Halo (Chinese translation: halo, halo, the last battle, etc. ) is a sci-fi game series created by Bungie, and the copyright and publisher is Microsoft Game Studio. There are three kinds of orthodox games. The central figure and protagonist of the story is Chief Sergeant, a human super soldier who has undergone surgical transformation.
The sergeant also has an AI companion, who is also the heroine of the story. . . ) The name is Cortana (Cotana). The story focuses on the battle between the sergeant and the Covenant to save the future survival of mankind. Among them, Meng Xing is an alien alliance army controlled by extremism (details will be described later). Most of the stories of the game take place on several giant hollow ring artificial structures called Halo, and the concrete images are similar to Larry Niven's novel Ringworlds.
The game trilogy is known as the best first-person shooter game on video game consoles, and also known as Microsoft's "killer game". It is precisely because of the Excellence of Halo series that a new term-Halo Black Boy has appeared in the industry, which is used to describe the game that is better than Halo in the future (for example, a certain XX area was eventually lost by Halo Black Boy).
After the successful sales of the first generation of Halo, Microsoft has high hopes for this series. With Microsoft's unremitting publicity and promotion of the game, the last two songs broke the record of the previous generation. Among them, Halo 3 sold a total of $65,438+70 million game software in 24 hours, setting a world record (although it was later broken by COD4 ModernWarfare). The whole game series has sold more than 27 million in the world.
Under the great influence of the game, Halo also produced five novels, two cartoons and other surrounding areas. In addition, there are a series of derivative works besides the Halo Main Line trilogy. At present, the real-time strategy game Halo Wars was released in March 2009. The developer is Ensemble Studios, which developed the Age of Empires and was the last game of the studio. The latest work of this series, Halo 3 ODST》(Halo 3 Hell Paratrooper), was released on September 22nd. It is considered as an expansion of Halo 3 and a first-person shooter. In addition, in E3 2009, Microsoft announced Halo Reach, which is under development, and the Multiplayer Beta of Halo Reach will be launched at the beginning of 20 10.
The composers of Halo series are all Martin O 'Donnell, and his works perfectly interpret the grand world outlook of Halo, among which the author personally loves the theme music of Halo.
At the 2009 Comic-Con, Microsoft released a series of seven episodes of Halo World View animated short films called Halo Legend. This animation is sponsored by five Japanese animation production groups: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G, Studio 4℃ and ToeiAnimation. The creative producer is Shinji Aramaki (Shinji Aramaki), who directed the series Apple Seeds. The publisher is Warner Bros. (Warner Bros. Pictures), which should be possible.