The Halo franchise is a pretty interesting story. Developers Bungie originally produced the first person shooter for the Apple Macintosh platform, which in 1998 (remember pre iPod) was incredibly niche and games for Mac were even rarer. When representatives for Microsoft saw the game at a game convention, wheels quickly rolled into motion to purchase the company. They needed a game to represent their fledging console, Xbox, and they’d found it in the form of Halo, which would become their secret weapon against console leader Sony. The rest is history.

The Halo franchise is rich and detailed and epic in scope. It isn’t revolutionary, but speaks to a generation of gamers whom embrace it in a way that a video game has failed to achieve before. The franchise has grown into multiple video game titles, soundtracks, action figures, books, graphic novels and now this; an anime series.



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