10 Best Ever Console Launch Titles In Gaming History
3. Halo - Xbox
When Microsoft announced that they were getting into the console market most people weren't quite sure what to expect. Here was a company that certainly had some familiarity with gaming - thanks to their work with Windows - and most definitely had the financial clout to compete. However, without the experience in the industry to back it up some predicted they would struggle.
It was a situation that Sony had found themselves in just a few years prior. Where it was their superior marketing that played a large part in them winning their particular war, Microsoft instead opted to create a machine that simply overpowered the competition.
The killer app for this new monster of a machine was a game going by the title Halo: Combat Evolved. It wasn't an established IP and nobody knew quite what to expect from it.
What players got was a game-changer. Halo was a title that no other console of the era would be able to handle. It felt like the best in PC FPS gaming brought to consoles and had a massive influence on the games the followed.
While Microsoft didn't win that particular war, with Halo they had made their statement of intent clear from the off and created the foundation they needed to succeed in the console business.