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Halo: A Modern Masterpiece

TheSixthAxis looks at where it all began, and how Bungie's FPS has defined a generation.

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HarryMonogenis5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

This article is extremely accurate- Halo introduced some exceptionally good features that are now standard in FPS's..

Nike5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

Most of the features it "introduced" have already been in FPS titles before Halo.

You could command vehicles in Operation Flashpoint. It also had a similar "open battlefield" format.

The "regenerating shield" concept of Halo, which later evolved into the "regenerating health" system in Halo 2 and 3 was first introduced in Faceball 2000 for the SNES and Genesis. Halo and Call of Duty were the franchises that popularized the concept, not just Halo alone.

Tribes 2 came out a few months before Halo, and you were only able to carry two weapons at a time in the game.

Not quite able to remember all the other "features" it introduced that are now "standard". If you could list them, I'm sure I'd be able to find other games that "did it first".

Gam3s4lif35740d ago

yea but halo changed gaming forever..first successful console FPS

THC CELL5740d ago

What i been trying to say man
People claim halo created a new fps gen

They have took a bunch of ideas

Halo is nothing more than a milked Masterpiece
Just my opinion

I wish we could go back to the days when x box crown was wolfenstine games and rainbow six games not a game that is milked to bits.

Why not make halo better add 256 players make it a real battle,
make it like MAG where you need a team and not bet on one person winning a match ??

SaberEdge5740d ago

You guys do realize the same thing could be said about almost any game. If you want to be picky enough there is always some previous, obscure example you can dig up to make a game seem unoriginal, even if the combination of features had never been seen before and genuinely felt fresh at the time.

Pick the most original game you can think of and I guarantee I can tear it apart and make it seem derivative.

dtalon35740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

so what are you trying to say? because to me what it sounds like is this

I should give more credit to the guy who invented an aero dynamic gliding structure than the guy who took that idea along with a bunch of other great ideas and put them together to make the airplane...

yeah, that is what I thought. your just another guy who wont give credit where it is due. Not that it matters anyways the franchise defined a genre along with call of duty and you don't like it...get over it, Millions of copies are about to be sold.

lolzers5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

Halo was the first fps to popularise the regenerating shield/health aspect. The first Call of Duty still had the 'hoover up the healthpacks' technique that many fps games had at the time, it was only after Halo came out that the series introduced regenerating health.

A game may have had the same idea years before, but Halo was the game that made it popular.

DelbertGrady5739d ago

"Why not make halo better add 256 players make it a real battle,
make it like MAG where you need a team and not bet on one person winning a match ??"

I guess you've never played Capture the flag or the Generator Defense mode that was in the beta? Why would anyone want to turn Halo into a mediocre unbalanced mess like MAG? If you want a military FPS game that has big battles and relies heavily on teamwork then BF BC 2 is the best one out there. MAG is redundant.

boodybandit5739d ago (Edited 5739d ago )

GoldenEye is here and they would like to have a word with you.

gamer20105739d ago

Goldeneye didn't have a fraction of the impact that Halo has had.

SixZeroFour5739d ago

halo and bungie perfected balanced fps gameplay on consoles utilizing dual analogue controllers...pretty sure no one can deny that

i chose those words because i do still want to give credit where its due, cs, ut and all the other pc fps' had great ideas/concepts and goldeneye WAS the first popular console fps, but didnt perfect balance because of health and infinite guns to carry at once

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outrageous5739d ago (Edited 5739d ago )

Of course it's a masterpiece...every FPS since Halo has been called a " Halo killer "...why??? Because they want to beat the best. Now recently COD has taken the stage in terms of sales but Halo has been getting it done for years. PS3 has no equal and judging by average games like Insomniacs Resistance series and an average playing KZ franchise, never will.

M$ should have a Halo game every year and I have no idea why they do not. The Halo universe is massive and could easily expand into other areas. They should have a 3rd person halo game with squad controls. Halo Recon was an idea that was bounced around before ODST came out but was never implemented. Halo Wars was a solid RTS and they should continue in that area. I always thought the grunts deserved there own comedic story line. What about the covenant??? How did they come to be? I mean they is alot that came out in the books that could be explored in the games and lots of devs out there looking for work. M$ has been extremely lazy.

Honestly, who cares what the PS3 kids want and like. The PS3 is at the bottom for a reason. The games are all rip offs of other, better franchises. They have nothing original over there and the only reason I own a PS3 is because of KZ and that franchise is being run into the ground game play wise. KZ3 is destined to fail because of Sony...M$ take note.

otherZinc5739d ago

"Campaign" Co-op play: STILL a feature shooters don't have today (*Killzone 1, 2 or 3*) & that's inexcusable!

Halo:CE is a Masterpiece as all the Halo games are & Halo:Reach will be fantastic with tremendous replay value!

kasasensei5740d ago

Halo is for video games what Star Wars is for cinema.

Acquiescence5740d ago

what you said is wrong on so many levels.

kasasensei5740d ago

Oh really? Explain then. You and the ten others disagreeing. Can't wait to see where i am wrong in my statement.... :p

pimpmaster5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

they dissagree b/c they have a ps3

kasasensei5740d ago

I guess you are right, there will be no real explanations from the disagreeing bots.

AllroundGamer5740d ago

i disagreed because i don't think that hype=quality and in terms of quality you just can't compare Halo to such a masterpiece as Star Wars. I finished all Halo games (except ODST, and yes today i finished Reach...) and i still think it's just a generic shooter like any other, also i didn't find many memorable moments in the games, and people who saw Star Wars did memorize many things and quotes from the movies... I played games from the 80s, and i just couldn't fall for the hype around Halo and all the marketing from MS. I mean yeah people recognize Halo, but only as a soldier in a space suit and that's it. That's my opinion as a hardcore gamer who played many many games. Personally i found FinalFantasy 8 and MGS 1 (both first played on PC) as the masterpieces in video games, cause they had great story, lots of twists and the games just pulled me in so much.

BloodyCHAMP5739d ago

without halo where would other shooters be now??

Pistolero5739d ago

that is your taste...many people disagree with you about Halo....to me the Metal Gear Solid games have the most absurd, convoluted stories around and i never played them for their stories, i just liked the stealth action gameplay. anyway if you think people have loved and played Halo all this time because of marketing or hype you are extremely naive.

AllroundGamer5739d ago (Edited 5739d ago )

oh come on, like if nobody else wouldn't come up with regenerating health and dualwielded weapons... without Wolfenstein where would halo be?? see i can do that too :D just because some features you can't call halo a masterpiece... it needs more than that to be called that way.

@Pistolero - also many people (and i don't mean the PS3 hardcore fanboys here) would agree with me, but N4G is full of halo fanatics (looking at the disagrees in many Halo articles) hunting for people, that aren't praising halo like if it was a... well a masterpiece :D not everybody needs to like it that much, just a thought... to me it's an ok shooter, nothing more.

karl5739d ago

well. that would explain why the industry its so fucked up..
honestly the only revolutionary game has been half life ..

thats it...

Chucky20035740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

no its not,i think it was the first FPS on console using 2 guns at the same time,but when i first played this game on PC,i was like WTF is this shit,what is so great about it??in that time games like Quake 2,DOOM,Unreal Tournament were 100 times better than this,so its not,the game was the starting point of FPS games on consoles,that's it,nothing more

SaberEdge5740d ago

Those games were not as good in my opinion.

hennessey865740d ago

but there was a predjudice against halo from the pc community. How dare consoles have a decsent fps. I remember it well, pc gamers were never going to give halo ce the credit it deserved

xCaptainAmazing5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

I also don't see how this is news. The Halo franchise created (/improved upon) many of the common "standards" in FPS's:

- Matchmaking
- Guest play
- Split-screen online
- Regenerating health
-Two weapons/weapon swapping
- Good complementary vehicle combat
- Controller layout
- Awesome multiplayer design that essentially mixed GoldenEye and Unreal

There are other games that have made excellent contributions, but few (none actually) have managed to parallel the feature set Bungie implements in their games. I am personally very excited to see what they come out with next. I really pity those that never got into halo and slag it just because it's an xbox title. Because, in all honesty, you are plain missing out (even if you don't know it). I'm not trying to be all "commanding" or anything, but that's just the straight up truth of the matter. People are always (stupidly) confused why people choose either console as their preferred gaming machine, and my answer for Xbox is Halo. It is truly special to me and others.

It's a little late-coming, but Uncharted got me interested in PlayStation after all these years, and it was fucking fantastic. Funny that the two developers of these EXCLUSIVE titles get along so well, and nobody here does...

THC CELL5740d ago

i will give them tea bagging lol.

THC CELL5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

Gam3s4lif3
You must of just played halo on xbox then,

First of all
Go play games like
Wolfenstine ( a game most players on a xbox console played for a solid 2/3 years)
Call of duty 3
Ghost recon
Rainbow six black arrow and 3 ( a game we played for a solid year or so)
Operation flashpoint 1 ( good but come out too late
Halo 2 was good till modders attacked it ( they should of stopped at halo 2)
Halo 1 was amazing ( shame no online it would of been the most played game on last xbox)

Halo first successful console FPS Get out cause i would choose a rainbow six over halo any day.

halo is milk and cookies for you big baby's out there..
Come play a real game like MAG(underrated) or uncharted 2 what i credit bungie for helping out nd with.

Call of duty black ops will steal halos thunder this year ( even tho i hate call of duty )

Socom 4 for me and killzone 3, Next year can not wait

i finished halo reach last week.

Roozium5740d ago

"Come play a real game like MAG"

LMFAO

xCaptainAmazing5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

You're a retard. Referring to Halo indirectly as "not a real game" is, well, fucking retarded and made your already lame rant lose all credibility. If you can't accept fact, than I can't respect any of your opinions. Sure there were plenty of great fps's before it, but I've never seen a shooter more revered than Halo... actually, it is only rivaled by the Half-Life series in terms of long-standing respect.

Halo certainly isn't the be all, end all game, but neither is any title that exists today. Personally I consider the Ocarina of Time to be the greatest title ever made, but it certainly is not the be all, end all either. 90% of people feel the same way, but I don't slag the other 10%.

And I'm sorry, but MAG does not come close. Halo was great because it was a story/character driven, thrilling, and emotional FPS that brought every great idea before it together into something unique and special. MAG is decent, but I almost threw up in my mouth when I read that. I need a little more than just "point and click." Even if to you the "pointing and clicking" is uber fun. It may be awesome to you and plenty of gamers (I particularly found it a bit bland), but what you did is equivalent to proclaiming Death Race a better film than The Godfather...

Bonus: Single-player > Multi-player, in every genre.

THC CELL5740d ago

Stfu u retard, Halo is a epic story. They made halo online perfect with matchmaking.. Anything eles they have took from other games

You may of never played other games ( maybe call of duty) halo is the only online game good enough for ms cause its the only game ms has to offer you dick Unless you are a gears fan

Look at the dark side MAG,Warhawk,Killzone.+ More.. I guess switching to the darkside has made me see the real gaming world unlike people like u who are stuck to maybe 2 games ? Halo call of duty Fuck me
Go play with your milk.

xCaptainAmazing5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

I have both consoles you dick. You're digging yourself a hole, because you quite frankly are making yourself sound like a jackass.

Like, who honestly calls it the fucking Dark Side anymore... are you like 5 years old and in love with Darth Vader's cock? Has the whole world gone crazy?! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Traveler5740d ago

Talking with fanboys does make you feel like you are living in some kind of bizzaro world.

Gam3s4lif35740d ago

I said 'First Successful FPS on Consoles' including high acclaim from critics and i hav played CoD, Ghost Recon and operation flashpoint, they came out after Halo except for operation flashpoint

Gam3s4lif35740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

@THC CELL....if 'Halo is milk and cookies for ppl' then why did u play Halo Reach..according to you u finished it 'last week'. Also CoD is milked and you don't say anything bout that.

THC CELL5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

Dont have to spell out to a little kid like you how to get halo reach now. All i can say it has one of the best endings ever.. top 10 of my fav ending.

SaberEdge
Halo is nothing but a game for rambo

You can tell call of duty players in mag also its funny how they are all the same

Garrus_Vakarian5739d ago (Edited 5739d ago )

I don't see how 4.5(ODST is the .5 [imo]) games is considered milking. There are much, much, much worse cases of milking out there.

SaberEdge5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

You have indeed proven yourself to be a retard. You aren't the only one that plays games on both consoles. I play MAG too and it is not as good as Halo.

xCaptainAmazing5740d ago (Edited 5740d ago )

Ditto, this guy's a nut job. Opinion can only stretch so far until you notice someone clearly has an issue. Like, as far as triple-A third person action/adventure/shooters go I quite enjoy Gears of War because it's hilarious, but I obviously found Uncharted 2 to be a far more engaging and memorable title from the guys at Naughty Dog. Anyone who has played both can't really argue against it... it's like fact without it literally being fact.

Half the titles compared on this website have a clear winner, it's just that most people haven't played both and have literally no valid opinion on the matter to make a logical claim.

Oh noes! We don't have this game on our console, let's bash it and therefore the value will go down, our console will win, we will rule the world, and everyone will treat us like kings!

SixZeroFour5739d ago

rule 14 on the Rules of the Internet guys...dont even bother

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Rumour: Halo Remake Is Coming to PS5, Will Feature 'Modern Gameplay Mechanics'

Halo will make its PS5 debut with a massively modernised remake of the original Xbox game, Combat Evolved.

That’s according to the Halo Leaks account on X (or Twitter), which has accurately outed information about the franchise in the past.

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Goodguy01218d ago

I expect this to be announced pretty soon. Can't wait, this game was awesome. I wonder how of a remake it'll be though, hopefully not a remaster because we already have that lol.

S2Killinit217d ago

It needs to be a complete redo of graphics or else its not my cup of tea.

hennessey86217d ago

it will be running on unreal engine 5, so it will look good. The question is will it run as good as it looks

GenoPurpel217d ago

I think they teased it a few months back when they announced Halo studios. It does look quite incredible graphically but as Hennessy says above, how it runs is gonna be a different story given UE5 track record.

darthv72217d ago

it would probably be like the gears of war reloaded. Which was a remake of the remaster of the original.

...this gen is getting confusing with so many re-whatevers.

1Victor217d ago

@S2K: “ It needs to be a complete redo of graphics or else it’s not my cup of tea.”
I completely agree with you and would add a VR mode as well🥺

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gold_drake217d ago (Edited 217d ago )

oh yeh, theres like a showcase soon, maybe they'll announce it there.

or at the game awards

but ue5 only looks pretty. the games run ..
abit weird.

Notellin217d ago

It's being shown at the Halo World Championships which they had already announced a few weeks ago.

RaidenBlack217d ago (Edited 217d ago )

Better reboot than another re-touch (remake after an already remaster) .... but 343/Halo is incompetent now, so .... guess this is best they can do with help of Coalition

pwnmaster3000217d ago

So much memories with halo.
The original Xbox was my first console (actually 64 but barely played) and the first game was halo. Me and my brother use to play coop almost everyday.
We eventually traded in for a PS2 because of kingdom hearts lol

maximusprime_217d ago

I played the first 2 Halo games. That's Bungie's Halo.. I do not know whether 343's Halo is as good as Bungie's.

Either ways Halo is one of Microsoft's big franchises. So many rumours so it's becoming more likely it'll come to PS5

darthv72217d ago

Halo 3 is Bungie's game... so is Reach and ODST. 4, 5 & 6 (Infinite) are 343's. They aren't bad... just different. The original trilogy story ended and should have finished there. But MS wanted to 'Star Wars' this franchise and came up with new stories that sort of just sit there.

TheColbertinator217d ago

You haven't missed out much since Bungie left.

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Road to HaloWC 2025 – September

Tashi writes: Back in June we let the community know that we’d be continuing the conversation from last year’s HaloWC and the “A New Dawn” video and sharing more about what we’ve been working on. Like last year we’ll be on the Main Stage to talk about it but this year we’ve also got a “deep dive” panel planned for the Community Stage that you won’t want to miss.

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Halo Reportedly Coming To PlayStation Soon, No Switch 2 Version Planned Yet

The Halo series is reportedly headed over to PlayStation consoles in the near future, while a Nintendo Switch 2 version is not yet planned.

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slate91345d ago

MS probably didn't want the negative press for over a year about Halo coming to sony, which is why they didn't reveal it this year. IMO

InUrFoxHole345d ago (Edited 345d ago )

I dont think that's it. Gears coming to PS is a big deal and we already know that MS is bridging all games. I think its gonna be a next year reveal or when ever they reveal the new xbox. I tell you what's funny. At 1st all gamers were in arms about MS bringing games to PS. Hardcore xbox were mad. Hardcore sony were happy and some trolling. Admittedly at 1st I didn't like it. Truth is for years these companies have been training their consumers to have brand loyalty and believe that certain games were only possibly because of the company they were made under. When you turn that silliness off you realize as a consumer this is one of the best things to happen in gaming. You have the choice to play where you like.

slate91345d ago

Totally agree. MS lost the console war so they moved into publishing where there is money to be made. Now everyone can have the once-exclusive gems on their system of choice.

InUrFoxHole345d ago

@Slate91
Agreed. No way in hell MS is gonna catch anyone in console sales. They're gonna go where the money is.

Shiro173345d ago

Now you clearly have a choice. That would be playstation. You can get Xbox games and all Playstation only games. Why in the hell would anyone buy a Xbox over a ps or pc is beyond me now.

dveio344d ago (Edited 344d ago )

"When you turn that silliness off you realize as a consumer this is one of the best things to happen in gaming.“

Microsoft easily could have told anyone in 2020 already.

They already knew how their next 5 years would evolve, didn't they? In hindsight?

So people could at least have thought about it twice if they'd pay for an X or S - or instead just buy a PS5 right away.

What I am saying is:

Nice try.

But I personally won't ever buy into their "It's about choices to play/we want to reach everyone" BS.

All they care about is money.

Especially 1st party exclusives are a special and completely logical treatment for your own hardware to offer at least some unique selling points to people.

The problem for Microsoft was they just hadn't any. In 2020. And they didn't know it in 2020 first, no, no.

They had 7 years from 2013 to 2020 to prepare for the Series Generation. Which they did - but they didn't tell their community just yet.

And this is just cheap and gutless, now disguised as "We care for everyone!", and again held up by their very own community, at least parts of it.

Because the Xbox brand will have lost another 12-20'ish million users between Xbox One and X|S.

For reasons. Don't you think?

If Microsoft could have done the ways they wanted, e.g. leaked throughout the FTC trial, they just would have bought everything.

From Sega, CD Projekt Red, Capcom, From Software, Warner Bros.

To even Nintendo and Valve.

And don't forget: they had already bought Zenimax and ABK, and STILL wanted more!

Microsoft is a cancer in the gaming business. And I very much wonder how people still don't see through it!

InUrFoxHole344d ago

@devio
You're conflating 2 different things. There stance is absolutely 💯 play anywhere. You can't deny that. But what they are doing is separate from why they are doing it. If you think any of these companies do it for any reason other than $, then you are fooled. MS hand was forced by piss poor decisions. I'm not blind to that

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darthv72345d ago

I say bring it... for years Sony fans have been saying they needed a Halo killer. Well... now they can play Halo themselves and enjoy what millions of XB fans have been enjoying. Why settle for the rest when you can play the best.

JEECE345d ago

"for years Sony fans have been saying they needed a Halo killer"

Lol are you posting this comment through a portal from the year 2008? The "halo killer" narrative died a long time ago.

Cacabunga345d ago

Darth is stuck in time.. Halo killer was born on xbox OG. Killzone 1 started it but the idea vanished when KZ2 was released in 2008 or 2009.

Profchaos345d ago (Edited 345d ago )

Halo killed itself

CrashMania345d ago

Yep, halo has already has a couple of killers, Microsoft and 343.

S2Killinit344d ago (Edited 344d ago )

Halo died when Bungie was not longer involved, a slow death, but surely 343 studios killed it with each iteration.

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The_Hooligan345d ago

I don't know man, lately it seems Halo is the Halo killer. In my opinion Reach was the last good halo game. Although I prefer ODST's campaign over Reach but man that Reach MP was so good.

IAMRealHooman345d ago

343 studios was the halo killer

TiredGamer345d ago

“343 studios was the halo killer”

No truer words have ever been spoken.

PhillyDonJawn345d ago

Halo 5 was much better than Halo reach. (MP)

tebis1345d ago

It was said for a few years, then Halo decide to kill itself.

Profchaos345d ago (Edited 345d ago )

At this point though who hasn't played halo its not like its been cost prohibitive to go buy an old 360 or play it on pc

KwietStorm_BLM345d ago

The media said that. Time and time again. People minding their business on PlayStation didn't say they need a Halo killer. That doesn't even make sense.

1Victor345d ago

@darth: “ I say bring it... for years Sony fans have been saying they needed a Halo killer”
Wait I thought the halo killer was its tv show😂🤣

Sony had a lot of halo killers but couldn’t commit to one all better in one way or another than halo better graphics and gameplay without aim assist = kill zone.
Better multiplayer: Warhawk 32 players and Starhawk 64 players and a lot of fun to play.
Honorable Benton socom so yeah I blame Sony for not committing to what they had or putting it together 🤷🏿

Shiro173345d ago

Technically Halo killed itself.

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The Wood344d ago

Flux Capacitor....... send me the link please Darth

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ocelot07345d ago

If it's not Infinite or Master Chief Collection. Then maybe it's just a complete collection? Halo 1-5 + ODST and Infinite with a £70 price tag.

neutralgamer1992345d ago

I think that would be smart but with how MS are handling gears we may see them bring 1 game at a time and charge $50 for each. I wss hoping for a complete gears of war collection

Gears 1-5 all dlx & Gears judgement for $80 but instead we get 1 game. Just like Sony are remastering and remaking games we will see MS now do the same

Eonjay345d ago

Why would Microsoft wait to put this on Switch 2? In a perfect world it would have come to the original Switch.... but if this is not possible, they may be looking to cash in on the fact that it is very likely that most Swich 2 onwers will also a PS5 meaning that they can get a lot of double dippers simply by staggering the releases. I think this is true for multiple Xbox Studios games on PS5. By the next Summer games fest, expect an onslaught of games coming to Switch in the same way they are coming to PlayStation now.

Levii_92345d ago

Halo 2 MCC is one of the best games ever.

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