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PRINT: Arts & Culture
Wednesday, Nov. 7,2012
Halo Retrospective: A look back while
looking forward
Wholesome
and heart
warming
BAT, PRINT,
Lucas Watson
The Clackamas Print
LOVE
ChristopJicrTaylor
Â&CEditor
Eleven years ago, the now long
standing franchise o f “Halo” was
released and it changed the entire
landscape o f the gaming industry.
It proved that first-person shooters
(FPS) could actually be on con
soles and weren’t just restricted to
the PC.
Since then, it has released
four major blockbuster games,
two spinoffs and yet another
blockbuster “Halo 4” that hit store
shelves midnight o f Tuesday, Nov.
6. Besides the games, it also has
a slew o f books, graphic novels,
a series o f short animations made
by several famous animators and a
live action miniseries released for
“Halo 4.”
Not only has “Halo” been
successful by itself, but it made
games like “Call o f Duty” possible
on consoles. It brought an entirely
new audience to a movie mak
ing style called “Machinima” and
its main character, John-117, more
popularly known as Master Chief,
is on his way to being as iconic as
Nintendo’s Mario.
In 1999 at Mac World, Steve
Jobs announced a new real-time
strategy game simply known as
“Halo.” Little did they know at
the time that the “Halo” franchise
would move on to being one o f the
most influential FPS for Microsoft’s
newest console at the time, Xbox.
On Nov. 15, 2001, “Halo:
Combat Evolved” was simultane
ously released with the Xbox after
Bungie, the creator o f “Halo,” was
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sausage links, and ground sau
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cookware. Then crumble bacon,
slice links into small rounds,
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the town with its innovative control
scheme, first vehicles in an FPS
on a console, the first instance of
rechargeable shields which lead to
the popularity rechargeable health
and highly addictive game play.
“Halo:
Combat Evolved”
became insanely popular and made
the Xbox successful on its merits
alone; this warranted a sequel.
“Halo 2” was released three
years later in 2003, bringing
online capability to the Xbox and
changing the landscape once again.
By this time the main protagonist
o f the game, Master Chief, was
becoming legend and was well on
his way to becoming a household
name.
The campaign o f “Halo 2” was
the first game, still featuring large
fields o f battles, but that’s not what
made this game special; “Halo 2”
was the first game for Microsoft’s
newest initiative called Xbox Live.
The first game had a cult like
online community who had used
tunneling software by hooking up
there Xbox to their computer to play
online. This time though, it had the
first matchmaking system, it had a
friends list, stat tracking and it was
defiantly before its time. “Halo 2”
multiplayer mode was well loved;
it even had a secondary retail disk
released just for multiplayer maps.
When the servers for “Halo 2”
finally shut down on Feb. 5, 2010,
there were a few thousand play
ers who had been still playing the
game for six years. The commu
nity came together one last time the
final week to send its old friend off.
When the servers did shut down a
group o f people refused to turn off
their Xbox’s so they could remain
playing. Seven players lasted for
three months until they were forc
ibly removed from their beloved
game.
With the gaming industry
a different beast because o f its
predecessors, “Halo 3” was released
in 2007 so Master Chief could
“finish the fight” it had started six
years ago. The series had made
the internet an inseparable part of
consoles, and while “Halo 3”
did not have the same level o f
innovation as its previous two
incarnations, it’s still just as
memorable. What it did innovate
on was gave the power to the play
ers to create edit existing maps and
create new insane game types.
“Halo 3” was seen as a
masterpiece and lived up to the
hype they had created with an
absurdly large marketing campaign
which included a live action short
film in a documentary style. It real
ly closed off that decade o f “Halo,”
and even though two spinoff games
were released in the following years
before 2010, they never attained the
same heights.
When they announced “Halo
Reach” a prequel to “Halo: Combat
Evolved” in 2009, no one knew that
this would be the last time Bungie
would touch “Halo” for at least the
next 10 years. When it was released
in 2010, it followed a new protago
nist, Noble Six, and only briefly
featured Master Chief. The game
play, level design and combat felt
like a love letter to the old fans who
had supported them for the past 10
years.
While “Halo: Reach” re-contex-
tualized “Halo” and it was a nice
send off for Bungie, a new company
has taken the reins. 343 Industries
has shouldered the responsibil
ity and are breaking through the
starting gates with “Halo 4,” the first
game o f “The Reclaimer Trilogy,”
which still has an uncertain future
with this being 343’s first real game
from scratch. Although a lot o f the
Bungie creators went off to new
and exciting things, though a few
stayed behind at 343 Industries to
make sure it’s done right.
We don’t know yet if “Halo 4”
will live up to its successful history,
though what we do know is it will
live on in the hearts o f many gam
ers and will not be easily forgotten.
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If you so desire, you can cut
any one o f the meats from this TT
recipe, add your own, or even
substitute the premade biscuits
for your own. You can also add
scrambled eggs on top o f the
biscuits and under the gravy for
a more substantial meal. You
could even add some fried tofo
to the gravy rather than meat, for ‘
those o f you who are vegetarian.
Vegans can use soy milk instead ' .
o f regular milk.
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