 Strong sales of the games led to the franchise 's expansion to other media ; there are multiple best @-@ selling novels , graphic novels , and other licensed products . Halo Wars took the franchise into new video game genre territory , as a real @-@ time strategy game , while the rest of the games in the series are first @-@ person shooters . Beyond the original trilogy , Bungie developed the expansion Halo 3 : ODST , and a prequel , Halo : Reach , their last project for the franchise . A high @-@ definition remake of the first game , entitled Halo : Combat Evolved Anniversary , was released on November 15 , 2011 , exactly ten years after the release of the original . A new installment in a second series of games , Halo 4 , was released on November 6 , 2012 . Halo : The Master Chief Collection , a remastered compilation of the four primary Halo titles , was released for the Xbox One on November 11 , 2014 . 
