Halo 3 – Xbox 360 (2007)
This evolution of the online first person shooter genre felt like an event to all fans of Halo across the globe, and no game release that has attempted to replicate it has been able to achieve the genuine hype for the conclusion of the first trilogy of Bungie’s flagship franchise. While I was familiar with Halo and Master Chief before from playing split screen multiplayer of Halo 1 and 2, and watching countless hours of the web series Red vs. Blue, Halo 3 was a lot of firsts for me in gaming. With the release of Halo 3, it was my first time owning a game in the series, but also was my first time owning an Xbox, and particularly my first time being a part of an online multiplayer community of gamers, even months before the initial release of Call of Duty Modern Warfare started an onslaught of what we know online gaming for today. Halo 3 was probably the most hours I’ve spent playing a single game: playing Capture the Flag with friends I’d met on Xbox Live, building maps with friends at home, and blasting through the Flood and the Covenant on Heroic difficulty (because Legendary is still beyond my skill level) until I knew the main story levels like the back of my hands. – Evan Griffin
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