Which Halo Has The BEST Campaign?! - The Act Man 

I freakin love Butterfinger

Halo 3: Best campaign Halo 4: Best story

How’s the Cold War video coming along

idk

No ones laying a finger on my butterfinger

sup bro

Will you Brie my friend?

Wtf. Never thought I would see you here.

OHHHHHH

you're here daddy

Fr tho😂

"You guys have a good time, I'll see ya later..."

@Jiggins U the best bro

Best multiplayer by a country mile though. Fast, smooth, great controls, movement and map design is fantastic!

@@AxxLAfriku you're here I saw you on tons of channels and now here

Halo 3's graphics at 4k/60fps are almost as good as H2A in my opinion, the only thing H3 would benefit from are some dope cinematics from Blur.

You mean remastered cutscenes then? Because halo 2 anniversary isn’t as good as the original because it spoiled the dark atmosphere at times. And have you ever been in the water of the last level just before Tartarus ? 😬

Guilty spark company too lazy to do it.

@@mjstories7181 i’ll pass on the blur, thanks

I just want redone cutscenes that add in gravemind

Same mine as well

Me too honestly miss playing it so much

To 1v1 your brother and making your own base with helicopters and vehicles

Well the original trilogy is superior

​@@flashed8992 that brought back so many memories 😭

The Biology of the Male Acting Man

Oh hi Roanoke

SORRY, ROANOKE. IT'S CLASSIFIED.

@@TheActMan Well he's in a particularly fine mood today

Roanoke”Get the Hell outta my armory you- BLEEEHHEEAAHGHAAH-“ *dropped a shotgun for Act Man to pick up*

The 2000’s graphics help give that feeling too

That Halo 3 Game Fuel... It was never as good as it was in the 2 liters

@@mythhead2688 HAHAHA-

@@mythhead2688 lol

@@mythhead2688 xD

I think it has a wow effect in me too. I recall coming from the first game, seeing that 2nd entry of the series and saying to myself "holy crap, how many new stuffs they added compared to the previous game!" They expanded the game in just everything, and every way possible. Story, universe, characters, voice acting, weapons, vehicles, DUEL WIELDING, the music scores are still really solid. Best thing, the creation of the point of view of the covenant, plus the arbiter. Who needs a flashlight when you can play as an invisible elite with a energy sword? It has the biggest gap of work between 2 games. They made just twice the content of the 1st game. It is just such a big achievement.

@@fellowkrieger457 i could not have said it better myself

I played through the mcc recently and I agree Halo 2 is my favorite even if it is extremely difficult in the higher difficulties.

I don’t what my favorite game of all time is cause I have a few. But Halo 2 is a very strong contender.

the hardest campaign an the best 💯💯💯

Yeah for me odst is my second favorite after ce the atmosphere is so good. And i like to play sneaky

I’d say the same but DAMN is it short!!! My friend and I first time playing it beat it on legendary in under 3 hours apparently.

Halo ce. Then reach. But secretly ODST is there. I love ODST

Imagine if you could come across other drop pods with the corpses of other odsts, with audio logs showing how they died, like maybe one survived the crash but burned to death in his pod, or another who died on impact

ODST is like the only game that feels completely natural on legendary since you're not playing as a brick shithouse on super serum

Yup. Or in 1 killing for the gear you want. Sorry Johnson on Assault on Control Room, I need the sniper ammo

Whenever I only have one rocket or sniper bullet left, I just give it to my AI allies because no matter what gun you give them, even if it's just one bullet left, they will have unlimited ammo.

Mario AI with a rocket launcher? You live a dangerous life. Thats like letting Kat drive in Reach

both works

@@awwwcrap1954 Yep, it's crazy but I'll take that over instead of having no rocket launcher as support. lol

Act Man knows how to make his sponser sections more entertaining than most youtubers at least

I thought it was a joke.

Oh i know what the sponsors like

I was legit waiting for a punchline or something lol that’s pretty dope though

That wasn’t a gag

F. E. A. R. Also have an impressive ai

@@saibot1246 I was about to say FEAR also had great AI. I've read a lot about the coding and design of both Halo and FEAR's AI, both take different routes to add character to your enemies.

@@KingThrillgore I mean F.E.A.R just fucked up the enemy code, and instead of it ruining them, it makes them feel alive

The thing I like most about halo ce is how fucking smooth it is. It’s like it was perfectly fine tuned to be as smooth as possible

i was playing the truth and reconciliation one day and a jackal kept shooting me from behind and i never saw him, and according to my co-op player the jackal was crouching and moving around whenever i turned around

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Yesh.

Yes sir it is

"Mr.Male" is a good one

Twerk

They better send him those butter finger halo infinite emblems

I thought it was a joke at first.

@@rascoehunter3608 sadly it wasn’t a joke.

If only the new recipe they use wasn't shit compared to Butterfingers of ye old days.

Fr, RU-vidrs will take sponsors from literary anything

Playing halo 1 for the first time definitely is a great nostalgia memory And i honestly don't have that with any of the other halos (Even though i love 2 an 3 as well)

@@GORILLA_PIMP nah all 3 for me. Halo 1 blew my mind and blew everything else out of the water. And I’ll never forget seeing the white with blue writing bungie load screen and hearing the halo 2 guitar theme for the first time. The first time I played as the arbiter and stormed the heretic controlled forerunner base. Or the time spent in matchmaking lobby’s listening to “never forget” or fighting the impossible odds to rescue Cortana from the flood ship. it’s a an era we will never see again and possibly peak gaming. Tower of power, zombies, juggernaut, and so many more, we got creative back then.

it's not only one level, the 9/10 he gave to CE is purely out of nostalgia, i sincerely can't end the video now knowing how delusional this guy is

@@groggod666 it was repetitive but wasnt that bad

Assault on the control room is simultaneously the best and worst level imo. The repeating rooms, hallways and bridges feel like they serve no purpose at all, and it drags the enjoyment down by a lot. Couldn't they easily have cut some of those parts? The rest of the level is fantastic.

The narrative + gameplay of two betrayals makes it perfectly excusable to backtrack the level imo, I’m tired of seeing this argument.

@@terrarian9887 bro and it’s nighttime and snowing 😩 most aesthetically pleasing level of all time

I'd prefer these sponsors over RU-vid's unskipable ads. NOW COMING TO EVERY VIDEO ON RU-vid!!!!!!!

I'm going to try and space them out better in the future. I just had a lot of obligations this month. Offers I couldn't refuse and all that

Because ad revenue is so bad in 2020, youtubers have to take sponsors to buy bread.

@@TheActMan don't worry about it man we just skip ahead 30 seconds to a minute, get all the money you can from your sponsorships. Also never seen a RU-vidr do an add for a candy bar pretty impressive

Dont hate

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"YES HONEY!"

"Wake up, Chief, Actman needs you"

Don’t call your Dad babe, you kiss him then tell him.

@Pablo Pulido WHATS WRONG WITH THAT

Really?

I feel like that’s a stretch and could just be a coincidence.

Let’s be real it’s just Palmer being a *****

Halo CE has the best level design though, by far. The levels themselves are extremely interesting, and the repetition helps show the story. Halo ce SHOWS you the story through the levels, rather than TELLING it through flashy cut-scenes. Halo CE's approach is better if you are able to appreciate it.

@@malceum CE level design is repetitive and un interesting

@@malceum Halo CE is a masterpiece but trying to spin the environment repetition as good for the story is just idiotic, it’s a fantastic game but it has flaws

Understanding circumstances is good, but it doesn't make something better. Good thing is, CE is good either way.

Now I will say ce is my 5th favorite halo campaign counting in halo wars 1 and 2 but again the argument that something that came out long ago can't be critiqued by today's standards is a hilariously idiotic argument that is completely nostalgia blind think of pokemon gen 2 where people defend how bad gold and silver are to play because of how gamefreak thought that the pokemon craze was gonna be over and those were gonna be the last games which is fine and all but it still doesn't excuse how bad those games were and same with how people defend halo ce poor level design (besides silent cartographer and the darker mysteries in 343 guilty spark along with the flood reveal but still have copy and pasted samey rooms in the facility), poor weapon sandbox (only 3 real weapons that you will ever need shotgun, assault rifle, and magnum), a hard normal difficulty and heroic being pretty hard for a difficulty that emulates hard (again act man continues to talk about the health system in ce but forgets how slow the shield recharges where as in halo 2 it recharges a lot faster), and a story that is pretty damn good but only great if you read the flood book. TLDR people need to stop treating things that came out a long time ago as if they can't be critiqued by today's standards when that's just being nostalgia blind

Took a lot of cues from ODST with the security footage cutscenes

And yet the overall pacing is fucked and ends up making the bigger picture presentation feeling out of wack. Part of the problem is that it just doesn't really have any major story beats. It's just Noble Team defending reach, which is fun but you don't have nearly the scale of a story like the original trilogy.

@@TheRedKing247 Never thought of it that way. That is a completely fair assessment.

@@TheRedKing247 No major story beats other than each Noble member dying? No but I see your point

My dream for MCC was that they’d remaster all the games to Reach’s level

Nice reference

@@obi-wankenobi2 hello there

​@@snackdaddy6249 general kenobi

Hey, agreed, I feel the same about Reach, it is Epic; I'd rate it best of the lot.

​@Nocturne people hate on it because not matching the books. I love this game and I don't care for the books. People would hate it because the books say it fell in a few hours. I am explaining why people hate it but I love it as my first game.

I still play Reach regularly. If they had gotten rid of the weapon bloom and re-introduced some Halo 3 features, then it would’ve been on the same level as 3, despite a not-as-good-but-still-solid story.

You wouldn't pick up the saw though, it's just a worse assault rifle

@@coolusername981 a-are you moronic?

@@shrekt8386 yes he is

@@weebsarecringe2102 gents, we can agree that both AR and SAW are better than the god damn suppressor

@@coolusername981 The Saw is a power weapon. It destroys in multiplayer.

Solid Swedish guy

As in you’re a solid

@@ericur3118 men snälla håll käften för en gångs skull.

Hey thanks, Kilian! I love your videos btw!!

@@Void_Wars Låt han vara

Woah we have the same name

@@nightmare5510 yooooooo

@MrWereverForever it did to an extent, but you always had the infinity in contact with you. In Halo CE, everyone from the pillar of autumn were scattered, and after the 343 guilty spark mission, you were on your own besides having cortana

I think that's why i liked the Reach and ODST campaign too. They all have this grounded reality where your goal is to survive. Personally that's the Halo experience i want and why i never cared for the main series Halo games. The covenant are a dangerous alien force that are trying to wipe out humanity. They have superior ships, superior weapons, superior armour and superior numbers. I like the Halo games that captured this, 2 and 3 never did for me. Halo 4 could have also captured this, but they screwed up everything relating to the Didact and that made their story fall apart. The Didact could have been an amazing replacement for the covenant threat, and would have worked incredibly with a flood focused trilogy. Halo 5.... Well we don't speak of that...

@@ergofiction5627 Why would they make *another* Flood-focused trilogy though? And how did they screw up everything relating to the Didact? They take the time to explain who he is, his motivation, and how he intends to carry out his plan. He’s trying to wipe out humanity and he has superior technology at his disposal. He literally fits the criteria of what you’re asking for. The story fell apart? The story might be that game’s only strength.

7.halo 5 6.halo 4 5.halo 3 ODST 4.halo 1 3. Halo 2 2. Reach 1. Halo 3

@Dustin Smith why though, he be speaking the truth

@Dustin Smith Okay well nobody is going to go through all the other comments to find your opinion.

@Dustin Smith Nobody told you you had to, because i certainly don't care. But by saying " for too many reasons ive said in other comments" expecting people to have A: either read them, or B: cared enough to find them, kinda makes your comment pointless because you won't back yourself up so commenting in the first place was a waste of time.

@Dustin Smith You're saying that like i read every comment thread with a large amount of comments in it. And again, i don't care, im just telling you that by wasting your time commenting here without backing yourself up means nobody is going to listen to you. It's not called "being lazy" it's called, i don't fucking care what every random dude on the internet has to say about their opinions on Halo. Everything is subjective. You think one thing, someone else thinks something else. You can't just state "no, and lemme tell you why my opinions right and yours is wrong" it's just ignorant. "Im guessing if you're too lazy to read those" like how arrogant are you? You're insinuating i even knew they existed, or cared enough to read through a shit ton of comments that boil down to "my opinion good your opinion bad"

Spartans are super soldiers. They can take out waves and waves of enemies alone but they are still human. They are not invincible and the story reminds you of that. Although it never made sense that Kat dies 1 shot of a needle rifle as if she was a normal human without shields or armor

Someone in another video called Reach "The Rogue One of Halo" before a comment offered another correction: "Rogue One is the Halo Reach of Star Wars."

@@katonnor Noble team’s shields were down at that time.

The scores alone should have put it over H2

​@Connor Roach she was shot in the brain by a needle rifle that is sharp as hell and can explode, without the shielding, it went through the armor and through the other side. There is no way she could have survived. It made sense to me

We meet again

I see you again

I 100% agree

It would just get to halo 2 and then the video would end

@@proletariapricotf155 Laughs in Steve Vai.

Bro it kinda hurt to see reach so low on the list like bro... MY BABY😭

@@flyingroach3564 itd rating was still 7.5/10 meaining it was still close to top

To be fair, it was more of a dlc than its own game. Still great.

I can't even believe Halo 3 ODST is even on high on the list, let alone rated high. That DLC was a mixed bag compared to Reach. Half of the ODST cast is likeable, Romero is the least favorable. I detest Veronica, if not despise her - that character was a mistake, and makes Dr. Halsey look like a queen.

And the damage in that game is UP (underpowered). The only gun that had any effective use was the shotgun, beam rifle, and to some degree the mauler, and even then, they run out of ammo really quick. Even the Bungle staff admitted Halo 3 ODST was little more than recycled left-overs from a failed Halo MMO.

nothing revolutionary.Halo CE was revolutionery

😂

What about Reach??

@@pislarustefan5009 he was in one cutscene at the end of pillar of autumn, you have to look to the right to see him

@@falloutgamer347 oh yeah...right, I never paid enough attention to the ending cutscene to notice

So, a tiny, easily missed cameo in Reach counts as "featured"?

I mean, same can literally be said for Halo 2. And C.E. And Reach. And ODST. And even 4. And I prefer 2 of them over Halo 3.

My favorite one

Halo 3's story was all over the place with not much cohesion. Things just *happened* without context. Halo 2's story was leagues better

Halo 1 still has the best music 🎶 and the levels are amazing still to this day

I like all of em except 5 and 4

Its gameplay is just objectively bad, even for the time, and it's map design id also horrible. That severely holds back what could have been an amazing game, thankfully Bungie and Halo survived and it became an amazing franchise over time.

@@probablynotdad6553 yeah dude, act man is just full of bullshit nostalgia bait delusions, he's not a good critic

@@probablynotdad6553 i just played HCE and god damn those later levels are terrible with the copy paste….

I beat halo ce a couple days ago, and the level design, especially by the end is not great. Gameplay is good, and story is fine, but I wouldn’t say it had aged very well. Started Halo 2 today, and it is a breath of fresh air. The levels feel more diverse, and much less repetitive, and the story so far is leagues ahead of ce.

What I felt was both exitement and relief. The first missions were fun but the library was when it got bad. Overall tho I would say it’s great

Me to

For real lol. Props to him for getting sponsored by a truly legendary candy bar.

Same. Finally a snack company that knows their main customerbase.

Yeah, I think this is the biggest sponsorship I've ever seen on RU-vid

Then I’m shocked how they aren’t a sponsor of the NFL then

so did I lmao. But it worked because tbh I really want one right now

Prepare to be glassed.

oh shit I forgot that one... NOT

@@TheActMan Can you do why is COD Cold War is so bad

True.

@@TheActMan you missed fireteam raven!

Hahaha I guess you could say that's good marketing on my part? Maybe??

Wait I thought it said buttfingerer

@Smattless Hey man money is money especially in this time of completely fucked ad sense.

@@TheActMan it was good marketing. Subverted expectations, felt like mid 2000s for a bit when there were still butterfinger ads. Fits with the Halo 1-3 era.

@@TheActManOh acting male, could you do a full review of titanfall 2's campaign? If you did I would buy every butter finger ever

First time playing Reach and Kat's death scene made my heart stop. First play left going 'omg how this to end!? Everyone is slowly dying and we throwing everything we have this.'

@@Pooh0Bear8 Kat was such a bitch though. She tells noble six to look for clues in that first mission and then he finds something and hands it to her where she proceeds to snatch it out of his hands and say: "not your domain six." Yeah that's why I handed it to you, bitch.

@@dieseldouche7735 bro she did that because their previous noble six died, and she felt like it was her fault, I think she did that because she did not want to get attached.

6s death was also really sad to watch

Yeah man, there was just something about Jorge. He’s the most memorable for me.

Not enough space tbh lolol

Ha

@@TheActMan *yikes*

Because literally nobody would say halo 5 has the best campaign lmao its so bad act man made like 5 videos over it

If you were to play Halo 5 today instead of watching the Act Man you would realize it's actually great. In every aspect.

@@Hamon5099 I respectfully disagree. I think the parts where all 4 factions are fighting each other (forerunner bots vs flood vs Covenant vs you) made up for that. It was pretty crazy to go through it the first time. I can understand replaying it would be a different story.

@@Hamon5099 Again, I disagree. Backtracking through old levels serves the purpose of showing the familiar environments overrun by the flood. How it has all changed after the outbreak. Seeing the Covenant getting their ass handed to them in their own ship communicates the danger of the situation. The sentinels serve the same narrative purpose, and it spices up the gameplay. And yes, it does matter which playthrough it is. Replay value is a thing. The library sucks tho

@@crouchjump5787 lame

There are very few "infinite" enemies in the game, and the only ones coming to mind are the hallway in the last chapter up the ladder and past two sentinels, Captain Keyes's final location, and not much else coming to mind. Those times it's the Flood, and yeah, I'd kinda expect that for an enemy named the Flood. Weird thing to be bothered by.

34 minutes and 30 seconds*

Bruh, do you even 1.25x speed?

You don't respect that last second!?

Very true! But all the Bungie games are so damn good in their own ways.

He should collab with an actual musician tho for that part

I agree fully. For me halo 3 has the best score, although Halo 2's mjolmir mix is peak halo score.

I was just thinking exactly the same ! Would have been really interesting and could have change the pawn's position

Exactly what I was thinking. Surprised he ignored that.

halo 2 campaign in general is incredible letting you play as both chief and arbiter, although it isn't nearly as fun to play on legendary as CE is, i feel like all the levels in 2 are generally a lot more fun and memorable

Agreed! For me, Halo 3 is the funnest campaign but Halo 2 is my favorite. It just hits different for me, and as swaggy said, the levels/locations are so memorable and cool to play through

I agree with you man, Halo 2 story is unbeatable

It's a good thing he's back. They'll probably have him do some work on the DLC campaigns along with Paul Crocker and Jeff Easterling.

For story, music, and atmosphere i give it to halo 2 Halo 3 gets it for the ending, balance, level design, and graphics (seriously the graphics at that time blew my mind away).

Yeah, the scarab fights were hard as heck for me

Them 2 scarabs were such a pain in the ass. That beam attack they do shredded my will to live

Yeah i loved the scrab fight, the explosion when you kill it is so satisfying

@@gingermachinimano1 Were you playing it on Heroic or Legendary? Cos it was quite easy for me in Normal.

@@herymusic heroic bro. I still have nightmares about them scarabs

there was a secret cutscene in the end of pillar of autumn.

@Brody Ustich Yes it is.

Can we count Chief’s voice in Reach Firefight? 🤔

It didn't have master chief but it did have other chiefs

@Brody Ustich well reach was set before ce and the end of the game when u get on the P.o.A you have to pan your camera to I think it’s the left or it’s the right but u see him in his veto tube

Also why he calls it an add on

Halo 3 Recon

Halo 3 odst is kinda an add on tho. I mean it’s called halo (3) odst. An add on to halo 3.

@@saltypickle7758 Uhhhh, no its a standalone game.

@@timotejianpoljak1859 yeah that’s why I said it’s “kidna” an add on. It’s not really an add on.

@Kia El halo 2 is first for me because we got to see the covenant perspective as arbiter their Beliefs etc

@The Archangel wtf Is that rating.... It hurts...

@The Archangel uhhhhh

Halo 2 had shit gameplay dude, wake up

@@user-ft4bl4lh9w youtube shows your just a hater if I'm being honest so

Yeh

@Mike Marlowe I wouldn’t mind tbh it’d be a lot better than raid

@@mythrillmeyhem8998 yep

I agree with you!

Agree with your list but I'd probably swap CE with 2 just because it had a perfect balance of gameplay, story, difficulty and multiplayer. Halo 2 had a few issues that I didn't feel existed with CE, but it was a very worthy sequel. If Infinite was in this list where would you rank it? I actually think it's a huge improvement over 4 & 5 but nowhere near Bungies original trilogy. For me it sits above ODST and just under Reach.

Halo Wars: Am I a joke to you?!

“Are there any other starts of the human-covenant war I should know about?!”

@@spiderz5145 Yes

Stfu with your baby memes

@@peter0071000 lol

Have you seen anything from the cut swamp level? Personally, if 343 keeps touching up the MCC then I'd love to see them finish up cut content like that

@@arthand7672 No man. 343 can just leave these beautiful games alone. They will just find some way to ruin it

@@haydencassidy9536 You do know that 343 made the anniversary version of Halo CE and Halo 2? They added more lines and content to those games themselves... you just sound like a 343 hater.

I'm finishing 3 and i'm disappointed a little bit to don't have a lot of environment it's a lot of desert and brown i preferred odst for his atmosphere i think 3 for me need something that didn't have when i played ce (i finished on legendary) and 2 on normal maybe an anniversary version will change my words about the campaign maybe it's because after finishing halo 2 anniversary and his beautiful cinematics

@@arkangelgaming35 lol ok bro

Nice man

I agree, halo 3s soundtrack made me feel like a badass as some halos didnt

Unless it’s halo 4 No hate for the composer, but it’s not the same

I mean, it would all be 10/10 except for Halo 4 and 5 so it's fine without it.

At least atmosphere

@@tommunism8778 It's the horns. Marty rarely used horns in his music (except ODST's sax). But most early Halo music was strings, piano, vocals, rock, drums or even electronic, but almost no horns at the forefront of the compositions.

I gotchu

Definitely

Nah halo 3

@@veronicagutierrezpatlan7697 Opinions are opinions, I have mine you have yours.

@@toehammer9493 I know

@@veronicagutierrezpatlan7697 Aight

Lol

My man forgot about Halo Wars :(

I was looking for this comment. Reach basically took place at the end of the war lmao.

they say "remember reach" but they should be saying "remember harvest" :(

@@MrHandss will yeah lot of people in the human-covenant war and near the extinction for the human race but master chief at least finish the fight.

Also thinking Noble team is an "older" generation of Spartan, when all but Gorge are Spartan III's.

Oh I know what the subscribers like ;)

What you mean, you haven’t even seen the video

Have you ever been sitting in a movie theater before the movie started and thought dang im just glad to see more content from this studio or producer ? I get what tour saying i just get exited when actman post

Why you little...

Ha i just got done beating 4 for the first time TODAY actually On heroic as well I was only giving the campaign about a 7 untill about halfway through an then wow it suddenly got crazy good Overall i thought it was a pretty dam good game Super fun I say 8.25/10