Why Does Nobody Remember the Halo Arcade Game (Halo: Fireteam Raven) 

I've never seen people give it hate outside of "all you could do was shoot the enemies". Yeah... that's what an on rails shooter is... besides, for an on rails arcade shooter, it was REALLY high quality when I used it. The physical unit was nice, the gun felt good, and the visuals/graphics were from CEA, Reach, H3, and H2A and looked damn amazing! It was really really cool to see so many visual styles clash at once in a halo game. It made the continuity honestly feel just a little more consistent

From my personal experience Fireteam Raven was meant to follow "The Flood" by Eric Nylund closer than it was to Cbat Evolved. I believe it was meant to be more of an Easter egg title to lore core fans because it shows you locations from the book that you don't get to see in Combat Evolved.

6:10 The AI (Wellesley), is a dumb AI mentioned in Halo:The flood, he was the AI that assisted the Marines and ODSTs on alpha base, so it's actually pretty cool he was included in the game. With that in mind, props to 343 for including him and other characters from the book like Major Silva.

The final level is super straight forward. You stop the covenant from interfering with Chief that’s trying to make the Pillar of Autumn a nuke to destroy the ring. Not sure why that is confusing.

Chief showing up at random during the missions is actually super cool, haha. I wanna try this out so bad.

Did it really get “forgotten”? Got a lot of traction at my local D&B, and I found it fun. I mean how far can you go with a traditional arcade game?

To be honest, this is my first time hearing anything negative about fireteam raven. I've actually seen (and played on) three fireteam raven arcade machines. It's a lot of fun.

The Story is an adaptation of the tie in Novel Halo: The Flood. With certain events, Characters and locations that happened in the book it's an interesting read

I'm surprised you guys never got into the books. This one especially has a lot of connections with Halo: The Flood

I really like Fireteam Raven. I don't know why it gets so much hate all the time, it's got a lot of really nice stuff going on.

Um, there was most definitely a second AI on the pillar of autumn who was assigned to the odsts. He's prominent in the flood novelization of the original game.

I actually really liked the game! Wish in the future they could do a port to mobile maybe? Or console it could get added to mcc as a minigame?

I remember i played this before I played halo.... this arcade game is very important for me because it introduced me to my now favourite shooter franchise, even if it isn't a very good halo game....but still! I would like to play it again at some point and see if the experience would be different as a halo fan

11:18 "You're sent on this suicide mission to stop the Covenant from blowing up the Pillar of Autumn so that the Master Chief can blow up the Pillar of Autumn." The Covenant were gonna destroy the Autumn in a way that wouldn't cause the entire thing to do mass destruction to the ring, while Chief WAS gonna destroy it with the intent to destroy the ring. So basically, the Covenant opted to neutralize the threat of the Halo's destruction AND destroying the Autumn, while Chief opted to use the Autumn to do mass damage and obliterate the Halo so that the Covies CAN'T have it. Yeah, kinda confusing when you don't get the actual intent of the objective word-for-word, but makes sense when you have it detailed.

I disagree with you on this video, When the flood juggernauts came in and threw the hunters off the platform. That was the coolest fan service I have ever seen from a halo game. This game made the juggernauts canon and gave them love.

Playing through this game was a just-okay journey, huh? Edit: I’m glad 343 added Fireteam Raven armor and other things into MCC

I've played the game a couple of times and while it is a cool concept and I had some fun with friends, the individual enemies are too powerful and the guns do too little damage which wrings more money from the player since they're dying so often.

I never forgot Fireteam Raven, I had so much fun playing it with my friends. My Halo 3 armour also entirely consists of their armours, ODST is my favourite armour after all.

I actually love Fireteam raven! I played it with my brother at mall of America and we both loved it! A fun take on our beloved Halo franchise

13:55 if I remember right from lore videos about Fireteam Raven, they supposed to defend MC from the covenant. Hints why we never saw the covenant at the end of the cutscene on CE

I love how the ending of the game is literally just gaslighting the Halo fans by saying that the whole UNSC was alive fighting the Flood and if the camera panned down a little bit during the opening cutscene of The Maw then you would've seen them going at it.

I've actually seen it in the wild! It was so cool to me to see it as an arcade machine. I'm very glad I had a chance to experience it :D

I really enjoyed it. Felt like it was loosely based on Halo: The Flood. I had four people in a four player booth and we coordinated pretty well and got through the whole thing. I’d play it again if they ported it to a download only game on console.

I believe it did not fail, it was just too exclusive

I still go to my local arcade / bowling alley to play this from time to time, I even made a joke to one of the managers that I'll buy the cabinet when they retire it Edit: Microsoft is missing a huge opportunity to sell this game with a Magnum shaped lightgun, I know I'd buy it

11:35 i think it does make sense, because chief wants to shut down the cooling system and cause a nuclear meltdown ( destroying the ring). The covenant just want to destroy the pillar of autumn (which would not cause a big enough explosion to destroy the ring). So they need to protect the pillar of autumn until chief gets there so he can use it to destroy the ring

Played this in person with my boyfriend, I had fun with it for what it was. I'd love if 343 made a follow-up or something, the idea of Halo in arcades is a very interesting idea

Might be one of the only people to ever say this, but fireteam raven was my first halo game and what got me into halo. I like ODSTs more than Spartans for this game, H2As art style is my favorite because I loved the look of the covenant and wanting to know what the flood where is what made me watch my first halo video and eventually the story made me want the games and so on. Even the halo 5 music was something that made me get into the series so I like it almost as much as normal halo music too lol.

I actually just recently played the arcade game a few weeks ago, I rather enjoyed it a lot. Got 6th on the scoreboard

I only ever got past the first level and half the 2nd with a single swipe, since I was with my Gf and she wanted something from the claw machine lmao. Anyways from what I seen it felt like they based the game more off the books in which one of the storylines is about some ODST and the other surviving members of the Pillar and their HQ, however if I remember correctly everyone dies on the Truth and Reconciliation or another covenant cruiser as they sacrifice themselves to blow the ship and keep the flood from escaping, this is due to Jenkins who was turned into an incomplete flood form and was able to gain control from time to time while also being completely conscious and feeling EVERYTHING the flood did to him. Also the A.I is probably the dumb A.I from the book as well.

Hard to remember something when you didn't know it existed in the first place. This looks super fun though, I should see if any of the arcades in my town have it.

Fireteam Raven have dope armour

I enjoyed the hell out of this, especially since it's based off the parallel narrative and characters in the novelization of CE. Def a fun game for casuals but also cool for lore nuts

I really like this game! It feels like reach in a combat evolved setting

I actually really liked it. My wife hated halo on the Xbox but enjoyed playing this with me. Would love to go back and beat the entire game!

So, after watching your video, I get the feeling like you don't spend much time at the arcade. Your review is fine, but ultimately lacking in direct comparisons to other modern arcade shooters. You also clearly played the game suboptimaly as you shorter yourself half your squad. My personal experience with the game was decent. Beat it fairly easily and my biggest issue was its short length and abundance of unavoidable damage.

went to the arcade with my friend, tried to buy tickets, tickets we bought didn't dispense from the machine, employee told us there was nothing they could do, manager too, so we left without playing and never went back.

I do remember it I loved this game it’s in my local arcade and it is a pretty cool thing

This looks cool! I laughed when seeing chief leave the odst in the escape pod haha

This game was my first game experience with halo at my local dave n busters in San Diego. I thank this game and the halo theme for introducing me to this awesome franchise.

It’s a really good game. I don’t remember anybody not liking it.

This is so cool thank you for spending your time and money to show us what the arcade game was like what a cool idea I never would have seen this otherwise

For me every time Master Chief showed up and did something cool I would think, "That's how cool I looked playing Halo Combat Evolved" Edit: Just wanted to add the reason they want to destroy it over the covenant is because the covenant doesn't know about Earth's existence yet, its not worth the risk of them scavenging it. Also since Cortana isn't on the ship she can't wipe all archives, map data, or info of/about Earth.

I think that you are being a bit too harsh on the fun factor, BUT it is definitely expensive. Ive played all of it and I enjoyed it. It was neat seeing so much more of stuff that “happened during CE”. Also I am not a huge Rail Arcade shooter fan and I think that my 2 player Booth I played at cost like $20-$30 total not $70😅

I've got this exact cabinet at my work and it's pretty damn popular-- i'll ever occasionally see the birth of a new pint-sized halo fan once in a while. Really don't know what you expected from an on-rails shooter in the vain of Jurassic Park. Cool side-story and getting a new perspective into HALO CE.

I didn’t realize it was considered a fail I loved playing it

I really liked it for what is was. It was a fun experience to play through at the arcade, the sounds are all around and the music is blaring and the gun is shaking in your hands as you kill wave upon wave of Covenant. And I love Halo, so it made it all the better.

I agree with your points but I do still love this game because it is cool to see Halo as an arcade game I also think the story is pretty good

There's actually a 2 player cabinet of this just sitting in the middle of one of the halls in my local city mall. There are no other arcade cabinets anywhere else in the mall. I have no idea why it's there or how they managed to get it but even if I don't use it I appreciate seeing it there.

Oh snap! I'm at that dave and busters often to play ddr. Sad I didn't run into you guys. Hope you enjoyed it!!!

Nobody remembers it because it's an arcade on-rails shooter lmao. That considered, it was actually pretty cool. I remember I was on vacation in Florida when I first heard about it, and then, by pure coincidence, my family and I went to a Dave & Buster's later that week, and it was there. 13-year old me was very hyped lmao.

there's a movie theater in the general area around where I live, and it's got a full arcade and gastropub connected to it, and it has a fireteam raven machine. really fun, super good

The base is alpha base from the books

only ever found it once its super hard to find one in the UK especially since arcades arent common here either but i played a few levels and never forgot the shake that gun has when you pull the trigger, so fun

Fireteam Raven is actually still available at my the Cinergy near me. I haven't actually played it yet. But me and my girlfriend are planning a trip to the arcade to play it in the near future. Hopefully we can finish it all.

I did this a few years ago. I went to Dave and buster's with the intent to beat this game. Luckily I saw the halo waypoint scan thing to attach my xbox account to it and to this day I have never seen anyone with the same emblem on mcc that I earned from beating the game. Great video!

Halo tierlist: S: Fireteam raven F: Halo 3, Ce, 2, 4, 5, Reach, infinite, ODST, wars, wars 2, Spartan strike, and Spartan assault.

Failed? I played it in full with a friend last week, and I thought for an arcade game it was pretty awesome. I mean the game has better set pieces than fucking Halo Infinite.

One thing I noticed playing the game was that you can’t take out enemies when they’re far away you have to wait until they can start shooting you. So you can never be on the offensive you’re always getting hit and shooting whatever’s shooting you

*Man i remember playing Fireteam Raven begore i knew anything about Halo i was in a cinema playing it and it was so much fun but since i llive in mexico i dont think im going to see that arcade ever again since they move to other place but it was defenitly so much fun and i really wanna play it again*

This Aracde Machine was in the nearby Mall's Arcade Area. I remember going solo and with my sister and lasted in the middle of the first mission.

Hard to remember something you’ve never heard about until just now.

Always love your videos!

Now you should do a blindfold run * *evil laughter* *

I really liked it. I didnt think there was a fireteam raven anywhere near me but a mate and i just found one at an arcade

This Arcade game was the one thing me and my friends at AIT over in Fort Lee Virgina that we did over our weekends (Spents a good amount of money getting through the game)

I loved fireteam raven and unless im missing something i cant fathom how it took 70 dollars for you to beat it with two players it took me 4 deaths (1 for me 3 for my partner) and i had a great time with it and i always point it out whenever i see one.

We do it's just not very replayable or accessible

ive read "halo the flood" a bunch of times and love it, and seeing some easter eggs from the book in this book and amazing and make me wanna fly to NY just to play!

I played this at a D&B with my two brothers and my gf (who doesn’t play shooters at all). We had a great time and managed to finish the full story without having to spend much extra (I think it ended up being around $10-12 per person?). Maybe we had an advantage because we were a full team of four, but either way it was a really cool experience and we remember it as our favorite game from D&B.

I defo never forgot about it because there's an arcade in the mall just down the road from me that has this game there

My girlfriend and I actually just played the first 2 missions of Fireteam Raven at Dave & Busters and then she wanted to play an actual Halo game like 2 days later so she played the first two missions of Halo 2 Anniversary :) she liked it.

Cortana was not the only on ship AI, she was the first on ship AI that was capapable of being plugged into a foot soldier. They even say "all the capabilities of an on ship AI in a soldier on the ground."

I completely forgot about Fireteam Raven until I signed up for the Halo Infinite flights. One of the sections asked which Halo games you have played. I thought, easy I can check off all of these games. Then I found Fireteam Raven as one of the items and realized that I hadn't played all of the Halo games yet. So I did some research and found several arcades with the game. Overall I agree with your take on the game. I think it is just good for a dumb fun kind of a game. I don't have much experience with on rail shooters, so I don't know how it compares to other games of the same style. I just enjoyed the game because I looked for all of the tokens that nodded to Halo. I've played through all of the missions a couple times with different groups of friends and we generally enjoyed the experience, but it sucks that it's pricey. The trick is to find an arcade that charges less per "token." Dave and Busters is notorious for charging a little more than other arcades. I found this one arcade that legit charges 1 nickel per token and they had the Halo machine lol. Way cheaper. Also I've heard 343i has their own machine in their office and that one is free to play. I only got the Halo Waypoint QR code scanner to work once. Every other time has failed me, which sucks. I think the machine's scanners are just cheap and fail easily.

We have this place called the hub where it's a bowling alley/2 movie theaters, and an arcade and a bunch of other cool stuff connected to this huge casino and in the arcade they have a halo fireteam raven machine. I was there last Sunday and they had it

We have one here in my country the Philippines specifically Ayala Malls in Cebu City. It's the 2-player version but it was actually fun. The "gun" feels a bit weird especially since you're basically holding something equal to a machine gun but what you're using in-game are either rifles, pistols, rocket launchers, etc. But in terms of arcade games it's not bad and I might say it's actually quite good. Don't think too much of it as a "Halo" game since it's only "Halo" in appearance but, like I said, as an arcade game, it's really good and one of the best for me along with the Terminator one where you hold a plastic M4 with a grenade launcher or even the old Virtua Cop 2.

For an arcade game, I'm surprised by how much blood is shown. I'm not complaining, but I'm definitely surprised. My friend Caleb and myself played through the entire game in 1 sitting and thoroughly enjoyed it. PS. At 5:20, in the novelization of the first Halo game, ODST's had orders to evacuate Marines and Navy personnel while protecting the reactor of the Autumn on its way down to the ring. That's a plausible reason for Chief to "leave behind" our group of ODST's.

It was pretty ok to good. The best way to explain it is I went “oh look a Halo cabinet, oh this is pretty fun for like 5+ minutes,” then I went and played the Cabella’s Deer Hunter, a way to not kill deae but still piss off Peta.

I always knew about it and it looked so cool, I just never found one anywhere near me, I loved those old on rails shooters when I was a kid so this had me super hyped up. But I never found one 😭😂

I have to STRONGLY DISAGREE with your assessment that's Fire team raven is for the casual new player to be introduced to Halo overall. The game basically speed runs a B Plot that an author ran for the tie in novelization for CE. And it's all there. The evacuation of Autumn. The taking of the Platue Base. The defense of said Platue Base. Finding out last minute what chief was up to. They even took characters directly from the book and put them in fire team raven. Major Silva being your commanding officer because the Captain was Mia most of the actual game. This is something hardcore lore fans of the franchise would love. And as one of them. I did.

I played fire team raven for the first time a few months ago, and it was a lot of fun for an on rails arcade shooter! I was in a 4 player variant and was the only person to stay in through the entire game, with kids and their parents sometimes jumping in to play a level or two.

Literally never heard of it until a couple of days ago. Surprisingly fun to be fair

I would like to imagine the suicide mission was a sacrifice. In lore, a single flood spore can also infect anything with a nervous system. So they probably knew they were infected long before. So instead of just accepting it, they decided to go out with a bang. Almost literally.

I’d love to play it. I’d also love a walkthrough in higher def and being able to hear what’s happening

Master Chief: * nods at me * Me: I choose to accept this as canon.

Jokes on you I subconsciously think about fire team raven constantly

Flew back to my hometown 2 weeks ago and some friends and I played this. We only made it 4 missions through and we had to quit. I wish we would have finished but at that cost, not worth it! I've always been a huge Halo fan too

I played it a few weeks ago on my birthday, had a blast with the entire campaign with my familly. It was also at a Dave and Buster's

They still have one of these at Dollywood, or I at least saw it last year. Didn't get to try it out sadly, but it was awesome to see it

There's actually one at the arcade I go to on occasion

My Dave and busters actually has this, I've played it almost every time we have went. It's genuinely pretty fun with a group of friends

Just fyi if you're trying to play this here's some tricks to get it to be a reasonable price to beat it, go to d&b during happy hour (i forget the specific time 4-6 maybe or 3-5) ask at the front desk for a power hour card (only works on non ticket games) swipe your card every 60 seconds and can get max 60 credits. Though the power hour card only works every 60 seconds for 1 hour only - You can also buy a power hour card and use it later. I forget if it's 10 or 15 dollars for the power hour, it's been a few years since i bought one - but can save yourself a lot of tokens for the value.

My best friend and I did this game from beginning to end on a day where it was free non-ticket arcade games, we spent 4 HOURS playing this game front to back, and as veterans of the Bungie Halos we found it enjoyable but repetitive at times, and being the only 1 of us who had a Halo Waypoint account I was able to get a pretty neat little profile badge for playing and beating this game.

I remember beating an Aliens arcade shooter with my dad at a friend's birthday party when I was a kid. And it "only" took us about $30-$40.

My friend and I spotted tried this game once. We didn't really like it because the high difficulty means there isn't really a way to avoid damage and his gun didn't seem to be calibrated properly.

Funny how you know about flood juggernauts but not about how having pure forms in ce kinda breaks the lore or that cortana wasnt the only ai on the ship or that there shouldnt be any marines in two betrayals or that the one map was in fact on forge world or that alpha base was kinda important to the human effort on the ring or that firrteam raven tried to stop the covenant from sabotaging the reactor (instead of blowing it up).

One of the arcades in my state still has this game and every time I go I play at least 10 times.

There’s a 4 player in Irving Texas Pinstacks. (15 Mins N or Dallas) my wife and I played and I FREAKING LOVED IT!

It's a very solid rail shooter from my favorite universe, what isn't to like? I always hit it up when I'm at an arcade

My biggest complaint about Halo Fireteam Raven was that I could never find a cabinet locally. I was just on google and I think 1-2 Arcades in my city still have it, neither of which are close to me.