CE:Assault on the Control Room

This article is about the Halo: Combat Evolved campaign level. For battle that took place on Installation 04, see Assault on the Control Room (conflict).

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Assault on the Control Room
Game:	Halo: Combat Evolved (Anniversary)
File name (?):	b40
Player:	Master Chief
Date:	September 20, 2552
Location:	On the surface of Installation 04, in and around the Control Room
Objective(s):	Get to Halo's Control Room before the Covenant
Par Time:	00:15:00 (Master Chief Collection-only)
Par Score:	18,000 (Master Chief Collection-only)
	Halopedia has a walkthrough guide for this level; see CE:Assault on the Control Room/Walkthrough.

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Defend the Control Room against wave after wave of Covenant troops.

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Assault on the Control Room is the fifth and longest campaign level in Halo: Combat Evolved. It is the first and only level that the player can utilize a Scorpion tank, and the first level the Ghosts and Wraiths are seen in action.

In 2026 the level was remade entirely for inclusion in Halo: Campaign Evolved.

Plot

The level follows the Master Chief on a mission to reach Halo's Control Room. The Covenant are deployed in greater numbers and in a more superior force than previously seen in the game, using Wraiths, Ghosts and Banshees. The majority of the level is set in a snowy, outdoor environment. Although the level seems to be natural, there are networks of tunnels and elevators built by the Forerunners that connect sections of the constructs into the Control Room.

The level is known for its variety and well roundness. It allows the player to use every weapon and vehicle in the game (except the shotgun), and is the only level in Halo: Combat Evolved that allows the Master Chief to use a Scorpion tank. Although the level is famous for its snowy outdoor battles and large bridges, there are also a variety of indoor skirmishes, including standoffs with Sangheili Zealots. There is a mix of vehicle, long-range, and close quarters combat. The player is assisted by a handful of Marines after their Pelican crashes, but the level is mostly a solitary experience.

At the end, the Master Chief reaches the Control Room and Cortana interfaces with the computers. She is horrified to learn that Halo houses the Flood, and the weapons cache that Captain Keyes is looking for will lead him straight to the parasite. Cortana elects to stay behind, while the Chief rushes off to find the Captain.

Transcript

I Would Have Been Your Daddy...

{Original Cutscene} {Anniversary Cutscene}

An Unggoy Minor is startled by Echo 419's arrival.

Fade in to the interior of a large Forerunner dome. Pan down to a long shaft. A single Unggoy Minor paces on an open platform.

Close up of the walking Unggoy. Other Unggoy are sleeping nearby. He stops as he hears jets, he sniffs the air, and yelps as a Pelican rises up from the chasm in front of him, screams and runs towards the door.

{Gameplay}

• Carol "Foehammer" Rawley (COM): "This is as far as I can go!"

• Cortana (COM): "Roger that. We can find our way to the Control Center from here."

• Rawley (COM): "Good luck. Foehammer out."

The Pelican hovers at the edge of the platform, the Chief gets out. He proceeds into a series of circular rooms and begins clearing them of Covenant.

• Cortana: "The Covenant presence here is stronger than I anticipated. They seem to have the entire region secured."

The Chief emerges onto a bridge, where he discovers that it is snowing. On Legendary a Banshee fighter flies around the area.

• Cortana: "Interesting... the weather patterns here seem natural, not artificial. I wonder if the ring's environment systems are malfunctioning... or if the designers wanted the installation to have inclement weather."

A Pelican dropship flies over the bridge. The Covenant forces on the bridge (including the Banshee on Legendary) open fire at it.

• Fireteam Zulu Sergeant (COM): "This is Fire Team Zulu requesting immediate assistance from any UNSC forces. Does anyone copy? Over."

• Cortana: "I didn't think there were any human forces left on this part of the ring."

• Cortana (COM): "Cortana to Fire Team Zulu, I read you. Fire Team Zulu, this is Cortana. Hold position. We're on our way."

• Fireteam Zulu Sergeant (COM): "Roger that. Make it quick."

The Pelican descends to the area below the bridge.

A Sangheili Zealot runs out of a door at the opposite side of the bridge and awaits the Chief, supported by a lance of Unggoy. The Chief kills them all and enters another structure and descends to the ground level, where he returns to the canyon. A large number of Covenant have three Marines with an overturned