17 Great Ways to Have Fun in Halo Custom Games

13. Cat and Mouse

Zombie, 3-16 Players Recommended, 2 Minute Rounds

Use a large, open map to make a vehicle obstacle course with ramps, tunnels, traps and so on. The cats (zombies) should spawn in a small floating platform above in choppers or wraiths, and then jump down the map below. From there, they try to hunt and crush the mice (who try to evade them in their mongooses). No shooting or dismounting is allowed, and any mouse that is killed becomes a cat. Cats score 2 points for each mouse kill, and a mouse scores 10 points for surviving the 2 minute long ordeal. Ideally, The game should be played out over several rounds.

12. Chrono Trigger

King of the Hill, 3-16 Players Recommended, 1 minute hill change

This map takes advantage of the Spawn Timer feature of Forge. It can be extremely entertaining to make, and I encourage readers to get creative with the phases, but otherwise you can add me on Xbox Live and I€™ll hook you up with a variant. It€™s a King of the Hill with a magnum spawn, played on a custom map. You begin next to a hill with a series of shield doors through it, so it€™s basically hand to hand only, as your weapons are next to useless. The next hill takes place in an open space, and some mongooses begin spawning near the beginning €“ it ends up as a sumo match between them to stay in the hill. Afterwards, gravity lifts spawn in the same area and a floating platform (4 connected bridges) spawns above, with gravity hammers and the new hill on it. Try to get up there first and use your hammer to keep out the other players who will be jumping up to join you. After this, the next hill is located at the end of a long tunnel to the other side of the map, and sniper rifles begin spawning all over the place, so a sniper battle invariably develops down the length of the tunnel. The penultimate hill is located in the centre of a huge labyrinth (with random weapons spread around), and a teleport should appear next to the start to allow re-spawning players to get there quickly. Fighting in the maze with various heavy weapons is a frantic experience, and the last hill appears on the other side, with a collection of overshields spawning to make the final fight a brutal one.

11. Platformer

Slayer, 1-16 Players Recommended

An attempt at genre conversion, Halo works surprisingly well as a 3D Platformer. If you don€™t want to spend hours constructing your own map there€™s plenty of them available for download, the basic premise being: don€™t fall. You€™ll jump, scurry and crawl with increasing difficulty along a line of floating objects, and the slightest misstep will mean starting from scratch. This is the only game on the list which can be played without friends, so no discrimination against the socially inept. The levels also tend to be created by the most sadistic of Halo map designers, so be forewarned.