10 Video Game Moments Where You Thought The Villain Would Win

The Halo series is yet another that doesn’t exactly deal in happy endings. The franchise tells the story of humanity’s long and costly war against the Covenant, a ruthless and super powerful group of alien races.

With Halo: Reach being set before the events of the original game, Halo: Combat Evolved, it’s clear from the outset that humanity aren’t going to meet a grim end just yet. Even so, the Covenant’s assault on the planet of Reach is decisive in every sense of the world. It certainly seems as though the Covenant may ultimately triumph.

The destruction of Noble Team pulls on players’ heartstrings, but they do not die in vein.

As the game’s ending makes clear, these heroic warriors laid the foundations for humanity’s eventual victory, but this doesn’t make the death of Six and their allies any easier to swallow.