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Another page of the calendar has turned which means it’s time for April’s Anniversary Angle! (That’s where we wrap up the month’s Halo-themed discussion topic.) 

Dropping onto the beach of the Silent Cartographer. Giving the enemy back their bomb. Racing across Halo in a Warthog. Facing the Didact. Reuniting with Blue Team. Battling the Banished.

If you think you know your memorable campaign moments, you can prove it (to yourself and others!) by taking the themed 25 question quiz. Once you’ve tested your mettle, come back and check out the results of the Discord poll!

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Zooming into the top spot is the Halo 3 Warthog run at the end of the game. Whether it’s memorable for the intense, chaotic driving across the unstable surface that’s disappearing at your heels or because you're hoping a teammate doesn't fall out of their Ghost so you can all finally unlock the Vidmaster achievement you've been dreaming about is unclear.

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To no one’s surprise, running into the Flood for the first time has left lasting scars on our collective memories. What has the world come to when a Spartan can’t casually check out a book from the Library in peace?

Rounding out the top three most memorable moments is Master Chief being a kind neighbor and returning the Covenant’s bomb. No one likes to let space pickles linger, after all.

Here’s some more moments that captured top spots with the community!

Wade_Weinhmann:

• Combat Evolved Anniversary that one Keyes terminal
• Halo 2 Meeting with Gravemind and High Charity assault
• Halo 3 the Escape from unfinished Halo(aka Warthog run)
• Halo 4 Battle of Earth (Didact ship)
• Halo 5 Battle of Sunanion
• Halo Infinite The Road mission section and House of Reckoning

This is my top Halo moments of all time.

Jtflorencio6:

1. Jega kills Roland & Jonah explodes everthing (Halo HeadHunters)
2. First Flood encounter (Halo Combat Evolved)
3. Jega 1v1 Master Chief (Halo Infinite)

ThelVadam224: The Flood reveal, the bomb scene, the Halo 3 Warthog Run, and Arby aura scenes are all super iconic. We spend half of CE getting to know the Covenant through combat only for the story to be turned upside down by the reveal of a much worse threat: the Flood. The bomb scene shows how far Chief is willing to go to achieve victory over the Covenant. The chaos and music of the Halo 3 Warthog Run makes it feel like the ultimate conclusion to the original trilogy. The aura farming with Arbiter scene is not only very cool, but marks the moment that these two former enemies fully gained each other's trust

SiN StK: Giving the Covenant back their bomb for me!

Cybercommando317: The Silent cartographer's intro is ingrained into my brain ever since i first played the Halo PC demo as a kid like 13 or 14 years ago, out of any video game this level is probably the one that i played the most in my life, it made me fall in love with Halo ever since then. I gotta mention Halo 4's finale too, from the tensions getting higher in Midnight all the way up into Cortana's sacrifice, the conversation with Lasky and the final monologue given by the didact are the reason why Halo 4 is one of my favorite Halo games, despite how disappointing the final fight with the didact was and even if Halo 5 didn't follow the story threads of Halo 4's ending, it still is one of the most memorable moments of all the Halo franchise. Honorable mentions:

• Six's sacrifice (Halo: Reach)
• Boarding the kraken and the Battle of Sunaion (Halo 5)
• The Scarab fights and the end of the level The Covenant (Halo 3)
• The Flood's first appearance + the destruction of the first Halo (Halo CE)
• The great schism happening during Gravemind and the game's cliffhanger (Halo 2)
• Echo 216 recovering Chief in the beginning, The road and the House of Reckoning (Halo infinite)
• Chief's first appearance in Halo 4: FUD

Thee Snowman: Halo Wars 2 when we are introduced to Atriox and the Banished

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young wolf211: Honestly for me, it’s probably the ODST intro, from meeting the squad to actually seeing what it’s like inside the drop-pod

MAGPIE: Probably not my most memorable, but definitely one ive been thinking about a lot lately is Griffins death. I love the way the cutscene is shot, the controller vibrations matching his heartbeat, chief trying to comfort his dying ally, the body language and the way colour theory is utilised makes it a major stand out.

staynthepocket: Man.

• Storming Silent Cartographer beach
• Floods intro
• The perspective switch and controlling Arbiter for the first time
• The Ark and The Covenant might be the two best back-to-back levels in the franchise
• Chief and Cortana saying everything except "I love you"
• Sneaking around New Mombasa
• "I'M READY!! HOW BOUT YOU!!??"

So many stand out moments in a stand out series. Shout out to battling your way down The Road as well.

otto.2967: Hard to pick one. I think every Halo game has some incredible moments but Halo 4 has some of the ones which live most vividly in my mind- Walking out of the wreckage and seeing the floating towers while Neil Davidge's incredible score plays. Flying headfirst into the heart of the Didact's ship in a broadsword, desperately pushing against the odds while Kazuma Jinnouchi's "117" plays might be the purest single embodiment of heroism in the series. Any moment the Didact speaks is a 10/10 in my book. But beyond the awe-inspiring wonder and bombastic set-pieces I think the quieter moments are what really land for me the most.

The ending cutscene of Composer is, in my opinion, possibly the best written moment in the games. The taste of defeat lingers as Chief stands amongst the composed remains of the station crew. The silence and dark lighting contrasts the pounding action from just moments before. Everything feels lost- The Didact is heading to Earth with the Composer and Cortana is on her last ropes as Rampancy burns her mind away with the composed station crew serves as a startling reminder of her fate. Chief, being the giant green tank that he is, shakes everything that happened off and is dead-set on saving Earth. Chief's seeming disconnect from Cortana's state only pushes her to question Chief's fate once she is gone- Will he just forget about her? Is she just an expendable tool to complete his mission? Does he even really care about anything beyond accomplishing his goal? In her pleading, Cortana is able to get through to John. Chief shows that he does care as he assures her "This isn't over, not yet". It is that unwavering resolve and loyalty Chief carries with him, not just to his mission but to those around him that makes the moment. Even when everything is seemingly at its bleakest, Chief doesn't give in- he made a promise.

Also Chief's final line in the game is the one moment in a video game that has come close to bringing me to tears.

master freak: What was most memorable for me was my first flood encounter in Combat Evolved, seeing all the popcorn Flood crawl out of the walls made me jump and scream in my seat.

TrainedEye3461: The entire final half of Infinite was such a good experience. Everything with Joy finding out about herself and the deletion, to the showdown with Escharum and the Harbinger, are some of my favourite moments across all the Halos. The Road was 🔥, and somehow my second time playing it - on legendary, bringing the Scorpion this time - was even better than the first.

Tibu: Seeing the Red Team together fighting against several Elites while Sergeant Forge without augmentations or armor Mjolnir faced the colossal Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee and ending up beating him with his own energy sword showed the level of skill of the forces of the Spirit of Fire

HaloFanForLife1: My all time favorite is a personal one. Back in June of 2008, I was a founder in a gaming group called RM (Rater Mature). During one weekend in that month, we went 63-0 in BTB games! I was a big fan of driving the Warthog back then and over the course of that weekend got 420 wheelmen. Yes, I know, the irony of that number, but that was indeed the count. As well, in two of those games I drove people to back to back perfection. One guy had over 40 kills and the next had over 20 kills. Was without a doubt my favorite weeknd of play Halo ever and may likely never be beaten. Though I would love to see that happen and keep playing til this day with hopes that it will!

IBMOR_8T7: Halo 2, during the Gravemind mission, when the instrumental version of Breaking Benjamin's Blow Me Away plays. Since then, Breaking Benjamin has been synonymous with Halo to me.

CaptainAmericaSHIELD: I mean, just the image of Arby & Chief standing back-to-back in Halo 3 is firmly EMBEDDED in my brain. As far as scenes & dialog, too many that I can think of but Halo 2 has the most memorable of them for me.

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Jsenny7: Long Night of Solace. A long shot operation that gets approved. Storming the beachhead with Noble Team to Pilot the Sabre, Dogfight in space defending the Station, boarding the Corvette, blowing it up, and being thrown into space free fall back to Reach to transition into the mission Exodus. The first loss of Noble team in their efforts to defend Reach, and after a brave sacrifice you realize how much more loss there is still to come.

Absolutely Peak.

Die ice Show: First time seeing the actual Halo Ring in CE and the mystery what is this Ring, why are we here, what are the Covenant? Of course you can’t leave the Flood out, this was such a shock moment. One last thing that was a big surprise, being able to play as an Elite in Halo 2 Multiplayer ( it was a dream come true since CE).

Spartan-132: All of Halo + destroying anything with the magnum

Spartan III Jade S24: In my personal opinion, the most memorable moments in Halo for me was Halo 3’s warthog run, Halo 2’s scarab takedown, and most importantly the tragedy of noble team. Every death was haunting and bitter, Kat in New Alexandria. The music most importantly, the OST’s in Reach were superb. Each member of Noble Team sacrificed themselves, and each of their deaths (aside Jun since he’s still alive) were so memorable. I felt the desperation of humanity in that game. Fighting an uphill battle. And that’s not even mentioning Noble Six’s final objective. Lone Wolf, from the beginning cutscene which still gives me goosebumps to this day to Six’s final moments. The music, the visuals, everything makes my skin crawl, it was so perfect. Beautiful, down to the last single detail. The music in Halo games never gets enough recognition, notably Halo 2A’s but most importantly Halo Reach’s.

Halo Reach’s story is different, the gameplay, the aesthetic feels different. It feels more.. authentic, real. We’re not Master Chief. We’re Spartan IIIs, who were notably sent on missions that we would never return from. We weren’t the invincible hero, but without them, without us, Chief would never have gotten Cortana. And humanity would’ve lost.

x S3LL1HCA x: in my opinion? the most memorable moments in halo for me was playing it for the first time with my dad! I was playing halo 2 with my dad on his original Xbox - I used to be so scared of the flood so everytime I saw it I immediately put down my controller and hid behind my dad, I think my first mission was the gravemind and good Lord I remember when I used to cry because of the "popcorn" flood forms and he had to clutch up and clean up all of the flood.

as well as this - I remember playing halo 3 with my dad back in 2015 and I still was afraid of the flood aha, so when it came crushing through the window on one of the missions my first thoughts were to run up the stairs from the downstairs gaming room and all I could hear was my dad laughing 😂

now that I'm older - I play halo 2 and 3 on my birthday + on my dads birthday with him, it's always so much fun to do! especially when we remember what I used to do and etc.

my favorite moment was reaching hero rank on halo infinite as well - as he had hit inheritor rank on reach, when I reached hero I told him that he isnt the only one that had hit max rank - so now there's two halo champions in the house! obviously.. I'm the better one

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Colin: I will never forget my first experience of Halo. My dad kicked on Halo 2 on the Xbox in the living room. I was like 7 and doing my homework in the kitchen. Those opening cutscenes of the Arbiter's shame and the Cheif's championing enthralled me and I had to keep watching and know what happens next (despite my Mom being mortified I was watching an M rated game haha)

So many memories of couch coop with my brother and multiplayer with him and our dad

The launch of Halo 3 was a cultural phenomenon rarely matched if ever. Closet I can think is the Star Wars 7 releasing and GOT season 8 happening at the same time as the avengers climax

stckr: I don't think I'll ever forget hooping off that Pelican and storming the beach on Silent Cartographer. The demo level for PC was the first real time I got my hands on Halo to play it, outside of the odd shot at a friends house. I can't cound how many times I played it, exploring everything I could and delaying the final checkpoint a long as possible so I could run around. Honourable mentions must also go a few other stellar Halo moments that I'll never let go of:

• Sneaking through the hallways of Truth and Reconcilliation. Playing at 3am, in pitch black, with headphones on was truly an experience
• Halo 4, Requiem - when you exit that cave at the start and get a view of those Forerunner structures. Breathtaking
• Saying goodbye to Cortana at the end of Halo 4
• Saying goodbye to Cortana in Infinite
• Outside of the game, being a part of Halo 5's launch stream was such a wild experience that was only topped by being a part of Infinite's amazing journey up to and post-launch.

Thnks fr th Mmrs

We could not be more pleased by the response this month’s theme got from everyone, thank you for sharing your memories and letting us know which moments continue to resonate! Halo is a universe packed with great victories and unexpected tragedy, all of which make for a rich tapestry we get to explore together.

Stay tuned for a new community poll, trivia challenges, and another month of discussion on next month’s theme, “Quips & Quotes,” coming soon!

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All year long, we’ll be inviting Halo fans to share their favorite Halo memories, celebrate Halo's iconic legacy, and vote on community polls to help us tell the whole Halo story.

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