Halo Research page one

I would say that Halo 1 has been one of the most important computer game releases of the past decade, not only did it give serious gamers everything they wanted, a proper story line and excellent graphics ( for the time), it was also easy to just pick up a JoyPad and start playing.

THE PLOT OF HALO
Its the 26th century and you play, in First Person, Master Chief, a Cybernetically Enhanced Super Soldier, one of only a few surviving members of the Spartan II Project. At the start of the game Master Chief and his feminine artificial intelligence construct, Cortana, are the only survivors after there ship the Pillar of Autumn crash-lands on a mysterious ring shaped planet called Halo. The planet is in the hands of the Covenant, a race of aliens who are but one of the enemies you will face through out the game. After rescuing Captain Keyes and any human survivors you find along the way, Master Chief is ordered by Keyes to reach Halos control center to suss out its true purpose. When he reaches the control center he finds out that the Covenant has accidentally released a parasitic alien race named the Flood, capable of overwhelming and infesting any sentient life. Now the race is on for Master Chief to discover how to activate Halo which is the only way to stop the Flood spreading through the galaxy. But if only it was that simple, it turns out that the activation of Halo would bring about the end of all sentient life through a chain reaction of similar Halo installations through out the Galaxy. Now the only option is to destroy Halo, whilst fighting not just the Covenant and the Flood but all Sentinels. Cortana discovers that the only way to destroy the Halo installation is to set the crashed ship Pillar of Autumn to self destruct. To do this they need Captain Keyes authorization code who, unfortunately as been infected and turned into a Proto Gravemind Form. In the end Master Chief manually causes the Pillar of Autumns fusion reactors to melt down and he and Cortana narrowly escape the explosion.
I never actually completed the game though I did play it for some time and I found that it is the kind of game you could go back to again and again, pick up your JoyPad and get straight into the action. Very easy to control and satisfying environments, weaponry and general game play. Out of Ten I would defo give it a Ten.