Announced at E3 2009, the game received great amount of attention for it's stunning graphics, voice acting and gameplay. Following the positive feedback at the panel, 343 Industries, alongside renewed author Timothy Zahn eventually published a book set in the game's universe, named Halo: Reach, passing three months before the events depicted in the game. The game narrative follows SPARTAN soldier John-117, after the fall of the planet Reach, as he arrives alongside his crew to an ancient ringworld called Halo. There, he discovers not only that the ring is an object of religious importance to humanity's enemies, the Covenant, but is faced with an mortal threat when an ancient evil awakens.