The popularity of halo Halloween costumes should no longer come as a surprise especially to the gaming world. After all, the halo video game franchise by Bungie has come a long way from the early days of the Halo: Combat Evolved game, to the $170 million earnings reaped by Halo 3.

To the uninitiated, Halo is a video game trilogy which centers on the cybernetically-enhanced soldier named Master Chief. Halo has nothing to do with angles, but it refers to the habitable megastructures featured in the game.

The Halo trilogy has produced several interesting characters out of which the halo Halloween costumes have been patterned. While the most popular of these characters is Master Chief, as he is the super human soldier that saves the human race from the Covenant aliens, there are other interesting halo characters you can choose from.

Take for example Cortana who is an artificially intelligent female who helps the Master Chief in his mission. You can be creative in representing Cortana’s character as she does not have a human form. However, she is usually represented as a curvaceous female with an exciting character.

But whether you opt for the Master Chief or Cortana, or the rest of the gang, the halo Halloween costumes are a hands down favorite for more reasons than one. The easiest one to point out is perhaps the popularity of the Halo Trilogy as a video game.

Thanks to a massive publicity initiated by Microsoft, the Halo Trilogy went on to earn millions of dollars for the company. The more than 34 million copies of the Halo games sold all over the world is perhaps the primary reason for the popularity of the halo Halloween costumes among children and adults alike.

An ideal proof of the popularity of halo, not only when it comes to halo Halloween costumes but also in terms of the other products that carry the images of the halo characters, is the over $1.7 billion gross sales of all halo merchandise. The makers of halo tried the bookworms and did not fail as halo novels became bestsellers one after the other.

Halo would have made it to the movies had the film adaptation script for Halo written by Alex Garland in 2005 progressed beyond the pre-production stage. While the movie version is dead for now, Microsoft still holds the rights to the film and who knows, it just might become a reality.

Halo’s popularity is finally sealed as Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas shows off the Master Chief’s wax replica. It has finally joined the ranks of favorite Halloween costumes including Spiderman, Wolverine and the other Marvel Heroes.

With the games breaking even halo records in sales, and its merchandise hitting the billions mark, the people behind halo had to find new mediums for brand promotion. Now it can be said, halo has become part of pop culture.

The halo Halloween costumes is the latest product carrying the halo brand and with its popularity, it is set to turn the whole world into a halo nation when fright night comes. And while you’re at it, why not check out which halo Halloween costumes you want your children to wear for Halloween?