Halo sur Xbox est un jeu de tir à la première personne dont l'action se déroule dans un contexte futuriste. Confrontée à une alliance extraterrestre déterminée à l'éradiquer, l'humanité lance dans la bataille le dernier représentant d'une section de soldats génétiquement modifiés : le Master Chief. Contraint de prendre la fuite après une défaite, un petit contingent d'humains, accompagné du Master Chief, échoue sur un étrange monde artificiel en forme d'anneau..
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
