Gameplay of Halo: Spartan Assault earns the player experience points (XP), Achievements, and emblems for a Halo 4 Spartan career. The game features classic weapons and vehicles from the franchise.
On Windows 8 PCs, the method of input is a keyboard and mouse, while Xbox 360 and Xbox One players use a physical gamepad. On touchscreen mobile devices, players control the character through virtual joysticks-the left stick controls movement and the right stick controls the direction of the character's fire-along with buttons along the edge of the screen. The control method for the game depends on the host device. Halo: Spartan Assault is a shooter game where players view gameplay from an overhead top-down perspective. The game launched with 25 single-player missions, with additional content released later. Players control the human soldiers Edward Davis and Sarah Palmer as they fight a new splinter faction of the former Covenant. Halo: Spartan Assault is set between the events of Halo 3 and Halo 4. The game was subsequently released for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, Steam and iOS platforms. Part of the Halo media franchise, it was first released on July 18, 2013, for Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Excuse Plot: The game is a recreation of historical battles featuring Sarah Palmer and Edward Davis, told through a simulation for Spartan-IV recruits, but really, the plot's just there to give you things to shoot.Halo: Spartan Assault is a 2013 top-down twin stick shooter video game developed by 343 Industries and Vanguard Games.Escort Mission: There are a number of these scattered throughout the game, though the escortees tend to be fairly tough.Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The Covenant use a Forerunner superweapon to disintegrate Draetheus V.Coup de GrĂ¢ce: After Merg Vol collapses from his wounds at the end of his boss fight, Palmer finishes him off with a pistol shot to the back of the head.
The Cameo: A number of vehicles introduced in Halo Wars (such as the Wolverine and playable Grizzly tank) make appearances in this game.Bottomless Magazines: None of the weapons require you to reload, making some of them decidedly more powerful than their FPS counterparts.Boss Battle: Against Merg Vol, who is notable for being the first "true" boss in a Halo game since Halo 2 ( not counting Halo 3's Anti-Climax Boss).BFG The Rocket Launcher and Spartan Laser.Artificial Stupidity: While the AI have a lot in common with their FPS counterparts (ie: each species behaves differently and won't simply throw themselves at you to die), they are not above throwing a grenade at you and having it land on a piece of cover in front of them (or better yet, shooting at a fusion coil) and killing themselves.In this game, they can take a lot of punishment, take out a number of enemies on their own, and very rarely go down. Anyone who has played the FPS games will tell you that Marines tend to be useless bullet sponges that do little to actually help you. The Marines that occasionally accompany you.It gives you 150 rockets to start (again, no reloading) and fires VERY fast, obliterating anything unfortunate enough to get in your way. The Rocket Launcher approaches game-breaking territory.
When you fire it, the beam keeps going for a full three seconds, letting you point it at different things to kill several targets with one shot.
A sequel, Halo: Spartan Strike, was released on April 16, 2015.