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Games like Halo 2

2004PEGI 16PC, Xbox

Bungie's landmark sci-fi shooter tells its war story from both sides, switching between Master Chief and the Arbiter, with dual-wielding, vehicle hijacking and co-op. Its pioneering Xbox Live matchmaking multiplayer made it a console online legend.

  • Competing against other players
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Strong soundtrack
  • Sci-fi setting

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In short: Games like Halo 2

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Halo 2 special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best match

Star Wars Battlefront II

93 %Match

2005USK 16PC, PlayStation, Xbox88 % positive39.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Halo 2: lavish production, competing against other players and good gunplay.

A spectacular Star Wars shooter with massive ground and space battles spanning all three film eras, letting you fight as troopers, pilots or iconic heroes like Darth Vader. A short campaign follows an Imperial special forces commander.

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Halo Infinite

Shooting and gunplay

Master Chief returns to a semi-open ringworld where the grappleshot and vehicles let you tackle Banished outposts your own way, framed by a more personal story. A free-to-play multiplayer suite brings back classic, fast-paced Halo arena combat.

Killzone 2

Lavish presentation

A grim, cinematic first-person shooter set in the war between humans and the Helghast, featuring heavy cover-based gunplay and a squad-based multiplayer mode called Warzone.

Transformers: War for Cybertron

Playing together in co-op

A third-person shooter set on Cybertron where you fight the civil war in separate Autobot and Decepticon campaigns, transforming between robot and vehicle form on the fly. Co-op and online modes round out the story missions.

Titanfall 2

Competing against other players

A lightning-fast shooter built on wall-running and double jumps, with a short but inventive campaign about the bond between a rifleman and his mech BT-7274. It pairs that with fluid multiplayer where pilots and Titans clash on the same battlefield.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Competing against other players

Call of Duty takes the war to space, with a cinematic campaign mixing boots-on-the-ground firefights, ship boarding and starfighter dogfights across the solar system, plus fast-paced multiplayer and a campy '80s-themed Zombies mode.

Star Wars: Squadrons

Competing against other players

A cockpit-view space dogfighting game set in the Star Wars universe, where you shift power between engines, weapons and shields. Alongside a short story campaign, team-based multiplayer battles are the main draw.

Gears of War

Lavish presentation

A brutal third-person shooter that defined cover-based combat, pairing the chainsaw-bayonet Lancer and active reloads with a grim, ruined world overrun by the Locust. The campaign shines in two-player co-op, backed by tense competitive multiplayer.

Killzone 3

Lavish presentation

A linear sci-fi first-person shooter on PlayStation with hard-hitting firefights against the Helghast, jetpacks, turrets and vehicle sections. Its grim war atmosphere and multiplayer modes define the experience.

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