Halo 3 Game Plot

The game will not begin right where Halo 2 left off. Instead, the comic mini-series, Halo: Uprising, will bridge the story gap between the ending of Halo 2, and the beginning of Halo 3. When the game begins, Master Chief is back on a thoroughly conquered and Covenant controlled Earth. Covenant ships are hovering over an excavation site a few miles from the ruins of New Mombasa and have uncovered a large artifact in this site, and Cortana is still the prisoner of Gravemind. The Arbiter, along with the some Elites have split from the Covenant during the civil war at the end of Halo 2; it has been hinted that the Grunts and the Hunters have joined with the Elites, but recent promotional media show that at least some of the Grunts have sided with the Brutes. The Achievements show the story mode will be divided into nine main levels, which gives some information about the game's length and an indistinct view of the story arc. Recent promotional items have had a strong memorial feeling to them, hinting at the demise of Master Chief, though strictly through speculative circumstantial evidence