17 Great Ways to Have Fun in Halo Custom Games
7. Run Rabbit
Zombie, 4-16 Players Recommended
Not dissimilar to Duck Hunt, but this time the prey can fight back. One team are the rabbits (all in white, with enhanced speed) and the other player is the farmer. The farmer has a sniper rifle and is invincible (except to assassinations), so the rabbits can either try to kill him for 10 points, or stay alive for as long as possible. Any rabbit killed by the farmer becomes a farmer as well, so pretty soon its a frantic desperate? struggle to stay alive as shots whistle around the frantically running rabbits. And did I mention, the farmers should be able to see an icon marking where the rabbits are at all times? Cruel.
6. Carnage Hill
King of the Hill, 3-16 Players Recommended, Ghosts and Warthogs
This is total... well, carnage. Again, youll want to play on a Blood Gulch variant, and the only really important rule is that youre not allowed to shoot from the vehicles. Your only weapon type? should be a Magnum and grenades, both of which you are allowed to use but thats all. It boils down to vehicles sumo wrestling in on? the hill in the middle, trying to push each other out, while the occasional player unlucky enough not to be driving something frantically jumps up in the air to avoid them or tries to board someone. There are two ways to play unoccupied hill required to score points, or not and theyre equally fun. This is one of the easiest custom games on this list to just jump in and play without a lot of preparation, although finding people who can resist letting fly with the ghosts cannon may be considerably trickier.
5. Grand Prix
Race, 2-16 Players
Theres a huge online community of Halo players who rarely play death matches, instead preferring to construct race courses and hold GPs (coincidentally, if Mario Kart ever included a mode which let you design your own race courses and share them, Im pretty sure Nintendo would win the internet). This was quite complicated in the older games, but nowadays Halo comes with a ready-made Race mode built right into Forge. The only real reason to race on Halo as opposed to an actual racing game is the capacity to make your own tracks, but some players have gotten crazily inventive and there are some truly amazing courses available for download. You can swerve, ramp and even loop the loop to your hearts content, and all it will cost you is a Google search. While making an advanced race map is quite a big time investment, its also extremely satisfying to race on once youre finished.