Old ideas were reinvented with stellar and surprising success, while new ways of building a first-person game were established as a result. Somehow the game managed to maintain the feeling of its predecessors while transporting the experience to a whole new realm of possibilities. The best of them was Metroid Prime, a wild gamble of a game that saw Samus travelling from her side-scrolling roots to a fully-3D, first-person ground-breaker of a perspective. The most well-known Nintendo franchises were suddenly unrecognizable, and all the better for it, Mario became a graffiti clean-up crew, Link turned into a cartoon, and Samus entered the realm of first-person shooters. Part of the reason lies in the wild new gambles Nintendo was willing to take with it after being trounced by Sony in the previous generation. The Gamecube is fondly remembered by many of its adopters. Runners-Up: Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy X, Grand Theft Auto III, Super Smash Bros Melee It doesn’t really matter how much time passes or how many sequels 343 churns out names like “Blood Gulch,” “Hang ‘Em High,” and “The Silent Cartographer” will always inspire singular and unimpeachable memories for an entire generation of gamers, especially those who LAN partied.
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But that’s not just nostalgia talking - the series has tried to add numerous layers atop Halo‘s cake, but its base layer was always the most satisfying. For many fans of the series, getting to play the original Halo through The Master Chief Collection was a more appealing reason to buy an Xbox One than Halo 5. Outside of some weapon imbalance and repetitious levels in the back half of its campaign, Halo still plays like butter despite totally upending how first-person shooters played at the time of its release. Without the original Halo, the modern gaming landscape would change incalculably, from first-person shooter design, to online matchmaking systems, to Microsoft’s centrality in the industry.īut even more impressive is just how well Halo holds up over fifteen years later. It single-handedly put the Xbox name on the map and jump-started a series still considered part and parcel of that brand, long after developer Bungie jumped ship to create Destiny. Halo: Combat Evolved stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as one of the greatest launch titles ever released. Image: Microsoft 2001) Halo: Combat Evolved
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