The best shooter games like Halo 4 are Halo Infinite, Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 5: Guardians. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to shooter costs you.
Filtering to shooter means you want the guns to be the answer. It is the right filter when what you liked was the feedback — the sound, the recoil, the way enemies react.
What you get: Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.
What made Halo 4 worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the shooter part of that answer, and only the shooter part.
The best the series has played since Halo 3, and free to play in multiplayer.
The original sandbox, and the one to play if the shooting is what you want.
The direct sequel, if you want the story continued.
By Halo's original studio, and the gunfeel carried over completely.
The best campaign in a modern shooter and the best movement in any.
Push-forward combat with a resource economy that never lets you idle.
The other Xbox shooter pillar, heavier and cover-led.
A single-player shooter campaign that still commits to being one.
The PlayStation answer, with a far stranger arsenal.
Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.
The full list is on games like Halo 4 — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Halo Infinite. The best the series has played since Halo 3, and free to play in multiplayer.
No. Halo 4 released on the Xbox 360, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
How the guns sound and how enemies react to being hit. A shooter with mediocre levels and superb weapon feedback is more fun than the reverse, every time.
Each pick says. Several of the best shooters ever made are single-player campaigns, and a few of the co-op ones are genuinely worse with bots.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Halo 4 list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is shooter — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the shooter guide for where to start in the genre generally.