Halo most Definably Revolutionized the FPS Genre

If it wasn't for Halo, First Person Shooters wouldn't be as big a hit, everyone knows this. At the time of its release, there was nothing else like it on the market. This without doubt helped it on its success. Most every gamer from last generation played Halo and played it for consecutive hours straight, since there was less fanboys last generation...

[Huh]

call of duty 4 revolutionized the fps genre

[00]

COD4 revolutionized exactly?.

[sonarus]

COD4 is the definitive shooter for this generation. Halo didn't do anything revolutionary it just successfully brought FPS games to consoles. Golden eye did it and it was great but with two analog sticks Halo made it a little better.

Halo didn't revolutionize the genre thats what you get from die hard fans. But what Halo did was carry it on to consoles and give it a bit of a casual appeal with its cartoony nature

[Cajun Chicken]

I can't remember driving vehicles in a FPS before Halo, essentially making the second level a sandbox.

[sonarus]

Really? I Seem to remember driving a tank in golden eye? Hmmm i must be mistaken

And Halo is not a sandbox shooter. Far cry, crysis those are sand box shooters. Just because there is more than one way to enter a building now all of a sudden its a sandbox. Halo has some degree of openness since you can engage enemies from any point but that is very very far from sandbox

Halo just took all the great things on PC and put them on a console and everyone is like OMG Bungie revolutionized FPS like FPS didn't exist before the original XBox

[Danja]

Halo didn't revolutionize the FPS genre as Sonarus said , it was probably the 1st FPS game to really work well on consoles...minus Golden Eye..

but it's the 1st FPS to have ever had online MP also..in some way it did revolutionize the FPS but only on consoles..

[Deviant]

"I can't remember driving vehicles in a FPS before Halo, essentially making the second level a sandbox. "

....are you kidding me?

[sonarus]

Halo was the first shooter for a lot of people. Like i said it has more casual appeal than most shooters during its time. The cartoony nature also made it accessible to kids so lots of kids grew up on Halo. So i am not really surprised to hear someone say Halo did this or that first since they didn't play shooters before Halo

[gambare]

The Battlefield lineup games really did some revolutionary advances in FPS gaming, from the multiplayer archetypes to vehicle uses in game, Halo made some important steps in the FPS genre in the consoles, the FPS was dominant on PC but I have to admit that Halo was the pioneer of the FPS consoles. Maybe it didn't contribute to anything new to the genre but it did to the consoles, but to the genre I consider the Battlefield line as the most important contributor and yes, Goldeneye was the peak on multiplayer experience, but Halo bring the online multiplayer experience, because another great multiplayer FPS was perfect dark.

[Marceles]

"but it's the 1st FPS to have ever had online MP also"

Quake 3 Arena on Dreamcast had online MP. I remember it took forever for Halo to have online MP and Gamespy brought online MP to Halo before it was official on Live.

[thewhoopimen]

On consoles ... No game popularized the FPS like GoldenEye did. I hated Goldeneye, but it definitely was the predecessor and the leader of console FPS. Halo was supposed legitimize FPS on the Mac... until MS conveniently bought Bungie out.

[Graphics Whore]

Halo might be the first game for many casual gamers, but people have been playing more intuitive and more skill based FPS games since the 1980's.

Halo got casuals to play FPS games, because of it's easy asscessable mechanics and inviting but yet very slack graphics.

Did it help a console survive? Very much. Is it the best FPS ever? No it's not.

[Cajun Chicken]

Well, I personally never played a FPS with vehicles put into third person when driving in a large world before Halo:CE and the year 2001, you could choose what crash site you wanted to go and protect the Humans (hence sandbox, alright, a small sandbox, but that second level on 'Halo' wasn't linear) also theres the flying of the Banshee on 'Assault on the control room' and it had an epic finale with the Jeep.

I agree and think that the appearance of Halo was very important for all the game industry because of the above I just wrote, and the fact it popularized melee hits in console FPS. Just because it was on the XBOX and MS published it, it didn't mean that Bungie didn't do some good and push on the future of the FPS. Besides, it was said to be on the Mac and Rockstar were apparently considering publishing it for PS2 and XBOX.
I mean, could you imagine UT2K4 without vehicles? Alright, that would just essentially be UT2K3

At lot of the first game was about driving, exploring and shooting, its just that the later ones focused more on the latter shooting than the exploring and driving and when everyone thinks 'Halo', they think of the multiplayer and not the actual first game Halo:CE, before the dumbing down of the series.

But those who disregard the some of the things Bungie inserted into the typical FPS mould, well, just think what FPS may be like without Halo, I think that the original Halo is as equally as important as Wolfenstien 3D, Doom, Quake, Halflife, the Unreal PC series. Because a lot came out of those (even if small) design desicions that made Halo.

I'm sure a lot of developers would cite Halo:CE as an inspiration, just because of the new stuff it actually bought to the FPS table.

[GWAVE]

Halo certainly caused a revolution ON CONSOLES. If Halo had been an FPS for the PC, it would have been a relatively mediocre title compared to other games such as Tribes 2, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, and so forth. Halo's influence was not in gameplay nor storyline, but rather in controls and later in online play (with Halo 2 spearheading that endeavor).

Halo deserves SOME credit, but to say that Halo revolutionized FPSs would be a slap in the face of every self-respecting PC gamer who knows the truth.

[Marceles]

Not to compare FF7 to Halo because they're both great in their own right...preferably FF7 to me is one of the greatest games of all-time period, but in terms of bring people to a genre how FF7 brought people who didnt play RPGs to the genre, I think Halo deserves alot of credit for having the same effect for FPSs. That I'll definitely give it credit for.

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

let’s say for example a map holding 60 players. Grand Theft Auto you can play in an opened world while in Resistance 2 you can play on a big map, big difference.

Not to burst your bubble but almost all first person shooters are linear with exceptions to games like Far Cry 2. Because you can choose where to go it doesn't make it linear it's the freedom to explore anywhere at any time. Most first person shooters limit the player from doing certain things, that's linear. So once you reach a check point in a first person shooter something usually blocks the player from exploring previous environments. You couldn't explore space, you couldn't explore earth, you couldn't explore buildings, you couldn't explore anything besides the areas you needed to go to, linear.

The only thing that made Halo really popular was the online portion of the game. This is due to Microsoft for bringing for the first time to TV consoles an easy way to connect to the world. This is what made the sequel sell millions and in my opinion is the best one out of the three. With next generation technology Halo 3 looks last generation now compared to Killzone 2, Far Cry 2, Crysis, or even Call of Duty. Since now online is equal on all platforms everything else was pretty much generic besides the universe created.

[Sitdown]

"Halo didn't do anything revolutionary it just successfully brought FPS games to consoles"

Ummmm, seems like a contradiction to me. If it successfully brought FPS games to consoles...did it not revolutionize by changing people's perception of what fps games can be like on consoles?

[Cajun Chicken]

Has anyone here actually experienced the exploring aspect of the second level of Halo:CE when you crash landed on Halo:CE I'm talking about? You can't disrgard it, it was a great way for the game to feel immersive. Same as 'Assault on the control room' that level felt so expansive in scale.
It also FELT like you were travelling along Halo in the many chapters, much like Quake 2 did when you retreaded areas in later sections despite being seperate levels and the weather would seem to change to TRICK you subcontiously that Halo had its own eco system.

Its a shame that the Halo series is mainly noted because of its multiplayer, because I think that Halo: CE was a very clever game in the way it did things.

But at least you get half what I mean.

[caladbolg777]

Halo didn't revolutionize the FPS genre. It may have had a heavy-hand in bringing FPS's and its culture to the mainstream, but the last big revolution is FPS gaming came with Half-Life, the Source Engine, and eventually COUNTER-STRIKE.

[Cajun Chicken]

Counter-Strike existed before the Source engine.

[Maddens Raiders]

FTL

[thenickel]

System link is what made Halo stand out more than any other game before it. Sure pc shooter have always been serious but halo controls really made more sense and took away the feeling of being a floating cursor. I've played all the shooters from Nintendo to RFOM2 to even cod4 and will tell you that none of those games have that Halo magic. This topic has been around for a awhile and as always the few that didn't like it will go online and voice there opinion. We all ready know the Halo gameplay mechanics are untouchable but still where here with this crap again.

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

Scale doesn't mean opened world, opened world means you can explore anything at anytime. For example Resistance 2 has scale but it isn't an opened world game. Far Cry 2 is an opened world game not because you can choose it's the fact that you can explore. Fable 2 is another opened world game not because you can choose a path you can take but that you can go anyway at anytime. Gears of War is a linear game and there will be some aspects of the game where you can choose different paths but that doesn’t make it an opened world. You aren't able to explore different worlds at any times you're fixed to do certain things.

Another thing is if a game makes you feel immersed it doesn't mean it's on opened world game. For example Killzone 2 is said to do the same thing but it's a linear game. It isn't about what you feel, or can choose, it's about what is opened to the player. I've played all three games and all three are linear just like every other shooter besides games like Far Cry 2. When people talk about Halo 2's storyline they'll tell you they were pissed of the ending but was blown away by the multiplayer. Everytime you hear something about XBOX 360 it isn't about quality of games, quality of storylines, it's about quality of the online.

[littletad]

The game was released more than a year ago, and were still talking about it. The same thing happened with Halo, Halo 2 and we might see the same thing with ODST.

I think Halo revolutionized fps genre's but only for consoles. Turrets didn't appear till Halo 2 and that was laughed by pc owners. Halo 3 went above and beyond what you might get in your standard fps purchase these days. Anybody who has messed with forge knows this, but again this is nothing new to pc owners. Replay was a nice touch though. So yeah, it only did wonders for the consoles.

[WaitStation 3]

Halo:

1. First innovation: button for grenades (before you had to select grenades as a weapon)
2. Second innovation: button for a melee attack
3. Last but key innovation: Your health recharges over time

Every (almost) FPS since then has a grenade & melee button.

Call of Duty:

1. First innovation: Aim Down Sight (ADS)
2. Second innovation: First game with prone stance
3. Last innovation: Bullet penetration

And this is just "core" gameplay.

There are other games that innovated like Golden Eye, Perfect Dark(N64), etc. that I won't get into.

Ignorance is bliss

[N4360G]

LOL Call Of Duty 4 showed Halo 3 who's boss.Halo didn't revolutionize sh*t!!

[WaitStation 3]

LOL^^^

Call of Duty 4 has killcam and Halo 3 has what...

that's right, you can watch the whole game, edit it, change angles and from 1st person view to 3rd, and take screenshots all in the same game.

Halo 3 campaign is also 4-player co-op. huh? LOL

COD4 has sold 10million across all platforms while Halo 3 has sold almost 9million only on Xbox360. Yowzer! LOL

[kwyjibo]

No, Halo was a revolution. Not just on consoles.

It was the most influential FPS since Half-Life, and no, had it come out on PC at the same time - it wouldn't just have been mediocre. Even when the PC port did come out, almost two years later, it still got applauded.

It popularised open environments - it may not have been sandbox, but compared to the cold steel corridors of previous games, and combined with the terrific AI - it was a delight. It achieved a clever balance with the limited gun inventory, an had an assortment of different yet effective weapons. The recharging health mechanism has been used in countless titles since. The multiplayer was fantastic, and the series would bring online to consoles.

The most revolutionary thing it did though, was to provide Xbox with a smash hit title straight out of the box. Cementing it as a viable contender in the hardware market. Without Halo, you wouldn't have had a 360.

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Sure, all this is gushing, but its warranted. A lot of people seem to have forgotten what a breath of fresh air the original Halo was, belittling its achievements when they've obviously forgotten what the FPS market was like at the time of its launch.

This was a time before Battlefield, before Call of Duty, even Allied Assault. Sonarus claims it just took things from the PC and ported them to console, no it didn't, they weren't on PC.

The pinnacle of FPS's up to that point on PC was Half-Life. Games that came out after Half-Life, before the launch of Halo, included Blood 2, Requiem: Avenging Angel, Kingpin: Life of Crime, Aliens vs Predator 2. Sure - they were good games, but how many of those do you remember? How many are cited today? (Sure, there were in my eyes, epic games such as System Shock 2, but like it's spiritual successor Deus Ex - these took the genre into a different less well trodden direction, and do not have the influence or impact of Halo)

I'm a hardcore FPS PC gamer, I've been around since Doom, was online with Quake 1. It pissed me off greatly that Microsoft bought out Bungie and turned what would have been a Windows/Mac title into an Xbox exclusive title.

I never bought the Xbox, I don't have a 360, but I appreciate what Halo has brought to the genre. You praise COD4 as the definitive shooter of this generation, Halo was the definitive shooter for the last. It was a revelation and revolutionary, that it bought so many new gamers into the world of FPS underlines that.

[Vecta]

Dunno why but a lot of people forget about the large amount of NPCs that fought with you throughout the original Halo, something that had not be done much in the past and so successfully.

This, among other things like Health Regeneration and global melee is why people say Halo innovated the genre... because it did.

[Camper]

I believe Goldeneye for N64 was the first

[Legion]

"will Microsoft announce a new Halo i.e. Halo 4, or squeeze the lemons of what they have now."

Once again a back handed slap at Microsoft... he says in one breath that Halo revolutionized the FPS and the next he calls it a lemon.

Halo revolutionized the console FPS control scheme. This is what made it what it is today. For everyone that complained that FPS on a console was not playable, well Halo came along and proved them wrong. And in the process brought along a well thought out multiplayer environement that other games emulate to this day.

[kewlkat007]

-The End

[gametheory]

"This, among other things like Health Regeneration and global melee is why people say Halo innovated the genre... because it did. "

Uh, halo wasn't the first one to do this. How old are you? Halo simply made it popular, that's why YOU think Halo made it first. As somebody said above, Halo did for FPS on consoles what FF7 did for JRPGs in the West.

[poopface1]

Halo's influnces can still be seen in alot of games, even non FPS games. It helped make the limited weapons standard in most games, even the ones that weren't going for realism. But the biggest thing that ive noticed in games that halo made standard was regenerating health. The only difference is that in halo it made sense because it was your shield recharging. It doesnt make sense anymore because every video game protagonist has wolverine powers.

People dont want to admit it but halo did alot for FPS on consoles. Fps are my favorite games ever. I really like a good single player fps. The campaign in halo 1 is a really unique and I rank it up there with some of my favorites. Not my favorite fps, because those are on pc(HL,Deus ex, and DF2:JK are the greatest FPS ever). It had an epic feel to it which the campaign in H2/3 is missing. For example, sometimes you could actually use stealth and assassinate a whole room of aliens, elites and all. In halo 2/3 that crap is just missing.

[Vecta]

"Uh, halo wasn't the first one to do this. How old are you? Halo simply made it popular, that's why YOU think Halo made it first. As somebody said above, Halo did for FPS on consoles what FF7 did for JRPGs in the West."

Really, what console action FPS before Halo introduced regenerating health or the ability to only carry 2 weapons, or a single button for grenades/melee or advanced friendly AI, among other things?

[Nicolator]

I stand on the face halo made the biggest impact to FPS on console, since halo fps has just gone globally nuts especially with MP.. its the fps tht i played one year after its release. halo sure made a big impact.

[pain777pas]

Doom started it and Half life expanded it. Enough with the Halo BS seriously. Yes I know wolfenstein was first but doom is the game that started the influx of me too in the industry.

[godofthunder10]

I just can't belive all the ps3 fanboy crap.Halo didn't do anything for shooters it was Call of duty 4 or golden eye.The fact is that it was HALO that did more for shooters then any other game.They never had a fps that came out before halo that let you drive and play online like halo did.The people that claims that halo didn't do anything for shooters are just ps3 fanboys.If it was on the ps3 the same people will be saying it did and that's a fact.

sonarus said and i QUOTE

(Halo was the first shooter for a lot of people. Like i said it has more casual appeal than most shooters during its time. The cartoony nature also made it accessible to kids so lots of kids grew up on Halo. So i am not really surprised to hear someone say Halo did this or that first since they didn't play shooters before Halo)

The fact is that your statement is just bias,ridiculious,childish and pathetic.I never thought that a game that have killing in it,aliens trying to take over the world,people trying to stop them,and rated muture as like you say cartoony .I bet you don't think that MGS4 is cartoony because it's on the ps3 and the stories are just about the same.

I bet you even claim that the Final Fantasy,Metal gear solid,Ninja Gaiden,and other games on the ps3 was only exclusive to sony but microsoft is stealing them away because unlike sony microsoft can't come up with their own ideals.I agree with ps3 fanboys when they say that microsoft try to get exclusives away from sony because that's their competion and that's how buisiness works.The problem i have is when ps3 fanboys claim that sony never did or does anything like that.Ps3 fanboys claim that sony is the innovater of games and equipment and every one coppies them and they don't coppy anyone.The fact is that Final Fantasy,Metal gear solid,Ninja gaiden and other exclusive games that ps3 fanboys are mad about and crying because microsoft is stealing or trying to steal them away from sony was games that sony stole from nintendo when they first came out.The fact is that sonys biggest games was nintendo exclusives first but sony stole them away because at the time nintendo was the top dog and sony was just starting out and doing their job.Ps3 fanboys could cry about this and that but the fact is that the same thing that microsoft is doing to sony,sony did to nintendo years ago and it's a fact.Just look back at the history of the games and you could see who had them first.The same thing will happen to microsoft to,that is just how it works.Fanboys should also stop crying about they coppied the game off my system and it's not fair.The fact is that every game coppies something off 1 game or the other,sometimes it's the same and sometimes it's a little different.

[InMyOpinion]

Always funny to see PS3 fanboys trying to deny Halo's greatness. Hell, even I can see why Killzone 2 is a great game, why can't you just take off the 4D goggles for one sec?

[Mini Mario]

"FF7 to me is one of the greatest games of all-time period"

Questionable. Its probably better than most recent final fantasy games for sure. Better than the super nes square enix games, hmmmm doubt it. Final fantasy 7 was big because of the cgi cut scenes at the time,.. but gameplay wise i think i prefer chrono trigger. I mean u can get like 10 different endings with that game depending on what u do.

[YonasJonas]

I don't see how it revolutionized the genre, but it certainly helped raise the bar for the amount of content for a console game. Personally I don't care for Halo because of its bland generic art style, and worst of all implementation of a retarded matchmaking system.

[Mini Mario]

"Halo didn't revolutionize FPS games, it just made the world realize that FPS games could work on consoles and revolutionize that"

I did like the way u could constantly get different two gun combos (one for each hand), and how u could re generate your energy instead of looking for "health packs", oo oh and i loved being able to tackle ghosts head on and steal it from the enemy. That was pretty cool. And i thought the reply camera thing in halo 3 was a good extra.

:-)

[Marceles]

"Questionable. Its probably better than most recent final fantasy games for sure. Better than the super nes square enix games, hmmmm doubt it. Final fantasy 7 was big because of the cgi cut scenes at the time,.. but gameplay wise i think i prefer chrono trigger. I mean u can get like 10 different endings with that game depending on what u do."

I'll give Chrono Trigger props too since it did have 10 endings, the Combo Tech moves were awesome, great story and some of the best music in RPGs, and it introduced New Game +. It might be the best RPG in the 16-bit era other than FF6, Secret of Mana, or Super Mario RPG. I give FF7 so much props because it didn't only introduce CGI, it pretty much bridged the gap between the best RPGs of the 16-bit era to the newer gens. It was a 3 disc epic and so much work and production value went into it.

[SaiyanFury]

I can't say I have a lot of experience with HALO, I've only tried the PC version of HALO 2 which blew big time. My best experience with an FPS was Doom Custom PSX Edition on the original PlayStation. You can play both Dooms 1 and 2 and the first Doom was the Ultimate. It was the first to include actual digital audio music and sound effects and the disc was comprised of over 60 levels. Final Doom added to the game with it's levels and continuation of Doom PSX's additions. I think it was Doom that defined the more modern experience and not HALO. I won't say that HALO is bad and didn't contribute but considering that many people here say that it was overrated, I can't say I'm sorry I didn't play it. Resistance on the PS3 was great, and it had vehicles you could drive. But the best FPS I've played? That remains with Doom on the original PS. A consistent 30FPS was the name of the game back in the day and it was my second PS game. Doom PSX scored 5 out of 5 with Gamepro back in the day because it was a genre defining game. HALO for me is not a defining game. Did HALO add to the genre, no argument. But by no means does that make it the best.

[JsonHenry]

I am still not sure what exactly Halo did that was so great. Even at the time of release it was completely outdated graphically by PC FPS games, and it did not have a single game mode or idea that had not been done before (many times!!) by FPS PC games.

[prowiew]

Halo did revolutionized the fps genre for a lot of people. Including me. At least the multiplayer part on consoles. The matchmaking and the level classes were key to their succes.

[kwyjibo]

Bullshit, name some PC equivalents.

From your comments, I see you're also a hardcore PC FPS gamer, like myself. However, your comment on how it didn't offer anything new is just false. So is the one regarding it being graphically out of date.

The open environments, which game had that? Tribes? That was online only, and looks worse than Halo. Delta Force? That was just ass and used voxels and had rubbish AI.

The limited weaponry - sure you could conceivably state that it was an offshoot of Deus Ex style inventory management, but that's arguable.

The regenerating health, which is the de facto standard on shooters now, which game had that before?

[Oner]

CS Revolutionized FPS. PERIOD.

[Vlaitor]

I think it depends of your style:
If you never were a PC player then Yes, Halo revolutionized the fps gendra on consoles.

On consoles only.

If your like me and done some CAL/CEVO/TWL or even... OGL league then halo is nothing compared to the pc shooters.

The name that revolutionized or at least made a big step into the fps style are:

Doom
Quake 3 (still very competitive today)
Half Life 1 & 2
CS orginial and source
Unreal Tournament
Call of duty 2 and 4

[GIJeff]

Unreal Tournament, BF1942, Golden Eye, and Counter Strike. Every other game borrows and expands on these 3. Which is not a bad thing. Halo has done almost nothing except make itself more successful due to retarded scale marketing. And COD4? Really? Common....

[JsonHenry]

Dude, come on. Don't call yourself a PC gaming enthusiast and say that you honestly thought that Halo some how did anything new. Open ended enviroments? How about BF1942 or BF Vietnam? Graphically out of date? Of course it was compared to PC games at the time. Everything on consoles at the time had been outdated by PC games by the time Halo made it to the market.

Now, as far as consoles go - yes. There was a whole new generation of kids that learned how much fun it was to play online and Halo was the first game they played. But seriously.. in the overall picture it gave us nothing. At least nothing new.

[Sasanova]

revolutionized, maybe...but revolutionized because its a great game? definitely no. revolutionized because there were no alternatives? yes.

[Kazu0 Hirai]

As President of Sony Computer Entertainment, I wish my console, the Playstation 3, had a game even remotely as good as Halo. A game that I could claim revolutionized an entire genre. A game that is exclusive to my last place console, the Playstation 3. Instead, the game that is creating the most hype for my system right now is unfortunately, another generic shooter which doesn't even have a proper color palette. This black and white game has cost my company 60 million dollars and it still isn't even as good as Halo which is a 9 year old game! I fear I may be out of a job soon! I wonder if Microsoft is hiring?

Sincerely,

Kaz Hirai

[WaitStation 3]

LOL ^^^^^^^

[Graphics Whore]

Sure it did, then came along CoD4 and killed it, and then shot it in the head just incase and buried it in its backyard then entombed the grave with cement.

[Huh]

i agree halo was killed by call of duty 4 the best console fps ever made until february 27 2009

[BabyStomper5000]

Eh I like the MP on Resistance 2 more than COD, but ya Killzone 2 is going to be Über-sexy fo'sho.

[littletad]

Even the developers flattered their competitors from both sides.

It's only fanboys who declare one game "killed" the other.

[SinnedNogara]

Halo didn't revolutionize FPS games, it just made the world realize that FPS games could work on consoles and revolutionize that. The game didn't bring anything revolutionary to the table, and was very generic.

HALO HAD NO SPRINT FEATURE!!! THAT SUCKS!!!!

[agareen]

halo revolutionized online gaming on da original xbox. and its still a damm good game on 360. if u eva go oline on halo 3 u'll see around 300 000 ppl playin on an average day. in COD4 u'll be lucky to get 7000 in team death match.

BTW i love COD4 >> add me gamertag: agareen

[blackpanther25]

I still believe the matchmaking in halo is the best. In these COD games its like lvl 1-8 is training. Then they slap with prestige 5 lvl 30 enemy (or some crazy number like that) on vs. I like how halo made you fight people your level and as you got better you kept on facing people your lvl until lvl 50 (i thnk). I just hope killzone 2 has that as well

[YonasJonas]

I despise the party system. I don't know why anyone wants to play the same levels over, and over because thats all people vote for. Not to mention not being able to pick the exact type of match you want or having the option for rematches.

[thebudgetgamer]

if there's no doom there's no halo.

:)

[Graphics Whore]

and Golden Eye 007.

[Parapraxis]

And Half Life
And Wolfenstein
And Counterstrike
And Quake
And Unreal Tournament
and on and on.

EDIT: lol, in no particular order. =P

[bassturd]

Thought Wolfenstein came before Doom actually.

Quake was my first FPS love tho cuz it had fun competitive online.

Only thing I can give credit to Halo is the health system where you can take damage then go to cover to recover. Like that a lot more than searching for health packs.

[Deviant]

@Parapraxis
bubbles for mentioning wolfenstein ...
enemy territory = best (free) online shooter

[thebudgetgamer]

and doom set everything up for mods people love so much witch is why halo has forge mode because of doom. but yea halo changed the perception of an fps on a console and thats possible due to what goldenyeye did before it

:)

[Parapraxis]

>halo changed the perception of an fps on a console.
I agree, It certainly helped.
Halo is a household name when it comes to the FPS genre, much like Goldeneye and Half-Life. That's a huge achievement in itself.

[Deviant]

"it popularized a lot of the popular current trends. Like melee, vehicles, recharging health. "
tell me u yre talking about console shooters only :(

[ArmrdChaos]

That was the first FPS for me that made competitive multiplayer fun. Remember many a lunch hour exploding co-workers to bits with the rocket launcher. =)

[BabyStomper5000]

Duke Nukem was the shiz-NITE. Too bad we have to wait forever for... Duke Nukem Forever.

[Mini Mario]

"if there's no doom there's no halo. "

Doom certainly was a classic. Doom 3 sucked tho. But the original doom really did make wolenstein look like play school.

Everybody who had a computer had doom. Everybody played.

[Parapraxis]

"At the time of its release, there was nothing else like it on the market."
Except for maybe... Halo 1 & Halo 2.
Let alone all the other FPS games Halo was inspired by.

also "there was less fanboys last generation"
...umm no.

FPS games were "on the map" LONG before the Halo series arrived.
This writer is a fool and doesn't know much about the history of the industry.

[hydro-lx]

im a fool you say? when i said this quote "At the time of its release, there was nothing else like it on the market." i meant Halo 1, stupid, and yeah halo was inspired by many other games, but how many of them were actually popular? yeah all those games you mentioned were for the PC, nothing like that was on console gaming stupid! and if you mention anything older, i wasn't talking about games in the 90s, i was talking about games from 2000 to 2005, doom wasn't popular until much much later when people realized first person shooters were a success, thats when doom got its shine... but it was far to long before people would realize doom was good... they realized it like in 2002 or something... your just stupid

[Parapraxis]

Hi hydro-lx, Open Zone is thatta way >>>>

[Graphics Whore]

Okay then change the title, because clearly there were WAY more influential FPS games than Halo in which you are wrong if you believe Halo is the most definitive.

Change your title to something more like Halo most Definably Revolutionized the FPS Genre ON CONSOLES.

[Harryhit4]

You stole the words from my mouth, almost exactly.

Bubbles for you, we think alike.

Also, I totally fell out of my chair laughing when I read hydro-lx's post, specifically this:

"but how many of them were actually popular?"

and

"they realized it like in 2002 or something..."

[bassturd]

@4.1

his last sentence..."your just stupid"

all you need to know really

[RussDeBuss]

people didn't realise about doom until 2002? wtf? are u on crack?

There was nothin revolutionary about halo. halo was hyped and marketed loads, mainly because it was the only big game for the xbox at the time, it was an accesable game and esay to get into which is why it bacame popular, and i'm not trying to say any of the halo's are bad games, although i'm not much of a fan because i grew up with pc fps games and halo to me was a bit meh, nothin new here.

i think, as others have said, if your talking about fps on consoles, then goldeneye is the game that stands out as the game that opend the eyes of the general console gamer to the world of fps.

and as far as multiplayer fps goes, in that generation, wasn't time splitters out before halo

[Tony P]

Halo set a lot of sales precedents for the industry and arguably ensured the success of the Xbox.

That said, I still don't believe it revolutionized the entire genre more than popularizing it for newbies.

And yeah, that Doom comment is terribly stupid. People didn't realize a game ported at least seven times before Halo ever came out was good until 2002? Please do some fact checking before you post your ignorance.

- Also, is the title right? It seems a little off. "most definably revolutionized"

[BabyStomper5000]

I remember when Halo came out I was playing the original Red Faction for the PS2 and liked it better. It's all preference really...

[Mini Mario]

"FPS games were "on the map" LONG before the Halo series arrived.
This writer is a fool and doesn't know much about the history of the industry. "

i think every generation has had revolutionary FPS's...all of them have improved with each gen making each one better and better.

I think all of the previous generation inovators have had really good imput to get FPS where they are today. From wolfenstein, doom, dark forces, duke nukem 3d (hehe), goldeneye, halo, quake, unreal Tourn

...there all responsible for the perfection thats played today.

[ravinshield]

fps king, we all know it.

[Graphics Whore]

Lol, no you're just an Xbox Fanboy ;).

[Shadow Man]

but but KILLZONE!

[Magic_The_Celt]

You wish, hey halo 3 online is pretty fun but meh, its for noobs

Halo didnt revolutionise sh*t, and they have got worse

Halo (96%) Metacritic
Halo 2 (95%) Metacritic
Halo 3 (94%) Metacritic

hahaha

[Graphics Whore]

What about Killzone 2? I mean ya sure it has a 95% metacritic average and a 95% on gamerankings but it's still not the best game ever. Just the better FPS in recent time.

[Omega4]

It certainly did which is why its sequels are so popular

When Bungie created Halo they created a universe, a universe which is capable of spanning multiple genres just like Mario has

Halo will always be hated because of its success but its a franchise which will continue to live on as long as the Xbox and console gaming remains

[Parapraxis]

No, many people dislike it for the very claims this article and gamers who have only played on an xbox make.

People blindly say FPS games were not on the map before Halo and that there was nothing else like it on the market.

That's completely untrue. Especially for anybody who gamed on PC and played a lot of fantastic and popluar FPS games long before the Halo series came along.

[Danja]

Do you really think ppl dislike the Halo Franchise 'Now" becuase of the success it has achieved ??

The 1st Halo game made me buy an Xbox , it was also one of my fave games last gen and IMO one of the best games of last gen also..

but Halo 2 was really overrated and it under-delivered on the SP aspect compared to the 1st game and nothing much didn't really change in the form of gameplay...

Halo 3 - under-delivered again on the SP side of it again...the graphics didn't look next gen , the gameplay felt rehashed and old.."last gen" nothing much was really changed from Halo 2....it was like Hlo 2 with a face life and botox injected in it...

The media praises the Halo Franchise like it's the best games ever but Halo 2 & 3 are some of the most overrated games of the last gen and this gen.....when other games deserves more praise but dont get thats where all the negative stigma comes n play

[Unicron]

"When Bungie created Halo they created a universe, a universe which is capable of spanning multiple genres just like Mario has "

Technically, they ripped off Ringworld and other concepts. But that's okay, they made the universe work, and I really enjoy it. However, where they went with the story in games was nothing short of utterly disappointing. Oh well, there's always Halo 1 as a shining light in the dark.

[ActionBastard]

I'm sorry but my vote goes to Doom. Halo did nothing for the genre but make posers think they were gamers.

[Spike47]

Halo is just another great FPS franchise, feel free to disagree with facts. Personally, COD4 didn't bring anything new and it was better than Halo 3 imo.

[PotNoodle]

I'm not a halo fan, but halo brought a proper control scheme to the consoles for FPS and took online gaming on consoles to the next level.

CoD4 didn't do anything new, it just did what it was supposed to do - well.

So neither games revolutionized the FPS genre, but halo revolutionized FPS games for the console.

[frostbite06]

Perfectly said

On a side note, why does everyone on this page love COD4 so much? I feel like its the only fps some people have played. Its a great game, but nothing revolutionary. Surely there's better arguments than COD4.

[vlazed]

Sorry, but I was playing both Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Revolution in the Ps2's first year, with proper control schemes, before Halo was released. I was also playing Socom online before Xbox Live was in existence. I suggest you research your facts before posting. For the record, It was the Dreamcast and Phantasy Star Online that revolutionized online console gaming and set the wheels in motion for both Xbox Live and PSN.

[PotNoodle]

vlazed

They're not facts, they are opinions. I never said it revolutionized console gaming, but took it to the next level.

So many modern day shooters on consoles all have halo inspired controls now.

So yeah, hush.

[vlazed]

So your telling me that a Ps2 launch title, Unreal Tournament, was inspired by the "Halo Control Scheme" a year after it was released. I would really like to know how that is opinion or how that's even possible. I would also like an explanation as to what the next level is because, like I said, I was playing Socom on Ps2 as well as Unreal Championship on xbox live way before Halo 2. As we all know Halo 1 didn't have any online components. Please explain to me how my facts are opinion again.

[PotNoodle]

Did i say it was? All i'm saying is that _MOST_ __MODERN__ SHOOTERS HAVE SIMILARITIES TO THE HALO CONTROL SCHEME.

And i never said YOUR facts were opinions, i said that in reply to you saying "i suggest you research your facts" or whatever you said.

[vlazed]

How is it the Halo control scheme if other games have used that very same control scheme prior to it? Proclaiming that Halo brought that very scheme to the console realm is false. Therefore every FPS on consoles to date is inspired by the "Unreal Tournament Ps2" control scheme.

[PLAYSTATIONGENRATION]

Golden Eye......anything else is foolish

[creeping judas]

I appreciate where you're coming from. Golden Eye was the 1st game I ever played with more then myself. Mind you it was with 3 of my buddies in the same room.

But GE was linear. look left to right only, move forwards and backwards. Halo introduced so much to FPS genre.

I love Halo : Combat Evolved it was the 1st game to make me want to play FPS ever. However, Halo2 and Halo3 I did not like so much??

[Unicron]

You could look up and down in Goldeneye. Real men played with the Solitaire 1.2 controls ;-)

[WhoaMan]

Halo 1 and 2, yeah
But Halo 3?
NAH..

[RememberThe357]

Halo 2 was not a good game.

[WhoaMan]

WTF! Yes it was.

[Xandet]

So if I write an article saying how "Super Mario most Definably Revolutionized the Platform Gaming Genre," I can get on the front page of N4G too? Awesome!

[onomix]

Half-Life was on playstation 2 also. Quake was on N64 also. Counter-Strike was on Xbox also. Unreal Tournament was on Dreamcast also. So those games were not only on PC. Get your facts right.

[hydro-lx]

and how many people knew about those? exactly, no one, so you just went on wikipedia! wow! nice wiki facts

[Harryhit4]

Please stop with the lame ad hominem attacks, they are getting old.

The general consensus here is that your article is poorly written without a general check of facts and absolutely zero knowledge of any other FPS besides Halo.

Also, your 'i r3lly ment c0nso1e$!!!1111?1!1shift+1' is poor and transparent.

[Kevin McCallister]

If you're a gamer and a fan of FPS titles, chances are you knew about those console renditions. Especially the Xbox version of Counter-Strike which just came out in 2003.

[original seed]

but i dont think it was ever on PS2.

[creeping judas]

What Halo did for the console industry was make it ok to play FPS shooters on a console. Much like doom (or was it wolfenstein) introduced 3d gaming to PC market. Much like mario64 introduced 3d platforming games. And how Grand Tourismo introduced sim racing to consoles.

I think only a fanboy would not see the truth in the statement.

[JRaptor]

"make it ok to play FPS shooters on a console"

-No, goldeneye did that. Halo did REFINE a lot ideas that were revolutionary in other games and put them together into something a bit more accessible. It was not revolutionary itself, just in the same way that COD4, while being a very good game is not revolutionary either.

[Jrome]

Halo 1 definitely brought the spark to FPS games........ON CONSOLES. Before halo 1 the craze was pretty much battlefield 1942 and stuff on pc which was great fun to play. I remember playing at PC Arcades with my buddies and stuff. After Halo 1, the other Halo's didn't really make it any more popular they just brought back the original fans and a few casuals who wanted to try it out.

When CoD4 came out, it was multiplatform and a huge success. That's a game that further pushed the FPS for consoles, not just for 1 system but for 2 systems and PCs, a wider range of people were able to play it. Therefor Halo 1 and CoD4 were key this gen.

And by revolutionize i don't mean bring something new to the game, because those games barely did, they just appealed to a wide range of people.

EDIT

And of course Golden Eye, no one can forget.

[Unicron]

I will give Halo its props, specifically Halo 2 for the online portion. They did bring a few things to console FPS that PC users had for a while. Halo CE especially. Halo 3 I think was meh personally, but the video recording feature was totally awesome and should be standard in all competitive games!

But I still think Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark were the first true competitive console FPS party titles, at least for me, and should be given their dues. Now those are games I still play, and have had countless fun nights with coupled with a bottle of JD and some friends. Then it was Quake 3 Arena for deathmatch, and UT2004 for Onslaught mode, but those are PC. More recently, it's been CoD4 for online fun, bar none. Can't wait for the next Modern Warfare. *sigh* Where does the time go?

[TIKUP]

Half Life for pc
007 goldeneye for consoles
as simple as that folks :)

[Xi]

the first console fps was aliens vs predators on the jaguar, followed by marathon(another bungie title) on the apple pipin...

And yes halo did revolutionize the fps genre (control scheme, match making, forge/video recording, and weapon layout to name some features), and it popularized a lot of the popular current trends. Like melee, vehicles, recharging health. Also halo was the first game that allowed multiple players ride and control a single vehicle seperately.

only a fool or a fanboy would say that halo was just another generic shooter.

[Unicron]

I dont recall AvP selling 2 million copies and being awarded plenty of GOTY awards. ;-) C'mon, it's okay to say it... Goldeneye 007 is THE console FPS of the 1990s.

[Xi]

doom came out in 1993... So I wouldn't say goldeneye is either. So did half life...

[bassturd]

giving Halo way too much credit there buddy...

Get a time machine or something, travel back before Halo came out, buy a PC, and then get your facts straight. Capeeeeeesh?

[Unicron]

Wow, was Doom that long ago? Man, I'm getting old. I remember first playing Wolfenstein 3D.

So Xi, what is your all time fave FPS games? If you don't mind me asking?

[Graphics Whore]

Control Scheme? Funny how COD4 controls is the preferred choice now.

Melee? You're friggin' Joking, same with vehicles and match making.

The only thing Halo brought with it was recharging health and made it mainstream.

I'm starting to feel old you 21st century gamers don't even remember how it was.

[clintos59]

It was the first on console to be an amazing fps expirience and is a game still praised today which is a classic.

And second of all halo did not revolutionize fps games but what halo as a franchise has done for the fps genre is making the fps genre on consoles a impact and it shows in sales with alot of big aaa fps titles we see now.

Dont get me wrong halo is a great franchise for microsoft due to sales but after halo, halo 2 and 3 have been a big dissappointment in many peoples opinions including mine which has made me fall in love with other fps games more like the cod series, resistance series, and from all the reviews, killzone 2 is set to steal alot of new hearts and bring the series back to life.

[Moe_OwnZ]

Pfft here we are the xbot fanboy data base :P

nah... i think halo 3 was a game for nOObs and those bright colors just put me off..ugh

I think KILLZONE 2 is a new revolution, that other developers will build upon..
so XBOTS no-need for bullsh*t coz we all know halo is crap

[OrganicMachine]

Because Halo was your generic FPS,it was accessible. Many people got into the game because it didn't require any hardcore skills to play it, the learning curve is very easy, like run, point, and Shoot... the game's pacing isn't fast unlike the Unreal Tournament Games.

And the story also wasn't hard to digest, again, very generic. It's was a perfect game for console players, compared to the PC gamers, Halo was just another FPS.

and I disagree with the halo revolutionized the FPS, it didn't bring anything new to the FPS wheel. All the author was saying was that how awesome halo is and it didn't even back it up with what exactly makes Halo a revolution and also he dind't even compare it to other shooters, such as Counter-strike 1.6 which was the biggest online shooter evarrrr, and also it was a generic FPS (yet again proves my point of generic = accessibility)and CS was all over the world, asia, europe, North America, South America, etc..

this article reeks of fanboy, a halo fanboy...

[OrganicMachine]

and oh.. btw, Halo's revolutionary health regeneration?

if I remember it correctly, the Shield is the only thing that regenerates..

I bet there are tons of games that has regenerating shields.. and bungie decided hey, maybe we can make it easier if the shield regenerates faster..

what that regenerating Health did was making the FPS EASIER and more accessible...

[Parapraxis]

http://www.metacritic.com/g...
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etc etc.

[hydro-lx]

if im a 360 fanboy, read my other post, read my other post on hiphopgamer.com and see all the hate i got for posting articles of ps3

[onomix]

Halo is as close to perfect as you can get. The graphics were some of the best for its time. The game's environments are just gorgeous. The attention to detail is just staggering. When you can see every blade of grass or every little particle of dirt that means your game looks good. All of the character models look good too. The orchestral music is great. I would have never guessed that I would like the music in this game. The voice acting is convincing and the script is extremely well written. The script will make you crack up. The controls are awesome. No, they are perfect. They innovate so much. The gameplay is second to none. This game is so polished. You will play the game over and over. It is addicting. The multiplayer is even more addicting then the single player especially if you are playing cooperative. Halo is worth getting a Xbox alone...that says a lot.

[Deviant]

calm down

[tatotiburon]

lol all the fanboys and halo haters...Halo series become a part of videogame history, the gameplay, the MP, the forge, the 4 players co-op in halo 3, map packs, no other fps had the impact like halo that's why when a new halo game comes out the all industry shocks. No other FPS will have the same impact as Halo.

Lol the tank in goldeneye hahaha, good try, is was just one level, the car in halo you can go where ever you want and remember other car that you can go with other 3 co-op friends?.

COD4 is amazing, the best 1000g i ever had but the fact is that this game couldn't kill Halo, Halo remains as one of the most played games in live, a lot of people move to COD5.

[Graphics Whore]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you N4G a true Xbox Fanboy. Refuses to acknowledge the impact of CoD4 and how literally everyone with a console started playing this game.

Congrats Tatotiburon you are one of N4G's most ignorant fanboys. It's hard to get this accomplishment especially on this website but you did it! You go slugger!

[tatotiburon]

oh child, did i piss you?? hahaha you most hated game been praised by the media...that kinda suck right?..well when you grow up you will understand kid, well i hope so, with ps3 fanboys you'll never know.

[Graphics Whore]

Lol, I never said I don't like Halo I'm just stating that your one of the worst fanboys on N4G.

I'm not a PS3Fanboy either, so I guess you're outta luck ;).

[caffman]

then what the hell are you then? I've never denied that I prefer my 360 to my PS3 and certainly more than my wii. But I bet that I own more games on all those than you do. I maybe a fanboy but I recognise a good game on any console. Thats why I own most of the best games on all 3 consoles and will be buying games for 2 of them on the 27th of feb. Can you say that FANBRAT?

[Dimitri]

Counter Strike 1.6 and Call of Duty 4 right now are the FPS kings.
Dont say sh1t like everyone knows it, I played Halo 3 with my friend on his XBOX 360 and neither do i or himself like the game. Its for little kids.

[Dzpool]

Halo brought the FPS to the mainstream by making a good FPS for consoles without it good FPS would still only be on PC and COD series KZ series R6v series may have never existed on consoles sorry but it is the plain and simple truth i still don't understand the hatred towards Halo

[lynchjuk]

Was Goldeneye on PC

[voice_of_ reason]

To me, Medal of Honor on Playstation was far ahead of its time... that game took the FPS genre in a new direction by showing how polishing a proven formula can do wonders.. where do you think CoD came from? Also, I think Red Faction on PS2 deserves far more credit than it gets... great game.

[DutyCalls]

that was a new experience for me, something to wonder at. Great game.
the 2 and 3 just kept repeating.

[WhoaMan]

HALO 3 SUCKED

[DeforMAKulizer]

Halo was awesome i agree... But what revolutionized the genre and made way to all these games is the original Doom...
Hands down, Doom is what popularized the Genre, or even created it...
I got addicted to FPSs from it, and till play it till now...
COD4, Halo 1/2 (3 didnt like that much), R 1/2, KZ 2 (when it comes out), Half-Life, BioShock, SystemShock and much more are truly brilliant... But what revolutionized FPS is Doom...

[DeforMAKulizer]

I didnt say it was first, but it popularized the genre a lot...
Halo was an achievement, so was Half-Life, and Bioshock...
Mario was revolutionary, so was Zelda... They encouraged the genres, and massively popularized them...
They set out the building blocks to many great games to come...
To me, the one to FPS was Doom...

[onomix]

What are you talking about? I just proved that you were wrong. You said that those games were just on PC. I did not go to wikipedia. You know, there are some real gamers out there that knows about history. My self own Counter-Strike on xbox and Unreal Tournament on Dreamcast. Your stupidity is mindblowing.

EDIT: I have almost all the systems and many games, and I know a lot about videogames. Hydro-lx is saying I went on wikipedia, and copied. How unprofessional, I bet he is saying that to everybody that proves him wrong, sad. Even if I did go on Wikipedia, something that I didn't. It wouldn't still change the fact that I proved you wrong.

[lynchjuk]

I think you'll find that Doom Revolutionized the FPS Genre, not Halo, not COD4.

What about duke nukem 3d and half-life?

[Draperc]

The only things special about halo was that it was the first console shooter to have online multiplayer (that I can remember right off the top of my head that was decent anyway.) and that it made fps games more popular on consoles. Before halo came along, fps games weren't exactly huge on consoles, just PC gaming. So yeah, halo is just another generic fps game, but it's what made the fps genre very popular on consoles and got it where it is now in the console market. And that's how I think it revolutionized the fps genre.

[bassturd]

Yep, why I think so many people are in love with it. The non-PC gamers had their first decent online shooter. So they fell in love with it immediately. Any PC gamer that has played all the great FPSes knows Halo is pretty mediocre in many aspects. But to tell this to the people that love the game cuz it was their first experience with a game of it's kind is like telling them their baby is ugly. So of course they get mad. Thus I'll expect to get a ton of disagrees as well...but the truth hurts.

[dukadork2]

do you really think britney spears revolutionized pop music? lol
do you think a buncha horny crying teenage pu$$ies makes a difference?

you wanna talk FPS revolution? here's some pointers:
- wolfenstein 3d
- doom
- descent
- quake
- half life

[BLUR111]

It's the revenge of multiple account boy!! DO DO DOOOOO!

and copy and past other comments from the "Gamer Zone"

[Deadman64]

Go outside...and ask the first random person you see if they have heard of Halo. Do it a few times....any location. see what happens.

[Graphics Whore]

I called my Sister, Brother in law, Father and Mother, and asked them if they ever heard of Halo and the answer is no.

[dukadork2]

@BLUR: what are you smoking?? can i have some?
@deadman: i just did, they all say britney spear is da sh!tz

lol

[truewittness]

the thing with halo, and everyone can agree, it's not the greatest thing alive which is up for debate, but it does everything right and nothing bad. all the points and spots people get mad about in video games, halo does it right or better. there is nothing to conplain about, just people said it's for "kids", i'm 30 and i like it. and Mr. Sark on X-play said KZ2 plays a lot like COD MW and COD WAW, so it should be fun to play.

[snipermk0]

I'm not visiting HHG anymore. They lost their credibility in my eyes by letting this jack-a$$ write the articles.

[ZootHornRollo]

halo didnt do any thing for FPS. games like quake and quake modded games set the bar. then cod came along way before halo 2.

really people need to forget xbox ever came out and started to " change " things

[jackdoe]

Timing of the article makes no sense. Why now?

[bassturd]

hip hop gamer

[collin1986]

You say halo revolutionised mp gaming for consoles but your sadly mistaken, halo combat evolved didnt have mp gaming for x-box live it wasnt till halo 2 did we get mp in halo, now i'm saying there was a way to play halo 1 on x-box live and that was through your p.c on x-box connect, now the game that i truly think that pushed console shooters forward atleast on mp gaming was RAINBOW SIX 3 , that came out before halo 2 and rainbow six 3 was the most played x-box live game for awhile ,

[clintos59]

I remember when me and so may others who loved rainbow six black arrow and was always playing on xbox live and were anxciously awaiting halo 2's arrival and fable only to be dissappointed and went back to playing black arrow due to fable and halo 2 being such let downs.

Not bagging on the halo series but as a gamer I will not sit here and praise the franchise like it is the greatest franchise ever. Remember fellow gamers, jst because a game sells like crazy, doesnt always mean it is the greatest game. No doubt halo seris has been a great "SUCCESS" but only in sales. The game is fun but like alot of u xbots try an say what has killzone 2 done that is new? May I ask the same thing for your beloved halo 3. What has it done that makes u all praise it so much? The game was fun but COD4 and Resistance 2 were better.

[Spike47]

I personally like COD4 more than Halo 3 and it didn't revolutionize anything. I don't know about Killzone 2 because I haven't played it.

[bassturd]

well CoD4 added a nice perk system. Unless there is some other game I dunno about that did that? Unless you just label it as a class system which I think it is pretty different.

Killzone 2 is doing one thing different that they have talked about (that I know of). Which is being able to combine class perks. Like having a medic ability with an engineer ability. Sounds interesting I suppose. Can't wait to try it.

edit: oh ya the cover system, you're right. That looks sweet as well, tho not really essential from the looks of it (and based on what has been said in reviews). Nice addition regardless tho...I always wondered why no FPS game implemented that. Other than leaning which is in some FPSes.

[Parapraxis]

Clan VS Clan tournaments, I can't wait =)

[onomix]

People did care about Doom. Doom was a milestone in the firs-person genre. The fact that Doom is still as playable and enjoyable as it was back in 1993, is an impressive feat. That the monsters, music, sounds and weapons are still the most memorable among all FPS released to this date, says a lot about the impact, the absolutely stunning design. That the game is supported by lots of modders who have helped it to run flawlessly in XP, makes it a game you have to play. There's no excuse for not having played Doom. Although the game is 13 years old, it remains one of the most remarkable, amazing, well played and most innovative and important PC games ever. Hydro-lx, you are completely wrong. I can tell you Hydro-LX, some days ago. I completed Doom and Doom II again. I really enjoy those two games.

[lynchjuk]

I totally agree.

[Spike47]

The important thing is that the game is good at the end of the day and thats what halo,cod, and killzone 2 have achieved.

[farhsa2008]

i never liked this punk hiphop gamer, halo revolutionised the fps as much as nintendo wii revolutionised graphics, its pathetic to even think that halo influenced anything.

[hydro-lx]

well yall can hate me for this article as well... i just wanted to show i can to post true articles supporting the 360, but your ignorance surprises me, im a ps3 fanboy and now im a 360 fanboy? huh? does this mean im a gamer fanboy? must be... since i post ps3 and 360 articles! and i see now that nothing i do will make you idiots happy! make your own websites and post your own news and lets see how many hits you get!

[Parapraxis]

It has absolutely nothing to do with preference, it has to do with content and knowledge.

You have proved with this article and subsequent comments that you haven't really considered what "Halo", as a franchise has done, in retrospect.

The FPS genre wasn't started with Halo, sorry, but it's fact. And even when only looking specifically at consoles it does very little more than other FPS games that were on consoles and more notably PCs before Halo.

It was a great game, don't get me wrong, it was marketed extremely well, very accesable, and very pretty, but it was not the revolutionary beacon you believe it to be.

I'm a PS3 gamer, yet this article grabbed my attention, (as well as many other non-360 gamers), Why? because it's poorly thought out and untrue.

Most gamers, no matter what console of preference realizes there is more to FPS historically than the Halo series.

While Halo is very influental it does not, as you propose "most Definably Revolutionized the FPS Genre".

[Montrealien]

Although I agree Halo did something really good in giving console shooters true respect, I must say, As some one that is writting for a website and wants to stick to gaming an become a gaming journalist, you have a lot to learn. And you clearly lack some knowledge on the history of gaming.

You just figured out what gets attention (Hot)on site like N4G and approach writting and responding to comments about your writting like it was a forum filled with fanboys. The real world not work like that, only forums with know nothing fanboys act like that. And you have a lot to learn. Dont give up, but this is not helping you at all, and if hiphop gamer wants to help his thing get cred, articles like this one are not the way to do it.

[specialguest]

FPS were always big in the PC community. Halo only popularized and set the bar high on consoles. The only reason why Halo blew up was because it introduced a FPS custom made for consoles and introduced a genre that PC gamers have always known about, loved, and were addicted to.

[beavis4play]

if it wasn't for doom and wolfenstein, none of the halos, CODs, and KZs would have had the success they've had.

[RebornSpy]

but while Halo didn't exactly invent the genre like the classics, it in many ways changed it. It was one of the first great console shooters.

[Thoreau]

halo 1 was awesome, halo 2 was very solid. halo 3 is trash. if you dont think i have a xbox 360=heavens boxer. halo 3 has no running ability, no fine aim, and the radar is a55. i know i will get pounded with disagrees, but if you open your eyes and accept that cod4 is what is changing as far as fps. killzone 2 is also raising the bar. halo is well, how can i put it, not the pretty girl she used to be.

[RebornSpy]

The things you mentioned that were wrong with Halo 3 are more personal preferences than actual problems with the game. It is clear that you are a Call of Duty fan, as the features that are "missing" from Halo are present in CoD. Both games are good in my opinion, but neither revolutionized the genre. It was the earlier Halo's that did.

And Call of Duty in no way revolutionized anything. It's just an awesome game. The same is true for Killzone 2, unless the first person cover system is amazing and catches on. Kind of like how GoW revolutionized TPS's.

[Lon3wolf]

I agree with you but then I have never been a Halo fan, I personally think Halo 3 was originally xbox 1 bound or rushed.

[Firstkn1ghT]

Fine aim is for noobs. This is why many people prefer COD4 over Halo 3. COD4 is an easy game compared to Halo 3. You can sit back and rack up kills in COD4 with ease. Get a helicopter and rack up those kills. Any noob can do that. COD4 has a laughable ranking system that takes no skill to rank up. Halo 3 takes mad skill and intense teamwork to get a level 50.

[Lon3wolf]

As previosly posted Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Q3(especially this one for me this took me from consoles to PC gaming and took 4 years of my life near enough) all preceded and in my opinion better games than Halo.

Halo has been very succesful there is no denying that but revolutionary, not in my book.

[onomix]

It was a good game, but it was extremely short, and the campaign was nowhere as good as Halo: Combat Evolved's campaign. MGS4 gameplay was even longer than the entire Halo 3 game. The multiplayer is almost the same as Halo 2.

[Firstkn1ghT]

Halo was the first to to get rid of medpacks which almost every game steals now. Halo was the first to have vehicles that were actually fun to drive. Halo was the first to have perfect control over any other fps console game before it. I'm able to throw a grenade across the map and hit a pinpoint if I chose too. You can't do that with many fps including COD4.

Being a fps nut I have played them all. I used to be a PC gamer and played Counterstrike, Soldiers of Fortune, Black Hawk Down, Battlefield, Unreal 2004, Wolfenstein, etc... I played them all with Unreal 2004 being my favorite. But once Halo came out it brought a whole new level of competition. I was hooked and I switch my skills to the console.

And Halo 3 definitely is the peak of gaming competition. I love competition and it doesn't get any better than Halo 3 on the consoles. COD4 is also a great game but way to easy to get kills. You can spray them anywhere in the body and it will get you a quick and easy kill. What I love about Halo is that it gives you a shield that you can actually do something about it. Whether to fight back or get some cover. You have to earn your kills in Halo 3. Nothing out there on consoles has the intense competition of Halo 3. NOTHING!

[Unicron]

Were you as disappointed as I was in UT3? It just felt... uninspired. UT2004 was probably my all time favorite PC FPS for competitive play, and I can't believe they dropped the ball.

[Firstkn1ghT]

Yeah UT3 sucked. My PC is kinda slow so I wasn't able to play the game that much but I did try it at my buddies house. Unreal 2004 was so much fun and so competitive. I probably put more hours into that game than any other shooter I have ever played. At my peak I was ranked in their website in the top 60. I loved playing instagib with some of the best players in the world. So much fun.

[ThatDud3]

I think you guys are missing the point. There would be no KZ2 without the original Halo. When I bought the Xbox and Halo, all my friends had PS2's, when I showed them Halo they all got Xbox's. Halo helped to create the current state of gaming. You can argue and hate but you can not say that A) it wasn't a good game and B) It didn't help produce the viability of console FPS's. It seems to me that some of the people commenting haven't played or are to young to remember a time before Halo.

[Lon3wolf]

Although some of us are old enough to remmeber that the first games we played were the grandstand pong systems in the 70's, now I feel old.

[trancefreak]

I think half life 2/css/ and cod4 are the fps leaders. Now Killzone 2 looks primed to dominate them all for along time.

[ToeKneeHaze]

Halo steals from a lot of previous FPS classics :

Anyone who has played these knows, from the voice overs, the physics, etc etc

QUAKE III
UNREAL
UNREAL TOURNAMENT
HALF LIFE
CALL OF DUTY 1 - 3

It didnt revolutionize much but I like the matchmaking options / recording / etc kinda made things cool in that sense.

But what it really did was brought FPS games from hardcore enthusiasts to the mass market. THat is I have never seen so many average jo schmoe who never even played or knew what an FPS was before halo. It was like the BEYONCE of FPS.

[The Judderman]

Halo was and is still the best.

[Graphics Whore]

Lol sorry but no.

[The Judderman]

Halo brought co op to fps on consoles. Decent a.i, multi ways of achieving goals. Together with a great muti player and vechiles it was a big step for console fps.
Many had some of those things before it but none had done it as well or as complete.
To this day Halo is still a great game.

[Gun_Senshi]

lolhahahaomgwtf who wrote that article is a kid.

Wolfensine 3D, Doom, Quake, Half-Life revolutionzed FPS Genre.

On console? Medal of Honor on PS One and Golden Eye.

Online for Consoles? Golden Eye, Unreal Tournament and more on Dreamcast.

kids these days

[jacksonp]

what about all of the other fps games???
fps games on pc the list goes on and on!
halo did nothing i've never played halo for more than a few minuts
there were a lot of other games that set the bar, before halo!
way back before halo!

[Thoreau]

does not have sh!t to do with halo thatdude. reborn spy, in war, people run and use their scopes. halo 3 is a mockery, yeah, go ahead and check my profile, i played it and liked it until everyone started using the tactic of walking to the overshield and rpg. overshield>headshot.

[no1safe]

When I've seen the title of this news I was like 'ZOMFGWTFN00BZ'. But when it comes to consoles, I don't know if we can talk about anything that revolutionized the genre... For FPS games it all happened on PC... And - as a X360 and PC owner - I have to say that I have no f...... idea what's so awesome in Halo (3) and how the hell it managed to one of the most successful games on this platform...

Other thing is source of this news - seriously - wtf music have to do with gaming? How the hell somebody can name a site 'hiphopgamershow'... Lulz homie-sexuals xD

[Moe_OwnZ]

Pfft here we are the xbot fanboy data base :P

nah... i think halo 3 was a game for nOObs and those bright colors just put me off..ugh

I think KILLZONE 2 is a new revolution, that other developers will build upon..
so XBOTS no-need for bullsh*t coz we all know halo is crap

[ToeKneeHaze]

I'll Tell u why people love Halo.

Anyone can pick it up and have fun. Pure and simple.

its the Arcade version of what we were used to playing for years on PC's

I dont find it amazing and I dont find it crappy, its pretty good. But its always infested with 12 year old kids and the stupid controls are so sluggish compared to seasoned FPS shooters. I dunno why they made them like so...

I'll tell u one thing, the single player campaign is so cheesy and boring, its a wonder anyone likes it. when I hear people speak volumes about it I have to bite my tongue.

Afterall different strokes for different folks.

.

[Says you]

Halo didn't revolutionized jack crap I've played the first one before and the second one before and I didn't find nothing in there, now if Halo did the first person cover system or have realistic death animation like some game we all know what it is then it revolutionized something or if the hud is hudless it revolutionized something but it didn't but there is one game that has first person cover system and the first game to be hudless and of course the game

and the first game to kick everything up a notch to a whole new level that other FPS wouldn't be able to outdo for a long time!.

[NegativeCreep427]

The Universe is off balance. There had to be some kind of "Halo Owns All"-type article someday to bring everything back in balance.

[Firstkn1ghT]

Look at all the pissed off sony fans. :)

[Parapraxis]

It has nothing to do with console preference kiddo.
It has to do with knowing the FPS genre, and it's history.
if you want to believe that the Halo series is the most defining FPS series in gaming history, power to ya. However that just proves that you don't have a grasp on the genre and understand how it has evolved.

[Funky Town_TX]

This post should be about Killzone2 being the best FPS of all time. When there is a post about Halo then the Sony loyalist come running.

[kwyjibo]

I do not think that Halo was the most revolutionary, defining or important FPS of all time. (That has to be Doom, and the bsp. Half-Life would be second on my list)

But to dismiss Halo as not revolutionary, and for "consoles only" shows just a poor grasp of FPS evolution as those who regard it as the single pinnacle of FPS history.

My original post on this thread is of relevance - http://n4g.com/NewsCom-2689...

If you want to post a counter-argument and can't because of lack of Bubbles - PM me.

[JHUX]

I would go back to goldeneye and perfect dark for 64 as revolutionizing CONSOLE fps. For Halo, I never understood why it got so popular, mainly because I had been playing PC fps games that have done everything HALO has done, but imo better. What Halo did do was push online play to console players, making people realize how much fun online play is. People just make it out to be "best fps ever", acting like Halo started it all, which is obviously false.

In my opinion, I would say the greatest FPS of all time would be Counter-Strike 1.6.. A game you actually have to be good at, and has a fun competitive scene to it that has been around forever. It definitely does something right for me to keep playing it consistently for the past 9+years. I still consider PC to be "fps home".

[LostChild]

Simply stating it made FPS more popular, just like other games made other Genre's popular

FPS: Halo/Goldeneye or you could have Halo/Counterstrike
RPGs: Final Fanatsy7/Dragon's Quest
Fighting: StreetFighter/Mortal Kombat
Racing: Gran Torismo/Need for Speed
Platform: SuperMarioBro/Rachet&Clank
Survival Horror: Residentevil/Silent Hill
Sealth Action: MetalGear/SplinterCell
Action Adventure: God of War/Devil MayCry
Adventure: Grand Theft Auto3/Saints Row
RTS: Command&Conquer/WarCraft
MMO: Everyquest/WOW
Wargames: MedalofHonor/CallofDuty
Consoles: PS2/Wii
HandHelds: GameBoy/DS
And the list goes on but you get my point.

[Funky Town_TX]

@ the Halo haters. 2 million copies in one hour. LMAO every time I think of it. It's fun and has tons of gameplay options, FORGE is cool, and the theater is awesome.

[sniper4534]

HHG again men! i wont waste my time reading this crap

[DARK WITNESS]

wow... i think thats all i can say..

at the end of the day everyone is entitled to belive what they want. there will always be people who love the game, then there will be people who hate the game... for whatever reason.

all i say about halo is this;

first and formost, i remember halo for Halo CE and its single player experience.

Halo 2 i remmember for its online, but i always enjoyed halo CE more in total.

people can moan and complain and say its all a lie, it was just average.... its cool thats your opinion, for the people still playing the game still loving it.. they have a different opinion.

there is a reason it sold so much And is still being played.

if all these other games are really that much better, then they would be the ones being played more. at the end of the day its all about fun. you can tell me such and such game is more tactical, ya but if its still not fun then i am still not going to play it.

for me personally, after playing halo Ce i was playing every fps on console that came out after just expecting them to be better cos everyone said halo was average, but after playing them... well... they were the ones that came across average and more and more i started to see why halo stood out. Till this day there is still no other game i have played the campaign as much as halo CE.

for me it was the little details in the single player that stood out and from the sound of it most people missed them.

Cod 4 is only better online, and for the most part because for many halo 3 didn't have the magic that the other 2 had. it was still great, but i still enjoyed halo CE the most.

[Obama]

Revolutionized the first green armored guy who has zero personalities. ;)

[whitefang1988]

Anyone who thinks COD 4 changed fps are RETARDED

All halo changed was the scale of fps nothing else

***************HALF LIFE**************** REDEFINED FPS IN

STORY
GRAPHICS
PHYSICS
VEHICLES

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

Sure Halo 1 didn't have online... but Xbox fans definaltey did 16 player system link/lan parties for sure. Something I knew some of my Sony buddies were actually jealous of!

Sure sales of a game don't mean the game is either good or bad, to those that won't ever play it. If sales are great for a game you don't like, you still don't like it, but that don't mean the people that do love it and enjoy it bought crap if they enjoy it. It's all personal opinion like any game purchase. MS sure knew how to advertise the game and get EVERYONE aware of it, but the game sold in droves cause it ACTUALLY pleases its fans. So Halo regardless of the haters is a massive game because there are MILLIONS of people that enjoy the game... hype wears off when a game releases, but to maintain keeping people pleased/interested in your franchise to the extent Halo has... is a HUGE feat.. Also MANY shooter games are COPYING features that Halo created much like with 3 they introduced video/picture capture of your important plays. Something I've already seen ripped from them! not to mention several other things that the series has brought to FPS's for consoles!

I must admit that Im getting sick of so many games being so demanded for ONLINE capabilites amongst everyone complaining about no co-op, how big their deathmatches are, the scale of maps, etc.. My game pwns yours cause I can play more people in a huge map, etc.. Who gives a flying f**k, all the games I've played that were promised to be so over the top ended up mediocore (but still played) to me!

I also got to admit I loved my PC gaming days of the Doom series, Wolfenstein Quake 2, Duke Nukem 3D (I also had the Lifes A Beach expansion pack), Shadow Warrior, and my most fav. of them all... I would die if Monolith games would do a remake of it... but I was a HUGE fan of the game = BLOOD!!!!!! Im going to go ebay it after I write this, lol! I need it again!

But since people are saying Halo isn't anything compared to PC games, I think they should look at Killzone 2 if they are prasing it. Because Crysis on full spec's/resolution still tech blows Killzone 2 out of the water, no matter what you say. Im over graphics, I want gameplay. I ONLY play Halo now whenever I have split screen at my house, but I avoid online. I will enjoy the KZ2 demo on Thursday when I can download it with my code, and will most likely enjoy the game when it releases Feb. 27th.

But I must say the ONLY next gen game for a console/PC that has hit me with the old school bad a$$ fun vibe like my old PC days I listed above... is Left 4 Dead. It's damn good at being simple but yet challenging, the graphics are pretty good for what they bring, no bs huge guns or nothing... just run of the mill basic shooter weapons. It's just overall simplistic and overall fun!

But I must say aside of Left 4 Dead... even with graphics of KZ2 aside... I would gladly turn any of these next gen games off for the simplistic fun of my old school PC and NES games. Just my little of living the old days of me growing up... without needing to worry about fanboys bashing me for what games I choose to play/like, and when people just played games just to play them and enjoy them. I still do thoroghly enjoy gaming on all 3 of my next gen consoles... but so much in the industry and the elite fanboys that follow single consoles has really deteriorated my view of gaming. TRUE gamers are few and far inbetween! to those that can play ANY system and ANY game without negativity and biasedness... I tip my hat to you and hope to game with you guys soon!

Xbox Live = Xbox360me
PSN = SeanKWD

[Jackel2072]

no no NO! maybe on consoles and even so COD4 is the way better shooter. But the Original Half Life turned FPS's on they're head!

[cyclindk]

I was happy playing CoD and MoH games well before the Halo series ever graced the earth with its presence... personally, I'm more interested in the RTS game than any of the FPS games, though the units are kind of dull on the (good guys') side.

[XerockX]

halo came out WAY before cod and moh..fyi...

[cyclindk]

The first MoH came out in 1999, Halo was 2001...

[ballsofsteel]

halo CE most definitely did however halo 2 and 3 did not.

[JaymezProSauce]

Within the first year my bro bought a comp.. (2000) we had Counter-Strike
i played counter-strike from that year till about 2005.
when i started.. i would have been 7 or 8...
counter strike was addictive; fun; fluid; took time to master

I've played Halo (3) twice in my life. First time it was CTF or something and i almost left my friends house cuz it sooooo stupid.
second it was a private match thinger..
max speed
max jump
swords + rockets
WAS FUN!!! but revolutionary? NAY!
and those (F'ing) flying circular orbs that dropped (STUFF) on me... wtf?
lol
all i know is that xbox owners rejoice at the word Halo.

meh. did i make any cents?
nope, cuz i make Dollars.
(hehe...?)

[free2game365]

Halo might have felt revolutionary if you played nothing but Goldeneye before it came out.

[Defiantmac]

Alot of people played it and I am pretty sure Halo didn't do anything to revolutionize the FPS genre... Don'get me wrong, Halo 1 was an amazing game, but it's not like people didnt play FPS before that.

[CrunchMaster83]

I consider myself a casual gamer and every other game I tried to go online with the match making just sucks. Halo 3 is the only game where I could pick up and play for five minutes or five hours. Okay... so my boyfriend left this open and I think I should give my input on what game I think is freaking awesome... Little Big Planet. The graphics are superb and you feel like a child again when you play it. Halo? Um no. Too many explosions and loud noises. Plus he's always cursing at people calling them dirty nig**** rofl. LBP created a much more pleasant atmosphere to be in with him. I would strongly recommend LBP versus Halo any day!!! Thank you for listening to my story XBOX losers.

[DARK WITNESS]

sorry to burst that LBP bubble, but his is about halo and FPS games, not halo and platform games or halo and every other type of game...

just halo and its effect on FPS games as they are today..

and yes, LBP is loads of fun ...

LPB did take platform gaming to another level.... lbp made the kind of evolution we " should " have seen in games like sonic...

and from the xbox looser bit... you sound like you been owned too much on live, so your throwing a tantrum, thats ok we understand.

but his is not about LBP or platform games.

[edgeofblade]

Halo certainly isn't the most influential, but several pieces are very note worthy. Halo pioneered the recharging health mechanic which keeps game play moving faster. Bash on it for being unrealistic, but for actaully playing the game, I love it.

Also, when people think of Halo, they think of the Warthog. It was a heavily physics driven vehicle, right down to floaty shocks that were just oh so much fun to "accidentally" barrelroll over a few opponents.

Finally, a great online mode for Halo 2 (sans the cheating and the 10 year old sailors) was downright amazing.

[madpuppy]

Doom gave it network multiplayer, Duke nukem 3d revolutionized it. Quake made it look good. everything after that is just refinement of the genre.

[mcm]

I don't see the point in this article. Why all of a sudden there is talk of Halo? It is almost like a fanboy is in denial and just won't admit what is about to happen. Halo was a great game years ago, and...
Halo, "What have you done for me lately?"

The Playstation brand was dominant years ago, and...

The argument is pointless because right now Playstation is in third place as far as sells go, as Halo right now is just another shooter amongst many.

[TriforceLightning]

These phony articles are getting more hilarious by the day.

[BGDad]

Counterstrike on PC defined the FPS genre... Not a crappy FPS console game sorry but Halo has nothing on the original Counterstrike and that community.

[Dawn_Of_Ashes]

Halo cant revolutionise anything with some heavy weight like KILLZONE 2. The only thing halo will revolutionise will be the most overrated pieces of sh1t.

[crazyclown]

halo = direct copy of unreal tournament

you fanboys are blind....oh here comes the disagrees....you guys know its truth....just accept it

[JohnnyBadfinger]

Bloody hell i can't stand you people.

Denial isn't a healthy thing to live with, Halo IS revolutionary because it took FPS games where they have never been before, threw in vehicles, a PROPER storyline and a kick arse hero who is iconic across all consoles. PS3 fa99otboys know of him, nintendo fellas know of him, and xbox champions love him.

KillZone 2 will never be revolutionary because they game is EXACTLY like Frontline: Fuel of War, want similarities?

-Set in the not so distant future Check
-War game Check
-Both games 32+ players Check
-Sh!t storylines (probably for KZ2) Check

Theres more but i think thats enough for now, cause im gunna get flamed like hell for this.

You Sony Fanfairys spent more time talking about Halo then the Xbox fanboys. You can't even compare KZ2 with Halo because KZ2 doesn't exist until its in your PS3 console.

Halo wins! Case closed, anyone who posts after this is just a sad sad little 15 year old sissy.

[Graphics Whore]

Leave N4G.

[Yomiro]

Now we have to look forward not backward halo is past killzone 2 is the present the start of the next gen. Does anybody have any ideas of what could be revolutionary or groundbreaking on a FPS so that it can be implemented in future FPS projects?

[GodGinrai]

perhaps a little more mobility. you know like in mirrors edge where you can climb and do more acrobatic movements. They got all this talk of 3d tvs aswell. it`ll be interesting to see what devs do with that.more detailed dense enviroments where every thing reacts to you.we probably seen the best this gen has to offer interms of graphics.I really dont see anything looking better than KZ2 this gen technically but who knows, visual style plays a large part in creating atmposhere(looks at bioshock and mad world).

[PirateThom]

I don't particularly like Halo, but it definitely deserves recognition for what it did for console FPS gaming and I definitely give it is dues, but as for FPS games in general, it's not really that revolutionary.

I just don't see it in the same light some people do, I guess.

Halo was never been about innovation or revolution, it was about bringing together everything and executing it well.

[tatsujin]

Call of Duty brought realism to the FPS genre. Sales, online numbers, and people are talking.

[Lord Vader]

And sadly, 2007's Halo 3 still has more features than 2009's 30+++ Million Dollar Killzone 2.

- 4 player co-op
- driveable vehicles
- in game video editing
- in game photos
- map editor & creator

Not to mention, KZ2 has no chance of ever being more popular, or outselling Halo.

Long Live the King.

[clintos59]

I find it funny how alot of u praise the halo series like its the second coming or something, lol. Dont get me wrong halo 3 may have had all the things u wrote in it but the game was mediocre at best and didnt live up to the hype. Killzone 2 on the other hand, despite all the hype it had and so many xbots and even the media saying it wasnt going to live up to its hype, well guess what?

AAA confirmed up all u killzone haters and what is sad is, even with out those features in killzone 2 that are in halo 3 like u added, I can bet u that killzone 2 is going to be a way better expirience in the end. :P

[GodGinrai]

couldnt have said it better.

Id bet that a year from now halo 3 still has a very active online community and it will be slugging it out with cod modern warfare 2 for xbls top spot for most played game on live.

[cpt_kaos]

Halo at best was a good launch game for the original xbox.

How many here were dissapointed by halo 2 and well Halo 3 was pretty average for a so called next gen system.

[Ghyst]

it was wolfenstein and doom that started the fps genre, anything after that was an evolution from these, if it wasn't halo, it would be cod 4, or cod 6, or killzone 2, these ideas were bound to appear regardless of the games that came after. halo was just the first one to come out for multiplayer online. with ease of use, all things said and done.

Halo really isn't that popular, more casual gamers came around for the new systems, but that would have happened anyway, the gaming industry was growing regardless of halo, or any other particular game.

Compare Halo to the wii for instance, it sells nothing in comparison, alot of people don't even like halo, sure it put a dent in the video game popularity but it's nothing compared to the video game industry as a whole, which from day one was trying to attract more gamers.

[Ghyst]

If you are going to give a game popularity points for mainstream shooters, give it to half life/counterstrike, i don't know one person who hasn't played counterstrike, and it introduced a lot more people to fps than halo did.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Because Halo did things NO OTHER FPS had done before.

Oh, wait...

[gololo]

damn...i feel old in this thread T_T

[StatIcKhaos]

Well I use to play team fortress for half life.

[Ghyst]

I don't like halo, yes i've played every single one, hoping one wouldn't suck. it's too easy, it's a game for newbs quite simply.

Killzone 2 is more my style, hard, and just plain better than halo.

[ThatDud3]

How do you know KZ2 is better? Is it out yet? Kz2 is looking to be a good game but is it going push FPS's past what they already are? I would have to say no.
Cover system - Gears Of War
Running in a FPS - COD4
Classes in multi - Team Fortress (original)
And those are just a few examples. Will it do them better? I don't know I HAVEN'T PLAYED THE DAMN GAME YET AND EITHER HAVE YOU!

[CrunchMaster83]

Newsflash buddy... Killzone 2 isn't even out for another month!! You make no sense, you're talking a** and your creditability is now gone!

[Enigma_2099]

... now explain this blatantly idiotic claim.

[Wurider]

it sure as hell has sold alot of copies with each one selling more than that last. The multiplayer aspect of Halo 3 is legendary. To this day you will not find alot of used copies around for Halo 2 or 3. That says alot people.

[James Vanderbeek]

old school doom for the pc was my first fps game and i loved it.. Than golden eye for the N64 made me love fps games even more.. 4 player death matches were the best with your friends.. and the golden gun.. lol..

[The BS Police]

Halo 1:
Two weapon limit.
Seperate buttons for grenades and melee.
Vast assortment of vehicles that are fun to use.
Largest playable campaign environments at the time it was released.

Halo 2:
Brought FPS online gaming to the next level.
Online party system.
Regenerating health system.

Halo 3:
Saved Films
Forge
Made great use of HDR lighting and particle effects.

But of course, IMO, the most important Revolution Bungie made with the FPS genre and Halo was one thing... MACHINIMA!!!!!!

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Halo 1:
Two weapon limit. - You mean like every FPS before it?
Seperate buttons for grenades and melee. - Half-life
Vast assortment of vehicles that are fun to use. - Unreal Tournament
Largest playable campaign environments at the time it was released. - Maybe on the Xbox...

Halo 2:
Brought FPS online gaming to the next level. - No...Tribes did it better...way before that.
Online party system. - Every PC FPS
Regenerating health system. - Wolverine: Adamantium Rage for the SNES and Genesis did it years ago!

Halo 3:
Saved Films - If you can't name at least 3 games that had that feature before Halo 3...I don't think Sony fanboys are your biggest problem.
Forge - You mean like how Counter Strike, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Garry's Mod were formed?
Made great use of HDR lighting and particle effects. - Oh, please...

[kwyjibo]

The amount of sheer ignorance and corrupted memories on this thread are astounding.

Two weapon limit - every FPS before it? No, aside from tactical FPS's such as Counter-Strike and Rainbow Six, mainstream games did not have this in at all. And compared to games like Rainbow Six, the weapon choice was a lot more varied, and threw up a lot more interesting choices than just whether you wanted a louder bang.

Grenade / Melee - I've never played Half-Life on PS2 - what would have been the point? But that came out around the same time as Halo anyway (I also don't see this as a great innovation) and I'd be surprised if they bound a key to the crowbar on the controller. The same with the variety of different grenades on offer. In DN3D, you did have a key bound to the mighty foot though.

Regenerating Health - Wolverine? SNES? No. Regardless of the health system it employed, the one that Halo introduced has become a staple of FPS's. Did any FPS's try it before? I can't think of any. Why did Call of Duty 2 have it? Was it because the developers were Wolverine fans? No, it's because Halo proved that it was a great system to use in an FPS.

Vehicles - No, Unreal Tournament did not include vehicles. Try limiting your examples to games you've actually played. Goldeneye had a tank, Sin had a quadbike, Codename Eagle perhaps had the closest implementation. But all those pale in comparison to the way they were handled in Halo.

Open environments - What are you comparing this to now? The voxelage of Delta Force? The only decent implementation of open environments in a campaign is the much overlooked Project IGI, and that consisted of randomly generated repeated terrain. Each level was standalone, it did not have the seamlessness or inventiveness of Halo. Unlike the terrain in Halo, it was spartan and served only as a backdrop, and did not complement the gameplay (such as Halo's AI) in any way.

So many people here are so quick to dismiss what Halo actually did by claiming that something did something tangential a bit earlier. No. That would be like claiming that Doom wasn't revolutionary either, because Wolfenstein existed before it. It'd be claiming that Half-Life wasn't revolutionary because Crono didn't talk either.

[Enigma_2099]

The amount of sheer ignorance and corrupted memories on this thread are astounding. (Know what's even more ignorant? Your response...)

Two weapon limit - every FPS before it? No, aside from tactical FPS's such as Counter-Strike and Rainbow Six, mainstream games did not have this in at all. And compared to games like Rainbow Six, the weapon choice was a lot more varied, and threw up a lot more interesting choices than just whether you wanted a louder bang. (You call a two weapon limit varied?!?!) And I was playing FPS games with multiple weapons on the PSX! Alien trilogy comes to mind...)

Grenade / Melee - I've never played Half-Life on PS2 - what would have been the point? But that came out around the same time as Halo anyway (I also don't see this as a great innovation) and I'd be surprised if they bound a key to the crowbar on the controller. The same with the variety of different grenades on offer. In DN3D, you did have a key bound to the mighty foot though. (Ratchet was swinging a huge friggin wrench when he wasn't shooting stuff... that's before Halo, right? And let's not forget the useless knives and melee weapons in Silent Hill/Resident Evil...)

Regenerating Health - Wolverine? SNES? No. Regardless of the health system it employed, the one that Halo introduced has become a staple of FPS's. Did any FPS's try it before? I can't think of any. Why did Call of Duty 2 have it? Was it because the developers were Wolverine fans? No, it's because Halo proved that it was a great system to use in an FPS. (oh that's just because they were too lazy to throw health packs around in the stages...)

Vehicles - No, Unreal Tournament did not include vehicles. Try limiting your examples to games you've actually played. Goldeneye had a tank, Sin had a quadbike, Codename Eagle perhaps had the closest implementation. But all those pale in comparison to the way they were handled in Halo. (Thanks for proving his point, and as someone who's been bored by Halo 3... I didn't see anything remarkable about the vehicles... unless you count how remarkably stupid the computer AI is when it comes to driving them while you shoot... incidentally, why is enemy AI always better than ALLI AI... I'm looking at YOU, Arbiter!!!!)

Open environments - What are you comparing this to now? The voxelage of Delta Force? The only decent implementation of open environments in a campaign is the much overlooked Project IGI, and that consisted of randomly generated repeated terrain. Each level was standalone, it did not have the seamlessness or inventiveness of Halo. Unlike the terrain in Halo, it was spartan and served only as a backdrop, and did not complement the gameplay (such as Halo's AI) in any way.
(I liked the stages and backdrops of the Timesplitters games... does that count? But that was more a limitation on developers by the software they were using, and not really a fair comparison... how impressive do you think Halo 3's backdrops would be if they didn't have the 360's capabilities behind them?)

So many people here are so quick to dismiss what Halo actually did by claiming that something did something tangential a bit earlier. No. That would be like claiming that Doom wasn't revolutionary either, because Wolfenstein existed before it. It'd be claiming that Half-Life wasn't revolutionary because Crono didn't talk either.(No' we dismiss the claim that Halo is the holy grail of FPS's... because it ain't... to this day I'm STILL not impressed with the bubble shield!!!)

[kwyjibo]

Multiple weapons on the PSX? No, that's not the point. The point was that Halo purposely limited your weaponry, forcing you to make tactical choices. The needler is very different to the assault rifle, in the way that an MP5 and a UMP isn't. It wasn't just about damage/second or damage/shot. I've not played Alien Trilogy, but if that was your first game you recollect having "multiple weapons" then you came to the party pretty late.

Grenade / Melee - No, the point was that melee was key bound for all weapons, and available to you at all times. Something which I can only recall DN3D's totally underused but hilarious boot using before. Ratchet came a year after Halo, and I've never played it. I also didn't think this to be much of an innovation, but was just countering the point above.

Regenerating Health - Halo got there first. It's not laziness, it's a conscious design decision, the game plays totally differently depending on how health is handled.

Vehicles - Stop talking about Halo 3. Maybe you're bored of them now, because they've been around in every other game since the original. They weren't boring when it first came out, I remember having dogfights in co-op with those purple things. Compare that to other implementations at the time, of which, there were frankly none to speak of.

Open Environments - You're right, with increasing graphical potential, larger play environments are inevitable. The PC had been able to handle open environments like that prior to Halo, but it was Halo who staked a claim there first, and showed that unlike Project IGIs etc. it could add more than just a backdrop. It's not just graphical fidelity either, it's the AI that has to navigate it effectively, and the scripting.

I'm not stating that Halo is the holy grail of FPS's (that's obviously the Half-Life series :) ), I'm claiming that the original Halo was revolutionary for the genre. Comparing it to the games that came out at the time, and you'll see why that is. It's quite obvious from the thread though, that most people can't remember that far back. Maybe it was Halo that introduced them to FPS.

[Enigma_2099]

Multiple weapons on the PSX? No, that's not the point. The point was that Halo purposely limited your weaponry, forcing you to make tactical choices.((This is different from other games where you had to make tactical decisions between which weapons to use to best suit each situation you were in, how?)) The needler is very different to the assault rifle, in the way that an MP5 and a UMP isn't. ((Hell, a pistol's different from a shotgun, an RPG, a BFG, a uzi... what's your point?))It wasn't just about damage/second or damage/shot. I've not played Alien Trilogy, but if that was your first game you recollect having "multiple weapons" then you came to the party pretty late. ((Or maybe I'm thinking back further than you kid... you made some pretty BOLD statements here about Halo, considering you DIDN'T think back that far... FPS gaming is a lot older than you're admiting to...))

Grenade / Melee - No, the point was that melee was key bound for all weapons, and available to you at all times. Something which I can only recall DN3D's totally underused but hilarious boot using before. Ratchet came a year after Halo, and I've never played it. I also didn't think this to be much of an innovation, but was just countering the point above. ((You actually recall another game that did it first? Okay, thanks for proving my point here... ))

Regenerating Health - Halo got there first. It's not laziness, it's a conscious design decision, the game plays totally differently depending on how health is handled. ((You know what else it's not? It's not a pivotal point in FPS history, either. The game is played differently depending on how health is handled? You just described ANY game with a health meter.))

Vehicles - Stop talking about Halo 3. Maybe you're bored of them now, because they've been around in every other game since the original. They weren't boring when it first came out, I remember having dogfights in co-op with those purple things. Compare that to other implementations at the time, of which, there were frankly none to speak of. ((No, tis not boredom, I'm telling you what I saw... and why CAN'T I talk about Halo 3? You're talking about the Halo FRANCHISE!!! Guilt by association. I didn't say they were boring, I said the AI drivers were STUPID. Unless they were the enemies... if you're gonna quote me, get it right. A vehicle is a vehicle is a vehicle... who cares if it's in the air, on the ground, or in water... and I've had more intese dogfights in Ace Combat.))

Open Environments - You're right, with increasing graphical potential, larger play environments are inevitable. The PC had been able to handle open environments like that prior to Halo, but it was Halo who staked a claim there first, and showed that unlike Project IGIs etc. it could add more than just a backdrop. It's not just graphical fidelity either, it's the AI that has to navigate it effectively, and the scripting. ((You're big enough to accept this, I'm big enough to accept your response...))

I'm not stating that Halo is the holy grail of FPS's (that's obviously the Half-Life series :) ), I'm claiming that the original Halo was revolutionary for the genre.((Isn't that pretty much saying the same thing... which BTW, is WRONG?)) Comparing it to the games that came out at the time, and you'll see why that is. It's quite obvious from the thread though, that most people can't remember that far back. Maybe it was Halo that introduced them to FPS ((Remember that crack you shot at me about Alien Trilogy? You got a LOT of nerve saying this NOW. And I'm willing to bet that these people were either born around the time Halo was released, or rather, they were playing Castle Wolfenstein or DOOM long before this game hit the shelves. I'm willing to bet THOSE games introduced a lot of them to FPS way before halo was a twinkle in your eye... a genre that Halo was pretty innovative with by adding stuff in over time, but as far as revolutionizing... uh-uh. get over yourself. And that's my tw... twenty-five cents.))

[PS360PCROCKS]

What a terribly awful written article. But Halo revolutionized FPS on consoles, it's true, can't deny it. It didn't bring anything truly new or innovative besides the dual sticks, but it made FPS on consoles the new fad.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

It popularized FPS's on consoles...mainly because other studios followed suit. Had other studios been able to make good FPS's after Goldeneye released...it would be the same story. Sadly, it's not.

[Raoh]

wording and understanding is key

halo did not revolutionize the fps genre..

ask any pc gamer..

halo did revolutionize console fps gaming.....

there is a difference..

my beloved socom needs to bow down to its predecessor.. counter strike

halo needs to bow down do its predecessor... unreal tournament

i love my console gaming history but i know to realize that pc gamers have experienced and enjoyed this and much more before consoles...

[Omega6]

The only thing Halo did was made it acceptable to place a video game character cutout next to a Britney Spears cutout in FYE.
Thanks for making gaming mega-gay and bland. Thanks.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

This isn't a console versus console thing.

This is an ignorance versus enlightened thing.

Those oblivious to gaming before Halo started gaming because of it. The same goes for Final Fantasy VII. It's not the best Final Fantasy...but most would say it is because it was their first.

[FF7numbaone]

If halo didn't do it something else would have.

[00]

would still hate said game.

[caffman]

so it revolutionised things for me

[GodGinrai]

The only console fps i owned before halo was turok2,golden eye and perfect dark. I liked Halo:CE more then all three of those games as great as they were.I used to play 4 player split screen on it all the time with my boys until timesplitters 2 came out(then we got into mario kart on game cube and called it a day on timesplitters!).and yes turok 2 was good ,i even bought the ram expansion pack with it.On nov 20 2006, the four of us bought X360`s intent on getting halo 3.Even though halo wasnt coming out for another year.I have to admit going online and talking through a headset for the first time gave me a insane buzz.When halo3 came out we went bezerk. I like halo because of those moments.walking out of hmv each of us carrying x360s and queing up outside gamestaion to get halo 3( and yes i bought it with the helmet!)

[Horny]

I do like Halo, its a fun game but it revolutionized little. Good things that did come from the was the separate grenade button, you no longer had to go through your inventory to throw a nade. And then there was Health Regeneration which I think was a first for FPS, dont remember played a lot of em. What actually got me into FPS games was Doom, Alien, and Jurassic Park, those are some of my old favs.

[Ghyst]

There's no reason to play the kiddy shooter anymore, let it go, alot of people didn't like it then, and they still don't like it now, let the kiddies play their game. we'll have ours, killzone 2. the end.

[caffman]

neither will affect either.

[stonecold3]

would be like 2 years old now so as of now halo3 would be like halo2 graphics wise on xbox1 now and killzone2 will change all that come feb 26th im gtting killzoned2 on feb 16th and paying my copy off so i dont need to preorder it

[Pika-pie]

"If it wasn't for Halo, First Person Shooters wouldn't be as big a hit, everyone knows this"

WTF, FPSs have been huge since Doom. Halo did NOT invent the genre, nor did it do NOTHING to reinvent the genre.

What a load of crap!

[CarnexSTicha]

OK, everybody. Lets shoot ourself, blow our pretty brains out and make the world a better place. OK?

[Hot_tea]

All console FPS's are a step backwards from true precision mouse and keys PC FPS.
You guys are dreaming. Quake 3 Arena blows Halo away, as does Far Cry and even Doom.
Halo revolutionized..pffft ....this horse$h!t article can't even spell definitely...

[Dark_Overlord]

was how slow ass a main character can really move, and how to make the most boring repetitive level in any FPS, the library anyone?

To me Halo took everything I disliked about FPS's and put them all into one package

[Don_Frappucino]

No, no and no. If Halo revolutionised the genre so did CoD4 (which it didn't.) Both these games bought nothing new to the table, at least not in the same way Doom or Halflife did. Halo was just the evolution of the FPS, but only because there were no other FPS games around.

[omgwownoobs]

These games didn't revolutionize anything that's a hard freaking opinion soooooo wtfff?

Ill tell you what revolutionized rpgs, ff7, third person shooters RE4, FPS COD4 i thought all fps were for the dumb minded then this came out and it showed the world tactic does exist but you didn't rely much on team mates playing online. then Resistance 2 came out and its the fastest, most strategically played FPS ever to come out, even team mates count in TDM!!! if you haven't played it try it you'll see it mops halo on the floor hard core! if you aren't on your toes you are on the ground in that game :-).

People who love slow fps are those with iqs of a low range anywhere from 80-100 (halo holds anyone in that range real well) me my iqs 115 so im smart but i really dont care much it helps me play R2 so i dont care =)))))))))) anyways back to point.

This game revolutionized how slow fps can be lmaooo FACT not opinion :-)

[JaPo]

Pretty revolutionary. The shield system as well as the control scheme both deserve props. The fanbase it generated was insane! I think it just found a gap for every market. However, that's not to say I find it particularly entertaining.

Castle Wolfenstein and Doom are the places to go when looking for the real origins of the modern FPS. Graphically speaking they can't hold their own these days but the conventions are all there. Still fun, too.

The two online FPS' I've played most are CS: Source and COD4. CS deserves recognition for delivering an incredibly refined and unforgiving formula to the casual gamer, but COD4 really hits every single spot imaginable. The guns, the game types, the graphics, the maps, the general system; all superb. That's the mark of a good developer, when some chumpy firm copies you pixel for pixel (with WaW) yet makes a game ten times less enjoyable. Anyone who dislikes COD4 is either an elitist jerk or the worst gamer ever.

There is no way Resistance 2 is better than COD4. Unfortunately the massive number of players doesn't make for a fun game. I play neither online these days but I've never had a craving to play R2 like I have with COD4.

My favourite single-player FPS is Half-Life. Nothing else comes close for me. Ridiculous game.

The truth is, contrary to popular belief, people don't enjoy open-world games. I found FarCry 2 to be tiresome after a very short amount of time. The constant requirement to make choices is stressful, and I much prefer to be taken on a roller-coaster ride of cinematic brilliance. Half-Life find the perfect balance.

I've played all the others. Battlefield was novel, Medal of Honor was super... but none hit the mark in the same way as COD4 or HL.

[GodGinrai]

Half life definetley draws you in.I played all the episodes and i cant cant wait till they give us more.CoD 4 had a brilliant ending (hint without a spoiler.....that part that happens in slo-mo )aswell as some intense fights(on vetaren).R2 had a real good single player experience .As a multi player game it dont tickle me either....not as skill based as COD4 or halo 3 or R6:vegas.The fps genre has been good to us.lol

[The Judderman]

Halo must be damn good for you all to be in such a gripe about it lol.

[The Judderman]

Everyone said Halo 1 was average yet after playing it i thought the others were average and Halo was the better game. Im talking about the time it came out here.
The fps's at the time on ps2 nad xbox were garbage compared to Halo C.E.
Yes times have moved on. COD has a godd multiplayer, Rainbow6 a cover system, Killzone2 great death animations but no fps's have had such a complete package as the Halo games.
if im wrong then how come these games are still played by millions of people everyday. Its all about fun and people seem to have more fun playing Halo than the above mentioned.

[ceesiebo]

Of course Wolfenstein and Doom started the revolution of FPS. Halflife expanded it. Halo wasn't the reason I bought the Xbox, it was DOA and Ninja Gaiden. But I bought Halo 2 since I wanted a good FPS that wasn't a crap port of the PC. But I stopped playing Halo 2 half way because I couldn't stand it anymore. I just didn't like the setting, it was all so pink and blue. The game itself played fine though, much better than those ports of the PC. So for the original XBox it was a good title, but no revolution. It's just a matter of taste.

[tee_bag242]

Halo made FPS popular to XBOX consoles more-so and probably spurred the console FPS industry on.
It wouldn't give it too much credit in revolutionising any mechanics in the world of FPS. Real revolutionising ground work was heavily contributed by games such as Wolfenstein/Doom and Quake 1 popularly taking FPS into polygon 3D. Lastly battlefield 1942, vietnam etc having 64 players at war on a huge map with ALL the goodies - mind you has not really been achieved on any console yet (no sadly resistance doesnt quite count and bad company went backwards).

SIDE ISSUE - There is quite abit of talk about COD4's involvement. I think they really managed to perfect the consoles FPS gameplay, graphics and art style and online (no vehicles but). Although i dont play it that much it really is a flawless meat and potatoes FPS

[Gobuz]

I think you will find that Wolfenstein and doom has made gamers want more FPS. I've loved FPS ever since those 2 games and Halo hasn't had anything to do with me wanting to play FPS.

Even on the console i think Golden Eye had a bigger impact on console FPS than Halo.

[Foxgod]

Halo is legendary, it brings epic masses together, and its sales where epic.

No game has ever done that on the level of Halo3.
Those are facts, but hey, deny all you want if it makes you feel better.

[caffman]

they disagreed with me for saying that halo revolutionised things for me personally

[Rageanitus]

maybe for consoles..... but it just feels too much like a generic fps's

Do you know what revolutionized fps genre.

Quake 1 for deathmatching on the internet
quake 2 for ctfing
quake3/ UT 1 refining competitive deathmatching
Deus ex for adding rpg elements into fps genre.

COD 2 for bringing a true war feeling to the genre.

[TheOutsider]

I can't believe you bots think this game started this genre! i mean 007 on n64 looks 100X better than Gay-lo! You bots are a joke! enjoy your leap frog style graphics on that $hit box you have!!

[Bullseye]

debatable wether Halo revolutionised, but it was,and still is to some degree, the greatest FPS to hit consoles. You can disagree all you like, but i played PC FPS's for years prior to Halo on the Xbox,and for me Halo is still one of my all time favs.You can also come up with lots of reasons why it sold so many copies, but maybe,just maybe, it really was that good.Forget graphics,forget story line,forget MP,for shear emersion this game rocks.A rare classic on any platform.For what it's worth,i think the sequels pale by comparison with the original.

[omodis420]

Halo is boring. Yes it helped FPS games. Yes it deserves credit. But when you really look at it, Halo can have all the bells and whistles that it wants, it doesn't change the fact that the game is boring as hell. Long live any game that steals Halo's crown. I am sick of Halo.

[oldsnayke]

This article is bullshit. Halo 3 did nothing but sell well because of hype. I'll tell you what revolutionized the FPS genre... GoldenEye 007.

[Pleth]

Is "Definably" even a word?

[Belasco]

My first experience with the Xbox was in november 2001, and I got the Xbox along with PGR, and the first time I fired up Halo CE I recall being very, very impressed. I had played pc and console games alike up until that point, and nothing even came close. I was and am not a casual gamer, and the 1st Halo provided myself and my friends literally YEARS of gaming fun, and that was with no new maps.
So if anyone responds to this with insults just please know that it won't steal away all those hours of fond memories, and you are wasting your time.

[Lord Xire]

Halo was the first game ever in city to have a FPS tournament.

This was before LANS.

Halo:CE hundreds of people got together and system linked and played the sh*t out of Halo.

There were even Halo parties were it was just Beer and system linking...

So even before online multiplayer became huge Halo already was bringing gamers together...changing the way games will be played forever.

Don't be a hater.

[Downtown boogey]

I mean... Halo was good... It was GREAT! And not just because it was a well-polished operational FPS but because it was a good FPS and good game all the same! That's the reason it revolutionized the FPS gaming in a way. I think it had a bigger impact in proportion to gaming as a whole than just FPSs. Halo was well designed and polished [single-player]game which makes it one of the greatest games of all time.

[donnie-2105]

dont know if its been said.but dont forget the origonal halo was a single player only game.

[BLAKICEMAN]

Everyone says this and that but Halo is a game that revolutionized the FPS genre. One point in time HALO was the only thing talked about. Sony fanboy or Microsoft it doesn't matter. Everyone wanted to play it.