Halo: Spartan Assault
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| Developer(s) | |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Studios |
| Composer(s) | Tom Salta |
| Series | Halo |
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| Genre(s) | Twin Sticks Shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (PC) 69% (XONE) 54% (X360) 45% (iOS) 76% |
| Metacritic | (PC) 70/100 (XONE) 53/100 (X360) 51/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Destructoid | 7/10 |
| Eurogamer | 7/10 |
| Game Informer | 8.25/10 |
| GameSpot | 6/10 |
| IGN | 6.7/10 |
| Maximum PC | 8/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 58/100 |
| VideoGamer.com | 7/10 |
| Metro | 7/10 |
| Pocket Gamer | 9/10 |
Halo: Spartan Assault is a 2013 top-down twin stick shooter video game developed by 343 Industries and Vanguard Games. Part of the Halo media franchise, it was first released on July 18, 2013, for Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms. The game was subsequently released for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, Steam and iOS platforms.
Halo: Spartan Assault is set between the events of Halo 3 and Halo 4. Players control the human soldiers Edward Davis and Sarah Palmer as they fight the alien Covenant. The game launched with 25 single-player missions, with additional content released later.
Halo: Spartan Assault is a shooter game where players view gameplay from an overhead top-down perspective. On touchscreen mobile devices, players control the character through virtual joysticks—the left stick controls movement and the right stick controls the direction of the character's fire. On Windows 8 PCs, the method of input is a keyboard and mouse, while Xbox 360 and Xbox One players use a physical gamepad.
Gameplay of Halo: Spartan Assault will earn the player experience points (XP), Achievements, and emblems for a Halo 4 Spartan career. Additional integration features were released after launch.
A co-operative multiplayer was featured in the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One version of the game.
Halo: Spartan Assault takes place between the events of Halo 3 in 2553 and the events of Halo 4 in 2557. Following the events of Halo 3, the human UNSC and alien Covenant signed a ceasefire to end a decades-long war. It follows the early Spartan Ops' missions against the Covenant alien species and gives more background to the human-Covenant conflict. Stationed on the UNSC Infinity, gameplay is through the perspective of either Commander Sarah Palmer or Spartan Davis.
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