What's so special about Halo?

The new Halo Infinite is coming out now. But what is so special about Halo? For Microsoft players (xBox) or PC this is one of the favorite games. But why?

Halo has significantly influenced some things when they appeared.

The control behavior on controllers has influenced shooter with gamepad significantly and found many emulators.

Regenerating health through a rechargeable shield only became popular later. Medikits and other static remedies were the standard before that.

The multiplayer mode was ersmtals not only on the later PC, but especially the consoles a major breakthrough in terms of popularity, at times when online gaming for consoles was still in its infancy and enjoyed little acceptance.

From a PC perspective, it's not all that spectacular. The formerly PC / Mac-Exclusive title was changed several times from the strategy game to the action game, to the Xbox-exclusive shooter, and did not really enjoy benevolent saffron berries. At the time of its release, the console-focus title was still solid and enjoyed thanks to one of many popular story and multiplayer modes, not technology anymore and revolutionary features. With Halo 2 and Vista compulsion for ridiculously weak technology, it had Bungie and Microsoft on the PC finally made difficult and since then no title other than the strategy exits more published. For PC players it is less the hype than the recollection of the well-known series.

The game set standards at the time of its release. Similar to Doom on the PC.

But the technical weaknesses of the PC ports are also due to the fact that the games were ported much later than bad.

Limearts has indeed answered it correctly but I would like to say something as a huge Halofan / write something.

When Halo first appeared on the Xbox as a launch title, it was visually absolutely not just on console. Also, the controller etaplierte today standard standards with the two stick control, shoot on the right trigger and also showed the shooter are also excellent to play console.

The aforementioned carheal function in the form of a shield is also standard today, although there was also still Medikits, such as the limitation to two weapons, where you can use any weapon found. There were relatively open worlds with seamless transition to vehicle action. Even the opponents convinced by their intelligent behavior, whether Grunt, Elite or Hunter. Every guy behaves differently. Halo did not invent all that, but in sum, there was not anything like that. Thus Halo set standards that are still valid today.

In addition, Halo has a really epic, interesting and mysterious story. The war with the Alliance and the strange blood father constructs. I would also call the art design iconic. The hero is a faceless and taciturn super soldier who follows every command without question, but the relationship with his AI awakens emotions here, which is unusual at the same time.

In addition to the games, there are numerous merchandise which expands the franchise in the form of comics, books and film, as series makes sense.

The series continues to live up to this day, even though the last two episodes of 343 Industries do not quite match the Bungie titles.