Red vs. Blue
American comic science fiction video web series
Red vs. Blue, often abbreviated as RvB, is an American animated web series created by Burnie Burns with his production company Rooster Teeth. The show is based on the setting of the video game franchise Halo. The series centers on two opposite teams fighting in an ostensible civil war—shown to actually be a live fire exercise for elite soldiers—in the middle of Blood Gulch, a desolate box canyon, in a parody of first-person shooter video games, military life, and science fiction films.
Red vs. Blue emerged from Burns' voice-over gameplay videos of Bungie's First-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved. The series is primarily produced using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from a game to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. Footage is mostly from the multiplayer modes of Halo: Combat Evolved and its followups on the Xbox consoles. Initially intended to be a short series of six to eight episodes, the project quickly and unexpectedly achieved significant popularity following its premiere on April 1, 2003. The series consists of twenty seasons and six mini-series.
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