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Bungie's landmark sci-fi shooter tells its war story from both sides, switching between Master Chief and the Arbiter, with dual-wielding, vehicle hijacking and co-op. Its pioneering Xbox Live matchmaking multiplayer made it a console online legend.

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Shooting and gunplay
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The closest matches for Halo 2 are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Halo Infinite and Star Wars Battlefront II. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Halo 2 special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 95% match – Competing against other players
To play together: Call of Duty: Black Ops III 93% match – with co-op
Newest alternative: Halo Infinite 95% match – released 2021

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

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2009PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable93 % positive19.99 €

A blockbuster military shooter with a breakneck, set-piece-driven campaign full of iconic moments. It adds co-op Spec Ops missions and a legendary multiplayer mode with killstreaks and perks that defined a generation.

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Halo Infinite

Shooting and gunplay

Master Chief returns to a semi-open ringworld where the grappleshot and vehicles let you tackle Banished outposts your own way, framed by a more personal story. A free-to-play multiplayer suite brings back classic, fast-paced Halo arena combat.

Star Wars Battlefront II

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A spectacular Star Wars shooter with massive ground and space battles spanning all three film eras, letting you fight as troopers, pilots or iconic heroes like Darth Vader. A short campaign follows an Imperial special forces commander.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Competing against other players

Call of Duty takes the war to space, with a cinematic campaign mixing boots-on-the-ground firefights, ship boarding and starfighter dogfights across the solar system, plus fast-paced multiplayer and a campy '80s-themed Zombies mode.

Titanfall 2

Competing against other players

A lightning-fast shooter built on wall-running and double jumps, with a short but inventive campaign about the bond between a rifleman and his mech BT-7274. It pairs that with fluid multiplayer where pilots and Titans clash on the same battlefield.

Star Wars Battlefront II

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Large-scale Star Wars battles on the ground and in space, with classes, vehicles and iconic heroes, plus a short solo campaign. Presentation is outstanding, and the focus is firmly on multiplayer.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

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A futuristic military shooter with cybernetically enhanced soldiers, wall-running and fast, fluid movement. Beyond its dark, co-op-playable campaign, the real draws are the competitive multiplayer and the fan-favorite Zombies mode.

Transformers: War for Cybertron

Playing together in co-op

A third-person shooter set on Cybertron where you fight the civil war in separate Autobot and Decepticon campaigns, transforming between robot and vehicle form on the fly. Co-op and online modes round out the story missions.

Killzone 2

Lavish presentation

A grim, cinematic first-person shooter set in the war between humans and the Helghast, featuring heavy cover-based gunplay and a squad-based multiplayer mode called Warzone.

Star Wars: Squadrons

Competing against other players

A cockpit-view space dogfighting game set in the Star Wars universe, where you shift power between engines, weapons and shields. Alongside a short story campaign, team-based multiplayer battles are the main draw.

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