Exotic weapons, inventive match-types and even vehicles were expanded further with the exceptional Halo 3. It was tremendous fun, with perfectly judged murder-bowls that echoed Quake Arena’s multi-tiered maps with plenty of Halo-themed quirks. It was hardly the first shooter to be played online but as the flagship of Xbox Live in 2004 it played a huge part in popularising battling other folks over an internet connection on console. When Call of Duty was a more niche PC pursuit than the industry-turning behemoth it became, before Overwatch’s esports drive and certainly before Fortnite’s cultural landgrab. I am old and grizzled enough to remember when Halo 2 was the ultimate vanguard of FPS multiplayer.
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