Halo: Combat Evolved
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| | Product Details: Release Date: 15 June 2006 Publisher: Microsoft Rating:   Sales Rank: 250 | | Look for similar items by category:
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| | Customer Reviews: Great Game!!! A true classic!!! (12 July 2010)This is the game that started it all!! Great game that was one of the first FPS to have success on consoles. great game for beginners (07 July 2010)I always thought I hated this game. Tried it once and never touched it again. Now a couple years later, I was bored and needed something to occupy my time. I decided to buy this game and finally learn how to walk and look around at the same time. Since I've pretty much got that down, I've been playing non-stop! It's a really fun game and relatively easy to learn. Certainly overhyped (31 May 2010)Sure, this game has had rave reviews, and I'm basing this on games released in the same time period. Yes, there is a story. It's a fairly decent setup, but after the initial training, it's simply, "kill the aliens and save the marines" missions. It gets pretty old, pretty fast. Of course, the second one was supposed to be a lot better. We'll see, when I get to that. It works really well on the xbox 360, as I would have guessed, since this was their flagship title for the first xbox. It is available for download, but I like to have physical media, since you never know when their virtual store may not be available anymore, or older titles may be removed. The games that started the series (26 May 2010)I jumped onto the Halo series bandwagon after hearing the hype that led up to Halo 2's release in 2004. Having beat that, I decided to try out the original on my Xbox and, needless to say, can say that this series is worth the hype. Graphically, it cannot compare to Halo 3, which in itself cannot compare as well to games released this year (Halo 3 is, of course, already 3 years old). But Halo's topnotch story, voice acting and script leaves the original, almost 10 years old, as one of the best games of all time. While I prefer Halo 2 in terms of gameplay and overall storyline, Halo is in itself a perfect game for any gamer. Still the King - start here if you're new to the franchise (23 May 2010)It's almost ten years since I first played this masterpiece (god is that possible?). It is only so rare that a game title comes out that strikes emotional veinage through story/gameplay/music. Halo CE is one of them. I remember the first weekend i played it. It completely sucked me in and I could not stop playing the campaign: incredible world, story, pacing, fluid physics and the best soundtrack in gaming history. Every chapter ends with a hook. Every hook deepens the story and pulls you further in. Video game developers do/will study this title as coursework because of its near perfection. It fires on all 12 cylinders. Somehow Bungie was able to create an ineffable whole out of the many parts that so few gamemakers can ever assemble with success. This is why you must play this game. I came back to write this review because it's 9 years and right now I'm playing through the single player campaign again and realizing Halo CE is still better than just about every game coming out on today's consoles. Even at 480 resolution on my xb360, the game still holds up graphically and the physics and great story will never age. This game is a classic because it is that rare gem of many component parts uniting into a near-perfect whole. Most games fail because they don't get all those parts into a working whole. This one does. And, without Halo CE, one could argue that the xbox would have failed and that we'd only be playing on PS3 and Nintendo today. The only thing that saddens and disbelieves me is that a Collector's Edition of this masterpiece was never issued. How is that possible? I would buy it today, if they did. Long live the King. Halo CE is still the best of the franchise, and still one of the greatest games in history. |
