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''Halo'' is a massive video game series and one of the premiere franchises exclusive to the [[X BoxXbox]]. In the 26th century, Earth is at war with a powerful collective of alien races known as The Covenant, who share a fanatical religion and have declared humans a profane race to be wiped out. [[Bungie|Bungie Studios]] created the game series and it has taken on a life of its own, with many [[Expanded Universe]] stories and other game genres. The first three FPS games form the main story with the main character, Master Chief, and his vital role in the war. There have also been several [[Novelization|Novelizations]], which forms the majority of the [[Backstory]], introducing and naming characters, events, and [[All There in the Manual|other information that fill in gaps in and between the games.]]

''Halo'' is one of the best-known [[Killer App|Killer Apps]]. When the original [[X BoxXbox]] was announced, there was a lot of skepticism from those who had already experienced the [[Console Wars]] and had no reason to believe the [[X BoxXbox]] would go anywhere. Their reasoning wasn't inaccurate: [[Four Is Death|Three Is Death]] in the console market, which (until then) had had trouble supporting even ''two'' consoles; and, as released, the [[X BoxXbox]] did not (seem to) have anything worth playing. (The fact the original Xbox was an ''American-made console'' didn't help, after the disaster the [[Atari Jaguar]] was.) But once gamers got their grubby little hands on it, ''Halo'' singlehandedly kept Microsoft in the race, with [[Caustic Critic|Edge Magazine]] even going so far as to call it "the most important launch game for any console, ever." All of its sequels have set "biggest-opening-day" records.