

He’s 50 years old at the time of Halo Infinite. He then went through physical augmentation and training to become an early 2000s video game protagonist. John was abducted by the military when he was 6, chosen because he was both smart and strong for his age. In the original Halo video game trilogy, he fought a war against an alien group called the Covenant on humanity’s behalf.

He’s the most famous Spartan - a genetically engineered squad of supersoldiers originally designed by the United Nations Space Command (Earth’s future military) to quell a human insurrection.
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Here’s the gist: Master Chief is a human man named John, his code number is 117, and Master Chief is both his rank and nickname. ( Check out our “Everything you need to know about Halo” post if you want the long version.) Master Chief’s history is rather long, so we’re not going to go into all of it here. Here are seven quick story questions you need answered before you start Halo Infinite. But even so, there are parts of the campaign that will make more sense if you know some light history, or refresh your memory if you’ve been away from the series for a while (or just forgot what happened at the end of Halo 5: Guardians). Halo is over 20 years old, and while there’s a lot of lore out there now, Halo Infinite serves as a jumping-on point for both new and lapsed players - Halo’s franchise development director, Frank O’Connor, referred to Halo Infinite as a spiritual reboot in an interview with Polygon.
