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Games like Halo: Combat Evolved

2001PEGI 16PC, Xbox

The landmark shooter where Master Chief battles the alien Covenant across a mysterious ringworld, with smart enemy AI, vehicles and open combat sandboxes. An iconic soundtrack and split-screen co-op helped redefine console shooters.

  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Strong soundtrack
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Playing together in co-op

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In short: Games like Halo: Combat Evolved

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

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Halo Infinite

90 %Match

2021USK 16PC, Xbox, Steam Deck playable69 % positive59.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Halo: Combat Evolved: good gunplay, a sci-fi setting and a strong soundtrack.

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.

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Quake 4

Action-packed real-time combat

A linear sci-fi shooter on the Doom 3 engine where marine Matthew Kane takes the fight to the Strogg homeworld, featuring the infamous stroggification twist. Squad missions, vehicle sections and fast arena multiplayer round it out.

Unreal Tournament III

Co-op or multiplayer

A fast-paced arena shooter built around frantic firefights, futuristic weapons and vehicles. The focus is on online matches and bot battles across many game modes.

Quake II

Strong soundtrack

A landmark sci-fi shooter: a lone marine fights through the industrial hellscape of Stroggos against a cybernetic alien army. It delivers fast gunplay, interconnected hub levels, a pounding metal soundtrack, and influential deathmatch multiplayer.

Star Wars Battlefront II

Strong soundtrack

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.

Half-Life

Action-packed real-time combat

The landmark shooter sends physicist Gordon Freeman through the alien- and soldier-infested Black Mesa facility, telling its story seamlessly without cutscenes while mixing tense firefights with environmental and physics puzzles.

Red Faction

Action-packed real-time combat

A first-person shooter set on Mars where you play a miner joining a rebellion. Its Geo-Mod tech lets you blast through walls and terrain in real time, which made for standout moments back then.

Gears of War 2

Playing together in co-op

A brutal cover-based shooter where Marcus Fenix and his squad take the fight to the Locust underground, chainsaw bayonets roaring. Co-op campaign play and the debut of Horde mode made it a multiplayer staple.

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.

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