I'm willing to give a pass to the original Halo game because it was actually innovative with its combat to an extent.
What almost no one remembers from back in the day is that Halo streamlined and unconvoluted combat by a good margin. In almost FPS before it, using a melee weapon or grenade required switching weapons to use them and healing still did the whole medic kit thing. Yes there were other games that did that but none of them brought them all in at once.
Anyway I'm not a big fan of FPSs but Halo doesn't deserve the railing it gets for being generic. That said I'm not going to comment on the other games in the series.
What almost no one remembers from back in the day is that Halo streamlined and unconvoluted combat by a good margin. In almost FPS before it, using a melee weapon or grenade required switching weapons to use them and healing still did the whole medic kit thing. Yes there were other games that did that but none of them brought them all in at once.
Anyway I'm not a big fan of FPSs but Halo doesn't deserve the railing it gets for being generic. That said I'm not going to comment on the other games in the series.