Red vs Blue first episode
30The series follows the story of two teams of soldiers that exist in a combat simulation and parodies first person gaming, military life and science fiction using the game engine from Halo
An overnight sensation, The first episode received over 20 000 downloads, remember this is before YouTube, and the second had hundreds of thousands of downloads.
At its peak each episode was reportedly getting a million downloads within days of release.
While far from the first web series or the first machinima
Red Vs Blue is one of the most successful examples of both with 18 seasons (and counting) and is credited with bringing both to the mainstream
For those of you who are like me and didn’t know what Machinima was: the word is a portmanteau of the words machine and cinema and the medium uses the existing graphics of a game to bring new narratives to life as opposed to coming up with purpose built CGI or animations…
…usually, but not always, it is a piece of fan fiction or at least starts that way…
…other famous examples of games used include World of Warcraft, Team Fortress and Minecraft but really the list is endless
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