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Not because you're after some arbitrary loot-just for the experience of seeing the same scenario throw up new surprises. Samuel: The original Halo is still the best to me, and it remains my perfect idea of what a Halo game should be: a sandbox shooter where each set piece is worth restarting from the last checkpoint many times over. That's where being a depowered soldier in the Halo universe came into its own, as you struggled to hold ground against what are usually disposable enemies-it's still my favourite version of Horde mode.

Still a neat spin-off, though, that could've been the model for many more, and I loved the Firefight mode. Everything you like about Halo, but not quite as good, with a novel storytelling framework that's now discussed like it's the second coming of narrative design or something. It brought a dead city to life, and made pushing through the fun, if not inconsistent, episodic missions to find out what it wants from you so, so worthwhile. We already had a decade or so behind the wheel with Chief, so it was a real treat to spend time as a lowly grunt exploring rain-slicked alleyways and interacting with the cityвЂ™s Superintendent AI, who can only communicate through municipal lighting systems or police sirens or by puking out coins at an ATM.

Playing as a relatively regular soldier, rather than a superhuman Spartan, is interesting too, because it lets you experience the Halo universe from a more grounded perspective. These bits have a melancholy, almost noir-like atmosphere that I find really effective, and theyвЂ™re a nice change of pace from the more action-packed flashback missions. And I love the sections between missions set in the dark, moody hub city of New Mombasa. It's like a box of Halo-shaped chocolates, giving you a little bit of everything from the games prior to it. What I love about ODST is that it uses its flashback structure to present you with a 'greatest hits' of brilliant Halo set pieces. Halo 3: ODSTДЄndy K: The secret best Halo.

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Hanging with a Spartan crew was a fascinating view into the highest tier of military culture the series protagonist sprung from, and the pared back gunplay (no dual wielding!) suited what felt like a more stark, punishing perspective of the Halo universe. James: Reach didnвЂ™t focus on Master Chief, but it ended up telling me all about him by the end. The finale, as the Pillar of Autumn leaves your Spartan on a dead planet to fight down to the last bullet, is one of the only Halo moments that's made me a little emotional.В Terrific game. That's a fantastic storytelling approach-as the marketing said for Reach at the time, you, being anyone with a loose understanding of Halo's universe, know the end. It starts slow, but Reach successfully frames all of your triumphs in the game as fruitless in the face of a growing catastrophe, as the titular planet gradually falls to the Covenant. Why isn't there an entire Halo spin-off game that's just about that, complete with multiplayer?

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Most of its levels are nice and repeatable, plus it has a tremendous one-off set piece that lets you dogfight in space.

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I just finished Reach with a friend in co-op for the second time-totally unaware it would be announced for PC days later-and I actually think it's pretty close to the first and third games in quality. But everyone else put ODST ahead of Reach, so I'll politely go with it. Samuel: On my personal list, Reach would definitely be above ODST, and by a wide margin.