of the ideas a team had needed to be scrapped meaning it was no longer open world and the campaign was shortened number nine finally halo combat evolve was released on the 15th of november 2001 and unsurprisingly it was met with critical acclaim i say unsurprisingly because spoiler alert there are sequels coming out of the wazoo but i'm getting ahead of myself number 10 the first game begins with the pillars of autumn a starship coming across a huge ring floating in space or a halo you get it anyway as they find the halo the pillars of autumn containing master chief john 117 comes under attack from the covenant a religious group of aliens that hate humans not ideal for the ship full of humans [Music] anyway as the ship becomes overrun captain jacob keys instructs the master chief to protect the ship's ai cortana who has a lot of extremely sensitive information about the united nations space command aka the earth's government space agency the information included where earth is which again probably not the best thing to tell the human hating aliens number 12 johnny117 evacuates to the halo alongside fellow marines in order to protect cortana and her secrets and to find out what's going on with the halo and fight the covenant number 13. don't worry i'm not going to read the plot of the game to you it'll take too long but it's worth mentioning that along his mysterious journey john 117 discovers the flood a parasitic species that assimilate all other species again not ideal number 14. he also discovers through inserting cortana into the halo that the halo itself was created by a group of ancient aliens called the forerunners who the covenant worship number 15 by the end of the game the halo is destroyed by detonating the engines of the pillar of autumn with john 117 and cortana escaping in a long sword ship as the pair leave the destruction they realize this is just the beginning number 16 and between that cliffhanger and the commercial and critical success of halo combat evolved and being the flagship and arguably most iconic game for the xbox it also got a remaster for its 10th anniversary in 2011 and as part of the master chief collection in 2014 number 17 with all the success of the first halo bungie team got started on a sequel which was announced at e3 2002 with a planned release for the end of 2003. enter development issues dun dun dun number 18 to cut a long story short they tried to do too much with too little time and as such they missed the 2003 deadline it was eventually released on november the 9th 2004 and later on windows vista remember that remember how fun that was to use on may the 17th 2007. number 19. before its release though there was a huge marketing campaign that was pretty rare at the time in addition to a celebrity pre-release party at e3 2004 where a whole house was transformed to be like the halo world there were multiple worldwide launch events where players queued for hours number 20 halo 2 was actually the first ever game to have a theatrical trailer that was played in movie theaters the trailers heavily focused on master chief and defending earth but left the fact that there was a second playable character as a secret number 21 when it was released though it quickly became the highest grossing entertainment release in entertainment history blowing pirates of the caribbean two out of the water get it cause they're pirates annoyingly it was only the second highest selling game of the year being pipped to the punch by a little game called gta san andreas you've probably never heard of it i don't know about you but i'm feeling 22. after the events of the first game the covenant are pretty freaking steamed about the humans destroying the halo and appear near earth through a wormhole ready for battle number 23 master chief and the spartans manage to push the covenant back but as they're pushing they follow the covenant ship through the wormhole to the site of another halo ring that's definitely not been blown up number 24 master chief then sets himself to find the guy in charge weirdly named regret and kills him at this point the covenant come in all guns blazing and knock the big mc into a lake where he's dragged away by some tentacles number 25 remember when i said a few facts ago that there's a second playable character well this is where he comes in his name is thel verdam and he's an alien lad who serves the covenant at the very beginning of the game he stripped of his titles and is disgraced after the blame falls to him for allowing the first halo to be destroyed number 26 anyway he's offered redemption by the high profits of truth and mercy and the title of arbiter on his journey he too falls victim to the gross tentacle monster and this is where he meets our old pal john 117. number 27 that gross tentacle monster is a flood creature called the gravemind who lives in the bowels of the second halo he explains to the arbiter that the great journey he's been told of is one big lie and sends him and jon to stop the halo activation number 28 skipping ahead a bit they realize that the halos can be controlled remotely from a place called the ark there's loads of fighting and cortana who's still on board the human spacecraft gets kidnapped by the grave mind and subjected to the flood's intelligence questions and that's halo 2. number 29 much like its predecessor people loved halo 2. it received critical acclaim once again and ending on such a cliffhanger could only mean one thing just another sequel number 30 and you know what they only went and made a bloody sequel didn't they halo 3 launched at the end of september 2007 on microsoft's lovely new hardware machine the xbox 360. mine sounds like a jet taking off when i switch it on because it's 16 years old number 31 the campaign story picks things up in just two weeks after the shenanigans of halo 2 with master chief crash landing on earth in east africa to be precise he meets up with unsc forces and his old pal the arbiter and they eventually battle past the covenant forces to escape to a unsc base number 32 fearing the covenant have got their hands on the ark and could potentially wipe out all sentient life unnc forces task mc with creating a gap in their enemies defense systems so they can fight a last-ditch battle and destroy this artifact thankfully the artifact only opens a portal which the covenant dive through number 33 meanwhile a ship packed full of flood nastiness crash lands on earth unfortunately is dead before it can infect the planet on board is a message from the missing cortana telling master chief to head through the newly opened portal which takes them to the ark which the covenant are hell-bent on setting off number 34 such is the threat master chief and the arbiter decide to team up with the grave mind to put an end to all this and in the process covenant leader the high prophet of truth finally meets his end number 35 all's well that ends well right except that's not even close to the finale of halo 3 because the grave mind then turns on its former allies forcing master chief to activate a halo ring to destroy the flood's big bad number 36 however in all the carnage of a halo actually going boom master chief and cortana don't make it back through the portal to earth this leaves them drifting through space while they are assumed to be dead by those on earth and that ends halo 3. number 37 microsoft threw a lot of money at making halo 3 a success spending 40 million dollars on the marketing for the campaign in an effort to shift more copies broadened the franchise's appeal and encourage sales of the new xbox 360. number 38 outside of your standard trailers and behind the scenes documentaries the marketing campaign for halo 3 saw microsoft and pepsi release the first ever promotional soft drink for a video game mountain dew game fuel apparently it tasted like cherry orange or a combo of the two there was even a halo branded zune media player which i suspect was the key to the entire franchise's success because we all know how well the zune did number 39 the game sold and then some 170 million dollars on launch day 300 million dollars in its first week and over 14 million copies sold in its lifetime it is widely considered one of the best video games of all time and has a 94 percent on metacritic number 40 multiplayer action proved very popular on the 28th of february 2009 halo 3 clocked up its billionth match and the next day it was calculated that the total time players had spent playing online amounted to this big number that i genuinely can't process that's 64 109 years number 41 for a change of pace in september 2009 bungie and microsoft dropped halo 3 odst with the odst standing for orbital drop shock troopers or as i like to say the big twist it didn't start everyone's favorite alien hunting murder machine john 117 the meaning of life the campaign story is set during the events of halo 2 and just afterwards too players take on the role of the rookie a member of the odst team who loses the rest of his team after being knocked unconscious for six hours during a mission you must track them down and find out what happened to them number 43 as you uncover evidence the game sends players into a flashback where they play a mission as one of the missing characters two of those teammates mickey and buck are voiced by alan tudyk and nathan fillion of firefly fame dare is voiced by battlestar galactica's trisha helfer number 44 production on the game lasted just 14 months with development beginning in march 2008 and was originally conceived as an expansion for halo 3 rather than a standalone game some reviewers complained of being able to beat the campaign in just 4 hours number 45 it did however introduce the firefight mode this saw players fight wave after wave of enemies getting more difficult as they kept coming the aim of the game is to survive the allotted time and score high number 46 across the globe september 2010 will forever be remembered as the month halo reach launched worldwide and unlike previous entries in the series this release took place back in time all the way back to the events before the original halo or more succinctly it's a prequel number 47 the game is set in the distant past of 2552 meaning it coincides with the events described in the first halo novel halo the fall of reach which was published back in 2001 as a companion piece to the original game and makes no attempt to hide the massive spoiler in the title more on the halo books later number 48 i don't want to give more than the novel's title does but as basic premises go by the time we catch up with the unsc on reach the war against the covenant isn't going great with most of humanity's colonies having been lost not to worry though because the reach is the main military installation of the unsc and the game is all about the exploits of noble team a unsc spec ops team of spartans number 49 the player's character is spartan b312 otherwise known as noble six since you're the sixth and the newest member of the team it's probably no surprise that this is the first and only halo game where the players can customize the main protagonist number 50 master chief isn't completely absent from the proceedings though he appears very briefly at the end of the game in an easter egg known as spartan and cryo if you hold the right analog stick during the climactic cinematic in the hangar bay you'll spot a spartan chilling out in a cryo chamber the identity of this spartan caught a lot of debate online but it was confirmed by the creative director marcus leto that it is jon although his appearance in the game is non-canon number 51 over the course of the game the members of the noble team attempt to fend off a covenant invasion secure an ancient alien artifact which might turn the tide in the conflict and safely transport it off world along with cortana not all of the noble team make it through the adventure though number 52 ah there was also the armor ability system where equipment bestowed various abilities on users that could be used an infinite number of times with the only limitation being cooldowns between users there were seven abilities including camouflage projecting a holographic clone and jetpack number 53 but it wouldn't be right to talk about halo reach without mentioning the campaign level long night of solace which remains unique among all halo games it featured playable space combat players must engage in dogfights and help deliver a slip space bomb to an enemy super carrier to make it go boom number 54 reach was the last halo game developed by the og's bungie before they handed over responsibility to 343 industries a microsoft subsidiary after once again becoming an independent company bungie has since focused on the development and publication of the destiny games with number one launching in 2014 and number two being released in 2017 number 55 the game's engine got a nice little tune up as well with improved graphics better weather effects more detailed facial animations smoother movement animations and bigger environments did i say that l in one take yeah i did that's pretty freaking cool perhaps the biggest upgrade was the ability to have 60 active ai characters on screen at once up from 30 in halo 3. number 56 i think it's fair to say that reach was a huge success and sold what i believe is known as a metric bleep ton of copies it was estimated to have brought in 200 million dollars on day one 30 million more dollars than the record set by halo 3. it sold over 3 million units in its first month in north america alone number 57 but was it any good the consensus was yeah actually it was pretty darn good scoring nines tens and eight with a lot of publications and leaving it sitting pretty well within 91 overall on metacritic and number 58 343 made their debut at the developers of the new halo titles in 2012 with the release of halo 4 on the xbox 360. those were the days when the xbox 360 didn't sound like a fighter jet just about to take off the game was a return to the main series storyline so guess who's back you bet you're its only bloody master chief who'd basically sat out the previous three games wards odst and reach number 59 halo 4 is set four years seven months and 10 days after the events of halo 3 and it opens with master chief in cryo sleep drifting through space on the unsc ship forward unto dawn but he's woken by tristial cortana when some intruders board the vessel number 60 those intruders only turn out to be the covenant drama am i right even though the human covenant war ended and the elites had worked together with humanity to smash up the flood there was still some covenant who just wouldn't quit say hello to jewel madames and his band of followers number 61 halo 4 is no rehash of previous storylines though because master chief escapes from his ailing ship and onto a nearby mysterious planet requiem which just happens to be a forerunner planet human before one is right they're the ancient aliens who built the halos through the flood ages ago and are worshipped by the covenant number 62 only the forerunners have left massachusetts a little welcoming present in the form of a new enemy to face off against prometheans these are ai mechanical warriors that come in three forms crawlers who hunt in packs but are weaker watchers who can revive fallen prometheans or shield them from danger and knights who are the baddest boys and the leaders number 63 one of the key drivers of the campaign's story is cortana who is beginning to experience rampancy a condition which corrupts ai constructs they begin to lose control over their personalities and may even develop a taste for power as well as a hatred for those who built them in the first place since they aren't as clever rampancy begins after seven years and by this point in the halo saga cortana is 8. nintendo 64. master chief doesn't abandon his friends though and sets out on a mission to get cortana back to earth in an attempt to undo the rampancy only problem is that while attempting to contact a unsc ship john 117 accidentally unleashes an actual forerunner known as the didact who let's just say isn't a fan of humans number 65 the didact has a device that can turn humans into prometheans and oh boy does he intend to use it only in what can only be described as a twist of soap proper proportions the didact's wife known as the librarian and a fan of humans teams up with master chief number 66 drama ensues as ultimately earth comes under threat from a big bad died act but will massachusetts save the day will everyone survive this adventure well i'm not going to spoil it unless i have to in the halo 5 section number 67 as bungie bowed out from the halo duties microsoft hired a company starlight runner entertainment to produce the halo bible a complete reference for all halo lore that would be easy to understand for anyone working on developing the games from here on out number 68 while the original trilogy story was developed somewhat on the fly halo 4 and the following titles were designed from the beginning to be part of a story arc that spanned multiple games this set of stories were set to be named the reclaimer saga number 69. the dimension-like breakdown that cortana goes through was inspired by creative director josh holm's own experiences as his mother was diagnosed with dementia as development for the game started it was hard to include such a storyline into an action game and it was almost cut but holmes made sure it was kept in number 70 despite being the most expensive game microsoft had been involved in at the time it more than paid them back it brought home the big bucks with 220 million dollars on launch day and 300 million dollars in its first week on sale again beating previous records for the franchise over a million people played it on xbox live within the first 24 hours of launch number 71 if you listen carefully you might hear the voices of conan o'brien and andy richter who appear in a brief easter egg as two guards in front of a loading bay number 72 you'll never guess what the next game in the main series only had the name halo 5 i know right to be fair it was actually called halo 5 guardians and it was released in 2015 on the xbox one number 73 aside from being the first new halo game to be released on xbox one it was also the first ever halo game to be considered suitable for teenage audiences according to the esrb that's the entertainment software rating board or as i like to call it all previous entries in the main halo series had gained an m for mature anyhow this gave halo 5 access to a whole new audience number 74 a more powerful console meant the development team could revamp the game's engine and you know what they did halo 5 introduced the so progressive resolution system which allowed the game to dynamically scale up the resolution with a max of 1080p but keep the frame rate a smooth 60fps at all times number 75 essentially it means when there was a lot going on on screen the resolution would be reduced to keep that sweet sweet frame rate number 76 the new power of the xbox one led some to get carried away with what they could do animators went wild and built the characters that would move differently depending on how it was shot by the players number 77 it then stuck a load of these high-end cactuses in a level it later transpired these cactuses were the biggest cause of technical issues during halo 5's development so they were then removed number 78 to keep things nice and fresh halo 5 did mix things up compared to its predecessor armor abilities were replaced with spartan abilities and served a similar function these included powers like the ground pound enhanced climbing powers via clamber or the spartan charge which was basically a shoulder barge melee number 79 unlike armor abilities spartan abilities were available to all players and could even be used in succession to perform chain combos since the thruster pack was one of these abilities it could now be used at any time effectively meaning players could now move in any direction combine these with other abilities and it means a much more mobile and fluid gameplay number 80 in terms of the overall plot the fifth halo title picked up eight months after the events in number four and things have changed quite a bit in that time for a start is master chief still the good guy he's got together with some old spartan buddies and got the blue team back together but during a mission mc gets a message from cortana look i did warn you i might end up spoiling i'm not surprised i lasted more than 10 facts to be honest number 81 anyway rather than follow orders master chief and blue decide to go after cortana and are declared awol by the powers that be rather than dock their pay or give them a verbal warning instead fire team osiris are dispatched to hunt them down essentially we're now in a scenario where spartans are fighting spartans number 82 to help flesh out both sides of the story halo 5 features a second protagonist jameson locke the leader of the fire team osiris tasked with the unenviable task of capturing master chief and the hearts of franchise veterans lock had actually been introduced in halo nightfall a five-part live-action web series produced by ridley scott seriously number 83 mike colter probably best known for playing luke cage blade lock in the web series and did the motion capture and model for halo 5 but didn't provide the voice in-game due to scheduling conflicts ike ahmadi picked up the voice acting instead number 84 new halo game equals new sales records for the franchise right halo 5 once again smashed it earning 400 million dollars in week one of release a cool hundred mil more than its predecessor between its october 2015 release and january 2016 it shifted more than 5 million retail copies number 85 halo 5 was also well received by the critics with strong reviews generally in the 8 or 9 range giving it a metacritic score of 84. it also received award nominations generally in best multiplayer and best shooter but one less than halo 4. number 86 so here we are present day we made it to 2021 guys and to celebrate this microsoft have only gone and released a brand new halo game on their brand new range of consoles on december 8 2021 halo infinite made its full debut across the microsoft range of consoles the xbox series x xbox one and of course pc number 87 halo infinite is actually overdue for delivery by over a year and was intended for release in november 2020 as a launch title for that shiny new xbox series but was delayed by over a year due to that pesky coven pandemic that just seems intent on ruining everything and lasting forever for kovid number 88 although it should be noted that an early trailer for the game in the middle of 2020 was hugely unpopular and drew backlash from fans with the graphics criticized for looking cartoonish and below par another reason for that big deal was to get the game into shape and give staff time to do it number 89 infinite's campaign set on the ringworld zetta halo is said to be bigger than the campaigns of halo 4 and 5 and will continue the story of the predecessor titles and master chief returns as the key protagonist after 343 industries admitted there wasn't enough of him in halo 5. number 90 the plot will see the big mc do battle with the banished a mercenary splinter group that broke off from the covenant this faction made its debut in the halo wars strategy games and in infinite will be led by jager radomni and sang haley famed for his spartan hunting history number 91 master chief isn't just smashing up covenant enemies old school style though he's also teaming up with a new ai companion called the weapon and together they're going to try and discover what happened to cortana and what she's been up to since the events of halo 5. number 92 halo infinite has a more open world vibe to it as well with players having more choice in when and how they tackle certain missions players will be able to complete missions to earn valor that they can then spend on unlocks for support items as well as more linear missions aimed at driving the story number 93 there is also a mechanic known as spartan cores which essentially serve as a way of boosting mc's abilities or improving the performance of equipment number 94 those who aren't bothered by the campaign story can ditch it all together and just opt to play the multiplayer without even the need to spend any cash at all because halo infinite's mp is free to play number 95 the multiplayer was released ahead of the main title in beta form on the 15th of november 2021 as a surprise that might seem like a random date but it was the 20th anniversary of both the xbox and the halo franchise and the beta was released to celebrate number 96 including novellas and anthologies there have been more than 30 halo books published and you know what they've been super successful for example halo first strike published in 2003 hit the new york times best seller list and 2007's halo contact harvest debuted at number three in that same list number seven we've mentioned them a couple of times but halo did end up venturing into the real-time strategy arena with the release of halo wars 1 and 2. the two games book ended the story of the main halo franchise with halo wars 1 taking place 20 years before halo 1 and halo wars 2 takes place shortly after halo 5. number 98 these two titles feature classic rts gameplay mechanics with players commanding their forces from a bird's eye pov they command troops they build bases they collect resources they can get more troops to send off to battle against the enemy there are two playable factions in each game the unc and the covenant although halo wars 2 uses the banished splinter group of the covenant number 99 at one point between 2005 and 2006 it seemed a halo movie was on the cards with lord of the rings legend peter jackson executive producing and gilmer del toro in the director's chair when del toro left to work on hellboy 2 he was replaced by neil blomkamp but the studios involved weren't keen on blomkamp's gritty and darker tone for the film oh baby it's number 100 the film's budget was rumored to be in the 135 million dollar region but ultimately creative and financial differences between those involved sank the project blomkamp however continued working with peter jackson and made district 9 instead a sci-fi film that actually included some of the props for the planned halo movie like the battle rifles but they were repainted white what oh it's number 101 while the movie might never have seen the light of day a halo tv show is on the way it's been in development since 2013 as steven spielberg's amblin television and 343 industries are also having a creative input it will focus on the classic battle between the unsc and the covenant pablo schreiber will be playing the role of master chief and the showa sets debut in 2022 that was 100 facts about halo did you enjoy it did you learn more things i certainly learned more things why don't you let me know if the things that you learned in the comments down below also while you're down there leave a like and why don't you subscribe that would be pretty neat i like it a lot i think you'd like it a lot i think we'd all like it a lot let's do it together anyway on the screen at the moment right now in front of your eyes there are two videos that you can watch and i bet you you will enjoy both of them why not prove me right and watch both of them on different tabs doesn't that sound fun uh anyway i'm babbling so i'm gonna go to see you next week bye

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Published: Sat Dec 11 2021