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Halo Infinite is the sixth mainline first-person shooter game in the Halo franchise. The multiplayer was released on November 15, 2021 and the Campaign was released on December 8, 2021. Infinite followed up on the events of 2015's Halo 5: Guardians, which left off with the human United Nations Space Command in tatters, the Master Chief stranded on Sanghelios and the UNSC Infinity on the run, following an uprising by a group artificial intelligences calling themselves the Created, led by Cortana. Now several years later, the Master Chief finds himself awoken on a derelict Pelican by the Pilot in the shadow of a shattered Halo ring, and must face down the Created threat, in addition to the Banished, a mercenary organization seeking control of the ring.
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The Game
Halo Infinite is the latest mainline first-person shooter game in the Halo franchise, and a sequel to Halo 5: Guardians. Developed primarily by 343 Industries and published by Xbox Game Studios, Infinite is set to release in Holiday 2021 on the Xbox One, PC and the Xbox Series X, serving as a launch title for the latter. Preproduction on the project had begun by September 2015, but the game has had a longer-than-usual development cycle, likely as a result of its entirely rebuilt engine, dubbed the Slipspace Engine. It was first revealed at E3 2018.
News
- Halo Infinite was featured at Xbox's first-party Xbox Series X|S game showcase in July 2020.
- The latest Infinite teaser, entitled "SIGNAL DETECTED. TAG DESIGNATION: FOE", confirms that the Banished faction will be present.
- Discover Hope, a new trailer for Infinite was unveiled at E3 2019.
- Halo Infinite has been announced at E3 2018.
Confirmed Facts
- Halo Infinite released in 2021.
- Infinite is available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC/Steam, and Xbox Cloud Gaming.
- The game is available on Xbox Game Pass.
- Infinite is considered a spiritual reboot to the series.
- The game was promised to have splitscreen in 2017, but the feature was cancelled in 2022.
- The game does not feature lootboxes that can be bought with real currency.
- The game has free to play multiplayer and runs at 120 frames per second.
- After Halo 5: Guardians was criticised for having very few levels featuring Master Chief, Infinite will "double down" on him.
- The game's Forge mode will have undo and redo functionality.
- The game has had two multiplayer flights and one Campaign network co-op flight.
- Black undersuits are available for multiplayer Spartan customisation.
- Infinite features art direction closer to the classic Bungie games, albeit with some of 343 Industries' newer designs retained or adapted.
- The game has an artbook entitled The Art of Halo Infinite, released on December 14, 2021.
- A novel entitled Halo: Shadows of Reach released in October 2020, and was set between Halo 5: Guardians and Infinite.
Gameplay
Story
In the 26th century, after years of turmoil following the end of a twenty-seven year long war, the galaxy appeared to be on the cusp of peace, with the most hostile remnants of the former Covenant empire on the verge of defeat at the hands of the allied UNSC (human) and Swords of Sanghelios (Elite) factions. However, just as this peace seemed within reach, the galaxy was thrown into conflict when Cortana, a human-made artificial intelligence previously thought dead, returned to the galactic stage as the head of a new faction, the Created.
Using peacekeeping constructs called Guardians, created by a long-extinct race known as the Forerunners, the Created seized control of all known colonised star systems, claiming to bring with them an age of enforced peace and prosperity, but inadvertently killing many in their initial conquest and hunting those who subsequently resisted. The Master Chief and his fellow Spartans in Blue Team attempted to prevent the takeover by confronting Cortana, but were unsuccessful. After being captured and promptly freed by Fireteam Osiris, the two teams were forced to flee to UNSC Infinity, one of the last remaining UNSC ships not destroyed or captured, and go on the run from the Created regime.
Halo Infinite picks up roughly three years after these events, with the Master Chief being discovered by the Pilot, free-floating in space nearby Zeta Halo (another Forerunner creation) in what appears to be the aftermath of a battle. The Created have their sights set upon the ring, as do the Banished, an organised group of pirates and mercenaries. Master Chief and the Pilot are soon assailed by an unseen attacker, with the Master Chief opting to stand his ground rather than flee.
John-117, better known as the Master Chief, is the main character of the Halo franchise, and the protagonist of Halo Infinite. A SPARTAN-II, he was kidnapped at the age of six by the UNSC's Office of Naval Intelligence and trained from a young age to be the "ultimate soldier", before being given biological augmentations and powerful MJOLNIR armour. After the events of Halo 5: Guardians, the Master Chief and the remains of the human military, the UNSC, find themselves on the run from the Created, a newly-emerging faction led by former ally Cortana, now bent on galactic domination. Halo Infinite picks up a few years after the Created takeover, with the Master Chief being discovered stranded in space above a broken Halo installation.
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The Pilot is a character new to Halo Infinite, serving as the pilot of the Pelican Echo 216. He had a wife and daughter, whom he was cut off from by the Created conflict, left with only a holographic video message to remember them by. As Infinite begins, he finds himself stranded alone in his craft, above a shattered Halo installation. After drifting for weeks, Echo 216 eventually floats into the vicinity of the Master Chief, who had become stranded within his armour in open space. The Pilot is able to retrieve and ultimately revive him, before the two are set upon by an unseen foe.
Cortana was a human artificial intelligence, who served as a companion and ally to the Master Chief throughout the Halo series. She was created from a clone of the brain of renowned scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey, once the director of the SPARTAN-II program. During the events of Halo 4, Cortana was seemingly killed while sacrificing herself to save the Master Chief. However, she returned in Halo 5: Guardians, now bent on galactic domination. Supported by allied artificial intelligences collectively known as the Created, she successfully subdued the UNSC and their allies Swords of Sanghelios using peacekeeping automatons called Guardians left behind by the Forerunners. As Infinite opens, she has effectively gained control of the majority of known space, and what little resistance remains is on the run or in hiding.
Escharum was prominent Brute war chief. He is a member of the Banished and leads their forces at Installation 07.
