Microsoft and 343 Industries have released the opening cinematic for Halo 5: Guardians.
Halo has been one of Microsoft’s biggest gaming franchises, going back to 2001. Since that first game on the original Xbox, the Halo series has sold more than 60 million units. Now, Microsoft is hoping that it can keep that momentum, and give its struggling Xbox One a needed boost.
The opening cinematic for Halo 5: Guardians starts out with Spartan Jameson Locke and his Fireteam Osiris being called upon by the UNSC to recover a high-value target, Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, the creator of the Spartan warrior program. She’s in custody and claims to have information on some recent atrocities.
The team descends on a planet full of Covenant and Promethean enemies. Microsoft describes it as the beginning of “the most ambitious, robust, and epic Halo campaign experience yet.”
The cinematic was directed by 343 Industries and created in collaboration with some of the video game industry’s leading creative talent, such as AXIS Animation, Profile Studios and Warner Bros.
Here is the opening cinematic:
Halo 5: guardians comes out on the Xbox One on October 27th, 2015.