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Like Dawn of the Dead, Paintball, or Ohama.
Add in the glitching (highimpacthalo.org) and the online play is actually better than most console FPS (exception to CS and CoD).
The single player is really good, once you play it on legendary you'll understand why, and it's only better if you understand the story.
Winner of The Second Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
I quite enjoy the Halo series and I can't seem to fit into your categories. I have been a FPS fan since it became a genre.
1. the first FPS I played was Wolf3d on a 286 if I recall correctly, followed by the Doom series, Rise of the Triad (great game, under appreciated) Quake 1, 2, & 3, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Half-Life, Counterstrike, Soldier of Fortune 1 & 2, and numerous others.
2. See # 1
3. I played Battlefield 1942 though I believe it was released after the original Halo. There were others before that though I can't think of a better example at the moment
4. Played Battlefield and Tribes 2, didn't care much for Flashpoint though a friend of mine liked it.
5. I have a custom PC which I upgrade every year or two. I also have a Gamecube, and I had an N64 (Goldeneye 007 was great).
Despite all these things I still enjoyed Halo and even Halo 2 (though yes I want more closure in the story).
Forgive my trolling but a gross generalization begs to be refuted.
--- If we knew half the things we shouldn't we'd stop wishing we knew it all
1. Of the games I can remember: Played Wolf3D, Doom 1 and 2, Rise of the Triads, Half-Life, CounterStrike, Quake 1 2 and 3, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Counterstrike Source, Unreal Tournament 2004
2. Non-PC FPS: Goldeneye64, Red Faction, Time Splitter 1 and 2, Nightfire
3. UT2k4, Goldeneye, HL2 and Red Faction all had vehicles. None of the games I've played had dual wielding in which you could: a) yield two different kinds of guns and b) fire each gun individually.
4. I've never played those games, but I never say Halo 2 has the largest multiplayer maps.
5. Got an Xbox, PS2, GameCube, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS, Game Gear, SNES, NES, Genesis, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn
Try not to generalize about these things. It doesn't do you good ;).