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===NOBLE Team===

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The game follows NOBLE Team, a six-man special operations unit of one [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II]] and five [[SPARTAN-III Program|SPARTAN-III]] commandos. Serving under [[Special Warfare Command]], NOBLE Team's SPARTAN-IIIs are among the few that were deemed too valuable to be wasted on suicide missions and were subsequently assigned to serve in other special forces units. Stationed on Reach, NOBLE Team reports to [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]].

===Plot synopsis===

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On [[2552#July|July 24, 2552]], [[SPARTAN-B312]], the player character, arrives at a UNSC outpost on Reach. It is here that the players are introduced to the main cast and given their first mission from NOBLE Team's [[commanding officer]], [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]]. The team is called in to investigate the sudden blackout of the [[Visegrád Relay|Visegrad Relay]], one of the planet's primary communications hubs. Expecting a confrontation with [[Insurrectionist]]s, the team lands in the remote rural area and proceeds to the relay. After interrogating a farmer and finding suspicious signs in the area, it is soon discovered that the loss of communications is the work of the [[Covenant]], as the team is engaged by Covenant ground forces. After they have made their way into the relay station, the team are attacked by the [[Devoted Sentries]], an [[Sangheili|Elite]] [[Sangheili Zealot|Zealot]] advance team, who were on a mission to steal information from the relay. After the team successfully secures the relay, Carter uses the damaged relay to contact Colonel Holland and explain the situation, leading to the declaration of the planetary emergency directive [[WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|WINTER CONTINGENCY]].

They make their way to a landing pad outside, where two Pelican dropships await. Jun is assigned by Carter to take one of the Pelicans to escort Dr. Halsey to [[CASTLE Base]], while the rest of the team deploys on the other dropship to the ship breaking yards. On the way, the Pelican piloted by Carter is damaged, forcing Emile and Noble Six to initiate a low level altitude aerial insertion and move towards the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}.  

The pair are blocked by a [[Deutoros-pattern Scarab|Scarab]], but Carter arrives and sacrifices himself, piloting the Pelican in a kamikaze strike on the Scarab. Noble Six and Emile continue towards the ''Pillar of Autumn''. Once there, Emile mans a [[Mark 2488 Onager|Mk. 2488 Onager MAC]], while Noble Six fights off masses of Covenant infantry. [[Jacob Keyes|Captain Jacob Keyes]] then arrives and receives the AI from Noble Six. Before the Captain can take off, a Covenant [[Ket-pattern battlecruiser|battlecruiser]] arrives, and prepares to fire on the Autumn. Meanwhile, a Covenant Phantom arrives on scene and dispatches the Devoted Sentries to Emile's location. Emile kills one with a shotgun, before being stabbed through the abdomen by another. The Marines on Keyes's dropship offer that Noble Six board the Pelican, but Six declines, as without cover from the MAC, the ''Pillar of Autumn'' couldn't escape. After fighting through the Zealots, Noble Six takes control of the cannon and defends the Pelican as it returns to the ''Autumn''. As the Covenant ship prepares to fire, Noble Six fires into its [[Energy projector|main weapon]], disabling the Cruiser as the ''Pillar of Autumn'' escapes from the planet.  

==Gameplay==

''Halo: Reach'' features many new additions to the ''Halo'' sandbox while still retaining the core gameplay. The player damage system is similar to that of ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' and ''Halo 3: ODST''. The [[Heads-up display|HUD]] highlights environmental features and overlay information about them, and the [[motion tracker]] display is three-dimensional. ''Halo: Reach'' also introduces a refined [[equipment]] system known as "[[Armor abilities|Armor Abilities]]." Pieces of equipment can now be selected upon respawning (or picked up of the ground for certain gametypes and campaign); armor abilities are reusable with a recharge time between uses. A new [[assassination]] system is also featured, in which holding down the melee button will trigger a context-sensitive, third-person assassination animation. Simply hitting the melee button allows for the old-instant-kill assassination, now called beat-downs. Melee kills, which were called beat-downs, are now called pummels.