Halo Cover Tier List - Ranked from Best to Worst

[@RocketSloth]

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[@peyotepeckerhead4102]

Love ur vids dude

[@redmist6630]

why is the sloth so fucking ripped i just realized. look at that leg bicep

[@nick33ee]

I like that in the thumbnail halo ce is B And In video is F Us that clickbait?

[@mrbonjangle]

I don’t think I can have a bigger disagreement with you guys on halo than I do with these choices. Halo 2 has to be one of the most bland covers. Sure it’s cool, but it’s just chief. There’s no ring in the background. No marines fighting. There’s no real character to it. It reminds me of call of duty covers just as much as Spartan ops does. It doesn’t have that sci-fi to it. It’s just a soldier standing there in a generic pose.

[@AidanDuerksen]

@@mrbonjangle it looks like the cover for doom without the demons

[@AbbyRawks]

I feel like something a lot of people forget is the CE cover art had a fancy effect that shimmered in the light. But regardless of that CE will always be my favourite cover art. It's a really nice design and sums up the while vibe the game had.

[@charliehicks4]

Actually, not all halo CE copies had that effect

[@andrewjazdzyk1215]

It's less art and more in-game models tbh.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Gotta love CE's shimmering though. Really miss that in the sequels, although Halo 3 replicated the shine a bit.

[@ChouRaiyuki]

@@charliehicks4 This; I'm pretty sure in fact that this was a later thing on the Xbox version specifically. Mine certainly doesn't shimmer and it's a release day copy; the PC version's box was about the same. It was only later in store that I saw that (I'm not sure in fact if it was the Game of the Year version that started the shimmer)

[@TheDJGlucose]

I remember staring at these cover arts for minutes that seemed like hours just dreaming of how cool master chief is/was. It really captured my attention

[@MechDragon108]

I love how this channel always *covers* things that most people would have never thought of. like Best and Worst warthog tires lmao

[@omaroropeza8117]

Or how many grunts are in all the halo games

[@HeartTribe]

For real. This is the content I NEED lol. Need some random shit to watch while on lunch break haha.

[@GrandNoble]

Yes. I'm still waiting for them to count how many trees are in each game

[@HaloDaycare]

Halo Follow just got his next video idea. I'm joking! Much love to Halo Follow aka Chris. His content is amazing

[@Zeqweery]

That’s what happens when ur starved for content

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

The most iconic one for me is Reach, it captures the entirely of Noble team and the background is beautiful

[@Firefrab]

The thing I love about reach's cover is the subtle covenant cruiser poking through the clouds, which I feel like if people just glanced at the cover they'd miss it

[@redmist6630]

reach is best and i would have swapped ce with 3 or brought 3 down to b edit: nvm

[@chemicalwarfaremann7607]

Hey look, it’s my favorite white boy

[@tux75]

Halo Reach’s art style is dogwater but ok

[@ipapachubbs8609]

@@tux75 Still mad about Sprint 12 years later

[@Jack72607]

Halo 3 has kind of a nostalgic look with the sunset/dawn light. A beginning but an end as well. I just love it, it sums what H3 was so perfectly. The culmination of the saga but also bittersweet as nothing was as good after that. H2 was the bold sequel upping the stakes after the first 1. They both fit so much and both deserve s tier

[@eeaahh]

The Halo 2 steelcase art is underrated. Bungie knew that you didn't even need to read the words "Halo" on the box art to know what game it is. A quick logo, the number 2, and that's it. So cool imo

[@redrooster450]

Yeah but compared to halo 2 and the multiplayer pack covers it’s kinda dog

[@yuhhhh2354]

The steel case has art, a picture of master Chief on a background. It’s just on the back instead of the front

[@HaloDaycare]

Ill never forget the impact Halo CE and Halo 2 had on me as a kid. Looking at the cover for hours seemingly

[@james87367]

Halo ODST will always have a special place in my heart.

[@scout4704]

Facts

[@Mister_RandomGuychannel]

In my opinion its the best campaign

[@DGCpicturesEntertainment]

I still remember my first exposure to Halo. I was in my garage and saw a box with a bunch of old OG Xbox games. They all looked fine, but there was one game that caught my eye. That game had a green Iron Man looking spaceman that was holding 2 guns in both his hands and there was a burning city in the background. From then on, I was a Halo fan.

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

I LOVE the Halo 4 Steelbook. It feels so satisfying to hold with its smooth paper-like texture, idk how to describe it. 😂

[@candlelighter7159]

I completely agree with the list. Halo 3: ODST and Reach are tied for my #1. However, while I thought Halo Wars 2 is S tier, that Atriox steel book closeup seemed like a C tier cover (B if you're pushing it). But really appreciate the list! Thanks for the attention to detail!

[@alexbennett9930]

My favorite is reach. I just love the “walking away from the explosion, no look” theme it kinda has.

[@redmist6630]

if odst had the balls to put all the characters on the cover like reach it would deserve s tier. Its more of a C tier

[@alexbennett9930]

Hey man, I also like the odst cover art, but agree to disagree. Reach is just my favorite and odst is yours

[@shmurfy4971]

Big disagree on halo 3, the cover art perfectly conveyed the somber ending to his story. It wasn’t about being epic like halo 2, it was about finishing the fight

[@gamingwith3033]

how does it convey "finishing the fight"?

[@TheGoldNShadow]

@@gamingwith3033 the sunset in the background. It conveys the beginning of the end.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

And to top it all off, ODST's appears to be at nighttime, while Reach's most likely happens on a new sunrise. In the meantime, CE's appears to be on a bright morning, while Halo 2's is possibly on a wartorn noon.

[@deacon.]

Every Bungie Halo really nailed the feeling of each game with their cover art. Timeless games.

[@whitetsteve4967]

I love you guys but I had to pause after Halo 3 in A it’s just so beautiful. The background colors of the sky. The shading on my chief. It really made you feel like this was it for chief. I would’ve gone S with 2 but that’s me. Fun video so far now to finish

[@tTaseric]

I don't think there'll ever be cover art that beats how damn hardcore Halo 4's is.

[@Josh-df3on]

You should do the backsides next! As a kid before I played new games I would always read the entire thing. It's weird but I can still appreciate them today. personally I think Halo 2's is really cool.

[@bertfdeb4484]

Nice top, but I would have preferred to see cover art a lot more instead of 3 seconds of cover and just gameplay. I don't know, the gameplay could have been running in the background while the cover art for the game in question could have been in front. This video is all about cover art after all :)

[@worsethanyouthink]

I am sad they ignored the backs because the Halo 2 stealbook's back is the best bar none. The monochrome aesthetic with the space elevator in the background, that pose with the BR staring up into the middle distance, it's just beautiful.

[@austinhatfield]

Halo wars getting the recognition it deserves makes me so incredibly happy you have no idea

[@Blama_]

Next you should do a back cover tierlist

[@solring5721]

Halo Wars 2 absolutely deserves S tier, no doubt. The art style is so well crafted, and The Ark in the background still has an imposing presence, and the emphasis on Atriox combines to make a fantastic piece of cover art. I remember seeing it for the first time and flipping out over how incredible it looks.

[@Kenji-117]

The Heroic Stances of Master Chief on Halo 3's and Halo 2's Cover perfectly capture the Enbodiment of how the Games are. Halo 2 looks dynamic action loaded and Savage. I can imagine Steve Vai playing Electric Guitar in the Background while the Master Chief stands there as the Dual-wielding Badass that he is, ready to scare some Grunts with a simple "Boo!" The Halo 3 covers shows the Chief in Motion like it's his "One Final Effort" to finish the fight and to find Cortana. His Battle-scarred Armor is a Symbol of his experience from fighting countless enemies and that he truly is "The last Spartan"!

[@AidanDuerksen]

You should make a video for how many levels you can take a warthog all the way through or something like that

[@pjf674]

The infinite cover should have been that final shot from the first trailer where Chief is holding his helmet in the foreground and the crumbling stone ring monument in the background. Maybe include signal smoke guy on there too.

[@MicahIsBatman2]

That Cheif design isn't the one they used in game though, It's completely different, and most of the stuff in that trailer didn't make it into the final game.

[@funkyreapercat5280]

Halo 4 cover art is gorgeous!

[@wertbe1718]

18:35 I was today years old when I learned you could shoot through the deployable shields in halo 3

[@G2_Convoy]

Halo 4s retail cover is my favorite. Shit has been my desktop wallpaper since H4 came out on every computer I’ve ever bought. It’s gorgeous.

[@optiTHOMAS]

ODST, Halo 3, halo 2, reach, CE, and maybe the Arbiter halo wars art are my favorites! Good stuff! I love the colors on 2 and 3, and ODST is so atmospheric and clean! Fits the vibe perfectly with all the rain and the dark blue. So nice! 👍🏻

[@DoomAtDusk]

My favorite cover art is Halo 3. Right behind it for me are Halo 2 and 4. 2 is iconic and 4 has really cool art.

[@Cata_777]

Now that you mentioned it, I do remember spending an amount of time just staring at the H2 box art

[@commanderfox4140]

can u count every halo checkpoint and see which halo game has the most checkpoints? (im not joking im 100% serious)

[@genghiskhan8782]

The special Halo 2 art just being the number 2 and a piece of the logo is so ballsy and badass, like they’re saying: “You already know what this is”.

[@Zaczac111]

Halo 1: Sci-fantasy vibes. Halo 2: Action packed adventure. Halo 3: Somber conclusion to the story.

[@dartymcg9291]

With the halo wars limited edition cover they created a steel cover that combines both the original art with the special edition art with the unsc army on one side and the covenant on the other side which is really cool and unique as it combines both cover designs and I think it should be s tier with its limited edition counter part

[@anequallygoodchannel.2761]

If I can make a recommendation if you do something like this again would be to show the art in discussion more and maybe blur out the gameplay slightly in the background. It helps to see what ya talking about as you're talking about it.

[@gruntes11isttt]

I think halo 3 and reach should be swaped. Halo 3 had a cool detail that if you look closely at it you see cortanas eyes and it matched up with one of the halo 3 trails the one where cortana says is the the way the world ends. Reach I felt like it it was more generic. Also 5 if you look the background has banshee that are the classic models not the models they use in halo 4 or 5

[@rotatingglasssafe]

Although it might seem generic to have noble team looking all bad ass on the front cover, like the H3 cover it's all in the details. The armour variations and the body language of the Spartans is very strong. You can pick up a little bit of their personalities from the cover art alone. The contrast of the blueish gray with the orange is alot more intense than that of H3. Also I've a bone to pick. As badass as the chief looks on H2. I feel H2 is the most generic and nearly dated of the art covers. That pose was copied from DOOM, Duke nukem lara croft and definitely some movies posters and for me hasn't aged well. Yes he still looks "cool" but of all the cover art H2 is bar far the most generic.

[@dummyquiccc9695]

I love how all of these tier lists more or less have the same games in the same tiers

[@BeanDar]

Bro I was expecting a five minute long video, but I’m not complaining. Good video!

[@connorlang8048]

Ur channel has done a really good job of keeping your content engaging and actually interesting despite the sort of increasing obscurity of the topics you’ve gone to in recent months, and I think it’s just because you guys show that you put a lot of work into these videos. Like it seemed like you guys spent a while discussing where each price of art fit on the list rather than just slap some pictures onto a tier list, makes it much more enjoyable

[@tjallday95]

Next video idea: Firefight voice tier list Game announcer phrases tier list

[@olmateycorrupt577]

The Thumbnail is absolutely correct

[@deancarneal5785]

I actually agree with most of this list, I would have moved a couple of them but it wasn't anything too serious. The steel cover for halo 4 is one I would actually put much higher personally. While, yes, it wasn't as exciting, im a sucker for how "clean" it looked and I believe there is beauty in how simple it is. The forerunner texture combined with the unsc logo just does something for me in a way that I can't explain. I just think it catches my eye very well.

[@naffantait]

Rocket sloth always dropping 🔥 content👌

[@CFunk99]

15:01 "They look like something you keep your taxes in." Hahahahahaha!

[@ccompson2]

my halo 2 limited edition tin was stolen back in the day....loved that case. The game was in it too

[@leisuredspy]

Should do a tier list for the back cover art 😂😂 But this has been the best halo video I’ve ever seen. I already had my tier list in my head beforehand, and it was pretty spot on with your list for the same reasons. IMO, ODST is the best one because (like you said) it fits the atmosphere of the game with an all new face and story. Love the videos, keep up the great work!

[@M4xH4xCentaurus]

Why are my speakers always crackling when I watch a RocketSloth video!?

[@Robbie_Haruna]

Hot damn, I've never seen the Halo Wars limited edition cover art before, that's so sick

[@mauro5831]

No way you put Halo 2 multiplayer pack better than Infinite 😭

[@terrybludo4866]

100% deservedly so. The map pack cover art might be the coolest looking one out of all of them in my opinion

[@mauro5831]

@@terrybludo4866 Whaaaaat😭😭

[@DefaultGray]

The Halo Wars steelbook has both covers (one on the front, one on the back). Both of them look even cooler on it imo. Also speaking of Halo Wars, why don't you guys try doing a Skirmish game using only Sentinels on Legendary?

[@Turtle3000]

YES ODST in S tier! It's the wallpaper for my iPad Pro at the moment. I love it.

[@CastledCard]

Bro that japanese CE box art is D tier

[@Deadmanx117x]

Okay near the end of the video you said your basing the ranks on the front of the cover and not the back. Now I’m sure we all want a tier list of all the backs of the halo games as well

[@christianalfaro3648]

That grunt at 8:02 really took one for the team

[@BIZaGoten]

Haha nice find

[@ZancralthePariah]

I enjoyed FRAG for about 6-8 months, it was definitely worth it. Plus they have a very active reddit community for new players and tier lists of which heroes are worth it

[@Manateee17]

Don't know if you guys have done this yet, but reviewing and ranking the main menu's across all games would be cool too!

[@jomzb]

You guys should rank the title screens next!

[@duckhunter711]

I have that tin case for halo 2 sitting on my shelf to this day

[@sweb6173]

always love your videos rocketsloth keep up the frequent uploads

[@_finky139_7]

Are they more obsessed than we are for making this content or are we more obsessed than them for watching it 🥲

[@mclanesmith7059]

I normally rank things differently but this was was spot on with how I think

[@gruntes11isttt]

The back of the halo 2 tin had is pretty cool coverart on the back with the Mombasa city in the back ground

[@morgantaylor9271]

when halo 4 came out we had an art project at school to draw an interesting object, so i decided to draw the halo 4 box as it was an excuse to draw something cool and halo orientated!

[@Halo47143]

now we gotta see the backcovers

[@mult1versal]

you forgot the halo infinite multiplayer cover art

[@deathab0ve]

18:35 Ok I have beaten Halo 3 maybe 20 times. I have countless hours in the game. Since when the hell could you shoot through that side of deployable cover?

[@Bobodododo]

I wish you put the cover art on the screen while you were talking about it

[@gaysatan5040]

yea didnt even get to see halo 3's legendary edition

[@lordlelouch2379]

I love the halo 2 cover art and it was pardoy by marvel comics with deadpool doing the pose with sub machine guns during the secret invasion story arc.

[@goodturnbymacheda]

Love your videos - subscribed and will watch em all. My one change request is your verbal crutch of 'interesting.' Every grenade launch learning method is 'interesting.' The cover research here is 'interesting.' This is 100% inconsequential but would love to hear a different adjective every once in a while hah

[@drakesterX]

Aha! The Futureshop exclusive Steelbook in Canada! That's the one I got! Also, coincidently, the first Steelbook I ever bought with my own cash.

[@thegamingcazador8295]

There is a steel case for Halo Wars that has both covers in steel, one on each side

[@angry_eck]

12:08 let's forget red team omega team, chief and Johnson

[@jaybass9715]

Halo wars cutscenes are crazy.

[@oscarlalo18]

Back cover are cool too! You guy’s should make a video about it

[@fenfrostpaws2000]

Halo 4s cover art is pretty good. You guys are crazy

[@the199dirtrider]

Ranking every Halo commercial next?

[@who_likes_chicken6098]

Me: This is the most dumb Halo tier list idea I've seen yet. Also me: Instantly clicks (I mean the first part in a playful way, not actually a mean way 😀)

[@yvansakes9134]

Idea of video: ranking of every Halo game OST. Would be great , if no problem of copyright .

[@Hendricks23]

With the master chief collection they should have done it like reach like have it all as master chief but the armor he wore in each game so its like an evolution of him

[@josephcasper8803]

The behind of the cover teir list next

[@MrDunder333]

halo 2 multiplayer map pack was the first thing I ever bought on eBay lol

[@bananabossk4907]

A loading screen tier list? Maybe?

[@1st_Amendment_Is_My_Right]

You should do a book, graphic novel and comic covers next. Part of my S-Tier list: Ghost of Onyx, Bad Blood, Hunters In The Dark, and Broken Circle. Those are the books I can just think off the top of my head.

[@schlooble]

I can imagine the Spartans on the covers of spartan strike and spartan assault doing the soyface lol

[@twenzepenguin4240]

2:23 you guys did the one thing we all wanted to suceed with as kids

[@n3rfpho3nix16]

Did sloth suddenly become a god at halo or did he use someone else’s gameplay?

[@SilverViper1000]

Still... Halo 3 has the best cover art

[@michaelmann5105]

I know im late to this, but u should rate the main menus/intro’s of halo games as well

[@ChouRaiyuki]

Funny enough despite how much I love CE itself the cover has actually never been one of my favorites. It's cool to be sure but it's always felt somewhat jarring and goofy compared to the final game (particularly with the banshee lasers) though I'll admit the fact that it WAS an action packed cover certainly is a rarity among all of these. Also I might admittedly bump H5 a tier as I think it's more between A and B (definitely not S but it's a bit better than B). It might just be a me thing but I actually lied the subtle effect of each squad being in the lower darker portions of the opposite squad leader's helmet and as simple as it is, I do like the two helmets facing off. It's a neat little effect.

[@justinadkins6144]

Halo 2 dlc came on a disk. Man we are old. I forgot about that, 😢

[@Jerphun]

Pretty good tier list. Agree with 90% of it. GG

[@KnightOfGod3204]

My kind of list actually. I agree with this list but in my in my opinion, I would bump of the Halo 4 cover art of up close Master Chief with the Didact reflecting in Cheif's visor from C to B. I don't mind it, looks cool and I don't mind the up close look, but that's just me. But still, I agree with this list.

[@lSlNlOlOlPlYl]

Now order them on the tier list :)

[@Thetaa]

What about the Halo wars steel-book case?, the cover art looks sick with the unsc on one side and the covies on the other.

[@Nobody___]

Great video, i never knew about the Japanese halo cover, next time i visit tokyo im definitely gonna try to find one and buy it

[@RunderKeks28]

The Halo 4 limited edition is the only limited edition of a game I've ever bought. I think it looks pretty sleek.

[@zionrios2205]

Now do a tier list of the tier list videos

[@creedholomon4123]

I came into this with big opinions and was totally pleases to see you guys come out of the gate with halo 2 in the S tier. Great call.