If Nintendo has Mario and Facebook has FarmVille, then Microsoft has the Halo series.
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But if the scale is a necessary part of a Halo series, this game succeeds in a much smaller way.
This is even true of less linear campaigns like the Halo series.
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That will pitch it against the return of Microsoft's Halo series.
And the whole Halo series has consistently tried to make larger and larger environments to play in, even if they never really transitioned to true open-world.
The legendary developer behind the Halo series gave us our first, fleeting look at its new online shooter yesterday, and we saw a more matte vision of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi future taking shape.
This will be an update of a first-person shooter game with a plot that revolves around battling mutant humans attacking from outer space - very similar to the aliens in the Halo series.
The "Halo" series chronicles an interstellar war between humans and aliens known as the Covenant.
The game introduces a new character from the recent "Halo" Web series, and I sometimes wondered if I was missing inside jokes from the related "Halo" books.
On Tuesday at midnight, the latest title in the sci-fi first-person shooter series Halo: Reach launched.
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Actually, as I said in my Halo 4 review series, once you peel back the layers you discover that the game is actually a love story.
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He also promised new releases in the hugely popular "Halo" videogame series, and debuted new Xbox Live features like the "PrimeTime" channel, which will allow users to compete against each other in live game shows.
Hopefully after voting in their local precinct, yesterday millions of Halo fans finally got to return to their beloved series with the release of Halo 4.
Yes, there are other popular series like Halo, Call of Duty, Gears of War and so on that have a ton of titles to their names.
He said that he had chosen the Halo universe as the first series because it was an "amazing world".
Mr Jackson, who also directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, will set up an interactive arm of his firm, Wingnut, and will work with Halo creators Bungie Studios to develop the series.
Halo has its own live-action web series, for instance.
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The company announced at Comic-Con 2009 that it would produce a series of seven short anime films called "Halo Legends, " based on the "Halo" franchise.
Microsoft began the event with a part-gameplay, part live-action movie trailer for "Halo 4, " the latest in the beloved shooter series that has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
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At least this may be the last time: Halo: Reach is slated as the final chapter in the series.
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Blue is a wildly popular "machinima" video series created by manipulating characters inside Microsoft's videogame Halo 2.
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