I'm absolutely not a fan of modern video games. I think that the video game industry died with the Playstation 2, Xbox, and Gamecube. Games started to focus more on how good they are during competitive online play, rather than how fun they are. That's actually why I like the Gamecube more than the other systems. They were forced to have kick ass single player games...

Anyways, even though the Xbox had a seemingly endless slew of garbage games, there were a few that rose above them all. Halo is one of them.

Story

You take the role as "Masterchief" a 'Spartan' super soldier. The year is 2552. You are in a cryogenic freeze state, while travelling aboard a ship (space obviously) that is fleeing from Reach. Reach is the last Earth colony that hasn't been destroyed by the evil Covenant forces.
The Covenant are a group of zealous aliens that want to rid the galaxy of infestations. Humanity is one of them.
The Covenant had finally found Reach, and had 'glassed' the planet, which is similiar to the Death Star. Except it doesn't destroy the planet, just all of the living component on the surface.

Anyways, you are finally being unfrozen when the Covenant find the ship, and attack it.

The ship had stumbled upon a giant ring in space, called Halo.

You acquire an A.I. called Cortana, who aids you on your journey.

You, and the surviving members of the ship escape the ship as it crashes down on Halo.

After you rescue the marines, you're next objective is to rescue the Captain of the ship (Captain Keyes) from the Covenant.

After you do that, you learn that Halo is actually a giant weapon that could destroy the galaxy. The Covenant have been looking for it for ages.

You eventually meet the Flood, a group of many zombie/alien infestations on Halo.

Keyes is eventually killed by the flood, and you destroy Halo by blowing up a section of it, which destroys it.

I could go on to the next two in the series, but they aren't important.

Review

This game was incredible.

It is comparable to Doom and Wolfenstien.

The music is incredible

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Try arguing with that.

The story captures you from the beginning to the end of Halo 3, which was an awesome ending by the way.

The ending of the first game is incredible. You escape the ship (you had to detonate it to destroy Halo) while being attacked by tons of zombie aliens.

There's no way to explain it, without making it sound like garbage.

It actually is a good game.

4/5...

The reason why I did this:

I just played through it the other day, and I still have it in my mind.