Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Sure, we’re cheating here, but what are you going to do about it? It’s Halos 1 through 4, along with Halo 3: ODST (which isn’t a soundtrack, no matter what you think), and Halo Reach, all remastered to work on your modern machinery.

It saves us having to pick a favorite Halo, while also reminding you that you can just get the whole bunch in one easy package (that’s also on Game Pass). Although, yeah, it’s also instead of putting in Halo 5 or Infinite, and you can hate away.

Halo almost feels like it comes from a parallel universe’s FPS releases. The genre thrived on PC, but while there were obvious contradictory examples like the N64’s GoldenEye, was assumed to really rely on a mouse and keyboard. 2001’s Halo: Combat Evolved was the launch game of launch games, released for the original Xbox to make it a machine worth owning, and proved that a controller could deliver the goods. Ever since, Master Chief and his giant space rings have been an integral part of gaming.

You don’t have to decide which one is best. It really doesn’t matter! You can just sit and binge the whole lot