Oni is a third-person action game developed by Bungie West, a division of Bungie Studios, and released in 2001. It was Bungie West's first and only game. It broke new ground by blending third-person shooting with hand-to-hand combat, resulting in a unique, yet familiar game for third-person shooter enthusiasts. Due to difficulties in debugging and the general unplayability of a fighting game over anything with higher lag than a LAN at that time, multiplayer was omitted from the released version. The game's universe is heavily influenced by Masamune Shirow's manga series Ghost in the Shell.

Halo. The first good FPS ever created for the home console systems. It did was others tried, and has created a very awesome trilogy. Plot: In Halo, the game is set in the year 2552. Earth is still around, but it eventually got so populated that colonization on other nearby planets began. One of those planets were called Reach. It was close to Earth, and was a great construction site for civilian and military ships. However, recently the colony on Reach vanished, without a trace. Military was sent to inspect, but only few came back. They reported contact with a outrageously powerful alien race (which is labeled as ''The Covenant''). The clear object of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) is that this mysterious race doesn't find out about Earth's location. Human's proved to be far too weak to take on The Covenant, so a secret project of powerful, android soldiers (called ''Spartan-II'') was started. The whole stock was transported to Reach in order for them to invade a Covenant ship. But shortly before the planned attack, the Covenant attacked and destroyed all, but one of the Spartan-II soldiers. You take that role of the surviving android, in a quest to find out more...

Halo 3 takes place almost immediately after the previous game. The Chief lands in Africa, and the Arbiter along with the rest of the Elite’s have allied with the UNSC after the civil war they were having with the rest of the Covenant. Story: Your goal is to destroy the Prophet; Truth, and stop him from firing the Halo Rings, which were primed to fire after the emergency shutdown of a previous ring by the Arbiter, Sergeant Major Johnson, and Commander Keyes during Halo 2. Cortana has also been imprisoned by The Gravemind, the leader of The Flood. The Flood returns, and they also wind up on Earth.

In 2001, Microsoft released its much-vaunted Xbox gaming console into the world. To add another incentive to buy the system, the corporation also released Halo: Combat Evolved. The first-person shooter earned the praise of many for its graphics, original story line, and clever gameplay elements. Naturally, the folks at Bungie (the production company) decided to craft a sequel. Now, three years later, the finished product, Halo 2, is now out.