Halo 2 takes place in a futuristic science fiction setting, where humans, under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command or UNSC, have developed faster-than-light slipspace travel and colonized numerous worlds.
According to the game's backstory, the outer colony world of Harvest
was decimated by a collective of alien races known as the Covenant in 2525. Declaring humanity an affront to their gods, the Forerunners,
the Covenant begin to systemically obliterate the humans with their
superior technology. After the human bastion at the planet Reach is
destroyed, a single ship, The Pillar of Autumn, follows protocol and initiates a random slipspace jump to lead the Covenant away from Earth. The crew discovers a Forerunner ringworld called Halo.
Leading a guerilla insurgency on the ring's surface, the humans
discover that the rings are weapons of last resort built to contain a
terrifying parasite called the Flood. The human super-soldier Master Chief and his AI companion Cortana learn from Halo's AI, 343 Guilty Spark,
that activation of the Halos will prevent the spread of the Flood by
destroying all sentient life the parasite subsists on in the galaxy.
Instead, the Master Chief evades Spark and his robots and detonates the
Pillar of Autumn's
engines, destroying the ring and preventing the escape of the Flood.
The Master Chief, Cortana, and a handful of survivors race back to
Earth to warn of an impending invasion by Covenant forces.
I enjoyed playing the game. It was a different experience from the first Game Halo: Combat Evolved, but fun, nonetheless.
According to the game's backstory, the outer colony world of Harvest
was decimated by a collective of alien races known as the Covenant in 2525. Declaring humanity an affront to their gods, the Forerunners,
the Covenant begin to systemically obliterate the humans with their
superior technology. After the human bastion at the planet Reach is
destroyed, a single ship, The Pillar of Autumn, follows protocol and initiates a random slipspace jump to lead the Covenant away from Earth. The crew discovers a Forerunner ringworld called Halo.
Leading a guerilla insurgency on the ring's surface, the humans
discover that the rings are weapons of last resort built to contain a
terrifying parasite called the Flood. The human super-soldier Master Chief and his AI companion Cortana learn from Halo's AI, 343 Guilty Spark,
that activation of the Halos will prevent the spread of the Flood by
destroying all sentient life the parasite subsists on in the galaxy.
Instead, the Master Chief evades Spark and his robots and detonates the
Pillar of Autumn's
engines, destroying the ring and preventing the escape of the Flood.
The Master Chief, Cortana, and a handful of survivors race back to
Earth to warn of an impending invasion by Covenant forces.
I enjoyed playing the game. It was a different experience from the first Game Halo: Combat Evolved, but fun, nonetheless.