For my current popular culture topic I chose the game of Halo. Halo is a video game that takes place in the distant future. Its main characters consist of the Master Chief who is a cybernetically enhanced human super soldier and his sidekick companion, Cortana, who is an alien (Mclaughlin, 2007). The game is based on a war between humanity and an allegiance of aliens called the Covenant who worship an ancient civilization called the Forerunners (Mclaughlin, 2007).
The first Halo game was released in November 2001 and was called Halo: Combat Evolved (Mclaughlin, 2007). Halo 2 was released in November of 2004 and Halo 3, the final game of the trilogy, was released in September 2007 (Mclaughlin, 2007).
In recent years, the Halo trilogy has become one of the most popular games on various video game consoles such as Xbox and PS3. The game sales have exceeded 34 million copies worldwide. With the success of the games, Halo has branched off into Halo novels and other products including various forms of merchandise. This merchandise has bought in over $1.7 billion in sales (Mclaughlin, 2007).
With the great success of the main Halo trilogy, Microsoft created other Halo games off of the trilogy called Halo Wars and Halo: Reach (Mclaughlin, 2007).
References
Mclaughlin, R. (2007). IGN Presents The History of Halo. Retrieved January 9, 2011, from IGN.com: http://games.ign.com/articles/821/821618p1.html
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