How do you rank the Halo games?

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If Halo 5 only had splitscreen (at least campaign) it would be my number one multiplayerwise for sure. Campaign is another story though. At least if you play alone it begins with bad balancing (for a Halo). normal is to easy while AI squad outright sucks on legendary. Pushing you in sight of a sniper, being totally useless when fighting the warden eternal in the final battle...
While the overall campaign played quite well and the storytelling wasn't bad it lacked memorable moments on the gameplay side and the main storyarc was surprisingly weak. There's a ton of things Halo 4's campaign did way better.

Ranking all Halos today

Singleplayer
7. Halo CE, still has it's great moments. But leveldesign, storytelling and lots of minor details just feel outdated today.
6. Halo ODST, i really like ODST, so why a sixth place? Basically playing an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper feels far to much like playing a Spartan. ODST always felt to me like not reaching it's full potential.
5. Halo 5, new abilities are great, i enjoyed the squad approach. But at the same time it has to many weakspots. Good thing is 343i threw those damn QTE's over board.
4. Halo 2, it has it's flaws today and it's not the best balanced Halo. Yet it did a lot of improvements on gameplay, leveldesign, storytellling... Even without the multiplayer this is where Bungie improved the most.
3. Halo Reach, there's so many things Bungie did right. At the same time this game has to downsides. Bungie didn't manage to really improve in storytelling and even with a few new ideas it seemed they where stuck with Halo.
2. Halo 4, i don't like the QTE's, prometheans and their weapons felt like a to close mixture to known stuff gameplaywise and many areas felt to 'narrow' and corridorlike for a Halo. Yet it did lots of stuff right and has a ton of memorable moments, great pacing, highly improved on storytelling and so on.
1. Halo 3, extremely well balanced, great campaign with tons of memorable moments. The biggest drawback probably is storytelling. That wasn't up to date nine years ago and is totally outdated today. And yes, personally i miss a sprint function today and maybe a slide.

MP:
7. Halo CE. Sorry mate, but while you were great for you're time today you are not.
6. Halo 4. Don't think it was thaaaat bad. Actually the online MP is quite good. Just that quite good is not enough for a Halo.
5. Halo ODST, brought Firefight but that aside it's 'only' Halo 3 MP.
4. Halo 2, the full package.
3. Halo Reach, very refined very few weakspots but not much new stuff.
2. Halo 5. honestly, i love that multiplayer. It was good, really good, from the start. But it lacked some content. 343i has improved it ever since in every aspect though. If Halo 5 had local MP, even if only for the campaign, i'd proably rank it first place. It doesn't though.
1. Halo 3. Something like a long time standard, great maps, great everything

If 343i manages to combine the best of Halo 4 and 5, Halo 6 could be the best Halo ever. It needs local multiplayer though, in my oppinion.