Halo Fireteam Raven 2 Player Environmental Arcade Game

The Environmental designation on this version describes a two-piece build. The main cabinet measures 48 inches deep by 58 inches wide by 86 inches high and weighs 1,025 pounds. A separate seat section measures 44 inches deep by 58 inches wide by 86 inches high and weighs 478 pounds. The seat is not a bench bolted to the front of a standard upright; it matches the cabinet in both width and height, and it carries the player position inside the machine so the distance and angle to the 55-inch panoramic display are set by the cabinet rather than by whoever walks up to it. The published installed location footprint is 99.9 inches high by 53.5 inches wide by 83.2 inches deep, and that height figure is the one that decides whether a given room can take the game.

Raw Thrills built the title with Play Mechanix and 343 Industries, and it renders at 4K on the Play Mechanix NexaGen arcade game engine. Two players enter the events of Halo: Combat Evolved as the ODST of Fireteam Raven, fighting the Covenant and the Flood on the surface of Alpha Halo alongside the Master Chief and the UNSC, with the full weapon arsenal of the Halo universe available in play. Players who want a session recorded generate a QR tag from the Halo Fireteam Raven Service Record and scan it at the cabinet before play, which posts stats and rewards to their Xbox Live account on Halo Waypoint. Power is approximately 120 VAC, 60 Hz, 5 amps on the USA and Canada ETL configuration, or approximately 230 VAC, 50 Hz, 2.5 amps on the international CE configuration. The item number is BETM 027148N.

Start at the ceiling. The published location height is 99.9 inches, which is 8 feet 3.9 inches, and it sits almost 14 inches above the 86-inch height of the cabinet and seat. A room finished with a flat 96-inch ceiling does not clear the published envelope. Measure to the lowest thing hanging over the spot you intend to use rather than to the deck, because sprinkler heads and duct runs are what usually take those inches away.

Then measure the path in. Both crates stand 86 inches tall, so neither passes upright through an 80-inch door frame, and they are 48 inches and 44 inches wide at 58 inches deep. Because the game arrives as two crates instead of one, the heaviest single piece anyone handles is 1,025 pounds rather than the 1,503-pound combined weight, and the 478-pound seat section moves on its own trip. Check corners, stair landings, and elevator openings against 58 inches of crate depth, since depth is the dimension that binds in a turn, not width.

Power is undemanding on either configuration. The ETL build asks for approximately 120 VAC, 60 Hz, 5 amps; the CE build asks for approximately 230 VAC, 50 Hz, 2.5 amps. Against the 15-amp and 20-amp circuits in most game rooms and route locations, a 5-amp draw leaves plenty of headroom, so the question worth settling before delivery is how far the intended cabinet position sits from a receptacle and what else is already on that circuit.

The format itself is the last call to make. An environmental cabinet encloses the play position: the seat belongs to the machine, the sightline to the 55-inch panel is fixed by geometry, and the cost of that control is 1,503 pounds inside a 99.9 by 53.5 by 83.2-inch published envelope. A tethered or standard upright puts players on their feet in front of the game, takes less floor and less ceiling, and gives up the fixed seated view. If your floor plan can spare the space and the height, this is the build that holds two players through a full session. If it cannot, reconsider the format before you reconsider the game.