* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

Halo 2 started online console gaming and was on top of the Xbox live charts until its successor, Halo 3, took over.

The three games in the series — Marathon ( 1994 ), Marathon 2: Durandal ( 1995 ), and Marathon Infinity ( 1996 )— are widely regarded as spiritual predecessors of Bungie's Halo series.

One song left off the album, the 27-minute long instrumental entitled " The Odyssey ", was later featured on soundtrack for the video game, Halo 2.

The beginning half of the popular video games Halo 2 and Halo 3 deals with the defense of Earth against a genocidal alien empire, the Covenant.

Another example of planetary defense platforms is Cairo station, which is from the Halo 2 game and the Halo novels.

Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

* Dan and Tom Ryan, professional Halo 2 players.

Ico received several gaming acclamations from the video gaming press, and was considered to be one of the Games of the Year by many publications, despite competing with releases such as Halo, Metal Gear Solid 2, and Grand Theft Auto 3.

Tribes 2, Battlefield 1942, Halo: Combat Evolved, and Unreal Tournament 2004 fully realized the potential for vehicular-combat and first person shooter integration.

* High Prophets ( Halo ), The Covenant leaders in Halo 2

They tend to be free to play, with costs absorbed either through supporting products ( e. g. collectible puzzle cards fund Perplex City ) or through promotional relationships with existing products ( for example, I Love Bees was a promotion for Halo 2, and the Lost Experience and Find 815 promoted the television show Lost ).

For example, the games Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 contain challenges to kill the " MVP " of the opposing team a certain amount of times and Halo 3 to mean the person with the highest score or amount of kills.

Two sequels, Halo 2 and Halo 3, a side game, Halo 3: ODST, and a prequel, Halo: Reach, were released in 2004, 2007, 2009, and 2010, respectively.

Nylund returned to write the third novel, Halo: First Strike, which takes place between the events of Halo: Combat Evolved and those of Halo 2.

In Halo: Reach there exists a set of armor pieces named " GUNGNIR ", in keeping with the naming scheme of naming certain armor after weapons from Norse mythology.

Another activity that goes by the same name, which is particularly common in Halo, is where the enemy team will hoard their vehicles and then drive them all in a rush into a chokepoint or the exterior of the enemy spawn and abandon the vehicles there.

In addition to this, on December 13, 2006 there was a charity dinner and auction, where items participants were able to bid on included a gaming day for four in the Penny Arcade office, an appearance in a Penny Arcade strip, a tour of Bungie and recording session for the voice of a character in Halo 3, and a two year subscription to World of Warcraft and the Burning Crusade special edition signed by all the developers.

The allied Elites and humans decide to activate the new Halo in order to kill the Flood outside the galaxy, and thus preserve life there.

* Halo stars are typically much older and have much lower metallicities ( that is to say, they are almost exclusively composed of hydrogen and helium ) than disk stars.

In traditional Christian Christian art | iconography, saints are often depicted as having Halo ( religious iconography ) | halos, which is a symbol of their holiness.

Modern action games, including popular console shooters such as Halo 3, are locked at 30 FPS maximum, while others, such as Unreal Tournament 3, can run well in excess of 100 FPS on sufficient hardware.

The players are ranked at the end of the game by who has more time as " It ". This mode was proceeded by the Juggernaut gametype in the " Halo " series.

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

However, some games such as Everquest, Red Faction, Star Wars: Galaxies, Warcraft 3, Final Fantasy XI, Phantasy Star Online, Guild Wars, Unreal Tournament, Halo: Combat Evolved, Audition, Quake 3: Arena, and Ragnarok Online, are capable of running on 56k dial-up.

There are currently six companies in Israel providing international telephony: Bezeq International ( prefix 014 ), 012 Smile, 013 NetVision, Halo ( prefix 015 ), XFone ( prefix 018 ) and Telzar ( prefix 019 ).

Less known are their application programs, limited largely to the GSX-based DR DRAW, Dr. Halo for DOS and a small suite of GUI programs for GEM.

* Halo Evolutions: Blunt Instruments: The Yanme ' e are held in a penal colony accidentally released by the Spartan: Black Team.

* MACHOs or Massive Compact Halo Objects are large, condensed objects such as black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, very faint stars, or non-luminous objects like planets.

There are also several equatorial space elevators that allow for transit into orbit, where the planet is surrounded by an O ' Neill Halo, a collection of captured asteroids providing habitation and raw materials as well as docking and strategic defense units.

As Halo lacks artificially intelligent game bots, LAN parties are needed to reach the game's 16-player limit.

In Book One, the readers are introduced to the 18-year-old Halo Jones, who lives in a floating ring-shaped conurbation or housing estate called " The Hoop " that is moored in the Atlantic Ocean off the East coast of America.

An example is the Halo megastructures in the video game franchise Halo, which are world-sized doomsday machines.

New in Halo 2 is the ability to board enemy vehicles that are near the player and traveling at low speeds.

Colgate toothpaste, Halo Shampoo, 3 Musketeers candy bars and Poll Parrot Shoes are among the products advertised this way.

Some of Sessler's known favorite game series are: the Halo series for its first-person shooter qualities ; the Japanese version of Rez for its Trance Vibrator feature ; the Banjo-Kazooie, Rayman, Ratchet and Clank, and Sly Cooper series for their unique platform qualities ; Resident Evil 4 ; and Call of Duty 4.

* American band Kamelot's concept albums Epica and The Black Halo are loosely based around the play.

The Covenant are a fictional theocratic military alliance of alien races who serve as the main antagonists in the first trilogy of the Halo video game series.

In the midst of these developments, the Flood are again released ; the High Prophet Mercy is killed by the parasite, while the last remaining leader, Truth, flees to Earth in a Forerunner ship, entrusting the activation of Halo to the Brute Tartarus.

Many pieces are distributed as a part of a larger promotion, such as the Wolverine figure released to commemorate the film X-Men 2: X-Men United ( only available as a limited edition promotional only giveaway with advance ticket purchase for the cinema ), or the Master Chief figure, offered as a not-for-sale promo exclusive in Japan for the Halo 2 video game.

As shown in recent demos of the game, Cortana will return in Halo 4 and will help and guide the Master Chief with intelligence, as she has been the case in the previous three games.

In-game cutscenes tease the character's face, but never reveal it ; for example, at the end of Halo: Combat Evolved, the Chief removes his helmet, but camera movement hides his head ( a special program that allows the player to move the camera freely reveals that under his helmet is another helmet, as several YouTube videos have shown ).

In Halo Wars, set 20 years before Halo: Combat Evolved, a second Arbiter is shown, possibly as the last to wear the armor before the more recognized character.

Red vs. Blue videos have been shown in Xbox demo kiosks, and content that is included with the premium " Legendary " edition of Halo 3.

The possible method behind this precision is shown in Halo: First Strike, when the AI Cortana takes control of a Covenant ship.

Though this may be explained not by monitoring it from normal space, but because the Covenant's tactics often involved periodically dropping out of slipspace for an unknown reason ( shown in Halo: Fall of Reach ), possibly to observe the enemy before choosing to attack, and they dropped out by the UNSC base on Io.

They are shown as a cult where they planned to sacrifice a woman in order to prepare for their world domination only to run afoul of Batman and the Outsiders ( consisting of Black Lightning, Katana, Metamorpho, Geo-Force, and Halo ).