Experiment and try different combinations as each one of them has its strengths and weaknesses, making enemy encounters always exciting. You test your skills in multiplayer modes you’d expect from a shooter: slayer (deathmatch), team slayer, king of the hill, and capture the flag.īoth human and alien units have their unique cars, hovercraft, and different weaponry. The dynamic nature of fights, besides well-balanced difficulty modes and a basic, yet fun multiplayer component gives players excellent replay value. The main story takes a solid 12 hours to beat on standard difficulty settings. Players will have to fight against the genocidal alien race known as the Covenant, following the protagonist’s violent crash-landing on Halo, a bizarre ring-like world. It sold over 6.43 million copies in its lifetime across all platforms.įight through a challenging single-player campaign consisting of 10 action-packed levels as the iconic Master Chief.
The Gearbox port is a hassle to pick up these days, and it’s packed with servers dead-set on playing Blood Gulch 24/7.One of the best parts of the games is battling hordes of enemies in one of four vehicle types you can drive within the wide-open maps.īungie’s Halo: Combat Evolved quickly became one of the most popular and best-selling video games of 6th generation consoles and PCs alike. What it can offer instead is a more complete multiplayer picture. The Master Chief Collection doesn’t have much in the way of modding yet. Halo’s best maps, for my money, were created for the highly-moddable Custom Edition that shipped free alongside Gearbox’s release. It’s all here, including the new maps, weapons and vehicles included in the 2003 PC port. For the most part, they’re hard to notice-just don’t look up during Assault on the Control Room.Ĭombat Evolved’s multiplayer makes it through entirely untouched by Anniversary’s meddling. This release does, unfortunately, carry through some of the 2003 port’s missing effects. At 60 FPS, and with the widescreen and field-of-view support the Gearbox 2003 port never offered, those old assets get the job done. With the tap of a button, you can swap between remastered visuals and Bungie’s original art. Halo does, at least, keep Anniversary’s neatest trick. The new gun sounds put into sharp focus how well Bungie nailed the nebulous sensation of gun feel. Rough as the visuals are, I wasn’t prepared for the shock of Anniversary’s reworked audio.
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