8 Haunting Video Game Stories Most Players Missed
5. Sadie's Story - Halo 3: ODST
It simply isn't possible to write this list without Sadie's Story from Halo 3: ODST - a series of collectible audio logs totalling 50 minutes in length which recount the experiences of Sadie, a 19-year-old civilian caught up in the Covenant invasion of New Mombasa.
This couldn't be much further from the adrenalised action we typically associate with Halo - a refreshingly street-level look at how the conflict with the Covenant affects the average person on Earth.
Sadie spends the logs desperately trying to escape New Mombasa with the help of an AI designed by her missing father, and though she does eventually make it out alive, she ends up losing not only her father - who is murdered by a corrupt police commissioner - but also her innocence.
Beyond adding a whole ton of nuance to ODST's narrative, Sadie's Story is also ludicrously effort-filled for a series of logs you could very easily gloss over in their entirety.