Most importantly, Reach is the emotional swan song for Bungie-era Halo. Even mechanically, Reach preoccupies itself with operating as a callback to Combat Evolved, while introducing new elements the franchise had, until that point, not included. The nature of the Covenant is not explained, the nature of the UNSC isn't clear, the nature of the Spartans is something the game assumes the player already understands. Reach, despite arguably being the series' best game, is the entry least supported in a vacuum. Most of its significant plot payoffs are elements you're not going to understand the gravity of unless you have the other Halos as relevant context. It's almost unanimous already, but you should absolutely, positively, definitively play this series in release order with only one optional change.Īll things being equal (that is to say, "I assume you have access to all of the games and aren't playing on PC where only a few are available."), the only reason you might consider playing chronologically is because Reach is a prequel.īut Reach is very seriously only a prequel in name and concept alone.
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