Halo's Surprising Origins as an RTS Game

Halo, one of the biggest FPS franchises ever… didn’t even start as a shooter.

Bungie confirmed that the original Halo was first built as a real-time strategy game for the Mac.

Then they rebuilt it into a third-person action game, and only late in development did

it transform into the first-person shooter that launched with the Xbox. Even crazier: Microsoft

was so blown away by the early build that they bought Bungie outright just to make Halo

the centerpiece of the original Xbox. So Halo didn’t just define a console…

it completely changed genres on its way there. We post daily gaming fun facts.

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