Twin-stick shooter



The Twin-stick shooter, also known as top-down shooter, is a genre of video game, and a subtype of the shoot 'em up genre. Typically, a twin-stick shooter game tasks the player with eliminating a large number of enemies while also dodging their attacks, so as not to be killed. The defining feature of a twin-stick shooter is its placement of the camera directly above the player character, rather than behind them (as in a third-person shooter) or in their head (as in a first-person shooter).

In Halo
Since 2013, two Halo twin-stick shooters have been released: Halo: Spartan Assault and Halo: Spartan Strike. Both were developed by Vanguard Games and published by 343 Industries.

Halo: Spartan Assault


Halo: Spartan Assault was first released on July 18, 2013 for Windows 8, although it was later ported to other platform such as Xbox One, Xbox 360, iOS and Steam. It followed the exploits of SPARTANs Davis and Palmer during the Battle of Draetheus V.