Halo- best FPS franchise ever?

after playing all the halo games, they have really left an impression on me.

Starting Halo:CE i could already feel the atmosphere of humanity's desperate struggle, when i got shooting around the pillar of autumn, it was so easy to pick up and play. When i landed on halo i noticed the great artork and the strategy required for each weapon, each having its own streghs and weaknesses. When i went after captain keyes underground and saw all the blood and corpes i knew something terrible was coming. and i was right. it was the flood. after trying to activate the halo and realise that its suicide and got away,i had tremendous fun shooting in a 4-way war on extremely fun veihcles.

Then i rigged the pilar of autumn's fusion reactors and got the hell out of there. not easy.

then came halo 2. With a huge and gerat storyline, i could feel the danger of the covenant on earth. i played as the arbiter battling flood and brutes with fantastic new weapons. killing Regreat brought a huge sense of satisfaction. and seeing the treachery of truth, and seeing how horrible he really was i knew he had to die. Unfortunately the game ended. good thing i had halo 3 right next to me.

starting off in the jungle and buildings on earth, going to the ark, destroyed scarabs with hornets with epic music in the background, just WOWed me. than i started plying the most addictive online multiplayer game ever. battles of 8 VS 8 on avalanche is great fun.

ODST brought a nice change as well, satisfying my curiosity of "what about earth?" during halo 2.

playing the halo reach bta just encourages me more.

with an epic storyline, epic music epic multiplayer, and epic weapons and veihcles, i think halo is the beat FPS franchise ever.

after playing all the halo games, they have really left an impression on me.

Starting Halo:CE i could already feel the atmosphere of humanity's desperate struggle, when i got shooting around the pillar of autumn, it was so easy to pick up and play. When i landed on halo i noticed the great artork and the strategy required for each weapon, each having its own streghs and weaknesses. When i went after captain keyes underground and saw all the blood and corpes i knew something terrible was coming. and i was right. it was the flood. after trying to activate the halo and realise that its suicide and got away,i had tremendous fun shooting in a 4-way war on extremely fun veihcles.

Then i rigged the pilar of autumn's fusion reactors and got the hell out of there. not easy.

then came halo 2. With a huge and gerat storyline, i could feel the danger of the covenant on earth. i played as the arbiter battling flood and brutes with fantastic new weapons. killing Regreat brought a huge sense of satisfaction. and seeing the treachery of truth, and seeing how horrible he really was i knew he had to die. Unfortunately the game ended. good thing i had halo 3 right next to me.

starting off in the jungle and buildings on earth, going to the ark, destroyed scarabs with hornets with epic music in the background, just WOWed me. than i started plying the most addictive online multiplayer game ever. battles of 8 VS 8 on avalanche is great fun.

ODST brought a nice change as well, satisfying my curiosity of "what about earth?" during halo 2.

playing the halo reach bta just encourages me more.

with an epic storyline, epic music epic multiplayer, and epic weapons and veihcles, i think halo is the beat FPS franchise ever.

gamedude234

This should probably be in a blog, maybe 360 forums...but whatever.

I like the Battlefields myself, as far as multiplayer goes. For story-centric FPS I gotta go with Metroid Prime 3. By like, a lot.

I say no, I think Half life is much much better. millerlight89

fair enough i guess. the thing i think halo wins against half-life though is the story and the multiplayer.

I don't agree with OP because I really didn't like ODST, and thought it was a complete bore-fest. The music was good, though. It was a neat idea, but I just remember playing through it and wishing it was over. Also, the Halo Reach beta was far too broken for me to build any interest in the final product, and there just really wasn't enough content. You can only play stockpile so many times before you hate it (which was probably about 2 times) :P

The only Halo game I truly truly enjoyed was CE because 16 player lans were awesome. Plus the co-op story mode was very exhilarating. When the 2nd and 3rd ones came out there was no real "wow-factor" for me. Multiplayer grew really stale too.

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]I say no, I think Half life is much much better. gamedude234

fair enough i guess. the thing i think halo wins against half-life though is the story and the multiplayer.

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[QUOTE="millerlight89"]I say no, I think Half life is much much better. millerlight89

fair enough i guess. the thing i think halo wins against half-life though is the story and the multiplayer.

No, i have only played Halo CE and the multiplayer in Halo 2, and while is really fun, i think that in terms of SP, Half Life is superior, Episode 2 still have IMO one of the best final battles and endings in FPS history.

It's not the best but one of the best. RoslindaleOne

than you should have voted kinda...

I say no, I think Half life is much much better. millerlight89

Half Life is the best FPS franchise ever.

[QUOTE="RoslindaleOne"]It's not the best but one of the best. gamedude234

than you should have voted kinda...

I voted yes.

Sure.

I'd rather have Halo be called the best rather than Call of Duty

IMO, no. Its one of the worst and most generic.djsifer01

may i ask why?

To the OP, I would consider it ONE of the best. Not THE best because there is no such thing. But this really belongs as a blog.

One of the best. The story was almost impossible to follow (had to read the book to understand what was going on), but it had interesting environments and level designs and characters with great gameplay.

But notice how the Half Life series was brought up almost instantly in the thread.

[QUOTE="djsifer01"]IMO, no. Its one of the worst and most generic.gamedude234

may i ask why?

Well, I would have to say yes. If not yes, only 2nd to the Half-Life series.

For me (no paticular order)

Halo series (Rebooted the FPS series and started new level design)

Half Life series (The real video-game form of story-telling, no cutscenes mean that Half-Lifes story is unique to games and does not require dialogue and the enviroments tell a story without words)

Call of Duty (though the series is taking a downward spiral, it was unmatched for scripted thrills and action)

DooM (Duh)

Here are some that might be good

Mertroid Prime series (Only played Wii version which I didn't think was that great, but from many I have heard it's awesome)

No, its singleplayer through all three games was merely ok to bad (namely the first with its copy and paste levels and comedic enemies).. Its multiplayer still is the best comeptitive one for CONSOLES imo.. Its 4 player splitcreen ONLINE is ingenious and I have yet to see another series ever do this.. IN the end it has solid multiplayer, its singleplayer though imo isn't very good and the story is cliche or just uninteresting.. Alot has to do with the completely one dimensional character, Master Chief, which is treated as a independent character you consistently hav eout of body cut scenes and what not..

Its a great series yes, but I would hardly ever consider it the best FPS franchise.

One of the best, definitely, THE best, no.

Once Reach is out I'd say yes.

Don't want to be the odd one out but my favorite FPS franchise is Duke, "Hail to the king baby":P Though, other franchises are great.

Don't want to be the odd one out but my favorite FPS franchise is Duke, "Hail to the king baby":P Though, other franchises are great.

ShuichiChamp24

Too bad Forever is never coming out.

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Don't want to be the odd one out but my favorite FPS franchise is Duke, "Hail to the king baby":P Though, other franchises are great.

OB-47

Too bad Forever is never coming out.

Wow! There was really no reason for that. :(not cool.

Think I'm gonna vote DOOM

A damn fine one, but I like BioShock more.

I voted kinda.

Short answer. No

Long answer. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Its no where near the best

Its not The best, but it's one of the best FPS franchises out there.

no reach beta was so meh as was h3

i like call of duty multiplayer 10x better so i say no

It's up there, but it went downhill after the first.Zoso-8