Two Words: Blood Gulch!

Blood Gulch for all of the CTF fun.

Oh my bad, didn't see the bonus question.

I gotta go with Halo 1. It really was one of the best in terms of gameplay and balance and all of that. The story was great too and I actually loved back tracking in a couple of the levels because I loved the level designs of them (the snow levels).

You know, now that I write this, Halo is like the Matrix. Everyone was blown away by the original. Then the second one came and everyone was like, yeah, that was cool too. And then here's Halo 3 and it's just like, eh. I'm starting to even get bored with the game finally.

Chiron TL-34 is by far the worst level. There is no good or fun way to play that map. Boarding Action is a close second.

There are a lot of great Halo: CE maps though. I'm going to say Hang 'em High is my favorite just because of all the epic CTF games I used to play on LANs with that map. However, I love Longest, Damnation, Wizard, Chill Out, Prisoner... Halo:CE had some damn good maps.

Hang 'em High gets my vote for worst as I could never get a decent game out of that map.

Best vote goes to Battle Creek, downright brilliant little map.

I'm voting for Marathon 2.

I forget the name of it. But it have like two sides to it and a giant endless hole in the middle. And you go between the two sides with teleporters. Ya that map.

Blood Gulch. Sidewinder was the ice level with the tanks right? That one was pretty sweet too. But, blood gulch.

In regard to multiplayer, I had the most memorable experiences with Halo 1 just because it was new. Some of my best memories of high school was going to a rich friend's house and getting some serious LAN-on with 13 others. We pulled many all-nighters.. Ahem..I deviate..

Anyway, Halo 2 IMO had the best multiplayer because of the ability to destroy vehicles. Plus, they nerfed the pistol, which was my favorite gun, but seriously, way too powerful. Halo 3 MP is the worst.

My favorite map has to be Sidewinder. My least favorite has to be Chiron.

Bonus Question

In terms of single player, I choose the original Halo. In terms of multiplayer I choose Halo 3. People who say the original Halo was balanced are right, but only because the pistol was the only weapon that was useful. While that is technically balanced, it's annoying and boring now.

I guess if I was given the choice to pick one and only one, I'd say 3. I can't play original Halo multiplayer. The nostalgia wears off pretty fast.

Blood Gulch. Nothings better than rumble warthogs.

Also, Halo 2 is my favorite, when it first came out it was just so damn epic, and honestly, Halo 3 really let me down. I spent more time playing Halo 2 multiplayer than I did Halo 3's single campaign on every difficulty, and multiplayer combined.

Best H1 level: Chill out by far. Damnnation was also excellent. Hang em High and Blood Gulch are iconic, but not as good as the first two.

Worst: Boarding Action or Chiron. Did anyone like these maps?

As far as the Halo games go, it goes 1 > 3 > 2 for me. 2 was a travesty, rushed, horrible balance, you name it. 3 managed to save some competitive balance through Forge; if I couldn't play the MLG variants made in H3's Forge, the rankings would be readjusted to 1 > 2 > 3. Forge is a huge development for console FPS and I hope more big name developers copypaste it.

Halo 1 is still amazing and is still the best console FPS of all time, in my opinion. Of course, there are a dozens of FPS games on PC that equal or surpass it, but that's a different story...

On a side note: one reason I think the Halo series has stayed great over three games is the guys behind it. The Bungie guys are gamers. I had a chance to play in the Humpday challenge with them last week, and if I didn't know I was playing them, it would have been just another competitive group of guys on live. The Halo games are by gamers, for gamers, IMO, and that's how it has great staying power.

Sidewinder is the best halo map ever, 4 v 4 is just beautiful on this baby. as far as the worst goes i dont remember any other.

My favorite was Gehryepedosomethingorother, and my least favorite was sidewinder.

Favorite Halo was Halo 3. The game is so beautiful it brings me to tears, and the story bungie was trying to tell reached its zenith of delivery in Halo 3.

OMG perfect timing. Last night me and some friends where playing halo 1 on Xbox classics. HOLY SH*T I have not had that much fun with an FPS in the last 5 years, and I play A LOT of FPS.

I would say Blood Gulch was the best, but it was far too hard to gt enough people for. So Battle Creek takes it for me, with hang um high as a pretty close second.

Best game is halo 1 no contest. Halo 3 is an above average game, but halo 2 can just suck my balls. Lock Out was the only map worth playing.

Ellison had it right as far as I am concerned, though even without forge,3 is way better than 2. Honestly could they have made the needler a worse weapon in 2? Terrible damage that shots rounds that can be side stepped.

Oh wait this isn't supposed to be a rant...so yeah Halo 1 FTW end of topic.

Blood Gulch was the best.

The worst was the level with the bisected spaceship. I forget what it was called.

Blood to the motherfuckin’ Gulch. 8-player CTF on that map — with two Xboxes in two different rooms in my freshman dorm — was absolutely insane. And I don’t even like Halo.

As for the bonus question, I haven’t really played enough of the series to fairly rank them, but here goes:

Halo 3 > Halo > Halo 2

*blood gulch* has to be my favorite with hang'em high a close second. it is great when you have 8 vs 8 with hogs and nades everywhere.

halo 1 ftw!!!

bungie got it right the first time. the pistol was imbalanced but it still required skill so it everything is K. no lock rocket and indestructible hog made for amazing flying kills. the reason people dont like halo 1 is because it takes actual skill to play, it is not noobified like halo 2. halo 1 is the best for me, i still play it online (against a bunch of noobs tho)

Sidewinder for its legendary capture the flag games, but Prisoner rockets as a close second. The other haloz just didn't have another huge ass capture the flag or rocket maps done right, which is disappointing that they didn't remake 'em in the others.

bonus question- halo 3...halo 1 very close second. pistol is fun but it's just a little boring because thats all anyone uses.

Hang Em High followed by Blood Gulch. As for best Halo game? Halo 3 for multiplayer and Halo 1 for singleplayer.

Since I really only played a little bit of Halo 1s maps anline through the PC and having the choice very limited, Id say that Chiron is by far the most ridiculous and nonsenseable. Whoever thought a map made entirely out of teleporters is wack.

The best I would not know but I think Hang em High was pretty decent.

Also the best Halo is prolly Halo 2. While the ending sucked, and the online glitches were pretty lame, I think I had the most fun in it especially since I played it alot in high school. I thnk Halo 3s multiplayer in the long run is better, but its campaign is a big let down, whereas Halo 2s campaign was rather fun even though you do end up fighting a big albino monkey with a hammer.

The first halo came out when I was a freshman in college, that was a long time ago. I remember playing in on my buddy's tv during winter break when the xbox first came out. The three of us played it for hours on end. Then three other people got one and they were all networked. My grades that term blew. There were really only a couple of maps that just weren't really that good; boarding action and chiron. My favs are damnation, prisoner (the rocket launcher was key,) hang 'em high, and chill out.

Favorite: Blood Gulch (big open spaces & vehicles ftw)
Not so much: Rat Race. I don't remember the level itself very well, I just remember that I didn't like it.

Probably Blood Gulch, since I have so many good memories from that map.

Bonus Qweschun:
In terms of Campaign: Halo 1. The beautiful scenery and gigantic battle areas were just full of pure win. Halo 2 comes at a close second, then halo 3 is last :[. I was dissapointed by H3's campaign...

Fave: Hang' Em High

Close to faves: Sidewinder, Blood Gulch, Chill Out

Honorable mentions: Damnation, Wizard (Sticky Wars!), Prisoner (rockets!), Rat Race (rockets!)

Shitty: Boarding Action

Super Shitty: Chiron


Favorite halo?

1>3>2

One feels slow, yet deliberate, and the power weapons are important, but you can hold your own without them. Plus fall damage (or not, if you knew the trick), health packs, and super grenade throwing arms made it less realistic, but more fun.

Three is close, but I don't like the sword in general, so the EXTRA melee battles with the sword are not fun. Equipment is nice, but many of the multiplayer maps are somewhat lacking.

Two had huge hitboxes, and crazy magnetism and autoaim, plus nerfed nades (eventually only in throw distance) make it feel less Halo-y and more twitchy. Plus button glitches.