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Subject: Where does ODST fit into the Halo timeline?

Hey guys, I'm new to the Halo series, so I need some help with understanding the timeline. I'm currently trying to get all the Halo games (except Wars) so I can play them in order. I have Reach, Combat Evolved, and ODST so far. I'm working on getting 2 and 3. My question is, where exactly does ODST fit in the timeline?

  • 05.26.2011 3:29 PM PDT

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I <3 Halo 3:ODST - best soundtrack + Firefight + Coastal Highway and Mombassa Streets, amazingly unique campaign.
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I <3 Halo: CE - started it all

Here are the games in order to start to finish

Halo Wars
Halo:Reach
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2 - Halo 3:ODST
Halo 3

Halo 2 and Halo 3:ODST take place at the same exact times.

  • 05.26.2011 3:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: NoWise10
Here are the games in order to start to finish

Halo Wars
Halo:Reach
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2 - Halo 3:ODST
Halo 3

Halo 2 and Halo 3:ODST take place at the same exact times.


nailed it.

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If you want to fit ODST into the timeline perfectly then play it right after you complete the leve Metropolis in Halo 2.

  • 05.26.2011 5:30 PM PDT

If you watch the initial drop cutscene, just before the cruiser goes into slipspae, at it's bottom right corner you can see the inamberclad

  • 05.26.2011 6:44 PM PDT

"War is the science of destruction."

ODST is after halo 2 but before halo 3.

Halo Wars
Halo Reach
Halo Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Halo 3 ODST
Halo 3

  • 05.26.2011 6:50 PM PDT

I like to play Reach for fun. I hate MLG, campers, armor lock, and team killers because they ruin that fun. Deal with it.

ODST starts near the end of the Halo 2 mission Metropolis and continues through its own story while Halo 2 does its own. They both end before Halo 3.

  • 05.26.2011 7:09 PM PDT

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Between Halo 2 and Halo 3.

  • 05.26.2011 7:14 PM PDT

I like to play Reach for fun. I hate MLG, campers, armor lock, and team killers because they ruin that fun. Deal with it.

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ODST takes place after the ending cut-scene to the level "Metropolis" in Halo 2.

And just for the record: Halo Reach is not canical to the Halo time-line.. Reach didn't happen that way.. >_>

  • 05.26.2011 8:44 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hayabusam60
ODST is after halo 2 but before halo 3.

Halo Wars
Halo Reach
Halo Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Halo 3 ODST
Halo 3

Agreed

  • 05.26.2011 8:57 PM PDT

Halo 3 ODST takes place during Halo 2

  • 05.26.2011 11:27 PM PDT

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The truth is that Halo Wars actually took place after Halo 3: ODST took place before the Chief touched down because of the simple fact that the city was destroyed when In Amber Clad left with the Covenant cruiser. ODST takes place before the Chief touched down and the regular marines were dying.

  • 05.27.2011 5:09 AM PDT
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Posted by: Schlick15
And just for the record: Halo Reach is not canical to the Halo time-line.. Reach didn't happen that way.. >_>

Uh, yes it is. Where are you getting this?

  • 05.27.2011 10:06 AM PDT

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What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.

Posted by: NoWise10
Here are the games in order to start to finish

Halo Wars
Halo:Reach
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2 - Halo 3:ODST
Halo 3

Halo 2 and Halo 3:ODST take place at the same exact times.

This. It happened during the slipspace rupture during the campaign in new mombasa.

[Edited on 05.27.2011 12:23 PM PDT]

  • 05.27.2011 12:22 PM PDT

Posted by: x Foman123 x

Posted by: TH3_AV3NG3R
What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.

Posted by: cto888

Posted by: Schlick15
And just for the record: Halo Reach is not canical to the Halo time-line.. Reach didn't happen that way.. >_>

Uh, yes it is. Where are you getting this?

He gets it from the books. Which I don't even consider canon. Read the book the fall of Reach. It is a nice story but to me not canon.

  • 05.27.2011 12:25 PM PDT
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I understand nothing because my life is a conspiracy.

Although New Mombassa was completely re-designed for Halo 3: ODST, it takes place during and after the Slip Space Jump in Halo 2.

P.S. I heard they were rewriting the Fall of Reach.

[Edited on 05.27.2011 12:33 PM PDT]

  • 05.27.2011 12:32 PM PDT

Posted by: x Foman123 x

Posted by: TH3_AV3NG3R
What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.

Posted by: lime013
Although New Mombassa was completely re-designed for Halo 3: ODST, it takes place during and after the Slip Space Jump in Halo 2.

P.S. I heard they were rewriting the Fall of Reach.

They already did. Are they doing it again?

  • 05.27.2011 12:35 PM PDT