Due Fall 2001 for Xbox. The first-person shooter is a great blend of standard FPS play plus vehicular combat, all couched in an epic storyline of human versus alien. Along the way you'll infiltrate numerous alien bases and commandeer humand and alien vehicles and weapons of a wide variety.
Weapons range from automatic pistols and needler guns to pulse rifles and rocket launchers.
You can occupy either the gun or driver position on human all-terrain vehicles, or steal a Covenant flyer and pulse cannon the aliens with their own technology. The environments of Halo are vast and seamlessly integrated. You'll be blasting aliens on a mountain meadow, commandeer a buggy and lay waste to baddies on the beach, then hop out and enter an alien fortress, all with no load times or delays. The seamless environs work well with the story, which is continuous and twisting. Bungie, the developers, promise us an engrossing plot that will appeal to hardcore sci-fi fans.