Halo 5: Guardians

About the Game

Halo 5: Guardians takes place in the year 2558, eight months after the events of Halo 4. The game follows the Spartan fireteams Blue and Osiris. Blue Team is led by Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 and is comprised of his fellow Spartan-II supersoldiers: Linda-058, an elite sniper; Kelly-087, a scout; and Frederic-104, a hand-to-hand combat specialist. The members of Blue Team are among the last Spartan-IIs left alive. Fireteam Osiris is formed from Spartan-IVs, a newer generation of Spartan supersoldiers. Osiris is led by Jameson Locke, a former assassin and tracker of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). The other members of Fireteam Osiris are: Holly Tanaka, a combat technician and engineer in the UNSC Army and a survivor of a Covenant attack on her world; Olympia Vale, a political liaison and signals intelligence agent with ONI who can speak many of the Covenant's dialects; and Edward Buck, a veteran former Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, who was a main character in Halo 3: ODST. Supporting characters include Infinity's commanding officer, Captain Thomas Lasky; Spartan Commander Sarah Palmer, head of operations for all Spartan IV teams on board Infinity; Roland, Infinity's shipboard AI, and Dr. Catherine Halsey, a scientist who created the SPARTAN-II program. Other returning characters include the Arbiter Thel 'Vadam, now leading the Sangheili species against a Covenant remnant faction, led by Jul 'Mdama. Cortana, Master Chief's former AI companion who was presumed dead after the events of Halo 4, also returns.