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- =Main menu=

The Main Menu is a series of other menus and lobbies interacted with in all Halo games. A number of modes and gametypes including campaign, multiplayer, firefight, Spartan Ops, Warzone, Custom games, Theater, Forge, and File Share are accessed through it. Settings and options menus where Control Schemes can be accessed as well. Downloadable content such as new campaigns can be directly accessed through these menus.

The main menu is reached after a series of logos for the companies that produced the game and a start screen. Sometimes the music of this sequence leads into the music of main menu itself like. Examples of this are in Halo 2 and Halo Wars 2.

Customization
In most games, the ability to change one's Armor permutations is accessed through the main menu in some form. So to for Skins for weapons and vehicles as well.

Seeing one's unlocked REQs or unlocked Blitz cards can be found here too; on top of purchasing the related packs.

Halo: Combat Evolved
The Halo: Combat Evolved menu is set in orbit of Installation 04, with the camera rotating and moving about it showing its interior, the exterior shell, and Threshold. The music heard is Halo Theme and the final part of Brothers in Arms.

Release
The menu of Halo 2 features a background of the Solemn Penance, next to the Mombasa Tether in Mombasa, East African Protectorate. The music heard is the Gregorian chant in Prologue, Ghosts of Reach, Heavy Price Paid, the last minute of The Last Spartan, and Unforgotten.

Halo 3
The main menu of Halo 3 features an animated view of a cliff at the edge of the Portal at Voi. Movement, Never Forget, Choose Wisely, the beginning of Honorable Intentions and an unidentified choir track will rotate as the backing music.

Halo Wars
In the background, scenes from the Halo Wars announcement trailer as well as cutscenes from the campaign will play. Spirit of Fire is the music that accompanies it.

Release
Halo: Reach has a variety of lobbies all using their own artwork(s). The music used in the lobbies is Overture, though sometimes no music at all will play and instead, the sounds of distant gunfire and other fighting will play.

Artwork
Most of the artwork used in the various menus and lobbies of Reach were actually pieces of concept art created by Isaac Hannaford. Depending on the lobby, the artwork would be different. As well, the artwork on the main menu would be different depending on which campaign level(s) were last played.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
The main menu for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary was designed very similarly to the original Halo: Combat Evolved menu. When selecting multiplayer however, the menu was change to one more designed like and using from Halo: Reach.

Pre-release
In an alpha menu, the background was to be the broken planet around Installation 03. Two versions of To Galaxy were to play; one of just the strings used in the song and the other of the background electronic "drums" as well as an unknown track that was later used in the Halo 4 epilogue, Halo 4 lobbies in Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and at the beginning of the track Blue Team in Halo 5: Guardians.

Release
The released main menu is of a debris field around Requiem. When reaching the title screen and for a time in the main menu, Atonement will play. It will change to Wreckage then the first minute or so of Green and Blue and rotate through all three while on the menu. When Infinity multiplayer lobby is selected, the image will move into the bridge of the where the first minute of To Galaxy will play on repeat.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Uniquely, depending on the lobby for which game that will be played, the menu music for that game will be played. All though for Halo 4 lobbies, the unnamed Epilogue track used in the early Halo 4 menu, and the opening for Blue Team, will play.

Artwork
Similar to Halo: Reach the background artwork will change in various lobbies depending on the selected game. On top of this, depending on the Season currently going in game, the main menu background will be different.

Pre-release
In the Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta, the menu was set in an orbital facility of some kind (the skybox of which is used on Breakout Arena) with SPARTAN-IVs, Naval personnel, and scientists at various computer and hologram stations.

Musically, the menu opens with parts of Osiris Suite, Act 1, then moves into On Deck, before finally playing parts of Osiris Suite, Act 4. The music will repeat in that order.

Release
The menu consists of a profile shot of the in orbit of an unknown planet. Various UNSC starships and dropships will fly by, dock or move about the Infinity. These include s, s and D79-TC Pelicans.

When getting to the start screen and for a time afterward, Halo Canticles will play. The music will then rotate through Rock and Ice, about a minute of Blue Team, Dominion, the first minute of Jameson Locke, about a minute of Osiris Suite, Act 3, and two minutes of Osiris Suite, Act 4. After returning to the menu from playing a multiplayer match, On Deck will play.

If sat on the main menu for long enough, the Floating Grunt easter egg will play out.

Release
The menu is composed of a tableau scene of several units from either the Banished or UNSC. The music is Cratered.

Pre-release
During the Halo Infinite gameplay demo, the menu was set in grasslands on Installation 07 with the title placed in the middle of a ring-like Forerunner machine. The accompanying music is Reverie.

character locations

 * Jersey Morelli and Janissary James - New Jersey
 * Chapter 9 mentions Kamal needing to head to New Jersey. This is in reference to having to go meet Jersey Morelli. This is reiterated in Chapter 10 with Kamal being told that a driver at Jerry's Diner (possibly in Pittsburgh) will take him to New Jersey. When Kamal and Jersey meet, Jersey makes a sarcastic remark about heading to Atlantic City. When Jersey meets Rani in Boston in Chapter 10, he has NYC on his bags, something that Rani notices immediately. Also, he has an NYC accent something that Jersey himself mentions. As for Janissary, Jersey and Janissary live in the same building as mentioned in Chapter 1. Also when Durga brings up the emergency call it is for Bergen County, New Jersey which is on the western banks of the Hudson in the NYC area.
 * Rani Sobeck - Boston, Kentucky, and Washington DC
 * Sarah and Rani talk about leaving Boston in Chapter 10.

other info

 * Chapter 9, public health law requires people to be tested for intestinal TB if they are exposed to it. Testing costs money
 * Chapter 10, people not from Earth referred to as colonial. Jersey turned 18 in June of that year.