Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

A great amount of love and care went into creating Halo Anniversary, and the new graphics engine, while not perfect, is an excellent addition to bring Halo players who missed out on the original ten years ago up to speed. Halo Anniversary’s campaign shortcomings are pretty apparent, but many of the elements that made the original Halo so great are here, from the great story to the tight combat and well-balanced weapons. If you can approach the experience with an open mind and are willing to take a few frustrating old-school design choices, and you’re fine with a ‘best of’ map pack versus a ful...

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition is a great trip down memory lane if you’ve ever been a fan of the franchise. For newcomers, you might not get the same effect, but you will get a lesson on how the first person shooter surge of popularity came to be.

Halo deserves all the acclaim it gets, even today. It’s hard to explain exactly why it’s so revered, but I just tend to think of it like this: no other FPS had me glued to it not just for the first time through, but the fifth. I don’t think everything about the remake is perfect, but there’s enough in it to warrant a second purchase for even the most hardened fans – the first time you hear the gun on the Warthog spin up, the first shotgun blast, the first time you take down a Hunter – gaming nirvana.

In the end, Combat Evolved Anniversary is a strange package. Its campaign feels half hearted, neither fully remaking nor preserving the original game. The Reach multiplayer maps, while excellent, feel tacked on to the package to attempt to justify this being a full disc-based release. It is retailing for less than the price of a full retail game (it’s less than £30 at most online U.K. retailers) but unless you really can’t stomach the original’s dated graphics, I’d strongly suggest s...

The game does have achievements for all you achievement hunters!  Some of them are very easy to get while others are just a pain in the; you know what!  It's only priced at 39.99$ So please go buy it!  It's so worth it!  It's a great single-player experience with a pretty good multi-player too.  However, though the Multi-player would have been absolutely perfect in my eyes if they left it alone instead of giving us REACH multiplayer.  But despite all of that, the game does stand up to time really well and If you have never played HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED, You really need to drop the 39.99$ price t...

How do you review a memory? A decade has passed since the original black brick of doom, or Xbox if you like, launched across the world, bringing with it an equal measure of ridicule and intrigue. It soon emerged that one of the first games to be released on the original Xbox would rapidly become its killer app, as well as help dispel that sense of derision that some had directed towards Microsoft’s first foray into the console market. That game was Halo, slapped with the Combat Evolved tag ...