Halo : Combat Evolved is nothing special...

[damndl0ser]

CGI-Quality said:

damndl0ser said:

I can't wait till Reach is released so people will just go back to picking on Kinect games.  SIGH.....

 

Halo: CE is a bajillion years old in gaming years.  I don't really see how anyone would want to compare them to current games or knock them down.  Halo started the entire FPS business on consoles and it was spectacular.  It is the ALPHA and will probably be the Omega when that time comes.  Meaning it started FPS's on consoles, and if FPS's ever "die off" the last great game of that type will probably be a Halo game.

To be fair to console FPS titles before it, it didn't start the genre there, it expanded on it and made it more mainstream. Titles like GoldenEye 007 & Perfect Dark really got the ball rolling. It just became the real deal when Halo entered the scene. It's the Final Fantasy VII of the FPS genre. As it did to the JRPG genre, halo did it for consoles, but in both cases, they expanded on what already existed.

I have been around gaming for a long time, (started with Pong) and I Ioved GoldenEye and Perfect Dark, but they didn't have all the pieces in place just yet.  Halo came along and brought nearly everything you could want into a FPS together.  So IMHO it is the "ALPHA".....  I wasn't taking anything away from those other games by the way.