Best Halo Games: Ranking The Mainline Series

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Microsoft's biggest franchise is Halo, a series created by Bungie and now developed internally at 343 Industries. The sci-fi series primarily about an ongoing battle between humanity and the alien Covenant has a long and storied past, and the franchise has seen numerous popular and beloved entries over the years.

With Halo Infinite having released in late 2021, we're looking back at the Halo series overall and ranking the mainline FPS franchise. This list covers only the main FPS games, not offshoots like Spartan Strike or the arcade game Fireteam Raven. We're also not including the Halo Wars series, though it's great for those who want more story context on Infinite. And while Halo: The Master Chief Collection is absolutely the best way to play Halo's classic games in 2022, it's also not featured on this list because it is a compilation package instead of one game. You can also sign up for Game Pass Ultimate to play every mainline Halo game as well as numerous spin-offs.

Halo Infinite

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

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The latest Halo mainline game is Halo 5: Guardians, which was released in 2015 for Xbox One. Ahead of the game's release, Microsoft kicked off an elaborate marketing campaign in which fans were led to believe that Master Chief might in fact be the bad guy. In the story, Chief is being hunted by a new Spartan named Agent Jameson Locke, and the campaign actually shifts away from Chief and lets you play as Locke in the majority of the missions. However, many felt the marketing overhyped the storyline, which did not pay off in the way that some fans might have wanted. Still, the campaign was an enthralling one, with its story weaving many threads and