Games Like Halo Combat Evolved
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The closest games to Halo Combat Evolved are Halo Infinite, Halo 2, Destiny 2, Titanfall 2 and Resistance: Fall of Man. Below are 12 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Halo Combat Evolved, and what does not.
What Made Halo Combat Evolved Work
Halo's thirty seconds of fun is the real design: shields that recharge so you retreat instead of dying, two weapons so every pickup is a decision, and grenades and melee mapped to their own buttons. Add vehicles and an AI that flanks, and it is the first console shooter that felt designed rather than ported.
12 Games Like Halo Combat Evolved
1.Halo Infinite
The best the series has played since Halo 3, and free to play in multiplayer.
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Dual wielding, and the multiplayer that defined online console shooters.
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Push-forward combat and a resource economy that never lets you idle.
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A single-player shooter campaign that still commits to being one.
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How These Picks Match Halo Combat Evolved
Halo Combat Evolved is catalogued here as a first-person shooter on the Microsoft Xbox. All twelve picks share at least one of its genre tags — twelve shooters among them.
Five of the picks have their own list on this site, catalogued under the PC & Modern Multi-Platform, the Xbox One, the PlayStation 3, the Nintendo 64 and the Xbox 360.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Halo Combat Evolved | Where to play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halo Infinite | Shooter, Action | Shooter | — |
| Halo 2 | Shooter, Action | Shooter | — |
| Destiny 2 | Shooter, RPG, Action | Shooter | PC & Modern Multi-Platform (catalogued) |
| Titanfall 2 | Shooter, Action | Shooter | Xbox One (catalogued) |
| Resistance: Fall of Man | Shooter, Action | Shooter | PlayStation 3 (catalogued) |
| Perfect Dark | Shooter, Action, Adventure | Shooter | Nintendo 64 (catalogued) |
| Doom Eternal | Shooter, Action | Shooter | — |
| Helldivers 2 | Shooter, Action | Shooter | — |
| Crysis | Shooter, Action | Shooter | — |
| Gears of War | Shooter, Action | Shooter | Xbox 360 (catalogued) |
| Space Marine 2 | Shooter, Action, Fighting | Shooter | — |
| Wolfenstein: The New Order | Shooter, Action | Shooter | — |
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