Halo (video game series) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-21

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(franchise)


00:02:48 1 Setting and plot
00:11:20 2 Game series
00:11:30 2.1 Original trilogy
00:15:26 2.2 Reclaimer saga
00:17:01 2.3 Spin-offs
00:20:18 2.4 Alternate reality games
00:21:12 2.5 Cancelled projects
00:24:17 2.6 iHalo/i in other games
00:25:07 2.7 Future
00:25:32 3 Development
00:25:41 3.1 Bungie
00:28:00 3.2 343 Industries
00:29:13 3.3 Cultural influences
00:31:27 4 Music
00:36:59 5 Adaptations
00:37:47 5.1 Books
00:40:40 5.2 Comics
00:42:41 5.3 Live action
00:42:49 5.3.1 Unproduced feature (2005–07)
00:44:36 5.3.2 iHalo 4: Forward Unto Dawn/i (2012)
00:45:45 5.3.3 iHalo: Nightfall/i (2014)
00:47:11 5.3.4 Untitled Showtime television series
00:47:52 5.4 Anime
00:49:01 6 Reception and critical response
00:53:40 7 Cultural impact
00:55:38 7.1 Machinima



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SUMMARY
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Halo is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed and developed by 343 Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and an alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. The Covenant, led by their religious leaders called the Prophets, worship an ancient civilization known as the Forerunners, who perished in combat with the parasitic Flood. The central focus of the franchise builds off the experiences of Master Chief John-117, one of a group of supersoldiers codenamed Spartans, and his artificial intelligence (AI) companion, Cortana. Other characters, such as Noble Six from Halo: Reach, are also introduced in the series. The term "Halo" refers to the Halo Array: a group of immense, habitable, ring-shaped superweapons that were created by the Forerunners to destroy the Flood. They are similar to the Orbitals in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, and to a lesser degree to author Larry Niven's Ringworld concept.The games in the series are critically well-received, and are considered the Xbox's "killer app". This led to the term "Halo killer" being used to describe console games that aspire, or are considered, to be better than Halo. Fueled by the success of Halo: Combat Evolved, and by marketing campaigns from publisher Microsoft, its sequels went on to record-breaking sales. The games have sold over 65 million copies worldwide, with the games alone grossing almost $3.4 billion.Strong sales of the games led to the franchise's expansion to other media; there are multiple best-selling novels, graphic novels, and other licensed products. Halo Wars took the franchise into new video game genre territory, as a real-time strategy game, while the rest of the games in the series are first-person shooters. Beyond the original trilogy, Bungie developed the expansion Halo 3: ODST, and a prequel, Halo: Reach, their last project for the franchise. A high-definition remake of the first game, entitled Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, was released on November 15, 2011, ten years after the release of the original. A new installment in a second series of games, Halo 4, was released on November 6, 2012. Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a remastered compilation of the four primary Halo titles, was released for the Xbox One on November 11, 2014., In October 2015, Halo 5: Guardians was released. In February 2017, Halo Wars 2 was released. In June 2018, the next main installment of the Halo series was announced as Halo Infinite.
The collective group of fans of the series is referred to as the "Halo Nation".