10 Rumours You Need To Hear About Halo 5

5. It's More Than A Game, It's A Franchise

With Halo 5: Guardians sure to cause huge waves in the gaming world and certainly someone will herald it as "the first reason to buy an Xbox One", despite the already impressive catalogue out and more joining every month, it is no surprise that all the stops have been pulled out over at 343 Industries. Halo: Nightfall is Alien director Ridley Scott's new serialised take on the Halo universe, specifically designed (to start with, at least) as a build up for the release of the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta and Halo 5: Guardians itself.

As with Halo: Forward Unto Dawn and Halo 4, Halo: Nightfall and Halo 5: Guardians are likely to be intertwined stories that allow for much more narrative exposition than could ever be reasonably fitted into a single FPS game, even ones as rich as the Halo series.

Halo: Nightfall will follow the mysterious Agent Locke, whom we know almost nothing about, only that Ross has stated he will be a "pivotal role" in both Halo: Nightfall and Halo 5: Guardians.