10 games similar to Halo 3, a Shooter game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Halo 3.
01Shares ShooterHalo 2 shares Halo 3's first-person shooter foundation built on dual-wielding weapons, vehicular combat, and the balance between grenades and melee attacks. Both games alternate between human and alien perspectives in campaign, feature split-screen co-op, and offer competitive multiplayer modes like capture the flag and deathmatch. The science fiction warfare setting and customization options carry through unchanged.
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02Shares ShooterHalo Infinite returns to the first-person shooter foundation of Halo 3, with the same emphasis on balanced combat between weapons, grenades, and melee attacks. Both games center on the Master Chief fighting aliens across science-fiction environments, mixing on-foot combat with vehicular sequences. Multiplayer modes like capture the flag and team deathmatch carry forward, alongside customization and achievement systems that reward player progression.
03Shares ShooterHalo: Reach shares Halo 3's first-person shooter foundation and sci-fi warfare setting, with comparable multiplayer modes like capture the flag and death match. Both games center on defending humanity against alien invasion, featuring Covenant enemies and AI constructs. Reach replaces Halo 3's equipment system with armor abilities, offering similar tactical depth while maintaining the series' core gunplay and cooperative campaign structure across split-screen and online play.
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04Shares ShooterHalo 4 continues the first-person shooter formula of Halo 3 with the same focus on combat sandbox gameplay, weapon variety, and the golden triangle of guns, grenades, and melee. Both games feature customization options, achievements, and multiplayer modes including capture the flag and deathmatch. The campaign reunites you with the Master Chief as he crash-lands on a mysterious world to confront ancient threats.
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05Shares ShooterBoth Destiny 2 and Halo 3 center on first-person shooter combat in science fiction warfare settings where aliens threaten humanity. Both offer co-operative campaigns alongside competitive multiplayer modes like deathmatch and king of the hill. Destiny 2 shares Halo 3's focus on customization and progression through achievements, letting you personalize your character while engaging in team-based PvP combat across varied maps.
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06Shares ShooterBoth Rogue Warrior and Halo 3 are first-person shooters built around action-heavy combat with adjustable difficulty levels and achievement systems. Rogue Warrior shares Halo 3's sandbox design philosophy, giving players tactical freedom in how they approach encounters. Multiplayer deathmatch modes appear in both games, though Rogue Warrior trades Halo 3's sci-fi warfare for modern military espionage.
07Shares ShooterBoth games deliver first-person shooter campaigns with squad-based warfare across multiple difficulty levels, alongside competitive multiplayer modes like capture the flag and team deathmatch. Call of Duty: WWII grounds its action in historical World War II battles rather than science fiction, but shares Halo 3's focus on tactical gunplay, objective-based team modes, and achievement tracking across campaign and multiplayer.
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08Shares ShooterBoth Inversion and Halo 3 are sci-fi shooters built around cooperative campaign play and competitive multiplayer modes. Where Halo 3 emphasizes the sandbox interplay of weapons, grenades, and melee attacks, Inversion introduces gravity manipulation as its core tactical layer. Each game supports split-screen co-op and rewards difficulty achievements, offering similar progression hooks across their single-player and online components.
09Shares ShooterHalo 3: ODST returns to New Mombasa, the same alien world glimpsed in Halo 3's campaign, but shifts perspective from the Master Chief to ordinary soldiers fighting the Covenant invasion. Both games share the first-person shooter structure, Covenant warfare, and achievements system. ODST introduces Firefight, a cooperative wave-based mode that complements Halo 3's multiplayer foundation while maintaining the sandbox combat feel.
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10Shares ShooterCombat Evolved establishes the series' core formula that Halo 3 refines: first-person combat balancing weapons, grenades, and melee attacks across sandbox environments filled with alien enemies. Both games feature the Master Chief and AI companion Cortana fighting the Covenant across mysterious ring-worlds, with split-screen co-op and multiplayer modes supporting the same competitive structure of deathmatch and objective-based gameplay.
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10 games similar to Halo 3: Halo 2, Halo Infinite, Halo: Reach, Halo 4, Destiny 2, Rogue Warrior, Call of Duty: WWII, Inversion.
Most of these games share Action, Shooter, Warfare, Science fiction and Sandbox with Halo 3, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Halo 3.