20 Essential Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

16. Halo

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Bungie

Billed originally as Combat Evolved, Halo is now widely regarded as the most important launch title for any console ever and the entire success of the XBox owes a huge debt to it.

Picking up the FPS genre, that hadn't had an eye-catching title since a certain James Bond picked up his golden gun, Halo went where no game had gone before with a wonderful array of weapons and vehicles to pit against genuinely intelligent enemies.

Set in Bungie's wonderful science-fiction universe, Halo sees a super-soldier named Master Chief going up against the ruthless Covenant and the horrifying Flood. The story twists and turns through various intergalactic battlegrounds and, although every instalment of the series has arguably improved on the formula, the franchise's first outing remains the most defining.

 
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