8 Halo Games to Play Before Halo: The Campaign Revealed

It’s been a week since Halo: Campaign Evolved officially revealed its release date during the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 and, since then, Halo Studios has released a growing number of images, gameplay clips, and details on the upcoming remake of the Halo: Combat Evolved.

Despite all this new information and gameplay footage revealed in official marketing videos and videos made by content creators based on the original build of The campaign appeared issued to a few people, HelloThe latest game is more than a month away from launching on Xbox PS5, and PC platforms on Tuesday, July 28.

However, this gives many players, old and new to Hello franchise, enough time to play eight more Hello articles to prepare The campaign appearedrelease, with these games featuring important tutorials, gameplay, and communications related to upcoming FPS releases.

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Halo 3: ODST

Playing as the First Form of a Supersoldier

Hello is famous for its different types of Spartan supersoldiers that play a lot in the series entry, but there is one game that doesn’t feature Spartans at all and instead has the players make up a sub-type of UNSC supersoldier for that game. Halo 3: ODST.

Put in Episode 2 again Episode 3, Halo 3: ODST has players controlling Alpha-Nine’s Orbital Drop Shock Troopers as they are sent to the Earth city of New Mombasa to help fight invading Covenant forces, regroup, and find a mysterious ONI business before the city is mirrored.

Followers of The campaign appeared we must strive to explore ODST as Sergeant Major Avery Johnson worked closely with ODSTs several times during his career and his past as a powerful ORION soldier, which was renamed Spartan-Is, helped influence the modern training and equipment of ODSTs.

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Halo Infinite

The basis of the campaign came from the visuals

The latest game on Hello the timeline is Halo Infiniteseeing the Commander-in-Chief and the UNSC Endless The Banished, a group of remnants of the Covenant led by Brute, battle in the Zeta Halo from 2559-2560 for control of the ring, and it’s an ancient secret, potentially threatening the galaxy.

The world of Halo Infinite specially designed for backtracking and visual inspection Halo: Combat Evolved to coincide with the game’s 20th anniversary in 2021, except that the Zeta Halo is the oldest and smallest ring in the modern Halo Array.

With Halo Infinite being the last Hello pre-made entry The campaign appearedHalo Studios also used many of its assets to help develop the remake, and Covenant in the remake actually reuses many of The Banished’s unseen designs. The campaign appearedGrunt Majors and Elite Zealots to name a few examples.

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Episode 2

Access to Infrastructure Agreement

While The campaign appeared remake of A Fight Began first and foremost, it introduces several elements that first appeared later Hello titles, such as Brutes, Prophets, and a host of weapons that did not appear in the original CE.

It is not yet known how elements such as Brutes and Prophets will be introduced The campaign appearedThe main campaign is beyond the three levels of the prequel, but if new fans want to learn more about these species and the overall structure of the Covenant, they should check out Episode 2.

Set about a month later CE, Episode 2 mainly focuses on the revelation of the Covenant following the discovery of the Delta Halo, with the treacherous Prophets and brutal Brutes betraying the noble Elites to gain complete control over the hegemony, leading to the Elites aligning themselves with the UNSC.

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Halo Wars

The Early Years of the War of the Human Covenant

The campaign appeared finally you will see Master Chief shown in his Mark IV Mjölnir armor for the first time Hello game with three remake prequel missions set during Operation: METEORITE in 2551, but if players want to see more Spartans using their Marek IV weapons at the beginning of the war, they should check out. Halo Wars.

An RTS game and Hellofirst episode, Halo Wars set in 2531, six years after the start of the Human Covenant War and 21 years before CEfocusing on the UNSC Spirit of Fire as it tries to protect the Harvest and Arcadia colony worlds from Covenant attacks before finding the Forerunner Shield World.

I Spirit of Fire he is not alone in these battles, however, as on their journey to Arcadia, they are joined by the Spartan-II Red and Omega Teams, with Omega remaining on the colony world while the Spartan Red Team joins the team. The windStaff the Shield World and beyond to stop galactic threats.

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Hello: Come

Access collapse

The campaign appeared reuses many of the Endlessdesigns, but most of its gameplay reuses animations from the prequel Hello: Comeleading directly to the events of Battle of Installation 04, Alpha Halo.

Founded in 2552, Hello: Come follows the Noble Team, a special team made up of five Spartan-IIIs and one Spartan-II, as they are deployed across the planet Reach, the UNSC’s military stronghold, to fight off the Covenant’s invasion efforts and help evacuate the planet even if it means sacrificing their lives.

Although that is to be expected The campaign appeared will bind more to the events of Reach outit will still be a good idea for players to play Reach out before CE begins to better understand everything that led to the UNSC Pillar of AutumnThe discovery of Alpha Halo and humanity’s predicament at the time as the Reach was Earth’s last defense.

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Halo: Fireteam Raven

Alpha Halo’s Forgotten Legend

There are several Hello books, comics, games, and even movies that changed parts of the Battle of Installation 04, with many highlights that were not revealed A Fight Began and a perfect example of this can be seen in the arcade shooting game, Halo: Fireteam Raven.

Fireteam Raven follows the titular ODST team once through the events of CEand ODSTs assist in the release of AutumnThe Master Chief shuts down ring’s pulse generators, and self-destructs Autumn.

However, Fireteam Raven it is notable for presenting events seen only at the beginning of the novel Hello: Floodas an attack on Autumn and the defense of Alpha Base, and the arcade game is the first time that the pure forms of the Flood are shown during the events of CE.

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Halo: Combat Evolutionary Anniversary

Halo’s first anniversary

The campaign appeared the first proper adaptation of the franchise, using the Unreal Engine 5 and its derivatives Endless again Reach outbut it was not the first time A Fight Began updated to use new platforms, first for 2011 Halo: Combat Evolutionary Anniversary.

The first official game developed by Halo Studios, then known as 343 Industries, CEA to celebrate Hello10th anniversary, and 343 and Saber Interactive remastering CE‘s campaign visuals to better adapt to them Hello: Comesuch as Marines who look like UNSC Army soldiers and Zealots wearing battle harnesses.

While CEA it is often lambasted for its highly deviant imagery CEoriginal designs, it’s still fun, unique Hello history thanks to its video terminals that expand on the story of 343 Guilty Spark and the Halo Array as a whole, and players can quickly switch from recreated images to original images at the push of a button.

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Halo: Combat Evolved

Master Chief and Cortana’s True Journey

If there is one game veteran Hello new players and fans alike should play first Halo: The Emergence Campaign coming out in about a month, it’s the Xbox’s first flagship game, 2001 Halo: Combat Evolved.

Whenever a remake of any video game is made, players should strive to play the original product to compare and contrast the differences and try to determine why the remake enhanced certain features, discarded others, and if those decisions were a good decision in the long run.

For example, The campaign appeared will dramatically change the weather Warthog’s run on Autumn making it an accurate story on the interior of the ship, and the remake will change the Library a lot to make it more repetitive and annoying to the players, though Hello the player must strive to complete the first Library on Legendary at least once.