#Halo tv series series#

However, instead of creating Precursors, the spore made a parasite known as the Flood. Among the last of the Precursors, one let out a spore, hoping for it to spread and repopulate the Precursors. In retaliation, the Forerunners drove the Precursors into extinction. However, the Precursors wanted to remove such power from Forerunner hands and give it to the human race. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Mantle of Responsibility belonged to the Forerunners. Halo has since become one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time, spanning multiple best-selling novels, graphic novels, comic books, short movies, animated movies and feature films, as well as other licensed products.

The games had sold over 81 million copies worldwide, with more than $6 billion in franchise grosses. Fueled by the success of Halo: Combat Evolved, and by marketing campaigns from publisher Microsoft, its sequels went on to record-breaking sales. This led to the term ' Halo killer' being used to describe console games that aspire, or are considered, to be better than Halo.

#Halo tv series series#

The games in the series are critically acclaimed, with the original considered the Xbox's ' killer app'. The latest main game, Halo Infinite, was released in 2021. The series launched with the first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved and its tie-in novel, The Fall of Reach in 2001. The artifacts of a long-disappeared race, the Forerunners, play a key role the eponymous Halo Array are immense, habitable and ring-shaped superweapons that were created by the Forerunners to destroy the parasitic Flood, but which the alien Covenant mistake for religious artifacts of transcendence.

Primarily taking place in the 26th century, the franchise centers on conflict between humanity and a variety of alien species. The franchise is currently managed and developed by 343 Industries, and owned and published by Xbox Game Studios. Halo is a military science fiction media franchise.