The mainline games

This gathers the main line of Halo, the first-person shooter series that defined Xbox and helped sell the idea of console multiplayer. Players take the role of Master Chief, a genetically engineered super-soldier, fighting an alliance of alien races across ringworlds and ruined planets. Halo 2 and 3 in particular turned online multiplayer into an event, while Reach and the later entries filled in the wider war around the central story.

It is a games-only run here, stretching from the Bungie era through the 343 Industries games that followed, including remastered collections and the recent Halo Infinite. The constant is feel: the weighty weapons, the recharging shield, and the famous thirty-second loop of combat that the series has spent two decades refining.

The The mainline games franchise spans 11 games in the CrossBinge catalog.

Part of Halo.