Many times now, single player can sometimes be looked over in some games in lieu of their multiplayer aspects and I myself am guilty of doing just that. So I figure I'd go through and list some of my favorite single player campaigns that I've played.

6. Gears of War

This is by far the first real big game for the 360 and it's a good one.  I was skeptical of the game for a while, but in the end decided I liked it and would pick it up. The single player is a challenge and the co-op aspect as in Halo adds to the fun part. Seriously though, chainsawing enemies? Quite fun to do. But the graphics as well as how everything is laid out in the single player is done very well. I really don't know what else to really say about it except that I really enjoyed the campaign as well as the multiplayer.

5. Rainbow Six Vegas

This game is tough to say the least, I'm still battling through it. While the pre-mission planning is nowhere like the original, you can of course still order your team around telling them to do this and that. The cover system that they made for this game is the best cover system I have seen to date. And the AI of the enemies, and your teammates isn't bad. Enemies will flank you, they will try to cut you off, they too will take cover from your fire. I'm maybe halfway through and I'm still impressed by how well the story is laid out and the gameplay is integrated.

4. Half Life

First I will say, I never beat the game sadly. I got pretty far but something would inevitably happen preventing me from beating it, computer crashes were most notorious. But beforeeee all that happened, The game was a lot of fun battling through alien monsters and head crabs.

3. God of War

The first PS2 game I ever got, and by far, still my favorite PlayStation game I've ever played. This game is just fun, and one thing I love about it is the little puzzles they put into the game.  While a lot of it is just plain brutal fighting, there are little puzzles that you need to solve to go forward or to beat a boss. One that comes to mind is that in order to beat the Hydra in the beginning, its not just about dealing damage with your blades. You have to realize that when the head goes down, you have to do something else (removed as to not give away what you have to do, sorry, look around, you'll figure it out) in order to knock the head out of commission.

2. Goldeneye for N64

Everyone still remember this game? I remember trying to beat this game on 00 Agent in all levels and what a trick it was. I still remember the 3 levels that I couldn't beat (2nd time in the bunker, Control, Aztec). The game was one of the biggest sellers for the Nintendo 64 console and with good reason. The single player followed the movie to some extent and the multiplayer, well it just kicked ass. One thing I liked was that silence and stealthiness actually mattered.  In some cases it was definitely helpful to use a silenced PP7 (PPK) than breaking out your AK and trying to just blast your way through not caring who reacts to you, but then again, the AI was pretty bad, but in all retrospects, it probably wasn't that bad for its time.

1. Halo: Combat Evolved

Of course Halo has to make it in to this list. Halo 1 that is, the game that launched the Halo Trilogy as well as the XBOX Console itself.  While the Halo 2 and 3 campaigns weren't bad, I don't think they quite lived up to the quality that the original had.  I still can't help but remember the second level in the game where you're thrown pretty much right into the fire. Landing on Halo your mission is to go around to 3-4 sites and rescue survivors from the onslaught of more and more Covenant forces. The openness of the level is what really impressed me.  It wasn't always about following a SPECIFIC path but moreso going from area to area in whatever order you want. Up until the very end of the game, you were neck deep in enemies and the final drive to safety was great.

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