Halo: The Essential Visual Guide

Halo: The Essential Visual Guide
Author(s):	Jeremy Patenaude
Publisher:	DK Publishing
Publication date:	July 4, 2011
Media type:	Print (hardcover)
Pages:	208 pages
Dimensions:	7.1 x 0.8 x 9.5 inches
Weight:	1.4 pounds (0.64 kg)
ISBN:	0756675928 978-0756675929

Halo: The Essential Visual Guide is a visual guidebook of the Halo universe, published by DK Publishing on July 4, 2011. The book contains images and additional information on the locations, characters, creatures, vehicles, and weapons from the Halo universe. Each page in the guide is dedicated to one element, focusing on its role and significance in the Halo universe. The book also features over 600 pieces of screenshots, renders and several pieces of artwork specially commissioned by Microsoft artists.

The book was a collaboration of many at 343 Industries and was primarily written and overseen by Content Creator Jeremy Patenaude. In addition, 343 Industries consulted Stephen Loftus, a long-time Halo fan known for his technical analyses on various aspects of the Halo universe, as a technical advisor on some of the details, as a general fact checker, and to create additional info where needed.

A separate book, Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide, was later released to cover new material introduced in Halo 4.

Official summary

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The essential visual guide to the Halo universe. Take a journey into the world of Halo and discover everything you ever wanted to know about the characters, creatures, locations, vehicles and weapons from Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Wars and Halo 3 ODST. Each page in this handy guide is dedicated to one element, focusing on its role and significance in the Halo universe from Master Chief, the Arbiter, the Halo Array, the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, and the Spartan Laser. It also features over 600 specially commissioned artworks by Microsoft artists. A must have for any Halo fan.

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Content review

Halo: The Essential Visual Guide is an A to Z reference for characters, vehicles, locations, and weapons of the Halo universe. Each article contains an introduction, a large picture and statistics of the subject, as well as facts and trivia. Every game in the series as of the book's release—up to and including Halo: Reach—is well documented throughout. The entries in the guide are color-coded by affiliation (UNSC, Covenant, Forerunners, Flood) and arranged in alphabetical order according to their most common names.

Contents

Air Assault Armor Albatross (D96 Troop Carrier) D82-EST Darter Alpha Halo Anchor 9 Anders Anti-air Wraith Arbiter (Ripa 'Moramee) Arbiter (Thel 'Vadam) Arcadia Ardent Prayer Ark Armor Abilities Active Camoflage Armor Lock Drop Shield Evade Holographic Decoy Jetpack Sprint Assault Rifle MA37 Assault Rifle MA5B Assault Rifle MA5C Assault Rifle Auntie Dot Banshee Banshee Fighter Battle Creek Beaver Creek Battle Rifle (BR55HB Service Rifle) BR55 Service Rifle Blood Gulch Coagulation Hemorrhage Brute Chieftain Brute Shot Brutes Minor Major Ultra Stalker Jumper Bodyguard Captain Buck Cairo Station Carrier (Covenant) DDS (Carrier) CAS (Assault Carrier) CSO (Supercarrier) Carter Cartographer Chopper Cobra Commando Armor Concussion Rifle Control Room Cortana Corvette (Covenant) DAV (Light Corvette) SDV (Heavy Corvette) Covenant Carbine CQB Armor CQC Armor Cruiser (Covenant) CRS (Light Cruiser) CCS (Battlecruiser) RCS (Armored Cruiser) ORS (Heavy Cruiser) Cruiser (UNSC) Halcyon (Light Cruiser) Marathon (Heavy Cruiser) Valiant (Super-Heavy Cruiser) Cutter Cyclops Dare Delta Halo Deployable Equipment Active Camouflage Auto Turret Bubble Shield Deployable Cover Flare Gravity Lift Power Drain Radar Jammer Regenerator TR/9 trip mine Destroyer (Covenant) RPV (Light Destroyer) CPV (Heavy Destroyer) DMR Dreadnought Drones Unmutual Minor Major Leader Queen Drop Pod Dutch Earth

Elephant (M313 Heavy Recovery Vehicle) M312 Elephant Elite Ascetic Elite General Elite Ranger Elite Spec Ops Elite Zealot Elites Minor Major Ultra Field Marshal Shipmaster Supreme Commander Imperial Admiral Councilor Emile Energy Sword Engineers EOD Armor EVA Armor Falcon Flame Grenade Flamethrower Flood Infection Form Combat Form Carrier Form Stalker Form Ranged Form Tank Form Focus Rifle Forge Forklift Forward Unto Dawn Frag Grenade Frigate (UNSC) Stalwart (Light Frigate) Charon (Light Frigate) Paris (Heavy Frigate) Fuel Rod Gun Gauss Warthog Ghost Grafton Gravemind Gravity Hammer Gremlin Grenade Launcher Grenadier Armor Grizzly Grunts Minor Major Heavy SpecOps Ultra Deacon Guilty Spark Gungnir Armor Halsey Harvest HAZOP Armor High Charity High Council Honor Guard Hornet Hunters In Amber Clad Ivory Tower Reflection Jackals Minor Major Sniper Ranger Shipmaster JFO Armor Johnson Jorge Jun Kat

Keyes, Jacob Keyes, Miranda Library Lockout Locust Long Night of Solace Longsword Lord Hood MAC Mass Driver Machine Gun Turret (M247H Heavy Machine Gun) AIE-486 HMG M247 GPMG Magnum M6G Magnum M6C Magnum M6C/SOCOM Mantis Mark IV Armor Mark V Armor Mark V [B] Mark VI Armor Master Chief Mauler Mickey Midship Heretic Missile Pod Mongoose Needle Rifle Needler New Mombasa Noble Six ODST ONI Alpha Site Operator Armor Particle Beam Rifle Pelican NMPD Pelican Penitent Tangent Phantom Pillar of Autumn Pilot Armor Plasma cannon (Type-52 Directed Energy Support Weapon) Type-42 Plasma grenade Plasma launcher Plasma Pistol Plasma Repeater Plasma rifle Portal at Voi Prophet of Mercy Prophet of Regret Prophet of Truth Prowler Reach Recon Armor Red Team Jerome-092 Alice-130 Douglas-042 Revenant Rhino Rocket Launcher M19 SSM

Rocket Warthog Rogue Armor Romeo Rookie Sabre Savannah Scarab Scorpion Scout Armor Scythe Sentinel Watcher Constructor Aggressor Protector Enforcer Retriever Assembler Sentinel Beam Seraph Serina Shade (Type-26 Anti-Infantry Stationary Gun) Type-27 Type-29 Shadow Shadow of Intent Shield World Shipmaster Shortsword Shotgun (M45 Tactical Shotgun) M90 Close Assault Weapon System Skirmishers Minor Major Murmillo Ranger Commando Champion Shipmaster Sniper Rifle (SRS99) SRS99D-S2 AM Sniper Rifle Solemn Penance Spade Sparrowhawk Spartan Laser Spectre Spike Grenade Spike Rifle Spirit Spirit of Fire Submachine Gun (M7/Caseless Submachine Gun) M7S Substance Superintendent Sword Base Target Locator Tartarus Threshold Troop Transport Truth and Reconciliation Tyrant Valhalla Vampire Voi Vulture Warthog M41 Vulcan Wolf Spider Wolverine Wraith Zanzibar Last Resort

Errors

• On page 4, in Statistics the word Air "Assault" is misspelled Air "Assult".
• On page 12, the main illustration used to depict Arcadia is actually the planet Harvest from the first cutscene of Halo Wars.
• On page 16, it is erroneously stated that the MA5C assault rifle does not appear in Halo 3: ODST.
• On page 33, the MA37 assault rifle is mistakenly referred to as the MA5C assault rifle.
• On page 38, the Type-51 Carbine is in one instance mistakenly referred to as "Type-52".
• On page 61, the Sangheili rank of Imperial Admiral is mistakenly listed as "Imperial Commander."
• On page 74, UNSC Forward Unto Dawn is mistakenly said to appear in Halo 3: ODST. This is likely a misattribution of the UNSC In Amber Clad's cameo in that game.
• On page 81, the abbreviation of Flood Super Cell is misspelled "FCS" instead of "FSC".
• On page 93, High Charity's population is listed as 23,831,346. According to the Bestiarum, this is instead the total number of San'Shyuum in the Covenant.
• On page 119, the MA37 assault rifle's shroud and barrel are misaligned, giving the appearance of two under-barrel flashlights.
• On page 126, the M274 Mongoose is in one instance mistakenly referred to as "M247".
• On page 160, the Rookie should be listed with "UNSC Marine Corps" instead of "UNSC Navy", similar to his squadmates' entries.

Gallery

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  Front and back covers.

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  The front cover and spine feature a silver metallic logo.

External links

• Halo The Essential Visual Guide Preview at DK Publishing