Halo 3: ODST

Halo 3: ODST (formerly known as Halo 3: Recon) was released in 2009 for the XBox 360. This game was developed by Bungie. People owning this game were sent an XBox Live invitation to play the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta. This game also had a series of comics leading up to the game's release named Helljumper.

This game focuses on the endeavors of several Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, who were dropped into the city of New Mombasa during the Battle of Mombasa. The squad becomes seperated and must now find each other while fighting through hordes of Covenant.

Storyline
The year is 2552.

Humanity is at war with the alien alliance known as "The Covenant".

We are losing.

The Covenant have burned our worlds, killing billions in their genocidal campaign.

Earth is our last bastion - a carefully guarded secret.

But not anymore.

A Covenant carrier has breached Earth's defenses and attacked the African mega-city, "New Mombasa".

Initial reports confirm major damage and heavy civilian casualties.

Now military leaders of the "United Nations Space Command" have prepared their response...

Teams of highly-trained "Orbital Drop Shock Troopers" are ready to assault the carrier from Navy ships in low orbit.

This is a near-suicidal mission.

But these troopers are the best of the best.

And saving New Mombasa could be the most important mission of the war...

Prepare to Drop
Dare's Shock Trooper Squad is getting ready to be sent into battle inside the Prophet of Regret's Assault Carrier. The squad consists of Corporal Taylor "Dutch" Miles, Lance Corporal Kojo "Romeo" Agu, Private First Class Micheal "Mickey" Crespo, Lance Corporal "Rookie", Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, and Captain Veronica Dare. After they are dropped out of the ship via the SOEIV "drop pod"s, the Prophet of Regret's Assualt Carrier enters Slipspace, causing the team's Drop Pods to become unable to control due to the Electro-Magnetic Pulse that was emitted from the Slipspace rupture, thus sending the team's drop pods into a free fall, along with Mickey's drop pod to crash into The Rookie's.

Tayari Plaza
Back down on the ground, Dare manages to contact Buck on the ground from his drop pod. Buck is able to open his drop pod and get out, but Dare's drop pod is broken and cannot open. Upon hearing this, Buck makes his way toward her drop pod to save her, making his way through various Covenant as he goes, but once he arrives at Dare's drop pod, Dare is nowhere to be found, but instead Buck is met by a Huragok holding Dare's Recon Helmet. Mistaking the Huragok to be hostile, Buck backs away, and Romeo kills it with his sniper rifle. After reuniting with Romeo, Buck goes off to find the rest of the members of the squad.

Uplift Reserve
About 30 minutes after Dare's Squad was dropped, aUAV flies over the Uplift Nature Reserve, seeing Dutch walking away from his SOEIV drop pod. Dutch must fight his way through numerous Covenant and save several Marine platoons. However, after making his way through the Covenant, the New Mombasa Orbital Elevator collapses due to damage done to it's support structure after the Prophet of Regret's Assualt Cruiser entered Slipspace. However, the falling debris from the Orbital Elevator knocked a large hole in the wall of the Reserve, allowing Dutch to escape from the many Covenant forces.

Kizingo Boulevard
90 minutes after the drop, Mickey is walking down the streets of New Mombasa, when he come across retreating Marines. Mickey decides to join the fight, and comandeers a Scorpion tank. Using the tank to get through the Covenant forces, Mickey eventually find Dutch, who, like all of the other Marines in the city, was making his way to the ONI Alpha Site to randevous with others. Once they made it to ONI Alpha Site, they had to defend the rally point from a large number of Covenant forces. After managing to dispatch all of the hostile forces in the area, a NMPD officer asked the two if either of them knew how to set explosives.

ONI Alpha Site
Dutch and Mickey indeed knew how to set explosives, and so they set the charges on the bridge leading up to ONI Alpha Site in an attempt to stop the Covenant from getting to the building. However, Covenant manage to get through the wall and into the courtyard of ONI Alpha Site, and eventually after this, the defending forces are pushed back into the building itself. However, a Marine did manage to set numberous charges in the building, and after a Pelican Dropship picks up the remaining forces on the roof of the building, the charges are detonated and the ONI Alpha Site is destroyed, to the Superintendent Vergil's dismay.

NMPDHQ
After the Pelican Dropship picks up Mickey and Dutch, it heads to the New Mombasa Police Department Headquarters to pick up Buck and Romeo. However, as the Pelican lands on the building's roof, it is attacked by two Banshees and crashes into the building on another rooftop. Buck and Romeo fight their way through Covenant and make it to the Pelican's crash site, which is being attacked by Covenant forces. Eventually, a Phantom drops of a Brute Cheiftain, who severely wounds Romeo. After the Squad manages to kill it, Buck decides to use the underground train tunnel system to get to Old Mombasa.