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All About Red vs. Blue
Red vs
Blue, often abbreviated as RvB, is an American comic science fiction video web series created by Rooster Teeth Productions and distributed through the Internet, DVD, and Blu-ray
The story centers on two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon (Blood Gulch), in a parody of first-person shooter (FPS) games, military life, and science fiction films
Initially intended to be a short series of six to eight episodes, the project quickly and unexpectedly achieved significant popularity following its Internet premiere on April 1, 2003
In its run, the series has had eleven full seasons and five mini-series that extended the series' plot
The fifth season of the original Blood Gulch Chronicles series ended with episode 100, released on June 28, 2007
Three mini-series � Out of Mind, Recovery One, and Relocated � and the three-part Recollection trilogy containing the full-length Reconstruction , Recreation , and Revelation series (Seasons 6�8) have extended the plot
The Project Freelancer saga began with Season 9 and follows two separate stories: a continuation to the Recollection trilogy and a prequel set before the events of The Blood Gulch Chronicles
The two stories are continued in two further mini-series � MIA and Where There's a Will, There's a Wall � and concluded in Season 10
Burnie Burns confirmed in What's Trending that the series would continue with Season 11, which premiered on June 14, 2013
On February 3, 2014, Miles Luna, head writer and director of Season 11, announced on Rooster Teeth's website that Season 12 will premiere on April 28, 2014
Red vs
Blue is the longest running American science fiction series (including television) and the second-longest running web series of all time (after Homestar Runner).
Red vs
Blue emerged from Burnie Burns' voice-over-enhanced gameplay videos of Bungie Studios' FPS 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 sequels, Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo 4, along with its prequel, Halo: Reach, and Halo 3 ODST on the Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles
Minute sections of the series as it was originally filmed as well as the remastered versions of the first four seasons were also achieved using the Microsoft PC version of the same game.
Red vs
Blue has been generally well-received within the machinima community as well as among film critics
Praised for its originality, the series has won four awards at film festivals held by the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences
It has also won the award for "Best Animated Web Series" from the International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV)
It has been credited with bringing new popularity to machinima, helping it to gain more mainstream exposure, and attracting more people to the art form
Graham Leggat, former director of communications for Lincoln Center's film society, described Red vs
Blue as "truly as sophisticated as Samuel Beckett"
While special videos continue to be released online, the completed series is also available on DVD, making the series one of the first commercially released and successful machinima products
Rooster Teeth has created videos, some under commission from Microsoft, for special events, and Red vs
Blue content is included with the Legendary Edition of Halo 3.