Here’s a strange spoiler warning: Beware, what you’re about to read will completely spoil what does not happen in Halo 5: Guardians — because Microsoft’s ad campaign has been lying to you. Most of the cinematic scenes you’ve seen for Halo 5 tell a very different story than the game itself.
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The debut trailer for "Halo for Xbox One," shown at E3 2013, has little resemblance to anything that happens in Halo 5: Guardians. The lonely robed traveler wandering through a desert wasteland never shows up anywhere, even thematically. In fact, your squad is with you the entire way -- this is a co-op campaign all the way. Nothing about this scene seems to matter to the main plot, other than the existence of the winged Guardian itself.
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Let’s go back to the beginning.
The debut trailer for "Halo for Xbox One," shown at E3 2013, has little resemblance to anything that happens in Halo 5: Guardians. The lonely robed traveler wandering through a desert wasteland never shows up anywhere, even thematically. In fact, your squad is with you the entire way -- this is a co-op campaign all the way. Nothing about this scene seems to matter to the main plot, other than the existence of the winged Guardian itself.
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