Weirdly, the problem went away on its own, never to be seen again. However, this one did give me an error the first couple of times when trying to start the co-op journey. Over the past few days, I played through the complete Combat Evolved campaign in co-op just like I did when I reviewed the previous game in the collection.

The story picks up immediately after the conclusion of the Reach campaign, setting the stage for a moderately long storyline that takes place almost entirely on a ring-shaped megastructure dubbed Halo - hence, the name of the franchise - that is discovered at the beginning of the game. So read on to find out what I thought about the second PC port from Halo: The Master Chief Collection.Įxperiencing Noble Six's journey and the story behind planet Reach was cool and all, but getting to jump back into the action as Master Chief is definitely a great feeling. I won't be diving deep into details of the storyline as I'm sure there are plenty of folks who haven't experienced this now almost 20-year old adventure, but who are finally getting into the Master Chief Collection on PC to catch up before Halo Infinite drops later this year. The Anniversary remake developer Saber Interactive has thankfully returned to handle this new PC port. I can't imagine the convoluted process of diving into code that's originally written by Bungie, then ported to PC by Gearbox, followed by an Xbox 360 port, which is now running enhanced on modern PCs. As its base, the remake actually used the 2003-released PC port, developed by Gearbox Software of all studios. The Anniversary edition is the 2011 remake of the 2001 hit, Bungie-developed, original Xbox game Halo: Combat Evolved. Following a successful launch that brought in millions of new players, Microsoft surprise dropped Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary edition on PC earlier this week out of nowhere, starting the hype train back up again.īefore starting the review, here's some interesting history on the project.

Microsoft began a new venture to bring its Halo games over to PC last year, and Halo: Reachkicked things off by landing in December as the opening act of Halo: The Master Chief Collection ( MCC) on the platform, starting fans off on the storyline in chronological form.

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