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    The franchise that defined the Xbox, Halo contains some of the most popular games ever released. The Halo FPS titles are revered for their excellent gamepad control and high-quality online multiplayer. The franchise now contains novels, soda tie-ins, an RTS spin-off, toys, and more.

    What Was The Best Halo Game

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    ScottyHawkeye

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    Poll What Was The Best Halo Game (187 votes)

    Halo 33%
    Halo 2 22%
    Halo 3 39%
    Halo 4 6%
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    ODST.

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    Reach.

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    #4  Edited By NegativeCero

    It has to be 2, right?

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    No ODST? This poll is dead to me. But after the awesome that was ODST, I would say Reach. Oh that's not in there either. Ok 3 then.

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    Halo 2 has the best multiplayer, no competition.

    Campaign I'm gonna go with Reach.

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    ODST?

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    #8  Edited By octaslash

    Reach, followed by ODST. This poll is fucked.

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    Campaign I have to go with ODST. Multiplayer for the series has been pretty bad after 3 and I'd say that Halo 3 is actually the pinnacle. I love two, but I feel they are very very comparable multiplayer wise.

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    #10  Edited By paulwade1984

    This is just a troll right?

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    Nekroskop

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    The best Halo game? I have yet to see one that's good. I'd go with Halo 1 though.

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    3 is the sweet spot for Halo campaigns.As much as I love Reach, the pacing was off and the enemies on Legendary soak up way way way too much damage.

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    #13  Edited By pr1mus

    Reach

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    2, because of the hours we spent on multi-player reminded me of watching my brother & his friends on GoldenEye

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    The first one.

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    #17  Edited By EVO

    Reach.

    Never got around to playing ODST.

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    @historyinrust said:

    ODST.

    Followed by Wars.

    ODST is fantastic, my favorite by far. I've got this copy of Wars on my shelf, but I've never actually... taken the disc out. I will though! I promise!

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    Halo and Halo 3 are my favorites though I haven't played Reach or Halo 4 yet.

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    #20  Edited By mrfluke

    id go with halo 3 followed by halo reach,

    halo 1 has nostalgia behind it, halo 2 started to drag near the end, but had the most interesting story with the covenant hierarchy and the arbiter stuff.

    odst aside from the soundtrack had a poor story and whatever characters, did experiment with the halo gameplay a bit ill give it that,

    reach is right up there with halo 3 as the best imo, but it doesnt have the i think "punch" that halo 3 had, (fighting 2 scarabs in halo 3 with the trademark music behind it, i think is imo one of the best spectacles this generation)

    halo 4 almost perfected the core moving around and shooting gameplay,

    but the story and campaign i thought was terrible, story relied too heavily on knowledge of the books (who didnt read the books know who the didact properly is?) and was toooo much of a chief/cortana character story when its supposed to be the first game in a trilogy, it under utilizes potentially interesting side characters, the new enemies were boring to fight and didn't radically change up the halo strategy as they were hyping it up to be, and the new guns were poor,

    halo 4 has me nervous about the rest of this trilogy of games, and thats a huge bummer considering i think halo is one of the best series in gaming.

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    #21  Edited By MooseyMcMan

    Halo 3!

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    i would say 2 but home come you didn't put the rest of them? OSTD, wars, reach any other that i forgot to mention.

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    #23  Edited By laserbolts

    Best multiplayer was halo 2. Best campaign was Reach. I play halo for the multiplayer so halo 2 is the best. Cant say I understand all the love for ODST. Found that campaign was mediocre and it had zero memorable characters or moments. Never played wars. This poll sucks by the way.

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    Halo 3 remains as one of my favorite games ever. None of the other titles had the atmosphere that it had. It was almost perfect.

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    Out of those Halo 2. Might pick Reach if you included it.

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    First one, it is the only one I have fond memories of in BOTH single and multi. Halo 2 wins multi but that single was dog shit and haven't beat it since the first week it came out.

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    #27  Edited By Zekhariah

    I really liked Reach. Though I guess the first Halo, at the time it came out on Xbox 1, was a bit more of a unique experience.

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    #28  Edited By Corvak

    ODST is one of those lesser known parts of a franchise, that ends up getting popular years later.

    The Majora's Mask of Halo.

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    Reach. How did you not include it in this poll?

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    #30  Edited By big_jon

    @sooty said:

    Halo 2 has the best multiplayer, no competition.

    Campaign I'm gonna go with Reach.

    This. Though I find it hard to choose.

    Reach and Halo CE single player are some of my favourite

    Halo 4 is the most fun since Halo 2's multiplayer to me.

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    Although hard to choose, Halo 2 will remain as an important game in my life that I won't ever be forgetting.

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    Reach is my favourite of them all. So neither of the options presented.

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    #33  Edited By jdh5153

    Halo Reach.

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    Gonna go with 3, but reach is like half a millimeter behind.

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    #35  Edited By ScottyHawkeye

    ODST has no cool spartan armour

    reach multiplayer stinks

    wars gameplay to different from the reast

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    Three felt like the biggest achievement on the original format, before it felt like they needed to do something different.

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    Halo 3 & Reach are equally two of the best Halo games in my book. I have so many fond multiplayer memories with friends in Halo 3. By Halo Reach all of my friends moved on to other games, but I still enjoyed playing it for about 200 hours with randoms.

    I've put a lot of time into Halo 4 so far, but I do have some praise & critiques. For one I love the singleplayer campaign's story better than any other game in the franchise. Here we have a Halo game that finally has a cohesive narrative that answered a lot of questions that I had about the series, and the facial animations are the bee's knees. The gameplay scenarios in the singleplayer campaign are my least favorite of all the games. When it comes to multiplayer I hear a lot of people bitch about the ranking system & loadouts, but I actually like them. I also love the multiplayer maps more than any other Halo, it's just too bad that the online community has shrunk dramatically.

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    #38  Edited By Tarsier

    people picking reach and ODST just cause they arent on the poll? i think theyre not there for very good reason lol

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    Halo 3 has the best multilayer and the second best campaign, ODST has the best campaign... but Halo 3 would have to take the top spot for me.

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    #40  Edited By happenstance

    Reach I enjoyed playing through the most on my own. Halo 1 I enjoyed the most playing co-op.

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    ODST.

    Yup. Campaign wise at the least. Liked Halo 1's multiplayer the most, probably

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    3 > ODST > Reach > 1 > 4 > 2

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    #43  Edited By Cold_Wolven

    Halo: Combat Evolved, it's the one I've played the most either by myself or with friends.

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    #44  Edited By AkihikoSenpai

    REACH, in the absence of that, the first.

    Halo 4 was hell of disappointing.

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    #45  Edited By WinterSnowblind

    ODST had the best campaign. Never played 4 though.

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    #46  Edited By artelinarose

    Having played through on Heroic several times and gone through a BUNCH of firefight, I really don't know why so many people enjoy Reach. I am absolutely somebody that enjoys me some Halo but I do not like playing Reach, it's just frustrating and it feels more like I am being punished for being part of it rather than being rewarded with a good time. Defeating enemies doesn't feel like what the game is, it feels like that thing I am doing in between being killed by some straight up bullshit.

    Halo 4, honestly. I like that they finally got me to connect on an emotional level with the characters, and that they are showing off more of the Halo universe while moving it forward.

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    ODST was the one I have enjoyed the most.

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    ODST.

    First post got it right. I refuse to take part in your crappy poll!

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    Marathon.

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    Halo 3 had the best multiplayer suite and a great campaign.

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