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The Halo Board Game is an interactive strategy based board game created from the popular video game series Halo (series). The board game features a special modular game board and accompanying DVD. With the same premise, popular characters, and music from the award winning video games to add familiarity to those who played the video games. The game created by B1 games was released in October 2008.

Equipment
The board game features a modular game board in which the board pieces can be moved around to create more maps and offer extended playability. The board can be set up in predesigned layouts, or be changed to create your own maps. The players can decide to control the UNSC, human forces, or the Covenant, alien forces. Each side has multiple basic characters with few abilities and a hero that has greater firepower and range. The hero for the UNSC is the Master Chief (Halo) and an Elite for the Covenant. There are also several levels of play from basic, for beginners, to legendary, for the more advanced and strategic players.

The DVD
The board game also comes with a DVD to aid in the game play. The DVD has multiple cut scenes and videos to aid in game play and add an audio/visual effect to the game. The DVD can be used in lieu of dice to decide the outcome of the game. Most players of the game prefer to never use the DVD but its added visual effect can make game play more exciting and lifelike.

Playing the Game
The game is turn based with players being allowed to act out campaigns scenarios from the video games. Players can also play Capture the Flag or Slayer for a head to head challenge similar to online play in the Halo video game. The basic rules for game play are simple. Players can either choose to move or attack, not both, on their turn. Movement is based on the character move statistic, which tells how far each character can move on their turn. Thee is also the option of attacking. A character may attack with their weapon, or move in close for a melee attack. The winner of the attacks is determined from either a dice roll or from the watching the DVD. When weapons are used the characters remain on their respective spaces, but during a melee attack if the attacker wins he moves onto the defenders space. Defenders never move from the space the are on when being attacked. Players may also prefer to make up house rules to make game play more enjoyable and or quicker. Weapons and equipment can be placed throughout the maps to change the strategies used and make the game more realistic. The board game can be played with 2 to 10 players ages 10 and up.

Reception
The board game had a poor reception by multiple critics for multiple reasons. The board game is DVD based which historically is always terrible. Using the DVD is optional but it is still frowned upon. Most critics believe this board game just to be a cash suck with no real value.

With special life like rules that allow multiple strategies