"memorably than it had in the earlier games. Here are the zombies of gaming doing what they do worst. [...] It's grisly and unforgettable."" IGN listed the Flood as the 45th best video game villain, describing them as one of the most hated video game villains in the history of video games. Flood (Halo) The Flood are fictional parasitic alien life forms in the ""Halo"" video game series created by Bungie. They are introduced in """" as a second enemy faction alongside the Covenant; they return in later entries in the series such as ""Halo 2"", ""Halo 3"", and ""Halo"
"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. The colony is home to over 700 million civilians in addition to the military presence. The game follows the actions of ""Noble Team"", a UNSC special operations unit composed of elite supersoldiers known as Spartans. Players assume the role of a new addition to the team identified by the call sign Noble Six. Noble Team's leader is Carter-A259, a no-nonsense soldier. His second-in-command, Kat-B320, has a bionic"
"beginning of the game, a technologically advanced collective of alien races called the Covenant attack and destroy human worlds, declaring humanity an affront to their gods. Humanity's military experiences a series of crushing defeats; although the supersoldiers of the SPARTAN-II Project are effective against the Covenant, they are too few in numbers to turn the tide of the war. Two days before a mission to discover the location of the Covenant's homeworld, Covenant forces attack Reach and destroy the colony. The starship ""Pillar of Autumn"" escapes the planet with the SPARTAN-II Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 on board. The ship"
"DLC, in which the Banished (refer to below) battles Flood survivors from the ""Battle of Installation 00"". The Gravemind, present on the replacement ring when it explodes, accepts defeat, but insists that it will only slow, not stop, the Flood. The Covenant is a theocratic collection of alien races. In many ""Halo"" video games, they fill an antagonistic role. The alliance worships an ancient alien race known as the Forerunners and search for their gods' relics. The novel """" reveals that the Covenant's luminaries, devices which search for Forerunner relics, discovered a massive cache of the relics on a human"
"game's main enemy force is the Covenant, a group of alien species allied by belief in a common religion. Their forces include Elites, fierce warriors protected by recharging energy shields similar to the player's own; Grunts, which are short, cowardly creatures who are usually led by Elites in battle, and often flee in terror instead of fighting in the absence of a leading Elite; Jackals, originally space pirates, who wear a highly durable energy shield on one arm and a form of handgun on the other; and Hunters, large, powerful creatures composed of small worm-like colonies with thick armor plates"
"hundreds of worlds. Without warning, an alien collective known as the Covenant attacks the outer human colony of Harvest. The Covenant begin to hunt down human colonies, vitrifying the surface of each world. Humanity's best weapon against the technologically superior Covenant are the SPARTAN-IIs, supersoldiers equipped with powerful armor; unfortunately, there are too few of the SPARTANs to turn the tide of the war. The story begins with a group of SPARTAN-IIIs being deployed to a Covenant fleet refueling depot in the year 2545. The soldiers destroy the facility, but all save two of the three hundred SPARTANs are killed."
"health; it also contains a compass and a ""motion tracker"" that registers moving allies, enemies, and vehicles in a certain radius of the player. The HUD changes when the player pilots aircraft and spacecraft. In the game's campaign, which can be played alone or cooperatively, players assume the role of Noble Six, a supersoldier engaged in combat with an alien collective known as the Covenant. The Covenant come in eight distinct varieties with different ranks and classes for each type; for example, Elites are the leaders of a group, while Grunts are less intelligent and only dangerous in large groups."
"Covenant to encounter humanity. The resulting events initiated the start of the Human-Covenant War. Hunters, or Mgalekgolo, (from the planet Te) are, according to Bungie's mythology, collectives of worm-like aliens, singularly known as Lekgolo, encased in tough armor. Initial concepts were less humanoid-looking and softer than the final shape, with angular shields and razor-sharp spines. The species are armed with a heavy plasma repeater cannon and also carry a massive shield. Floating, serene aliens known as Engineers, or Huragok, were pulled from ""Combat Evolved"", but made later appearances in the ""Halo"" novels. They also appeared in ""Halo Wars"", ""Halo 3:"
"create an elite group of enhanced supersoldiers, whose purpose is to suppress the rebellions covertly. In the year 2525, human worlds come under attack by a theocratic alliance of alien races known as the Covenant. The Covenant leadership declares humanity heretics and an affront to their gods – the Forerunners – and begins a holy war of genocide. The Covenant's superior technology and numbers prove decisive advantages; though effective, the Spartans are too few in number to turn the tide of battle in humanity's favor. In 2552, the Covenant arrive at the UNSC's last major stronghold beyond Earth – the"
"and numerous promotional videos. Subsequent series include ""The Recollection"", which contains more dramatic elements than its comedic predecessor, ""Project Freelancer"", ""The Chorus Trilogy"", and Anthology, the most recent series. Other machinima series include ""Arby ‘n the Chief"", ""Fire Team Charlie"", ""The Codex"", and the in-game interview show ""This Spartan Life"". Halo (franchise) Halo is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed and developed by 343 Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and an alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. The Covenant, led"
"Star Trek: Conquest Star Trek: Conquest is a video game set in the Star Trek universe. The game features both turn-based strategy and real time strategy gameplay. It was developed by Scottish studio 4J Studios, which previously developed """", and was published by Bethesda Softworks for the PlayStation 2 and Wii. The game is set in the """" era, with players able to choose six groups and races: Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Breen, Cardassian and Dominion. These races are the main combatants of the Dominion War featured in ""Deep Space Nine"". ""Stardate 41153.2: It is a time of conflict ; all"
"Halo (franchise) Halo is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed and developed by 343 Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and an alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. The Covenant, led by their religious leaders called the Prophets, worship an ancient civilization known as the Forerunners, who perished in combat with the parasitic Flood. The central focus of the franchise builds off the experiences of Master Chief John-117, one of a group of supersoldiers codenamed Spartans, and his artificial intelligence (AI)"
"alien race called the Chimera have invaded and conquered Earth, and has turned humans into monstrous supersoldiers. Players play as Nathan Hale in """" (2006) and ""Resistance 2"" (2008), and as Joseph Capelli in ""Resistance 3"" (2011). All three games were released exclusively for the PlayStation 3 system. The series also includes the handheld games """", developed by SCE Bend Studio for the PlayStation Portable, and """", developed by Nihilistic Software for the PlayStation Vita. Other notable games developed by Insomniac include ""Disruptor"" (1996), ""Outernauts"" (2012), ""Fuse"" (2013) and ""Sunset Overdrive"" (2014). The company has also canceled several games, including"
"ODST"", and ""Halo: Reach"". They serve no actual combat role, although in ""Halo 3: ODST,"" ""Halo Wars"" and ""Halo Reach"" they can aid players or enemies. They are actually artificial lifeforms created by the vanished technologically superior race known as the Forerunners, and are enslaved by the Covenant to build, repair and maintain their technology. The Prophets, or San'Shyuum, (from the planet Janjur Qom) serve as the royal rulers of the Covenant, and were primarily designed by Shi Kai Wang and Eric Arroyo. Originally, the Prophets were built in a more unified way, with the gravity thrones they used for"
"Star Wraith (video game series) StarWraith is a series of space combat simulators by StarWraith 3D Games. During the first two parts and also in """" the player fights as Alliance pilot in the brutal civil war of the Alliance against the Federation. In ""Shadows of Orion"" a new threat emerges: the alien race, the Vonari. In most of the following games in the series there have been skirmishes or major conflicts with the Vonari. In ""StarWraith IV: Reviction"" the Vonari assault Earth. In ""RiftSpace"" the Vonari guard a powerful secret from humanity. In ""Evochron Alliance"" the Vonari assault the"
"from an ancient alien race called the Gnosis, which begins decimating Federation worlds. As normal weapons are ineffective, Vector develops two different weapon systems designed to fight them: humanoid mechs dubbed AGWS (Anti Gnosis Weapon System), and the similar but more powerful KOS-MOS battle androids. There also exist more advanced AGWS models called E.S., powered by Lost Jerusalem artifacts called Vessels of Anima. A key event that impacts the game's storyline is the Miltian Conflict, which occurred fourteen years before the events of ""Episode I"" on the planet Miltia. Beginning due to a war between the U-TIC Organization and the"
"built by an extinct alien race known as the Protheans. The term ""Mass Effect"" is defined as a form of mass-negating technology, allowing the creation of physics phenomena, like artificial gravity or FTL travel. A conglomerate body of governments known as the Citadel Council controls a large percentage of the galaxy and is responsible for maintaining law and order among races of the galactic community. Races that belong to the Citadel Council include humans, asari, salarians, and turians. Other alien races seen in the game include the reptilian krogan, the environmental suited quarians, and a hostile race of networked artificial"
"of Evangelion"", ""Gunbuster"", ""The King of Braves GaoGaiGar"", ""Chōdenji Robo Combattler V"", ""Chōdenji Machine Voltes V"", ""Tōshō Daimos"", and ""Space Runaway Ideon"". However, there is an overarching plot that is told over the backdrop of the various series. The game starts at the end of the ""War of Seals"" (see ""2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha"") with the crew of the Ra Calium coming upon a massive ring like structure in the Asteroid Field. This Crossgate (as it is later called) causes the Excelion (which blew up at the end of the first Alpha game to take out the STMC) and"
"alien races) and playing different game modes against other players. The different squads are unlocked as you complete the campaign (""i.e."" the first squad unlocked are the main characters of the game). Each squad member has a different set of weapons or ability. ""Brute Force"" takes place in the year 2340, when the human race has spread out across the galaxy and settled around 50 star systems, which are collectively known as the ""Known Worlds"". The major colonies and some alien races are governed by what is known as the Confederation of Allied worlds (usually referred to as the ""Confed"")."
"Older catalogs have had these figures present as items available to order but in the exchange of ""BattleTech"" figures the Identifiers have changed. There were 3 variants under the old Ral Partha banner dependent on country of purchase. ""Legionnaire"" was the role-playing game (RPG) set in the Renegade Legion universe. It expanded the original Renegade Legion setting with three new alien races: the Menelvagoreans, the Vauvusar, and the Zog. In the Renegade Legion Universe, aliens are designated as a greater or lesser race determined by whether the race had acquired spaceflight before first contact with other alien species. Most of"
"Contra III: The Alien Wars Contra III: The Alien Wars, released in Japan as Contra Spirits and in PAL regions as Super Probotector: Alien Rebels, is a 1992 run and gun video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed and published by Konami. It is the third console iteration of the ""Contra"" series, following the original ""Contra"" (1987) and ""Super C"" (1988) for the NES. Nintendo re-released ""Contra III: The Alien Wars"" in the United States in September 2017 as part of the company's Super NES Classic Edition. Set in the futuristic year 2636, the alien invaders that were"
"venture to distant planets using an alien portal known as a Stargate, which in the series is housed in a top-secret United States Air Force military base known as Stargate Command (SGC) in the underground Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the first eight seasons, the mission of the SG teams is to explore the galaxy and search for alien technology and allies to defend Earth against the Goa'uld, a snake-like parasitic alien race that takes humans as unwilling hosts. As explained in the series' backstory, the Goa'uld had transported human slaves from Earth to other habitable planets"
"Star General Star General is a strategy video wargame, last in SSI's series of hexagonal-movement games popularized by Panzer General. Star General bases its story setting on ""The Fleet"", a series of books written by David Drake and Bill Fawcett. The game was developed by Catware and SSI in 1997. ""Star General"" pits up to seven alien races against one another in a galactic battle of conquest. The seven races include the deceitful Cephalians, the reptilian Dragonians, the feline Hressa, the Humans, the barbarian Khalians, the insectoid Xritra, and fascist human separatists who belong to the Schleinel Hegemony. There are"
"to travel between worlds. Without warning, a collective of alien races known as the Covenant began attacking the outlying colonies, brutally exterminating all life by vitrifying the surface of the planets. Humanity, outnumbered and outclassed by the alien's superior technology, wages a losing war against the enemy. After the human bastion of Reach falls to the Covenant, the human ship ""Pillar of Autumn"" jumps into Slipspace to lead the Covenant away from Earth. The novel, like the video game it is based on, begins as the ""Pillar of Autumn"" exits slipspace, discovering an unexpected massive ringworld hidden by a moon"
"website and Steam on January 18, 2016. Star Wraith (video game series) StarWraith is a series of space combat simulators by StarWraith 3D Games. During the first two parts and also in """" the player fights as Alliance pilot in the brutal civil war of the Alliance against the Federation. In ""Shadows of Orion"" a new threat emerges: the alien race, the Vonari. In most of the following games in the series there have been skirmishes or major conflicts with the Vonari. In ""StarWraith IV: Reviction"" the Vonari assault Earth. In ""RiftSpace"" the Vonari guard a powerful secret from humanity."
"thereafter. As a defensive measure, the UNSC creates the ""Cole Protocol""; human ships are prohibited from directly traveling to human worlds to avoid detection by the Covenant, and destruction of a ship's navigation databases and artificial intelligence if threatened with capture. In 2552, the Covenant track the UNSC ship ""Iroquois"" to the world of Reach, Earth's most well-defended colony, by a hidden transmitter. A massive Covenant fleet arrives at Reach and lays waste to much of the planet. The Covenant's first appearance in the video games is in """" (2001), which picks up towards the end of ""The Fall of"
"built over the ruins of Toronto, Canada. Meanwhile, the off-world colony of Mars is exploited by the Elerium mining corporation, Solmine, and oppressed by MarSec (MARs SECurity). The alien threat in the game is presented by a new race of organic, extradimensional aliens that initially seem to have no relation to the aliens of the previous two games, though later missions set in the aliens' home dimension reveal they have enslaved Sectoid survivors. These new aliens attack the city through tetrahedron-shaped teleport gates. The player must find out how to send their own aircraft, along with X-COM agents, through these"
"by the invasion. The Galactic Federation, an alliance of alien races including the Darhel, Indowy, Himmit, and others, has enlisted the aid of the warlike but technologically backward humans to halt the galactic advance of the Posleen, a race of centaur-like aliens who live only for battle, consuming their own and their enemies' dead and stripping conquered planets of resources. The story begins with O'Neal and various military and civilian personnel taking steps to prepare for the looming Posleen invasion. O'Neal is tasked by the commander of the U.S. defenses with training a battalion of Armored Combat Suits, the most"
"campaign against the technologically inferior human species. The Covenant were first introduced in the 2001 video game """" as enemies of the playable character, a human super soldier known as the Master Chief. Not realizing the Halos were meant as weapons of destruction rather than salvation, the Covenant attempt to activate the rings on two separate occasions throughout the series, inadvertently releasing a virulent parasite known as the Flood in the process. To develop a distinctive look for the various species of the Covenant, Bungie artists drew inspiration from reptilian, ursine, and avian characteristics. A Covenant design scheme of purples"
"Command & Conquer: Tiberian series The Tiberian series is a series of the ""Command & Conquer"" franchise of real-time strategy video games developed by Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts. The games of the Tiberian series compose the storyline of the original ""Command & Conquer"" universe. The 1996 """", made to be the prequel to the 1995 ""Command & Conquer"", is the genesis of an alternate history in which games outside the Tiberian series are set. In ""Command & Conquer"" (also known as ""Tiberian Dawn""), an anomalous extraterrestrial substance known as tiberium is brought to Earth through a meteoric collision in"
"systems and completing several away missions, the crew of the ""Enterprise"" realizes that the scroll points to the existence of an enormous and powerful ancient structure, known as the Unity Device, that was created by the Chodak, an unknown alien race, during the peak of their civilization. The storyline takes place around stardate 47111.1, according to the opening sequence of the game. This would place the events of the game between the first two episodes of the seventh season of the series, """" and """". The non-canonical Chodak race reappear in the Star Trek video games ""Star Trek Generations"" and"
"Shadow Hearts: Covenant Shadow Hearts: Covenant, also known as , is a role-playing video game developed by Nautilus and published by Aruze in Japan and Midway in other countries in 2004. It is a direct continuation of ""Shadow Hearts""; its story starts a year and a half after ""Shadow Hearts"" in the midst of World War I. It focuses on Karin Koenig, a lieutenant in the German Army who assists in the exorcism of a man able to turn into demons, Yuri Volte Hyuga. However, after learning of Yuri's caring nature, Karin goes on a quest with him to save"
"a future Earth administrated by corporations; Gongens, descendants of East Asians living on Mars (renamed Gongen) following a continent-wide nuclear disaster; Mavericks, anarchists in the ""Outer Rims"" with penchants for cybernetic replacements. The two alien races are the Quay, a chitinous slave race with tribal tendencies and Mesoamerican- and Austronesian-styled proper nouns, and the Shi, an advanced race of floating, psychic aliens with proper nouns styled after Indo-Aryan languages. Meanwhile, among all the races, individuals with special abilities, called ""Kizen"", began appearing. Thus far the Kizen are mostly used as a gameplay device, but there were originally plans to introduce"