Halo 3 is the third game in the Halo Trilogy and provides the thrilling conclusion to the events begun in Halo: Combat Evolved. Halo 3 will pick up where Halo 2 left off. The Master Chief is returning to Earth to finish the fight. The Covenant occupation of Earth has uncovered a massive and ancient object beneath the African sands an object who’s secrets have yet to be revealed. Earths forces are battered and beaten. The Master Chief’s AI companion Cortana is still trapped in the clutches of the Gravemind a horrifying Flood intelligence, and a civil war is raging in the heart of the Covenant. This is how the world ends…