Xbox commissioned an international team of 6 expert artists to paint a series of 50ft Spartan soldiers from the game onto the walls of Westfield Shopping Centre to coincide with the launch of Halo Reach. Click through to view extended video featurette.
In Halo: Reach, players experience the fateful moments that forged the Halo legend. Halo: Reach is a first person shooter video game, developed by Microsoft Games studio for the Xbox 360 console. The game takes place in a futuristic science fiction setting during the year 2552, shortly before the events of the 2001 video game Halo: Combat Evolved.Humans, under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC), have been waging a long war against a collective of alien races known as the Covenant. By the events of Reach, almost all of humanity’s interstellar colonies have fallen. Reach itself is an Earthlike colony that serves as the UNSC’s main military hub. In addition to the military presence, the colony is home to over 700 million civilians. Players assume the role of Noble 6, a super soldier and a member of an elite super soldier squad know as Spartans. As the Covenant begin their assault on the planet, the UNSC begin their heroic yet ultimately futile effort to halt the brutal alien invaders.