‘Halo 5 Guardians’ and ‘Master Chief Collection’ Get New Unlocks, Achievements and Exclusive Bundle
With less than a week until "Halo: The Master Chief Collection" releases, some new information have popped up to entice fans to get a hold of the collection especially those are looking forward to experiencing the "Halo 5: Guardians."
Developer 343 Industries has reportedly announced that there will be unlockable armour for the 2015 game that can be obtained upon earning achievements for the collection. IGN reports that these are four special armour permutations, and the source even has a video that shows off the unlockables. Here are the details to unlocking the armours;
- Mark VI [GEN 1]: You need to obtain the "Your Journey Begins" achievement or the armour and the helmet.
- Mark VI [Scarred]: Unlock the helmet by earning the "Cairo Stations" achievement.
- Helioskrill: Get the "Legend" achievement.
- Nighfall: You need to do two actions. The first is to watch "Halo: Nightfall" episode 1 second story for the helmet and then watch all of the five episodes of "Halo: Nightfall" for the armour.
If that's not enough, there will also be an update at launch that will give you 50 more achievements, which will be worth 500 Gamerscore. This is in addition to the 400 achievements announced before, pulling up the Gamerscore to a grand total of 4,500 all in all. 343 Industries announced this via the official Halo website, Halo Waypoint, in its latest blog update.
"For this round of achievements, we wanted to focus on community and the new multiplayer features being offered by the new maps and modes within "Halo 2: Anniversary" multiplayer," the developer said over the official website. The full list of new achievements can be seen in the link above, but to give a glimpse of what's coming, you have achievements for "Halo: CE," "Halo 2," "Halo 2: Anniversary," "Halo 3" and "Halo 4." The majority of the achievements are centred around "Halo 2: Anniversary."
For those who are looking for additional options for the upcoming "Halo: The Master Chief Collection" may want to drop a look at EB Games Australia. The retailer is currently boasting a limited edition of the title.
In the official page, it lists that the limited edition is an EB Games exclusive offer. And this will include the exclusive Master Chief Collection MetalPak as well as the skull bandana. The latter exclusive item is said to unlock the Unlimited ammo and grenades for "Halo 2: Anniversary" campaign.
"Skulls are game modifiers that affect campaign gameplay dynamically by making it more fun and entertaining," said the product overview of the "Halo: The Master Chief Collection" over at EB Games Australia. Check out the limited edition over at the link above to see if it's to your liking.
"Halo: The Master Chief Collection" (Credit: YouTube/IGN)
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