Halo: Combat Evolved

***Halo: Combat Evolved***, is a 2001 first-person shooter game, and is the twenty first game to be played on Butt Spectrum Club. The playthrough started on April 11th, 2022 and ended on November 13th, that same year. Halo: Combat Evolved is the first entree in the ***Halo Series*** and was followed up by ***Halo 2*.**

## Game Info

Halo: Combat Evolved is a 2001 first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox. In 2003 the game was ported to Microsoft Windows Mac OS X.

In 2011 Halo: Combat Evolved was remastered, with the remaster being titled Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary, which was released for the Xbox 360. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary was re-released as part of the Master Chief Collection in 2014. Master Chief Collection was then ported to Microsoft Windows in 2019, and then finally ported to the Xbox Series X/S in 2020.

The game has players take control of the Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced super soldier who fights for the United Nations Space Command in their war against the Covenant, a religious group that deem humanity an afront to their religion, as the two sides fight to get to the center of a giant space installation called Halo.

## Playthrough

The playthrough sees both **Algernon** and ***GhostinGhostout*** playing cooperatively in the co-op campaign mode. Algernon elected early in the playthrough to only use the Pistol and grenades, which led to the two having multiple grenade fights, and needing to restart when Algernon lost his pistol. Algernon succeeded in his goal to only use the pistol and grenades.

## Plot

The game begins as the Pillar of Autumn exits slip-space and its crew discover a large ringworld structure of unknown origin. The Covenant pursues the autumn and attacks. With the ship heavily damaged. the Autumns captain, Jacob Keyes, entrusts the ship's AI known as Cortana to Master Chief in order to prevent the Covenant from discovering the location of Earth. Keyes orders the crew to abandon the Autumn and pilots the ship to a crash-landing on the ringworld.

On the ring's surface, Master Chief and Cortana rescue other survivors and help organize a counter-offensive. Learning that Keyes has been captured by the Covenant, Master Chief and a small contingent of soldiers rescue him from the Covenant cruiser Truth and Reconciliation. Keyes reveals that the Covenant call the ringworld "Halo" and that they believe it to be a weapon. Intent on stopping the Covenant from using Halo, Keyes searches for a potential weapons cache, while Master Chief and Cortana mount an assault on the ringworld's control room. Cortana enters Halo's computer systems and after discovering something, sends Master Chief to find and stop Keyes from continuing his search.

Searching for the captain, Master Chief encounters a new enemy, the parasitic Flood. The release of the Flood prompts Halo's caretaker, the AI 343 Guilty Spark, to enlist Master Chief's help in activating Halo's defense. After Master Chief retrieves the ring's activation index, 343 Guilty Spark transports him back to Halo's control room. Cortana intervenes before Master Chief can activate the ring; she has discovered the purpose of the installation is to destroy all sentient life in the galaxy, starving the Flood of potential hosts. When Cortana refuses to surrender Halo's activation index, 343 Guilty Spark attacks her and Master Chief

To stop Halo's activation, Master Chief and Cortana decide to destroy the installation. Needing Keyes' neural implant to destroy the Autumn and Halo with it, Master Chief returns to Truth and Reconciliation, only to find that Keyes has been assimilated by the Flood. Retrieving the neural implant with the activation codes from the captain's remains, Master Chief returns to the wreck of the Autumn, and manually destabilizes the ship's reactors, narrowly escaping the ensuing detonation in one of the Autumn's fighters, while the majority of the remaining Covenant, UNSC Forces, and Flood are destroyed along with the Halo installation. Cortana justifies their sacrifices and believes their work to be finished, but Master Chief states that they are only getting started. In a post-credits scene, 343 Guilty Spark is seen floating in space, having survived Halo's destruction.

## Episodes

* Wake up the Chiefs
* Warthog Whoopee
* Pistoless
* The Pistol Depression of 2552
* Grenade Fight
* Cliff Jumpin'
* We Do a Little Trolling
* Ghost Gaiety
* Banshee Bash
* MY EYES!!!
* Chief? Chief?! CHIEEEEFFF?!!!
* We Lie
* SPEEN
* WATCHU DOIN TERRY?!!
* The Hardest We've Laughed
* Trying Hard
* Wort Wort Wort

## Trivia

* Halo: Combat Evolved is the twenty first game to be played on the channel
* Currently the playthrough is still going
* The hosts are Algernon and GhostinGhostout
	+ Both Algernon and GhostinGhostout are playing
* The port they are playing is the Halo: Master Chief Collection on Steam