Halo 3 sold more than US$170 million worth of copies in the first twenty-four hours of release, breaking the record set by Halo 2 three years prior. Fueled by the success of Halo: Combat Evolved, and immense marketing campaigns from publisher Microsoft, its sequels went on to break various sales records. ![]() This has led to the term " Halo killer" being used to describe console games that aspire, or are considered, to be better than Halo. ![]() The series has been praised as being among the best first-person shooters on a video game console, and is considered the Microsoft Xbox's " killer app". The term "Halo" refers to Halo megastructures: large, habitable ringed structures, similar to the Orbitals in Iain M Banks' Culture novels, or author Larry Niven's Ringworld. Many of the games center on the experiences of Master Chief John-117, a cybernetically-enhanced human super-soldier, and his artificial intelligence (AI) companion, Cortana. The Covenant are led by their leaders, The Prophets, and worship an ancient civilization known as the Forerunners, who perished in combat with the parasitic Flood. ![]() The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. Halo is a multi-billion dollar fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios.
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