Halo: Spartan Assault
A top-down twin-stick shooter set in the Halo universe. Players control Spartan supersoldiers and battle a splinter faction of the alien Covenant across a campaign of missions, using series weapons and…
Halo: Spartan Assault is a shooter developed by 343 Industries, released 18 July 2013 on Xbox One, Xbox 360, iOS and Legacy Mobile Device.
What Halo: Spartan Assault is
Halo: Spartan Assault is a shooter game developed by 343 Industries and released in 2013. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One, Xbox 360, iOS, Legacy Mobile Device, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone. It runs on Havok Physics.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Halo: Spartan Assault takes place in the 26th century, in the period between Halo 3 and Halo 4. A ceasefire has ended the long war between humanity and the alien Elites, but a breakaway Covenant faction refuses to honor it. Stationed on the planet Draetheus V, the Spartan soldiers Sarah Palmer and Edward Davis work to repel the invaders when the colony comes under attack. As the assault unfolds, the splinter faction turns its attention to an ancient weapon left behind by a long-vanished race, and the Spartans are drawn into a fight to stop it.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It supports multiplayer for up to 2 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Halo series
Halo: Spartan Assault is the 29th of 55 entries we hold in the Halo series. The next entry was Halo 4: Champions Bundle in 2013. Its critic score of 66 is 15 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Halo 3 at 91.
How it was received
Halo: Spartan Assault holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 4 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 66, across 74 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual core processor, 1 GB RAM and DirectX10 compatible graphics card w/ dedicated 512MB RAM (ATI Radeon 3670, NVIDIA 8600 GT or Intel HD 3000). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Halo: Spartan Assault launched on 18 July 2013, within three weeks of Dota 2, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please and Rogue Legacy. All of them reviewed better. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Dota 2, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rogue Legacy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Halo: Spartan Assault yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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