20 Iconic Gaming Moments You Must See Before You Die

4. The Ring World - Halo: Combat Evolved

Bungie

"A non-linear first-person shooter that's being developed exclusively for console." Are you nuts?

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.

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.

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Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.