The year is 2531. In the year 2531, during the infancy of the Human-Covenant war, human scientists stumbled upon a new world. Named "Lumoria", the planet was laden with both flora and fauna as alien as anyone had ever seen before. Nestled amongst the planet's varying terrain lie architecture left behind by a once seemingly all-powerful race known as the Forerunners. But what began as a scientist's greatest dream of study and discovery quickly turned into destruction and terror when the Covenant found the planet as well. When the Covenant attacked the human research vessel, the scientists had no chance. Their final hopes lay in a beacon dropped in desperation. A beacon found by you. Arriving at the planet aboard the small, stealthy UNSC Frigate Endless Horizon, your mission is to defeat the Covenant, discover the mysteries behind this new world, and give humanity their hope back. Welcome to Lumoria.
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Up to this point, I played Halo on PC for a short time when I was over at a friend's house and never really looked back on it. I wanted to get it, but never had any intention on doing so. Then, I saw Project Lumoria and decided to buy a copy, download Halo: Custom Edition and play Lumoria; I was one to generally enjoy Halo single player campaigns (With exceptions for Halo 3 and ODST, those were not very good.) and when I installed this, I was truly blown away.
The levels in this mod were absolutely incredible, they were well made, well thought out and they all had their awesome and spectacular moments. The atmostphere they put into each level was something to really take note of since it really leaves some impact for the player and brings back the old Halo feeling of being in a mysterious place.
The gameplay was something that I was completely thrown off by. Not only does this mod create some awesome fire fights, but there are some interesting enemy additions from other games put in here. Not to mention they fixed the Hunters dying from one shot from the pistol or sniper, so now they present an actual challenge!
The music that plays in two certain battles are absolutely awesome and are pretty close to some of my favorite battles in FPS games now. Also, there are bosses which are absolutely awesome to duke it out with! The final one in particular is probably one of my favorite final bosses ever, it was absolutely unfriggin' believable!
The Music that the mod includes are tracks from Halo 1 and 2, and they play at very fitting areas. Its like a dream come true for this mod in my eyes. Also to bring up the story, it was actually good! At first I was expecting a basic story with mediocre cutscenes and voice acting, but it all went past my expectations very quickly as I played the mod.
Overall, if you own Halo: CE on PC and you want some more single player carnage, you came to the right place. Give Lumoria a chance, it was incredible from start to finish!