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With Halo: Infinite far off in the horizon, it's time to answer the age-old question: Which Halo Has The BEST Campaign?! I'll be judging them from a set of categories and the rankings given reflect how good/bad they are within the context of the Halo franchise. TIME TO FINISH THE FIGHT!!
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Introduction - 0:00
Halo: CE - 2:19
Halo 2 - 6:20
Halo 3 - 11:19
Halo 3 ODST - 14:45
Halo: Reach - 17:50
Halo 4 - 22:01
Halo 5: Guardians - 25:53
Final Rankings - 29:43
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Halo 3: Best campaign Halo 4: Best story
How’s the Cold War video coming along
idk
No ones laying a finger on my butterfinger
"Which Halo has the Best Campaign?" 5: okay guys imma sit this one out
Fr tho😂
"You guys have a good time, I'll see ya later..."
@Jiggins U the best bro
Best multiplayer by a country mile though. Fast, smooth, great controls, movement and map design is fantastic!
@@AxxLAfriku you're here I saw you on tons of channels and now here
There are two types of people in this world: Those who see it as "equipping your allies with the gear of your choice," and those who see it as taking the gear of your choice from your allies.
Yup. Or in 1 killing for the gear you want. Sorry Johnson on Assault on Control Room, I need the sniper ammo
Whenever I only have one rocket or sniper bullet left, I just give it to my AI allies because no matter what gun you give them, even if it's just one bullet left, they will have unlimited ammo.
Mario AI with a rocket launcher? You live a dangerous life. Thats like letting Kat drive in Reach
both works
@@awwwcrap1954 Yep, it's crazy but I'll take that over instead of having no rocket launcher as support. lol
Imagine if halo 3 had a anniversary with graphics as good as halo 2's. The cutscene with the battle above the ark would be so cool
Halo 3's graphics at 4k/60fps are almost as good as H2A in my opinion, the only thing H3 would benefit from are some dope cinematics from Blur.
You mean remastered cutscenes then? Because halo 2 anniversary isn’t as good as the original because it spoiled the dark atmosphere at times. And have you ever been in the water of the last level just before Tartarus ? 😬
Guilty spark company too lazy to do it.
@@mjstories7181 i’ll pass on the blur, thanks
I just want redone cutscenes that add in gravemind
Halo reach is my childhood, from the custom games to the multiplayer to the campaign….. amazing
Same mine as well
Me too honestly miss playing it so much
To 1v1 your brother and making your own base with helicopters and vehicles
Well the original trilogy is superior
@@flashed8992 that brought back so many memories 😭
not 5
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Will you Brie my friend?
Wtf. Never thought I would see you here.
OHHHHHH
you're here daddy
Say Actman, When you gonna tell me what happens when I disagree with you? HA! MAH ASS! WELL I GUESS YOU CANT FORGET ABOUT THOSE ADJUSTMENTS TO YOUR A2 SCOPE-
The Biology of the Male Acting Man
Oh hi Roanoke
SORRY, ROANOKE. IT'S CLASSIFIED.
@@TheActMan Well he's in a particularly fine mood today
Roanoke”Get the Hell outta my armory you- BLEEEHHEEAAHGHAAH-“ *dropped a shotgun for Act Man to pick up*
Halo 2s campaign will always have a special place in my heart . It’s still my favorite video game to this day .
I think it has a wow effect in me too. I recall coming from the first game, seeing that 2nd entry of the series and saying to myself "holy crap, how many new stuffs they added compared to the previous game!" They expanded the game in just everything, and every way possible. Story, universe, characters, voice acting, weapons, vehicles, DUEL WIELDING, the music scores are still really solid. Best thing, the creation of the point of view of the covenant, plus the arbiter. Who needs a flashlight when you can play as an invisible elite with a energy sword? It has the biggest gap of work between 2 games. They made just twice the content of the 1st game. It is just such a big achievement.
@@fellowkrieger457 i could not have said it better myself
I played through the mcc recently and I agree Halo 2 is my favorite even if it is extremely difficult in the higher difficulties.
I don’t what my favorite game of all time is cause I have a few. But Halo 2 is a very strong contender.
the hardest campaign an the best 💯💯💯
It's ODST for me. I really liked the change of pace going from playing as the Rookie desperately trying to survive in the city alone, then kicking ass as Dutch and Mickey. A lot of variety, amazing atmosphere, and I really liked the tactical versions of the SMG and pistol. And Nathan Fillion instantly improves any sci fi media. I think the story just missed a tragic event though, the atmosphere made you feel like all of the other troops had died at first and you were the last one left. It's the opposite of Reach in that respect.
Yeah for me odst is my second favorite after ce the atmosphere is so good. And i like to play sneaky
I’d say the same but DAMN is it short!!! My friend and I first time playing it beat it on legendary in under 3 hours apparently.
Halo ce. Then reach. But secretly ODST is there. I love ODST
Imagine if you could come across other drop pods with the corpses of other odsts, with audio logs showing how they died, like maybe one survived the crash but burned to death in his pod, or another who died on impact
ODST is like the only game that feels completely natural on legendary since you're not playing as a brick shithouse on super serum
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I'd prefer these sponsors over KZhead's unskipable ads. NOW COMING TO EVERY VIDEO ON KZhead!!!!!!!
I'm going to try and space them out better in the future. I just had a lot of obligations this month. Offers I couldn't refuse and all that
Because ad revenue is so bad in 2020, youtubers have to take sponsors to buy bread.
@@TheActMan don't worry about it man we just skip ahead 30 seconds to a minute, get all the money you can from your sponsorships. Also never seen a KZheadr do an add for a candy bar pretty impressive
Dont hate
Halo 4 legendary in a nutshell: Oh boy a SAW! Can't wait to mow down everythi- ....out of ammo? After killing two knights!?
You wouldn't pick up the saw though, it's just a worse assault rifle
@@coolusername981 a-are you moronic?
@@shrekt8386 yes he is
@@weebsarecringe2102 gents, we can agree that both AR and SAW are better than the god damn suppressor
@@coolusername981 The Saw is a power weapon. It destroys in multiplayer.
Halo CEs AI is something else. Enemies feel alive in firefights, especially the elites. None of the other games have caught that feeling to the same degree imo. It’s what makes it the most fun to play.
F. E. A. R. Also have an impressive ai
@@saibot1246 I was about to say FEAR also had great AI. I've read a lot about the coding and design of both Halo and FEAR's AI, both take different routes to add character to your enemies.
@@KingThrillgore I mean F.E.A.R just fucked up the enemy code, and instead of it ruining them, it makes them feel alive
The thing I like most about halo ce is how fucking smooth it is. It’s like it was perfectly fine tuned to be as smooth as possible
i was playing the truth and reconciliation one day and a jackal kept shooting me from behind and i never saw him, and according to my co-op player the jackal was crouching and moving around whenever i turned around
Honestly, Halo ODST made me feel way cooler than any other campaign. You aren’t a super soldier, yet you survive against all odds and that’s way cooler to me than being someone you know is supposed to survive those situations, because he’s designed to
He literally got sponsored by butterfinger. I didn’t know that was even possible
Act Man knows how to make his sponser sections more entertaining than most youtubers at least
I thought it was a joke.
Oh i know what the sponsors like
I was legit waiting for a punchline or something lol that’s pretty dope though
That wasn’t a gag
“When the community learns of your sponsorship with butterfingers, they will have your head-“ “Fool, they ordered me to do it”
Nice reference
@@obi-wankenobi2 hello there
@@snackdaddy6249 general kenobi
Funny thing, the “I thought you’d be taller” is a reference to the first level of Combat Evolved, where a marine exclaims “He’s taller than I thought.”
Really?
I feel like that’s a stretch and could just be a coincidence.
Let’s be real it’s just Palmer being a *****
CE's copy pasted room indeed gives a hart hit to the whole level design. Although it's only in one level, it could make you feel really tired of the game especially if you happened to get to it in a single play session like me.
it's not only one level, the 9/10 he gave to CE is purely out of nostalgia, i sincerely can't end the video now knowing how delusional this guy is
@@groggod666 it was repetitive but wasnt that bad
Assault on the control room is simultaneously the best and worst level imo. The repeating rooms, hallways and bridges feel like they serve no purpose at all, and it drags the enjoyment down by a lot. Couldn't they easily have cut some of those parts? The rest of the level is fantastic.
The narrative + gameplay of two betrayals makes it perfectly excusable to backtrack the level imo, I’m tired of seeing this argument.
@@terrarian9887 bro and it’s nighttime and snowing 😩 most aesthetically pleasing level of all time
The way halo infinite is advertising their game by snacks makes me feel like I’m in the 2000s again
The 2000’s graphics help give that feeling too
That Halo 3 Game Fuel... It was never as good as it was in the 2 liters
@@mythhead2688 HAHAHA-
@@mythhead2688 lol
@@mythhead2688 xD
I swear Reach’s presentation at times is god damn gorgeous. Feels like a big Hollywood space opera at times
Took a lot of cues from ODST with the security footage cutscenes
And yet the overall pacing is fucked and ends up making the bigger picture presentation feeling out of wack. Part of the problem is that it just doesn't really have any major story beats. It's just Noble Team defending reach, which is fun but you don't have nearly the scale of a story like the original trilogy.
@@TheRedKing247 Never thought of it that way. That is a completely fair assessment.
@@TheRedKing247 No major story beats other than each Noble member dying? No but I see your point
My dream for MCC was that they’d remaster all the games to Reach’s level
The bungee games will always have such a place in my heart. If I could go back in time just to play these when they were new again I would.
Playing halo 1 for the first time definitely is a great nostalgia memory And i honestly don't have that with any of the other halos (Even though i love 2 an 3 as well)
@@GORILLA_PIMP nah all 3 for me. Halo 1 blew my mind and blew everything else out of the water. And I’ll never forget seeing the white with blue writing bungie load screen and hearing the halo 2 guitar theme for the first time. The first time I played as the arbiter and stormed the heretic controlled forerunner base. Or the time spent in matchmaking lobby’s listening to “never forget” or fighting the impossible odds to rescue Cortana from the flood ship. it’s a an era we will never see again and possibly peak gaming. Tower of power, zombies, juggernaut, and so many more, we got creative back then.
3 will always be my favorite but with that being said, I think people neglect CE because it’s not as solid in terms of level design as the others. I think people sometimes forget the context. It came out in 2001 and was revolutionary with its AI and storytelling for the time. The fact that it can even hold ground with later games is telling to how amazing of a game it actually is
Halo CE has the best level design though, by far. The levels themselves are extremely interesting, and the repetition helps show the story. Halo ce SHOWS you the story through the levels, rather than TELLING it through flashy cut-scenes. Halo CE's approach is better if you are able to appreciate it.
@@malceum CE level design is repetitive and un interesting
@@malceum Halo CE is a masterpiece but trying to spin the environment repetition as good for the story is just idiotic, it’s a fantastic game but it has flaws
Understanding circumstances is good, but it doesn't make something better. Good thing is, CE is good either way.
Now I will say ce is my 5th favorite halo campaign counting in halo wars 1 and 2 but again the argument that something that came out long ago can't be critiqued by today's standards is a hilariously idiotic argument that is completely nostalgia blind think of pokemon gen 2 where people defend how bad gold and silver are to play because of how gamefreak thought that the pokemon craze was gonna be over and those were gonna be the last games which is fine and all but it still doesn't excuse how bad those games were and same with how people defend halo ce poor level design (besides silent cartographer and the darker mysteries in 343 guilty spark along with the flood reveal but still have copy and pasted samey rooms in the facility), poor weapon sandbox (only 3 real weapons that you will ever need shotgun, assault rifle, and magnum), a hard normal difficulty and heroic being pretty hard for a difficulty that emulates hard (again act man continues to talk about the health system in ce but forgets how slow the shield recharges where as in halo 2 it recharges a lot faster), and a story that is pretty damn good but only great if you read the flood book. TLDR people need to stop treating things that came out a long time ago as if they can't be critiqued by today's standards when that's just being nostalgia blind
Halo CE’s campaign really felt like you were trying to survive on this ancient alien world, and it was mysterious. Something other games are missing I think
Woah we have the same name
@@nightmare5510 yooooooo
@MrWereverForever it did to an extent, but you always had the infinity in contact with you. In Halo CE, everyone from the pillar of autumn were scattered, and after the 343 guilty spark mission, you were on your own besides having cortana
I think that's why i liked the Reach and ODST campaign too. They all have this grounded reality where your goal is to survive. Personally that's the Halo experience i want and why i never cared for the main series Halo games. The covenant are a dangerous alien force that are trying to wipe out humanity. They have superior ships, superior weapons, superior armour and superior numbers. I like the Halo games that captured this, 2 and 3 never did for me. Halo 4 could have also captured this, but they screwed up everything relating to the Didact and that made their story fall apart. The Didact could have been an amazing replacement for the covenant threat, and would have worked incredibly with a flood focused trilogy. Halo 5.... Well we don't speak of that...
@@ergofiction5627 Why would they make *another* Flood-focused trilogy though? And how did they screw up everything relating to the Didact? They take the time to explain who he is, his motivation, and how he intends to carry out his plan. He’s trying to wipe out humanity and he has superior technology at his disposal. He literally fits the criteria of what you’re asking for. The story fell apart? The story might be that game’s only strength.
Act man bracing for all the negative comments about his preferences: “This is it baby, hold me.”
7.halo 5 6.halo 4 5.halo 3 ODST 4.halo 1 3. Halo 2 2. Reach 1. Halo 3
@Dustin Smith why though, he be speaking the truth
@Dustin Smith Okay well nobody is going to go through all the other comments to find your opinion.
@Dustin Smith Nobody told you you had to, because i certainly don't care. But by saying " for too many reasons ive said in other comments" expecting people to have A: either read them, or B: cared enough to find them, kinda makes your comment pointless because you won't back yourself up so commenting in the first place was a waste of time.
@Dustin Smith You're saying that like i read every comment thread with a large amount of comments in it. And again, i don't care, im just telling you that by wasting your time commenting here without backing yourself up means nobody is going to listen to you. It's not called "being lazy" it's called, i don't fucking care what every random dude on the internet has to say about their opinions on Halo. Everything is subjective. You think one thing, someone else thinks something else. You can't just state "no, and lemme tell you why my opinions right and yours is wrong" it's just ignorant. "Im guessing if you're too lazy to read those" like how arrogant are you? You're insinuating i even knew they existed, or cared enough to read through a shit ton of comments that boil down to "my opinion good your opinion bad"
Halo 2 and 3 are two of the best video games I’ve ever played. They really made you feel like you were in a WAR.
Halo Reach was my first game, then Halo 4. I got MCC last year and have played the other games but the bleakness of Reach and the vague character of six is what connects me the most with the story and aids me in immersing my self in the story. Not to say that Chief is a bad character, he’s far from it. But with six doing his absolute most to prevent the inevitable and going down like a badass hits me more than the final mission in Halo 3 or Chief going into Cryo sleep.
Hey, agreed, I feel the same about Reach, it is Epic; I'd rate it best of the lot.
@Nocturne people hate on it because not matching the books. I love this game and I don't care for the books. People would hate it because the books say it fell in a few hours. I am explaining why people hate it but I love it as my first game.
I still play Reach regularly. If they had gotten rid of the weapon bloom and re-introduced some Halo 3 features, then it would’ve been on the same level as 3, despite a not-as-good-but-still-solid story.
“Halo 3 ODST is the only game not to feature Master Chief.” Reach: *cough, cough*
there was a secret cutscene in the end of pillar of autumn.
@Brody Ustich Yes it is.
Can we count Chief’s voice in Reach Firefight? 🤔
It didn't have master chief but it did have other chiefs
@Brody Ustich well reach was set before ce and the end of the game when u get on the P.o.A you have to pan your camera to I think it’s the left or it’s the right but u see him in his veto tube
“ODST was the only halo not to feature master chief” In amber clad jumping to slip space for .1 seconds: am I a joke to you
😂
What about Reach??
@@pislarustefan5009 he was in one cutscene at the end of pillar of autumn, you have to look to the right to see him
@@falloutgamer347 oh yeah...right, I never paid enough attention to the ending cutscene to notice
So, a tiny, easily missed cameo in Reach counts as "featured"?
The silenced SMG and magnum in ODST are actually a great combo especially on Mombasa streets even on legendary. They both have decent range and if you use the smg in short controlled bursts, you can easily mop up grunts jackles and strip brute shields from mid range. It makes you feel like a true ODST when you use this combo effectively. The only problem is ammo, but if you find the audio logs you get access to supply caches which helps.
Halo CE for me. First halo game i played. The library mission wasn't the best, the graphics may have aged, but it's still my favourite campaign
“Wake up babe,new Act Man Halo video”
*yes honey...*
"YES HONEY!"
"Wake up, Chief, Actman needs you"
Don’t call your Dad babe, you kiss him then tell him.
@Pablo Pulido WHATS WRONG WITH THAT
Imagine being sponsored by Butterfingers, it's just an incredible dream.
They better send him those butter finger halo infinite emblems
I thought it was a joke at first.
@@rascoehunter3608 sadly it wasn’t a joke.
If only the new recipe they use wasn't shit compared to Butterfingers of ye old days.
Fr, KZheadrs will take sponsors from literary anything
even though halo 2 is so frustrating to play, i just cant stop going back to it I just love it id place it second, id place CE third because even though it was amazing it was quite simplistic which is just a sign of the times. But number 1 in my books has to be Halo 3, i was immersed from start to finish, ill never forget playing covenant and hearing "the brutes are mobilising everything theyve got" it felt like a war and when the two scarabs came it sticks with me forever and who could forget that piano tune, still sends shivers down my spine.
The sponsor section of this video has gone down as one of the best sponsorships I've seen so far. Taking a once-in-a-lifetime sponsor that could easily be taken as a joke and then going all in with the energy you'd never expect from a sponsorship for a candy bar. Great job, and great video!
Holy shit I thought the butterfinger sponsership was a joke until ya hit me with an actual website!
Hahaha I guess you could say that's good marketing on my part? Maybe??
Wait I thought it said buttfingerer
@Smattless Hey man money is money especially in this time of completely fucked ad sense.
@@TheActMan it was good marketing. Subverted expectations, felt like mid 2000s for a bit when there were still butterfinger ads. Fits with the Halo 1-3 era.
@@TheActManOh acting male, could you do a full review of titanfall 2's campaign? If you did I would buy every butter finger ever
We all know it is truly Halo: Spartan Assault the true pinnacle of game design
Prepare to be glassed.
oh shit I forgot that one... NOT
@@TheActMan Can you do why is COD Cold War is so bad
True.
@@TheActMan you missed fireteam raven!
Reach is my favorite Campaign. The sacrifices in it really show that Spartans are soldiers and human amongst everything
Spartans are super soldiers. They can take out waves and waves of enemies alone but they are still human. They are not invincible and the story reminds you of that. Although it never made sense that Kat dies 1 shot of a needle rifle as if she was a normal human without shields or armor
Someone in another video called Reach "The Rogue One of Halo" before a comment offered another correction: "Rogue One is the Halo Reach of Star Wars."
@@katonnor Noble team’s shields were down at that time.
The scores alone should have put it over H2
@Connor Roach she was shot in the brain by a needle rifle that is sharp as hell and can explode, without the shielding, it went through the armor and through the other side. There is no way she could have survived. It made sense to me
In my like 12 years of KZhead I've never seen a butterfinger sponsorship lmaoooo
"ODST borrows a lot of elements from Halo 3" bruh the game is literally called Halo 3:ODST
Also why he calls it an add on
Halo 3 Recon
Halo 3 odst is kinda an add on tho. I mean it’s called halo (3) odst. An add on to halo 3.
@@saltypickle7758 Uhhhh, no its a standalone game.
@@timotejianpoljak1859 yeah that’s why I said it’s “kidna” an add on. It’s not really an add on.
Ranking the soundtracks for each Halo game needs to be its own separate video. It's just a completely different experience hearing ODST's music while walking around the streets of Mombasa at night.
We meet again
I see you again
I 100% agree
It would just get to halo 2 and then the video would end
@@proletariapricotf155 Laughs in Steve Vai.
Halo 2 was breathtaking the first time playing it
Halo 3 for me due to how revolutionary it was as well as story and soundtrack. Just that first mission dropping in the jungle was the most epic start to a game I’ve ever experienced. Just a badass game. Just a amazing series of games which I just put above all else. Can’t even keep count with how many times I’ve replayed the campaigns and still don’t get bored.
nothing revolutionary.Halo CE was revolutionery
yo this is a pretty ICONIC video Mr. Male
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Yesh.
Yes sir it is
"Mr.Male" is a good one
Twerk
That whole butterfinger ad, I thought that was fake.....I didn’t know they actually sponsor someone
Same. Finally a snack company that knows their main customerbase.
Yeah, I think this is the biggest sponsorship I've ever seen on KZhead
Then I’m shocked how they aren’t a sponsor of the NFL then
so did I lmao. But it worked because tbh I really want one right now
Just watched all of your halo videos finished with this one, afternoon well spent and now I'm gonna go play my copy of Halo CE!!!!
In my opinion, if Halo 5 didn't release, Cortana dying at the end of Halo 4 (aka. "I'm not coming with you this time John") would be one of the most emotional endings in a video game franchise ever created...
Thought he was joking when he said "Sponsored by butterfingers"
Me to
For real lol. Props to him for getting sponsored by a truly legendary candy bar.
“At #5: Halo 3 Odst” Smooth jazz stops
Bro it kinda hurt to see reach so low on the list like bro... MY BABY😭
@@flyingroach3564 itd rating was still 7.5/10 meaining it was still close to top
To be fair, it was more of a dlc than its own game. Still great.
I can't even believe Halo 3 ODST is even on high on the list, let alone rated high. That DLC was a mixed bag compared to Reach. Half of the ODST cast is likeable, Romero is the least favorable. I detest Veronica, if not despise her - that character was a mistake, and makes Dr. Halsey look like a queen.
And the damage in that game is UP (underpowered). The only gun that had any effective use was the shotgun, beam rifle, and to some degree the mauler, and even then, they run out of ammo really quick. Even the Bungle staff admitted Halo 3 ODST was little more than recycled left-overs from a failed Halo MMO.
Halo 2 was crazy, storytelling was on point. Playing as the arbiter was a daring move and it was awesome
This is my second time watching this video 2 years later and as I once’s said to myself once but not aloud, I couldn’t have ranked it better myself. Man I love your channel.
3:13 Solid reference there
Solid Swedish guy
As in you’re a solid
@@ericur3118 men snälla håll käften för en gångs skull.
Hey thanks, Kilian! I love your videos btw!!
@@Void_Wars Låt han vara
Reach's campaign was so emotional we've gotten little to no backstory on any of them yet each death especially Jorge was like a small stab in the heart
First time playing Reach and Kat's death scene made my heart stop. First play left going 'omg how this to end!? Everyone is slowly dying and we throwing everything we have this.'
@@Pooh0Bear8 Kat was such a bitch though. She tells noble six to look for clues in that first mission and then he finds something and hands it to her where she proceeds to snatch it out of his hands and say: "not your domain six." Yeah that's why I handed it to you, bitch.
@@dieseldouche7735 bro she did that because their previous noble six died, and she felt like it was her fault, I think she did that because she did not want to get attached.
6s death was also really sad to watch
Yeah man, there was just something about Jorge. He’s the most memorable for me.
Coolest thing about halo 3, is that you can solve everything your way. One of the coolest moments for me was that when me and my brother had first came up against a scarab, as opposed to taking out the legs, he jumped up the ramp on a ghost and onto the scarab, then blowing it up. Meanwhile I was still dead from the fact he splattered me mid air when I almost got on there.
Summer break this year I had no internet the entire time so I just played all the Halo campaigns the whole time and I got to appreciate them way better than before
"You know what I think I'll go outside today." *Act man posts a video* "I'll go outside in 34 minutes and 29 seconds"
34 minutes and 30 seconds*
Bruh, do you even 1.25x speed?
You don't respect that last second!?
Halo 2’s story is something I will never feel again in another Halo, bless Joe Staten for his work on that.
halo 2 campaign in general is incredible letting you play as both chief and arbiter, although it isn't nearly as fun to play on legendary as CE is, i feel like all the levels in 2 are generally a lot more fun and memorable
Agreed! For me, Halo 3 is the funnest campaign but Halo 2 is my favorite. It just hits different for me, and as swaggy said, the levels/locations are so memorable and cool to play through
I agree with you man, Halo 2 story is unbeatable
It's a good thing he's back. They'll probably have him do some work on the DLC campaigns along with Paul Crocker and Jeff Easterling.
For story, music, and atmosphere i give it to halo 2 Halo 3 gets it for the ending, balance, level design, and graphics (seriously the graphics at that time blew my mind away).
I have to agree with CE at the top, even if some think it's repetitive. If they tweaked a few of the flaws with the absurdly difficult legendary gameplay with the release of Halo2 anniversary it could definitely have taken number one for me.
Halo CE is my pick. Played that game so many times. Can’t say the same for the others, aside from the multiplayer. The stories didn’t grab me the way the first one did. Although I do like how the second let’s you be an Elite. Used to have fun “taming” Hunters in CE and having pet flood. Also remember the first easter egg I accidentally discovered.
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I think the Combat Evolved has a great story and a cast of interesting characters, but I've always loathed the level design. Surem you can go literally wherever you want, but I always find myself getting lost and going around in circles in the copy paste hallways in certain levels. I often found myself being overwhelmed when fighting against the enemies (especially flood), and I didn't feel satisfaction after completing a difficult challenge. When I beat the game, I didn't think "Wow that was fun" I thought "Finally, it's over". I understand that, at the time, the game was revolutionary, and it's not fair to compare it to the other games. In my honest opinion, I don't think it deserved the #1 spot when compared to the other entries
Its gameplay is just objectively bad, even for the time, and it's map design id also horrible. That severely holds back what could have been an amazing game, thankfully Bungie and Halo survived and it became an amazing franchise over time.
@@probablynotdad6553 yeah dude, act man is just full of bullshit nostalgia bait delusions, he's not a good critic
@@probablynotdad6553 i just played HCE and god damn those later levels are terrible with the copy paste….
I beat halo ce a couple days ago, and the level design, especially by the end is not great. Gameplay is good, and story is fine, but I wouldn’t say it had aged very well. Started Halo 2 today, and it is a breath of fresh air. The levels feel more diverse, and much less repetitive, and the story so far is leagues ahead of ce.
What I felt was both exitement and relief. The first missions were fun but the library was when it got bad. Overall tho I would say it’s great
24:30 there’s no way that transition was unintentional. It’s brilliant!
Referring to Reach "The start of the Human-Covenant War" Contact Harvest: Am I a joke to you?
Halo Wars: Am I a joke to you?!
“Are there any other starts of the human-covenant war I should know about?!”
@@spiderz5145 Yes
Stfu with your baby memes
@@peter0071000 lol
I legit thought the butterfinger sponsor was a joke, good on you, act man
@Mike Marlowe I wouldn’t mind tbh it’d be a lot better than raid
@@mythrillmeyhem8998 yep
i don’t know how i’ve missed your channel. I mean this is the most nicest way and no sarcasm. I’m on the spectrum and Halo 2 became my special interest when I was little and now Halo itself is such a big part of my life. I love your editing style and thank GODDD our opinions on the new games are like the same.
I just replayed Halo CE again. And as much as I love that game, the infinite enemies really started to bother me. And the chaining grenades on the floor. The enemies also spawn right next to you. Its very obvious in Flood maps like Keys. The Covenant just hide behind a door and if you dont open it you end up fighting the Flood alone.
@@Hamon5099 I respectfully disagree. I think the parts where all 4 factions are fighting each other (forerunner bots vs flood vs Covenant vs you) made up for that. It was pretty crazy to go through it the first time. I can understand replaying it would be a different story.
@@Hamon5099 Again, I disagree. Backtracking through old levels serves the purpose of showing the familiar environments overrun by the flood. How it has all changed after the outbreak. Seeing the Covenant getting their ass handed to them in their own ship communicates the danger of the situation. The sentinels serve the same narrative purpose, and it spices up the gameplay. And yes, it does matter which playthrough it is. Replay value is a thing. The library sucks tho
@@crouchjump5787 lame
There are very few "infinite" enemies in the game, and the only ones coming to mind are the hallway in the last chapter up the ladder and past two sentinels, Captain Keyes's final location, and not much else coming to mind. Those times it's the Flood, and yeah, I'd kinda expect that for an enemy named the Flood. Weird thing to be bothered by.
The scarab fights in halo 3 was probably the most memorable part for me. That and the 1v1 with the Brute mini boss.
Yeah, the scarab fights were hard as heck for me
Them 2 scarabs were such a pain in the ass. That beam attack they do shredded my will to live
Yeah i loved the scrab fight, the explosion when you kill it is so satisfying
@@gingermachinimano1 Were you playing it on Heroic or Legendary? Cos it was quite easy for me in Normal.
@@herymusic heroic bro. I still have nightmares about them scarabs
He should have added a category for soundtracks. I feel like halo wouldn’t be halo without the soundtrack
Very true! But all the Bungie games are so damn good in their own ways.
He should collab with an actual musician tho for that part
I agree fully. For me halo 3 has the best score, although Halo 2's mjolmir mix is peak halo score.
I was just thinking exactly the same ! Would have been really interesting and could have change the pawn's position
Exactly what I was thinking. Surprised he ignored that.
Now let’s talk about halo 5’s story * LOUD CIRCUS MUSIC PLAYS *
for me its odst i love the change of pace and it makes you slow down and take a minute to appreciate the little things like the music.
This couldn't have come at a better time when it seems like nobody is uploading today. Thanks Actman
I gotchu
Halo 3. Story, gameplay, design. That game is something else.
I mean, same can literally be said for Halo 2. And C.E. And Reach. And ODST. And even 4. And I prefer 2 of them over Halo 3.
My favorite one
Halo 3's story was all over the place with not much cohesion. Things just *happened* without context. Halo 2's story was leagues better
Halo 1 still has the best music 🎶 and the levels are amazing still to this day
I like all of em except 5 and 4
Halo 2 Halo 1 Halo 3 Halo reach ODST Halo 4 Halo 5 Is my list Halo 2 is my favorite because when I beat it on legendary, the craziest difficultly I jumped out of my chair feeling like a boss. Obviously it’s hard as F but it for me was classic. The first 3 Halo’s will be in my heart forever. No game like that can compare to this memories and classic games that bungie created. Thanks for the video. I’ll be curious where you’d stick infinite in.
Agree with your list but I'd probably swap CE with 2 just because it had a perfect balance of gameplay, story, difficulty and multiplayer. Halo 2 had a few issues that I didn't feel existed with CE, but it was a very worthy sequel. If Infinite was in this list where would you rank it? I actually think it's a huge improvement over 4 & 5 but nowhere near Bungies original trilogy. For me it sits above ODST and just under Reach.
I know halo 3 is more of a quality over quantity but I’ll be damned if I didn’t want at least 3-4 more missions. I wish we could have seen more environments to the ark.
Have you seen anything from the cut swamp level? Personally, if 343 keeps touching up the MCC then I'd love to see them finish up cut content like that
@@arthand7672 No man. 343 can just leave these beautiful games alone. They will just find some way to ruin it
@@haydencassidy9536 You do know that 343 made the anniversary version of Halo CE and Halo 2? They added more lines and content to those games themselves... you just sound like a 343 hater.
I'm finishing 3 and i'm disappointed a little bit to don't have a lot of environment it's a lot of desert and brown i preferred odst for his atmosphere i think 3 for me need something that didn't have when i played ce (i finished on legendary) and 2 on normal maybe an anniversary version will change my words about the campaign maybe it's because after finishing halo 2 anniversary and his beautiful cinematics
@@arkangelgaming35 lol ok bro
ACT MAN: puts Halo 2 at 3rd Me: Take care Act Man,what you say is heresy!
@Kia El halo 2 is first for me because we got to see the covenant perspective as arbiter their Beliefs etc
@The Archangel wtf Is that rating.... It hurts...
@The Archangel uhhhhh
Halo 2 had shit gameplay dude, wake up
@@user-ft4bl4lh9w youtube shows your just a hater if I'm being honest so
Gonna have to do this again, same with multiplayer, once he gets enough time with Infinite. Might be hard to compare, though. Might have to focus on ODST more for it.
Watching this makes me feel like I can't openly express my love for halo 4 like I can for halo 3, good vid, just my perspective
Halfway through the butterfinger ad I realised he was being legit
Yeh
"Can't use Halo 4 or 5's Soundtrack due to copyright" Act Man hasn't even said a word yet and already Halo 4 and 5 are at a bad start.
yea and 343's games are just last and everybody agrees about that
@@thebagelar3859 I love halo 4
@@thebagelar3859 actually halo 4 is my third favorite halo game
cant use them because they suck
TheBagelar halo 4 is awesome what you mean?
This list is the same for me but swap 3 and CE. There is something about 3 that I love. Favorite game of all time. Great video!
being too young to have been able to play the games when they came out, I started exploring them in the MCC version on steam. I played chronologically and i gotta say Reach was the perfect start to the series. I will never forget how i finished the story (crying, obviously) and wondering how i would survive a whole day of school till I can finally hopp in again and see how all the mess gets fixed in the next game. So for me, who did not start with the classic CE back in the days, Reach is the best Halo. Close second is ODST. Playing it in an empty house in the middle of a rainy autumn night is truly an experience.
Madlad didn't even put halo 5 in the thumbnail, what a gamer
Not enough space tbh lolol
Ha
@@TheActMan *yikes*
Because literally nobody would say halo 5 has the best campaign lmao its so bad act man made like 5 videos over it
If you were to play Halo 5 today instead of watching the Act Man you would realize it's actually great. In every aspect.
Halo CE had the best "feeling" campaign with a cool unknown feeling behind it all & it felt like humanities hopes all were on your shoulders. Halo 2 has coolest missions, story, etc overall. It was so epic seeing the covenants perspective of the war & playing as the arbiter was such an amazing idea! I love that game so much from the soundtrack & every tiny detail.
I agree with you!
I’ve had memorable first play-throughs with all of them, but I gotta say, I think Halo 2 is my favourite. The dual protagonist story, the heightened stakes, and the increased variety of locales just made it an incredible experience through and through.
Nice man
ODST!!! The music was on another level, seeing those people die just broke my hart. Great video
"Every target is just another target" fits so well with the Fate school of quotes, "The Archer class is really full of archers." and "People die when they are killed"
Lol
Halo 2. Switching between the Arbiter and the Master Chief, the covenant civil war, the Elites allying with the humans, that was so unexpected, flying in a banshee while "Incubus-Follow" plays in the background, fighting in the Arbiter museum while "Blow me Away" is rocking.. Just so many epic and iconic moments.
I thought you were tough on Halo 2. Personnally my favorite campaign of the franchise. Great video!
5:49 you forgot Johnson
The Act Man being sponsored by Butterfinger Me: The Bart Man
Why you little...
Man I needed some good entertainment today actman you've done it again!
Oh I know what the subscribers like ;)
What you mean, you haven’t even seen the video
Have you ever been sitting in a movie theater before the movie started and thought dang im just glad to see more content from this studio or producer ? I get what tour saying i just get exited when actman post
Them best Halo games are so amazing and cool video man :]
Watching this a year later and I still can’t believe this man got a butterfinger sponsor
In the sea of Raid, Manscaped, and Filmora, Act Man gets sponsored by Butterfinger. Epic.
Act Man: RBX "Don't ever lay a finger on my Butterfinger."
‘I made it count, Jorge. I really did.’ That actually hurt, I’m not gonna lie.
i didnt expect i butter figer collab but any great video
Hey, I recognize that maroon armor with coral highlights, shotgun shells, and MKVI helmet! Mayhaps is that me playing in some of those Reach clips? 😊
Act Man: *talks about Halo for the hundredth time.* Me: So, uh... We going to get a “Why Was Dark Souls 2 So Controversial and Divisive?!”
When is he going to review Army Men or Quake?
Does he need to? DS2 was absolutely not a bad game, it was a fantastic game in my book. Sure, it had a lot of flaws but i personally feel like a DS2 review would just be beating a dead horse at this point, what would even be the point? Everyone has already talked about The game.
but muh dork sools
@@alexgidlof8327 But not Act Man! And, I don’t know what he would talk about. I just want to hear his thoughts on it.
I always wanted him to talk about Gears Of War
20:51 Reach was actually the last major planet to be lost in the Human-Covenant War. It took place _right_ at the end of it all, but still before Halo: CE. It was a prequel, but not the beginning of the war. Also, Spartan III's are newers than Spartan IIs. Chief is technically the "older" generation.
Would love to see you return to this kind of video with Fromsoft/Soulsborne games!
I cant Imagine being a FPS gamer and not having played or heard about halo.
Play station owners quiet crying