More than five million copies had been sold worldwide by November 2005. Blue video series, which is credited as one of the first major successes of machinima (the technique of using real-time 3D engines, often from video games, to create animated films). The game inspired and was used in the fan-created Red vs. Its sequel, Halo 2, was released for the original Xbox in 2004, and the game spawned a multi-billion-dollar multimedia franchise that incorporates games, books, toys, and films. The game's popularity led to labels such as " Halo clone" and " Halo killer", applied to games either similar to or anticipated to be better than it. Halo was a critical and commercial success and is often praised as one of the greatest video games ever made. During development, Microsoft acquired Bungie and turned Halo into a launch game for its first video game console, the Xbox. Initially, the game was a real-time strategy game that morphed into a third-person shooter before becoming a first-person shooter. Players battle aliens as they attempt to uncover the secrets of the eponymous Halo, a ring-shaped artificial world.īungie began the development of what would eventually become Halo CE in 1997. The Chief is accompanied by Cortana, an artificial intelligence.
Halo is set in the twenty-sixth century, with the player assuming the role of the Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier.
The game was later released as a downloadable Xbox Original for the Xbox 360.
Microsoft released versions of the game for Windows and Mac OS X in 2003. It was released as a launch game for Microsoft's Xbox video game console on November 15, 2001. Halo: Combat Evolved is a 2001 first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
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