Halo Facts

In only a few days time there will be a big game released called Halo Reach so just as a little tie in for the game i thought i would pepper you with a few Halo facts that you might want to have a little look over just to prepare yourself for the final jaunt into the Halo universe.

•  Halo 1+2 have sold a combined 14.8 million units worldwide and up until May of this year the whole Halo series has shifted 34 million units.
• The original Halo was meant to be a RTS for the Apple Macintosh however when Microsoft bought Bungie the game went through a full overhaul and turned into the FPS that we all love.
• A special edition of the original game was released on the PC, called the custom edition it enabled players to create there own content and game types for the game.
• Halo 2 remained the most played online game on the Xbox for over 2 years and was never knocked off the top spot until the servers were shut down this year for all original Xbox games.
• During its lifetime Halo 2 was played online by more than 5.5 million unique players, however it's crown was taken away by Call of Duty 4.
• On it's launch Halo 3 broke records by bringing in $175 million in it's first 24 hours beating any of the biggest movie blockbuster at it's time.
• Halo 3 features more lines of dialogue than 20 standard feature films which included 39,000 lines of unique dialogue.
• In 2007 Ensemble studio's were planning to make a massively multiplayer online game version of Halo however the game itself was canned straight away.
• Bungie studio's were formed in 1991 with Minotaur the Labyrinths of Crete being there first game, however they didn't hit it big until they made Marathon which turned them into a huge PC developer.

Well thats it for my Halo facts post tell me what you think in the comments section below and you never know i might do one for Call of Duty when the new game comes out