Every Halo Campaign Ranked Worst to Best 

Halo CE has the element of "discovery" and the plot twist is amazing. I love the end where you are running through 3 way battles of the Covenant, Flood and the Monitors minions.

Halo reach was my favorite campaign, but halo 3's final mission with my brother driving and me being on the turret was my favorite memory

I'm a big fan of Halo: Reach, I just love the sandbox with the armour abilities, the diverse weapons and enemies. The Brutes have a solid place in the sandbox and get around the shield issue by having armour lock. All the Covenant have really strong visuals, like difference between Jackals and Skirmishers. I love the story of Reach getting slowly overrun. Also has my favourite weapon, the Needler Rifle. But really all the Bungie Halos are good, I have a soft spot for Reach but they're all fantastic.

ODST will forever be my favorite. An unpopular take sure, but I just think its neat. I love the ambiance, the music, the level design for me is always fun. Being Dutch and meeting up with all the marines to push back an assault will always be memorable to me

Something interesting to note about Halo CE's balance. For CE Bungie went through the game and fine-tuned every single enemy encounter for each of the 4 difficulties. Tuning behaviour, spawns, how many enemies etc. As opposed to Halo 2 where the development was rushed and they just gave the enemies more health and damage the higher the difficulty, hence the infamous sniper jackals.

My favourite is Halo Reach. The missions felt unique from the other games, the gameplay felt fun for me but I can see how others wouldn't like it as much. But the biggest thing that sold the game for me was when you first encounter the field marshals. When that music kicks in and your ordered to chase them gives me tingles just thinking about it.

Halo 2 for me. I remember getting it at the midnight launch back in 2004. Played it all night literally. Love the Halo 2 combat and gunplay

One thing I love about CE is the aura of mystery around it, especially in the first half. What is this ring? Who built it? Why was it built? What secrets does it contain? Even though I know the answers to those questions, that feeling of mystery isn't diminished for me. Plus the vast majority of it actually takes place on a Halo so there's that lol

Me and my BFF played through every Bungie-developed Halo game on Legendary last month, and we saved Halo 2 for last because we knew it was by far the hardest, so we considered it the "final boss" of our Halo marathon. We both thought it was going to be extremely frustrating, especially with Iron skull automatically on, and I figured we'd probably just give up at some point. But, no, it turned out to be the absolute most fun we have ever fucking had playing Halo together. Forcing both of you to survive until the next checkpoint means you HAVE to play tactical as hell, and it really tests your bond as both friends and teammates. It was so much fun it made me curious what the rest of the games are like in Iron co-op, but we're pretty Halo'd out right now.

i think the use of the word "filler" is a little wrong here.

The OG will always be my favorite. So replayable and so much fun. It's Halo in it's most pure state.

A weird thing about ODST, if you use mod tools you can make weapons silent by literally checking a box. Meaning you can play through ODST with actually silenced weapons with somewhat decent stealth. It's odd to me thst bungie never took that option.

I have to disagree with saying that combat evolved has a well balanced weapon sandbox, while every weapon is usable, the magnum and plasma pistol, and the shotgun are objectively far better than any other weapon

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I think Halo CE is a little boring but damn, they really nailed the gunplay right in the first game. Every gun has it's use and they all feel great to shoot and have good sound design. And the way the enemies react, with their cartoonish animations and screams. Love it. And i love the library. I can never get enough of blasting swarms of flood with frag grenades and shotgun fire. Halo 2's campaign is awesome. There is so much variation in the levels and pretty much all the encounters are structured excellently. The music is great. Graphics feel like a bit of a downgrade from CE, but still nice to look at. I don't really like Halo 3's campaign all that much. It's jarring playing it right after Halo 2, as the story is so paper thin. I think that's the worst sin of Halo 2, it's cliffhanger right before the intended conclusion made it impossible to create a satisfying third game. Also, Arbiter has been reduced to serve as MC's boring sidekick. Just what the hell, man. And the level Cortana. Ugh.

"... which is probably a shock to no one" I died 🤣🤣

been loving the content lately, keep it up man

Halo Infinite was such a disapointement. It's just half a campaign. They nailed the balance of enemies, but there's no third faction. And the level design is very repetitive, there's almost no unique moments.

Halo CE, Halo 3 & Halo 2 are my top 3. First experiencing Halo with CE was amazing! And the adrenaline rush i got from 343 Guilty Spark, Keyes and the Maw. Will never forget it.

All of this was rated pretty perfectly. I also love that you addressed ODST being exactly what it was meant to be, not a main story but an additionally side story. It was just an add on which I think a lot of people forget about

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I remember playing the last boss fight on halo infinite campaign and I kicked a hole in my wall it’s still there to this day 😭

What’s so great about the bungie era is that each game is quite distinct but still very good if not incredible. Like there’s a mood I’ll be in for each different game. It’s not just recycled and slightly tweaked sequels. They kept trying to innovate while keeping the heart of CE which is awesome and something few if any series can match

Halo 2 is my first halo game and I do not regret it, beat the campaign so many times as a kid because I didn’t have online and I was still Satisfied lol the remastered is just a masterpiece for me

That final confrontation in halo 2 with the Arbiter is still amazing. Hearing Spark speak on what happened to the forerunners while the tragic music plays. Perfection.

One thing that always bothered me story wise about the 343 era is how much everything needs to be explained. I liked the original trilogy where everything was still a mystery which was fine, because you’re just a green guy with a gun.

ODST and Reach are top tier imo

I like halo. I like speedruns. Glad I found your channel.

So many things you said about Halo 2 is exactly me. I love Gravemind. Best level in ALL of the Halo series

How can you Not Care about the Story IN A STORY GAME

I think infinite is underrated. The missions were repetitive but the gameplay was peak with all the weapons and the open world was fun. The grand story while not typical exciting halo story is more mysterious and the character depth of master chief, new Cortana, and the pilot are great. The dialogue is great so character wise I like it. I don't disagree where u put it tho

I was 13 when Halo CE came out. It was (and honestly still is) so impressive and fun to play. I played most of the games since then. Your rankings are spot on and I agree that Halo CE just feels so good and balanced to play. I loved your comment on the Library because I also really like the library. 😆

Great video! I like your perspective on Halo a lot

I feel like Halo 2 is the best campaign.

For what it’s worth, ODST included a multiplayer map pack that was normally priced at $15.

Nice video, I felt that you should have covered the "343 Guilty Spark" in Halo CE, I feel that that level truly defines the horror aspect to Halo CE which none of the other games have.

Halo CE just has such good enemies and gunplay. It’s really amazing how much they did with so little. I think it really came down to the dynamic play of the AI. Each enemy is unique and acts differently. Really there are only a few things I would change about the enemies for legendary. Halo 2 enemies are way to spongy (elite ultra, brutes, combat forms) or laser beam accuracy (sniper jackles, and rocket flood). Halo 3 suffers from way too hard vehicle combat, bad telegraphing of grunt grenades, and making the flood pure forms too accurate and tanky (in the case of the turret kind and the tank forms. Also I always felt like it forced you to rely on power weapons way too much. Halo ODST honestly fixed a lot wrong with halo 3 and I tend to enjoy it more, but the lack of regeneration and the slowness of the character makes for some binds in combat. Also hunters are fearsome monsters at times. Halo Reach is bungies most busted game. The extreme bloom of every weapon was just too much. I feel like this game was finished entirely and then they added the horrendous bloom. Elites, skirmishers, and bugs all dodge like crazy. Grunts and brutes often wear helmets. This slows combat to a crawl. Add to this that elites have a one hit melee, brutes armor lock to both grenades and needler, there’s a lot of very slow combat. Halo 4 and 5 are just not even worth mentioning. Halo infinite has pretty good legendary. Honestly I really enjoyed the boss fights. I think my bigger problem was just the lack of variety in environments, the lack of an epic story or development or many characters and how the game feels a little drawn out. Basically despite each encounter being a little different they’re just isn’t a compelling reason to do stuff. Why are you fighting the banished? Because they’re going to wipe out humanity? Who? You, the pilot and Cortana 2.0? You meet nobody else in this game. There’s no story to any of the side quests. Sure halo CE didn’t have many characters but you had the flood to give the game a change in pace. I know people complained about halo 5 and it’s 70 characters with no development, but halo infinite has no characters. Compare this to halo 2 with arbiter, the 3 prophets, tarterous, shipmaster, maranda, Johnson, the Cornel, and two dozen scripted interactions where the characters felt like they had personality. And this wasn’t even an open world game. What they should have done for halo infinite is had quest-givers- maybe laskey, arbiter, buck, Halsey, maybe the new oracle. Created some factions with unique enemies. A game climax where all the powers fight it out. They probably should have taken a borderlands style approach to these interactions where you hear them over the radio. The Weapon could have commented on each one and generally handled the interactions while Chief stuck to his classic one liners. The lack of a compelling narrative in the game makes me want to puke.

I’ve just ran through MCC on Legendary and I used to have Halo 1 as my favourite but honestly, I love Reach, the story just felt so much more engaging than what I remembered it being.

The fact that 343 mismanaged so poorly that you don't care for the story anymore speaks volumes.

Halo is part of my childhood gosh 😢😮 me and my friend recently played every campaign starting from CE up yo Halo 4. Haven't play 5 or infinite yet. Loved ODST the music is wow and classic 2 and 3 are a must 😍

Strangely I would say that the reason halo CE's gunplay in the campaign is the best in the whole series I think is probably because xbox live wasn't a thing and competitive multiplayer wasn't really a big focus or selling point. More like something to do with your friends. Weapoons from 2 onwards have to be balanced for multiplayer which means that they cannot be insanely overpowered and with crazy amounts of ammo like in CE, which means that the guns feel a lot lamer during the campaigns. And so the magnum was never the same, the shotgun was never the same, the rocket launcher and so on....

Great video. The only thing I would probably swap is 2 and 1 as I see two as a more refined version of 1 with more variety in weapons, no need for annoying health packs, and less repetition in level design.

Great work on the videos, i was wondering if you would ever think about covering the timesplitters series?

I'd swap 2 for CE but agree across almost all points. I played so so sooooo much Halo 2, I'm sure I could play it today and still nail those sniper jackals as they run up.

No one gonna ignore that he almost basically did everything in order except for Infinite? Best Halo Campaign was CE, the first Halo and Worst was Halo 5, the Second Last

Not having Reach > ODST is criminal imo. ODST is underrated tho.

This is the only listing where I agree with the entire list and it’s reasons. Amazing video dude keep it up!

Haven't started the video yet but I'm so pumped!

Hot take, halo infinite> halo Combat evolved, halo infinite has a decent story, great graphics, decent art style, its very different compared to most halo experiences, and the core combat is easily the cleanest and fastest its ever been with the grapple hook serving as its backbone.

I wonder how your list would be if you took story into account, even though you said your not that into it. My list includes the story so it would be like below. some context about me: I played halo CE first when it came out in 2002 in NZ (we go it a little later than the US), loved it been my favourite franchise since. I was 7 at the time. Although I've ranked the first 3 here they are essentially all the same for me, but if I had to choose which i like the most this is it. 1.Halo 3 ( best game pay of all halos for me, wish it was more difficult, levels are incredibly unique, never felt like anything was repeated) 2.Halo2 ( awesome story but the level design is a bit worse than 3 id say) 3.Halo CE ( classic ) 4.ODST ( great story/ and missions are very unique in style since its from the other characters perspectives. game play would've been nice if it was more difficult) 5.Reach/Infinite (tied, since Im not a fan of how reach plays, but Im a fan of the story/levels. and infinite has a good story but not the best levels) 6.Halo 4 (would be much higher if only considering story, but the levels just kinda such) 7.Halo 5 (levels are not as bad as 4 but the story and game play just turn me off this game)

I’ve been watching lots of Halo games ranking videos recently, and I’m honestly astonished that so many younger players recognize & appreciate the awesomeness & 30 seconds of fun over and over again of HALO1! I wrongly thought that only older players that were already adults or at least teens when the game was first released would fully discern its greatness.

"I don't care about the halo story in 2023" Yeah... 343's writing in a nutshell.

halo CE, meeting the flood for the first time right after watchin the fallen marines headset recording, the buildup was great. first landing on halo was cool. the 2 betrayals was an epic level, the maw. the atmosphere of that whole game was something else.

Just returned to Halo series with the MCC. Not really an FPS person at all, but loved playing the (admittedly flawed) Gearbox port of CE to the PC and I remember reading up on a load of the lore in the time just before Halo 3 came out. I think the variety of opinions on ranking the various campaigns really speaks to how good the series on the whole is. CE is definitely my top as well. I think a lot boils down to which game you played first. I agree the backtracking isn't great, but I actually think finishing on the Pillar of Autumn works well. Two Betrayals is the worst offender for that, but I do like how the mission opens up some areas which you don't see in the first run through. For a backtrack, it's not a badly done one. I really do love the freedom of movement and approach, particularly in levels such as Silent Cartographer which for me is one of the best in the series. Maybe I'm missing something on the dialogue, because folks seem to be complaining about it, but I never had an issue. The weapon toolbox is small, but that does mean each weapon nicely fits into its own role without too much overlap with another weapon. Story wise, I honestly think it's the best in the series. Second place is hard, and I think would depend exactly what you're talking about. ODST is probably the game I was most surprised by actually loving for the way it told the story, and while I agree it plays more like a squishy spartan than an actual ODST, I really loved the characters. I also quite enjoyed Reach, and actually enjoyed the gameplay all the way through, although I didn't really feel much attachment to the characters. Seems like it was trying to do ODST, but doesn't quite do it as well with the character development. On the other hand, Reach has elites. I'd probably prefer ODST's story, and Reach's gameplay. Halo 2 does a much better job of expanding the Halo universe after CE, playing as the Arbiter is very fun, although I did find it to drag in parts. Halo 2 also drops quite a bit of the open approach to levels CE has and instead has quite a few forced elevator and gondola rides which is a downgrade. There are a few story beats which feel a bit off towards the middle / end of the game, but I think it otherwise has a great story. Halo 3 recaptures a lot of that open feel, but it did sometimes feel like 'how many vehicles can we throw into this section of the game' at times, and I feel the weapon toolbox was getting a little over complex. Enjoyable once we get to the Ark, and some very nice callbacks to the earlier games, but the earlier stuff was simply good, not amazing. Not having Arbiter sections is a bit sad. Story is probably the weakest of original trilogy, and I agree fighting Brutes is not as fun as Elites. Also Cortana.....not as bad as I expected, but yes it's not great. I think from a technical standpoint probably one of the best games, but I don't think I loved it as much as CE, 2 or even Reach. Four wasn't awful, but for me it is weaker than the Bungie era games. Having doors actively closed behind me so I can't go back to get stuff, and the introduction of what I felt was a not great new enemy and weapon variety was a let down. I did quite enjoy fighting with human and covenant weapons and they had a nice 'weight' to them. I felt the best levels were those with no or minimal Promethean presence. Can't speak to 5 and Infinite, but it sounds like 5 is worth a miss in any case. CE > ODST > Halo 2 > Reach > Halo 3 >> Halo 4 is the order I'm going with based on how much I enjoyed them.

People that don’t understand how good CE is blow my mind.

Incredibly satisfying to hear your commentary on Halo 3. May be unpopular but I think Halo 3s campaign is straight garbage until the Ark. Cortana sucks as well. Halo 3 brutes are stupid while the elites always had the feeling of being cold, efficient and arrogant opponents making them so satisfying to beat.

What I think is fascinating about Halo 4's Del Rio rage scene is that at the time everyone (both in and outside of the game) was hating on him for it and then 10 years later 343 decided to give that scene a completely new tone where Del Rio could have saved billions of people if Chief, Lasky or Palmer had actually followed his orders.

I don't like how Halo 4 disregarded all of the lore that was established.

8 : H4 7 : H5 6 : H Reach 5 : H CE 4 : H Infinite 3 : H3Odst 2 : H 3 1 : H 2 I grew up with halo CE btw, dont start me on "oh yea u discovered halo 2 years ago" nah i play halo since im 3 in 2004 Now, for bits of explanations I always found the gameplay of H4 very lacking, and the story didnt touch me a bit. But the real flaw was the gameplay still, very hard to play this without sighing every 2 minutes. not to mention the artstyle was very bad. For H5, the only thing that saved it was the gunplay and the multiplayer IDEAS, not what they did with it. But i had fun on warzone sometimes so... I guess. Still, the story sucked. and the artstyle still shitty. Oh boy am i in trouble for this one... Reach never really got to me like it got to most of people. Dont get me wrong i really like reach, its a good game to come back sometimes, especially with the mods and the customization (the best in the series btw) The game is just not better than the other ones imo For Halo CE, i just played it too much, and it does not hold up from the next ones but i love it for real. Halo infinite was a blast. I really loved the gameplay, the characters were very good, and despite the open world being very... Samey, it was very fun to explore. I love the new guns, i love the artstyle, i love everything except for the multiplayer. Halo 3 odst is just about ambience. It's not about being a badass green boi, its about surviving and finding ur teammates around mombasa. I love this game. Halo 3 is just pure perfection, next. Halo 2 was my childhood game, it just blast my mind when i was 5 and i played it, and to this day is the campaign i replay the most out of all. I love playing as the arbiter, i love the elites artstyle, i love having grunts and elites as allies, i love the story, i love the ambience. Thanks for reading with my bad english xD

Bro really just put the bungie games in release order and thought we would not notice 💀💀💀

This is all the Halo games ranked backwards, with the exception of Halo Infinite.

Halo 2 was the game I would come home to play co-op with my dad on the 360

Halo 1, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach are the only ones I come back to for the main games. I love Halo Wars 1 and 2 as well.

Strange question, but with the MCC when playing Halo CE I noticed certain missions when fighting the Flood that if you stand in one spot and don’t push through they’ll just continuously keep coming (specifically the mission Keyes is where I noticed this). Did anyone else notice this? Maybe it’s always been like this or maybe (which would be more cool in my opinion) they did create an endless spawn that forced you to push through to get past, I don’t know.

CE is just pure fun, hitting The Maw with the Bandana skull on will forever be my favorite gaming experience. I’m probably in the minority that actually likes the Anniversary graphics over the original graphics, though.

I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU LIKE [INSERT HALO CAMPAIGN] BETTER THAN [INSERT OTHER CAMPAIGN] DO YOU EVEN PLAY HALO? That right there is the best description of every halo debate ever

I totally understand why people rank 5 last, but for me 4 is last because it is 4 that ruins the lore. In fact I kind of like how 5 tries to retcon parts of the story that 4 messed up, such as actually explaining what was going on with the covenant more than not at all. I would also respect the rampancy storyline way more if it didn't make Cortana completely change her character for some reason. Chief also acts completely different and it just feels like such a clash from how he had been established in previous games. 4 is also way worse in terms of balancing imo. Knights are as common as elites but as strong as hunters. 5 making a new enemy type to serve as that medium enemy type and making the knights rarer vastly improved the experience. Both suck though, and most of the new characters where just complete misses.

Loved the video!

"CE is better than 2" I think he's on something. CE has aged poorly.

"There's a lot of stuff that I liked as a kid that I now think sucks. Halo one still holds up."

Halo 2 will be my favourite always, I also really like the remastered cutscenes for it

THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT YOU PUT HALO 5 IN LAST PLACE AND NOT INFINITE!!!!!! INFINITE WAS ACTUALLY GOOD WITH BOSS BATTLES, MUSIC, REAL TIME CUTSCENES, AND ACTUAL GOOD DESIGNS FOR THE CHARACTERS!!!!!!!!! (P.S. Halo 3 is my fav :)

The bottom portion of my list is easy: 5, 4, Infinite... then it gets difficult, but I came up with CE, 2, ODST, Reach, 3

ODST was just short but sweet. I loved the night vision and silenced pistol and sub machine gun. Also liked how it kinda had a bladerunner cyberpunk vibe. And the ODST armor was the coolest looking armor in any halo game in my opinion. Even when I'd customize my armor for online matchmaking I'd usually go for the ODST armor pieces with the black primary and secondary colors.

1. Halo CE 2. Halo 4 (Because Prometheans > Flood) 3. Halo 3 4. Halo ODST 5. Halo 2 (Way too linear, Story Demystifies the Covenant) I havn't played Reach, Infinite or 5 yet, but I'd probably start with Infinite.

hearing that you were 4 when halo 2 came out just makes me feel myself ageing, i was 10 when halo 2 came out and was finishing my first year of university by the time halo 4 came out

Anyone noticed that his least to most favourite is, mostly, the reverse release order? 😅

I can't be the only one who actually loved Halo 4 right?

1:40 I think Bungie's art design is overrated

Great video. I was 12 when halo 2 came out. And to this day I've never been more mad at the end of a video game. 😅

Before watching this, going to post my ranking (I don't play on Legendary, so factor that in): 1: Halo CE & Halo 2 (tie: CE has the best tone, 2 is the most fun, though if I have to choose I'd put CE ahead of 2) 3: Halo 3 4: Halo Infinite 5: ODST 6: Reach (the only Bungie campaign I actively dislike) (Halo 4 and 5 do not exist) Edit: ayyyyy we agree on everything except Infinite!

I remember hearing that ODST was supposed to be a Halo3 DLC and not a "full game". Makes a lot more sense in terms of expectations: length, not playing as the MC. Would have been (one of) the best DLC in history.

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who loves Chiefs armor in 4. It’s my personal favorite, I was dead in love with it. Rookies odst armor is still my fav

Great list. Won my subscription.

Halo Reach def has to be the fav for me. Maybe a little bit of bias due to the fact that it’s the first I played but its unique storyline that shows how everyone that isn’t Master Chief doesn’t always have a good ending really shows a different side to Halo

ODST is I think the only MCC game I have the 3 hours on legendary achievement, which I earned during my SLASO playthrough. Hadn't played legendary on ODST at that point, it's super short. Really fun LASO though.

Nevermind not being able to run, and bullets getting various speeds, but CE was special because in damn near NO other game of its time could you maim snipers with your trusty starting pistol. That was a hot take on FPS games of its time. And vehicles - that was a fantastic addition that we only ever really saw in Tribes and sort of in UT2k3 and 2k4.

The only problem with odst is that is was too short, it felt like half the length it should have been and it would have been nice to have missions with the entire squad. And while I get why there are no elites in the game (the brutes killed them), I would have loved to have seen the covenant infighting in New Mombassa during the game, maybe even let us fight along side the elites enemy of my enemy style.

I think that if halo infinite added a dlc to the campaign where somehow someway doesn't matter the FLOOD COMES BACK and with this the ring has a literal flood💀

Reverse the top three picks and this list is literally perfect

Here waiting for Marty's approval.

Reach and CE are my favorite Halos. the first video game I ever played was Halo CE but Halo Reach was the game I grinded back in day when I was 10.

Halo CE has a certain mechanical sturdiness to the feel of it that has lessened with each subsequent Halo game. The guns felt heavier, the physics were slower and it was as if the air was thick, the lighting primitive and analog and the equipment from a bygone era where it was all heavy and satisfying to use, a bit like an old tractor or washing machine built to last generarions and made of iron, not plastic. For that it gets my nostalgia vote. 2, 3 and Reach all on a par with each other give or take, but over the generations each Halo has become slightly less distinct, slighly more mainstream in feel until today where I doubt it would be possible to recreate the groundbreaking feel of a genre totally reworked like CE managed both feel and immersion wise. I also remember getting Halo 2 on release day in 04 (with a large guide book detailing each level and its map) and getting very in to it. Happy times!

1) Halo 2 is my favorite all around. The easter eggs and the fact that Halo 2 has, by FAR, the least amount of backtracking of the original trilogy, really do it for me. Not to mention that this game has the most memorable dialogue, characters, and overall improvements to the core Halo gameplay. The only thing I dislike about Halo 2 is the fact that the MCC is the only way to play Halo 2 Anniversary, and I wish we made a stink about it like we did about CoD Infinite being tied to MW Remastered. 2) After that is ODST, which does the thankless job of tying CE, 2, and 3 together in an isolated story that has practically nothing to do with Master Chief. It's sense of immersion, mystery, and exploration really lend themselves nicely to the balance of goofiness and light drama that I LOVE about Bungie Halo. I cannot overstate how amazing it is that they managed to make a much smaller environment than Halo Infinite, feel infinitely more diverse. I despise how Dare exists almost exclusively as a romantic interest for Buck though, and their dynamic makes me sick from start to finish. 3) Third place would go to Reach for its ability to keep the maps diverse and moving. Coming back to Reach, the biggest complaint I have is the way armor abilities aren't really improved from Halo 3. But assassinations and jetpacks are peak Halo and I will ninja anyone who disagrees. 4) In Halo CE, the first half is unique and new, filled with that sense of discovery that Halo is praised for, but the second half amounts to little more than backtracking the first half of the game, but now with the flood (an enemy that never got a chance to be fun to fight). 5) Halo Infinite has a grappling hook! Glad they dropped the Guardians plotline entirely to do a relatively inoffensive soft reboot. The open world is... severely lacking though. 6) Halo 4 exists! I don't like the dynamic between Cortana and Master Chief at all, and I don't really remember any of the other characters. It does set-pieces REALLY well for what few there actually are. 7) Halo 3 has the most contrived plot of any of the Halo games, and is practically just Halo CE with slightly higher stakes, and a plot entirely comprised of deus ex machina after machina. Nothing is resolved in a satisfying or interesting manner, and what little IS original about Halo 3, is not good. Not to mention the constant dialogue from Grave Mind and Cortana that interrupt gameplay, rather frequently, to make 0 sense. If Halo 2 was supposed to end like Halo 3, I'm glad they got split. Why did they think killing off Johnson and Miranda in the same story was a good idea? And both of them die SO ANTICLIMACTICALLY. And the flood was never a problem again- the end. 8) Halo 5: Guardians will always be the worst Halo game both in and out of its campaign. and with supremely good reason. It's boring at its best, and a culmination of all of Halo's worst elements at its usual. The only bossfight is a bad one, and they reuse it OVER AND OVER AND OVER. Not to mention the absolute HYPE they were building around this game, but looking back, the only memorable moment in that game is the slow motion fistfight cutscene between Locke and Chief, and it's not memorable because it's a good fight. (It's also not actually in slow motion...)

I like Infinite. It shows 343 has promise, it plays like a Bungie halo. I agree that the environments need more variety, but I never really saw it as a problem. Playing on Legendary I find the combat pretty balanced, you are easier to take down but it still isn't too hard to take out banished. The boss fights to play pretty well and I like how they make you use the new gear you get throughout the campaign. I personally like the open world, and exploring the ring me feels kind of like the second mission in CE, in an open environment, and you have your tools, objectives, and a means to move around, it feels like a sandbox. I love running around the ring in a giant warthog and saving marines to get them to join my squad. I never feel bored as theirs always something to do, take out a target, clear a fob, save marines, or play the story. It has problems hats for sure and it's not a perfect game, but I think it's evidence enough that 343 can make good games and I hope this can be a stepping stone for Halo to get back to its golden age. I don't think its better than any of the Bungie games, Ill always love reach and ODST, but its good in my opinion.

For me it's CE, as an 04 kid you'd think I would have grown up playing a later game but my older brother got CE on a thumb drive and got it on one of the school loan laptops. I still remember copying the game around the school computer room and playing lan parties all class

Couldn't agree more about Halo 2's story. I was so disappointed they dropped the entire covenant perspective in Halo 3. Just a complete shame.

i think halo reach has good PVE its just much more stutter, like it'll go really fast with you blazing threw elite minors, jackals and grunts and then you hit a squad of ultras or brute majors with a chieftain and suddenly you have to slow down and actually strategize instead of relying on your reflexes or power weapons which throws off a lot of previous halo players (legendary) could be wrong though, ill admit i hate the skirmishers and think they should have a little less health but other than that i love the rhythm and gameplay of reach. great video!

Halo 5 is the only campaign I didn’t even play 😂

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