It’s easy to forgive Master Chief’s absence from a DLC addition to Halo: The Master Chief Collection when that addition is the still-phenomenal Halo 3: ODST. The 2009 standalone side story follows the post-crash tale of The Rookie and his decidedly-not-Spartan ODST teammates in the wake of a failed drop during Halo 2’s Covenant attack on New Mombasa, and it is memorable for being a tonal near opposite to Master Chief’s bombastic adventures.
Where Chief’s Halo games are loud and fast, ODST is deliberately – and delightfully – quiet and slow. Where other Halo games’ soundtracks sometimes break out electric guitars, ODST reaches for the piano, resulting in a moody, memorable jazzy score. Half of ODST takes place at night, as the silent Rookie investigates the daytime exploits of his fleshed-out ODST friends: Buck (who, incidentally, has been upgraded to Spartan-IV status for Halo 5: Guardians), Dutch, Mickey, Romeo, and Dare – with those daytime flashback missions being playable complements to the Rookie’s nocturnal quests.
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Where Chief’s Halo games are loud and fast, ODST is deliberately – and delightfully – quiet and slow. Where other Halo games’ soundtracks sometimes break out electric guitars, ODST reaches for the piano, resulting in a moody, memorable jazzy score. Half of ODST takes place at night, as the silent Rookie investigates the daytime exploits of his fleshed-out ODST friends: Buck (who, incidentally, has been upgraded to Spartan-IV status for Halo 5: Guardians), Dutch, Mickey, Romeo, and Dare – with those daytime flashback missions being playable complements to the Rookie’s nocturnal quests.
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