The individual Halo games hold up really well. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. ( Read our editorial mission (Opens in a new window) & see how we test everything we review (Opens in a new window).) This review focuses on Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2's drastic enhancements Halo 3 and Halo 4, which are last-gen games, didn't need many tweaks more to bring them up to contemporary standards. Halo: Master Chief Collection is a smorgasbord of classic first-person-shooters, and a real bargain.when it works. This is a shame since Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2 (now with its own spiffy Anniversary Edition), Halo 3, and Halo 4 are just as good as you remember. Instead, this Xbox One exclusive title is a rushed, unfinished, and buggy mess with a barely working multiplayer mode that's made continually worse by developer 343 Industries' attempts to patch it. It should have been the system-selling savior that would raise Microsoft's Xbox One ($200.00 at eBay) (Opens in a new window) to the same height as Sony's PlayStation 4 ($799.95 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window). Entire modes missing due to multiplayer woes.īroken games are the new norm, and Halo: The Master Chief Collection ($59.99) is the latest in a long line of AAA foul-ups.Halo 2 Anniversary doesn't run at 1080p.
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