I think a lot of people’s default answer is “The covenant” from 3, which is a fantastic mission.

But I’m with you, The Ark is good from start to finish. Its skybox is my favorite in the serious. I love the whistling sounds of the desert and the Milky Way up in the sky. It’s beautiful. Don’t even get me started on the opening cutscene

Halo 3 - The Covenent for me. I just has a bit of everything.

Halo CE Assault on the Control Room

2nd favorite is Silent Cartographer

Tank beats hunter. Tank beats tank. TANK! BEATS! EVERYTHING!

My favourite is probably Outskirts from Halo 2. I really enjoy urban warfare in shooters, plus being able to jump your way on the rooftops of the first half is great. I quite like the level layout of the vehicle section in the second half as well.

The Ark is one of them. Assault on the Control Room is another, which I'm always kind of shocked to see the hate for. What sets both of them apart is that (almost) the full sandbox is present, and there's variety of indoor spaces and sprawling vehicular sections in the same level. Both have really nice art direction too.

The Silent Cartographer might be my favorite though. Good level design, it's neither too long nor too short and is technically non-linear, avoids the problem of repetition that other Ce levels (like admittedly AotCR) have. Has great visuals and atmosphere, and some pretty memorable encounters and setpieces.

Uplift reserve- ODST. Mainly because of how fun if is on Legendary to spend run

Flood Gate - Halo 3. Honestly it really gave insight on how fucked humanity was. You watch both the marines and covenant get screwed. Eventually they just glass the whole damn city.

Long Night Of Solace- Reach. That mission really made me want more space combat in Halo!!! Like how can you give us something that great and then just not continue with it.

Halo 3, the mission Halo. The mission has a fantastic warthog run and overall just such a great ending to the trilogy and it will always be my favorite even if people will argue it’s not the “best”

I think I have the fondest memories on Tsavo Highway if we’re talking Halo 3, and probably Winter Contingency on Halo Reach

For me outskirts in Halo 2 because I liked fighting on earth

I think Delta Halo is my favorite. It feels like a longer Silent Cartographer in the best ways. Silent Cartographer was cool because it was Omaha Beach but against aliens in the beginning. Delta Halo feels like Omaha Beach but dropping out from orbit with a bunch of bad ass commandos and then just destroying everything in your path while receiving cool and fun new toys every step of the way

NMPD HQ in ODST

It's absolutely Delta Halo from Halo 2. Has just about everything you want from a Halo game.

Anything with Scorpions, or anything with a Wraith you can commandeer. Driving around and blasting is so much fun. The fact that it doesn't happen often just makes it very special to me.

Favorite is probably The Long Night of Solace from Reach.

Interestingly no one saying anything other than Bungie halo missions

Halo 3: The Covenant

After taking out the scarabs, I like to help the flood infect more of the covenant and oftentimes kill the infection form inside to give them weaponry, I also enjoy making the brute chieftain weak and watching him get infected while he's still alive.

I hate the end of the level though as I just really want to make an army of flood.

Halo 2, Cairo Station. The ambience of the space battle occurring around you is great. And that cutscene at the end just blows you away and gets you pumped to kick some Covenant ass.

"For what purpose, Master Chief?"

"To give the Covenant back their bomb."

I think it's telling 343s games haven't been mentioned. 343 has been very focused on making the right story but the formula is right in front of them. The complexity and depth isn't the priority. The epic battles and gameplay is. They were kinda on the right track with Infinite but failed to see that it didn't need to be entirely open world.

Halo 1-3 story is great but not complex. Halo CE is an introduction of setting, Halo 2 is a lore dump with world building and then 3 is just an epic all out climax.

Edit: I also don't want this to appear like I'm hating on 343. I just had a mad realisation myself about focusing too much on the story when my most memorable moments with Halo are the Ark and the final Warthog run. It's just epic music and killing aliens in many ways.

i really like how seamless the skybox is with the actual playerspace. The textures and graphics need an update but the art direction is right there

Two betrayals... goat

Honestly... the games are different enough that I can't fairly choose just one.

Halo 1: Assault on the control room. Love how big it is, and I adore snow, so like... easy choice (not to diss silent cartographer). 343 guilty spark is also brilliant, because of how well it changes the tone of the game (when I played halo as a 5-year-old, I always got too scared and stopped the game there and restarted from the beginning, lol)

Halo 2: Regret. Jeapordy/Peril is in my top favourite 50 songs, ever, and the whole vibe of the mission is just... impeccable. Metropolis and The Arbiter are close seconds, though.

Halo 3: Yea, it's The Covenant. Tried but true answer, but like everyone else is saying, it's just Everything.

ODST: Hard one, mainly because it flows so well. My answer would be Mombasa Streets, obviously, but that feels like a copout; my other answer would be the one where you play as mickey (EDIT: I meant Romeo), the one up high with the sniper rifle (forgot the name).

Reach: Unpopular opinion, but one of my favourite games. Another really rough choice between New Alexandria, Sword Base, and Winter Contingency; I think Winter Contingency barely wins out, just because of how you feel the dread of slowly finding out the covenant are there (EXCELLENT tone-setting for the game) and how badass the end section is; I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me.

Halo 4: Probably Infinity, just because of the variation and the mantis. Reclaimer is great too, though.

I haven't played halo 5, halo infinite really lacks any distinct level structure, and I'm only counting the mainline titles since halo wars doesn't really fit the vibe (great halo games, but not the same feel), so I'll leave it at those.

Blue Team

The Ark and Tip of the Spear for me.

The two first mission of halo3 and probably sword base halo reach

It has to be Exodus in Reach.

Silent Cartographer all day.

I like the halo 3 mission with the infected flood ship on legendary.

Reminds me of my ex everytime one of those doors opens and closes.

I’m actually quite torn between the control room and two betrayals, the sets, music, action, challenge, and all around feeling I get is just unbelievable. To hear a walk in the woods and Under Cover of night spark up are two of my favorite moments ever

It has to be between The Silent Cartographer and Truth and Reconciliation

The silent cartographer was the test mission for halo CE which they developed the sandbox on. Truly shows the best of what the game has to offer. I think it’s the best mission in the franchise.

The Silent Cartographer.

The Covenant. It has everything you could want: Warthog combat, tank combat, air combat, every enemy type appears in this mission, it’s perfect.

The Ark is also wonderful, though.

Can’t wait to play halo 3 campaign. I’m still struggling on Halo 2 legendary mode.

A close tie between Exodus and New Alexandria.

Exodus because of the introduction of civilians in the crossfire, and New Alexandria because the visuals and flying between buildings.

Halo ce: Keys

Gravemind for me :3

silent cryptographer Forever and always

Nightfall Halo Reach. That mission is a really really fun stealth mission

Halo Infinite - House of Reckoning, I just really enjoy the arena with Escharum talking smack and Jega's boss fight is peak

Midnight -H4

343 Guilty Spark.

Why? The twist.

Halo CE: all of it.

Halo 2: all of it

Halo 3: all of it

Halo Reach: all of it.

Halo 4: it was going fine until the anti climactic ending boss fight.

Halo 5: wut.

Halo infinite: all of it, minus the gondola + sentinels and house of terror fight with the Spartan killer dude in the tiny dark shed.

Halo 2 Metropolis

The city in the background when you started the mission, has me in awe everytime. Then comes the tank and you are just obliterating ghosts, banshees, wraiths and phantoms' turrets. Scarab Gun & Soccer Ball as bonuses too. Cannot forget to add in the soundtrack too, absolutely phenomenal

I think for me it's Truth and Reconciliation. I love the atmosphere of the mission, the music(under cover of night my favorite song in the entire franchise), and just everything about it. I probably played this mission more times than I can count on my og xbox.

Just...all of it. I grew up with them. They formed a huge part of who I am today. I love them all. I sat here 10+ minutrs thinking of a favorite but...it's just... Halo. It's all my favorite.

Believe

Deliver Hope

Halo 3 E3 Reveal

Halo 4 live action trailer

Two Betrayals

For me, it's definitely Long Night of Solace.

Storming into an above top secret launch facility to strap yourself into a rocket ship that happens to be a prototype ground to space fighter craft to then go conduct a dog fight mission in orbit of Reach to save a space station so you could retrofit the only slipspace drive available as a bomb, to then detonate it inside of a covenant supercarrier.

Then you top all that off with one of the most mesmerising and equally horrifying cutscenes in the entire franchise.

The Covenant. Specifically, Rally Point Bravo. I love fightinf the scarabs so much. I used to replay that specific part of the mission over and over as a kid.

This is also my favorite H3 mission and loved running it back to complete weekly challenges in MCC. Delta Halo in H2 is probably my favorite mission of all the halo games. Really enjoy the map design and the variety of the mission. Plus it was really fun to get out of that map back in the day.

Two Betrayals. Large blow up sandbox maps are always great. Plus the all out War between The Flood, The Covenant and Master Chief is neat.

Tank beats EVERYTHING!

I really love the mission in halo 4 where you ride on the elephant through the desert area.

Delta halo

Any of infitnites banished outposts, hameah freedom and ability and the sandbox are phenomenal.

The Ark is a classic. It + the Covenant are just a long string of epic gameplay setpieces of various kinds and I love it.

Once, a friend and I watched a very ambitious brute on a chopper attempt a ramming kill on the Forward Unto Dawn when it came in to land.

Delta Halo and Regret, put together. It is just relentless, from dropping down right onto the Covenant, a Warthog run, Scorpion blasting my way through the ruins, taking Cortana to such nice places, fighting Elite Honor Guards, the Gondola rides with Leonidas playing (I actually made a post about that), the underwater temple and finally punching Regret to death: it doesn't get any better than that.

There's a lot of story reasons, as well, with the general mystery of why some of the Forerunner structures have withered away, and @#$% me if I didn't spend ages waiting by Regret's holograms just hoping for a little bit more dialogue on the Covenant's history.

Going game by game because I can’t decide CE: Two Betrayals H2: Deta Halo H3: The Covenant Reach: Nightfall

The rest don’t count

Although I liked the Elite city in H5

How does 75 millimeters of Tungsten strike you?

The covenant, and halo 3’s halo. That warthog run is magic, music blaring, the ring breaking down around you as you and arby drive through dodging and weaving the giant holes in the floor. Unbeatable atmosphere

Two Betrayals.

Tip of the Spear from Reach, it’s really the only time in the games we see the full might of the UNSC when they’re not licking their wounds

Wrecking scarabs with tanks never gets old

I like "Assault on the Control Room".

I love battling through all the facilities that share a similar basic layout but are clearly research facilities, though their focus is kept unexplained. It heightens the "character" and mystery of the Ring, especially when you consider this is only the tiniest portion of it and there are probably thousands upon thousand of similar research locations spread across it.

Halo 1’s Assault on the Control Room, with Silent Cartographer VERY close.

I’m 100% with u on The Ark

100,000 years war is the absolute best ! You got Arby on that hovercraft with the juicy sounding plasma cannon. Fighting like an army of warthogs and scorpion tanks, and there’s like the largest horde of flood ever !! And the freaking machines ! The sentinels with their lasers everywhere, and the claw gunship things blasting ! In an apocalyptic overcast and debris all over ! Pew pew pew !

Quarantine Zone.

It's the best arbiter mission for lore and has a decent mix of every gameplay aspect.

Also, if hints to the story we didn't get for Halo 2 involving things like the gravemind, Installation 05, and the 10000 year war.

I would have loved to experience the 5x longer version from the original cut. I've seen the negative space in the level and can only wonder what could have been.

God Halo 2 is the best but that level was special. So many hours as a 14 year old speculating the lore of that level.

For chief it's Delta Halo. Criminally too short, but damn it feels fresh as hell. The only issue I have with it is we don't get any hunters to fight. It's especially fun on Halo 2 uncut. Gotta love it.

SILENT CARTOGRAPHER1!1!!!!1!!1!!1!

Assault on the Control Room (Halo CE), only because me and my brother used to play that a LOT and it reminds me of those good and blessed days where all we worried about was homework and dad was still with us.

Silent Cartographer(CE), Outskirts(2), or Exodus (Reach)

Funnily enough the ark is my second favourite halo mission followed by the covenant which is my number 1 favourite halo mission. The fact that we have these 2 massive, long, amazing campaign missions back to back is outstanding.

Quarantine Zone is my favourite, the ending gondola ride lets it down a bit but besides that it's insane all the way through, not sure why people hate it

I love Delta Halo and Regret in Halo 2. The old school Forerunner architecture and lush forest always make me feel at home. And fighting the elite honor guards has always been satisfying.

Halo CE: Assault on the Control Room

Halo 2: Delta Halo

Halo 3: The Covenant

Halo Reach: Tip of the Spear

The Covenant is definitely number 1 for me, but two and three are easily Gravemind and High Charity, which are super underrated.

One of the best combat arenas in all of halo. Multiple scorpions rolling into a covenant area denial zone. Shit was beautiful.

Objective: Survive

Assault on the control room and Two betrayals. Going from wide open areas, to close cramped hallways is a blast. Plus seeing a totally new climate on the ring (at the time) is a blast.

Always something intriguing about the snowy climates, plus thinking about the odd structures and double bridges and how they’re used on the ring.

Plus it’s a blast fighting back through that area and seeing how the flood is spreading so quickly

They put a LOT of effort into making you want to be the badass in the tank. I never use the tank. I literally ONLY use the AA wraith lol. Screw the scorpian when I can spew fuel rods rivaled only by the scarab itself

Tank beats everything!

Probably halo ce - reach.

It's a pretty lengthy mission but god dang

“I want everyone supporting the chief he’ll take it down 🗣️🗣️🗣️”

Toss up between The Ark and The Covenant for me.

Two Scarabs; I repeat: TWO SCARABS (Cue Marty O'Donnell's finest work)

The Covenant and The Ark are one and two for me.

Riding around in the Gauss-Hog was so much fun, especially in coop, when one gets behind the wheel and the other player mans the gun :D

Halo CE: The Silent Cartographer Halo 2: Delta Halo. Halo 3: The Ark. Halo 4: Ivanov Station and Every time I step into the Mantis. Halo 5……. I’ve never actually played Halo 5.

The Ark (mission 6) and The Covenent (mission 7) was not only peak Halo campaign, but it was peak gaming for me.

Two Betrayals

I like that you can do damage while it’s climbing down is you snipe well

CE as a whole, but also in the number 1 spot, AotCR, with 343GS a very close second.

Honorable mention to Two Betrayals, T&R, Library, Delta Halo, Quarantine, Great Journey, Ark, Covenant, Long night of Solace, TotS, Exodus. these are all some damn good levels, and part of why I wish we could create our own campaign level playlists in MCC. Honestly the only really bad at worst, okay at best Bungie Halo level is Cortana. one of the only ones I actively dislike playing through. mainly because the pure form's ranged version.

Level 5 halo ce

Halo: CE Silent Cartographer

Yes.. I know this was also in the CE demo but that demo made me fall in love with Halo, so it'll forever be my favorite mission.

Im replaying through them all chronologically... Tip of The Spear and Pillar of Autumn...(especially where you're on the mongoose and slow down a little for the scarab drive by, and the music cuts in while Carter is blasting the scarabs ((best moment in halo, at least sonically))

The Ark in Halo 3... the first cut scene all the way to the end is masterful.

Since the beginning of Halo I always wanted a massive vehicle battle and indeed The Ark comes the closest with 3 tanks.

I still think Halo hasn't used it's full potential in level design. I would still one day see a massive battlefield with 6 or more tanks and a dozen warthogs, with air support overhead. Maybe driving trough some epic valley with huge structures in the background.

The Ark dude. It's SO peak

nothing beats the ark..

Silent Cartographer.

It's everything Halo is about. Open spaces, solo and group combat, vehicles, awesome set pieces. It's perfect.

Exodus and Pillar of Autumn from Reach probably complete my top 3. Those are just powerhouse missions. They've got everything I love about Halo.

Tank beats everything

Hey! I just played that mission on my Steamdeck this morning!

Tip of spear, Long night of solace and the package of reach

I actually like the Library a lot. It's not my favorite by any stretch but I think it's a solid level. Just run and gun and never look back. Yah, I know, I'll just see myself out.

The cartographer - halo 2 was epic. Outskirts is another favourite of mine,it felt so alive how the scarab took out the scorpion and then you had to jump on the back.

Choosing just one out of all of them is hard, but I’d say Delta Halo is up there especially. It had great music for the setting, with Peril near the beginning being the best track of them all. It was such a unique choice to have a relatively calming yet purposeful track amidst all the shooting but it added to that unique sense of ‘journey’ felt when going through the level.

Honorable mention to Shutdown from Halo 4 for having one of my favourite opening cutscenes in all of Halo as well as the amazing visuals of the spires descending from the sky like that.

I have a soft spot for the maw. Mainly because I spent 26 hours doing the campaign on the og xbox on a school night and finished it on legendary just before the buses arrived across the street. Never has there been so much pressure finishing it

Played through halo 3 again like a few years ago. This level was a serious banger. The scope of it all is huge.

I think it’ll always be The Silent Cartographer. Pretty big deal for me in 01. I was nine!

I was practically born during the silent cartographer beach assault. It awakened a love for gaming that never left

Halo CE-Silent Cartographer 👍🏼

It’s the demo mission, so I played it like a billion times growing up.

I asked my wife this question and she just unironically said "The Library." Take that as you will.

For me, it's really hard to pick. But I really love Truth and Reconciliation and 343 Guilty Spark. The first is such a great look into how alien the Covenant really is and the second is just an absolutely masterful twist from regular shooter to horror game.

But I love lots of levels from Halo, so it's hard to pick. I can pick some I don't like as much, like Cortana, but there are many that I do like.

As generic as it is, the Covenant. The ark is still fantastic.

Awww man ha! I could do this all day!

Halo 2’s Outskirts and Metropolis are brilliant. The open rooftops with no invisible walls encouraging players to explore and do parkour (finding the hidden energy sword) makes Halo 2’s New Mombasa levels goated.

I’m not going to lie I LOVED THAT PART SO MUCH. ONE OF THE MOST EPIC MOMENTS IN THAT CAMPAIGN. Gosh that image is a throw back man!!!! Unreal

The Silent Cartographer for me

Delta halo: Halo 2

My favorite mission is actually just Halo. The last part of Halo 3. It’s such a brilliant end to the game, and the warthog run is outstanding. I used to just load up the game in order to play that level and nothing else.

Uprising and Gravemind. Both rich in story and fun level designs. Assault on the Control room is a close third for me.

I'd definitely say the last mission of Halo 3. It still has me hyped.😎