Orpheus

Orpheus is a Halo 3 Meta-Game Achievement. It is unlocked when the player earns 15,000 points while playing the meta-game on Cortana. This Achievement gives 10 Gamerpoints to the player.

It is represented by a blue circle with a fist and lightning bolts. Playing Cortana on Heroic with the Catch, Famine, Fog and Tough Luck Skulls in any combination should guarantee the player at least 20,000 points by the levels end, if the player doesn't die that often. It is also important that you have a shotgun, heavy weapon, brute shot, melee weapons, carbine or battle rifle; and also some stick grenades. Shotguns, heavy weapons, brute shots and melee weapons are for breaking up flood when you kill them, carbines and Battle Rifles to kill those annoying ranger forms and stick grenades to blow up carrier forms along with their infection forms inside. A good thing about the level is that plasma grenades stick to the 'flood walls', the yellow-orange flood like walls. Therefore you can kill opponents on the wall with a grenade without a direct stick (however, a stick earns you more points)

Trivia

 * The name Orpheus was ancient Greek; in Greece, Orpheus went into Hades to find his wife Eurydice and bring her back. In the Halo 3 level Cortana, the Master Chief (symbolizing Orpheus) goes into High Charity (symbolizing Hades, after it was infested by the Flood) to find Cortana (symbolizing Eurydice). Unfortunately for Orpheus, Eurydice never made it out of the underworld.

Related Links

 * Halo 3 Achievements