20 Iconic Gaming Moments You Must See Before You Die
4. The Ring World - Halo: Combat Evolved
"A non-linear first-person shooter that's being developed exclusively for console." Are you nuts?
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That's what I imagine someone to have said to Bungie when they announced the original Halo all those years ago. Studio executives were probably as scared about the risk as I am right this moment as I realise this game came out 15 years ago.
But here we are, in a world where Bungie proved doubters wrong, and almost singlehandedly turned the FPS - traditionally a PC-only genre - into the most financially successful genre for consoles in the history of gaming.
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If the sense of awe and spectacle as you land on Halo for the first time as Chief as ever beaten, I'll eat my hat.