HALO COMBAT EVOLVED ORIGINAL PC

It’s hard to deny that Halo is impressive as a first attempt. Even the move from mouse and keyboard to a controller was unthinkable at the time and the contemporaries had not made that look easy or possible. It did this by trimming staples of the genre and designed the controls for a simplified controller interface. Halo: Combat Evolved scaled-down the massive complex First Person Shooter genre and made it accessible to consoles.

HALO COMBAT EVOLVED ORIGINAL PC

Almost every First Person Shooter is now on both console and PC and most players have so many options they’re overwhelmed.Īnd with that stage set, we can look at Halo: Combat Evolved and the tale of two games, the game that launched a new console, and the game that is lingering two decades later. So if Halo was released on PC it might not have gotten the attention it received as a launch title for the Microsoft Xbox.Ģ0 years later, the field for the FPS genre is a far different landscape. The PC had just released Half-Life, and Deus Ex, both games changed what was expected from the FPS genre with a more story-rich format. Halo came out at a strange time, becoming one of the first FPSes to succeed on the Console, and ushering in the era of the Xbox, but at the same time, it was in its ecosystem, alone on consoles where most FPSes were limited to the PC. The problem is that the original Halo: Combat Evolved looks a little long in the tooth, both through age, and imitation. The Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary edition came out in 2011, and while that’s the 10th anniversary of the original game, 10 years after its release the game feels like it could use another update. This review will mainly focus only on the single-player offerings, though the Halo Master Chief Collection offers the multiplayer for Halo Combat Evolved.īut given the potential to remake Halo: Combat Evolved into a brand new version, players are instead getting the already existing PC version. It seems worthwhile to look through each game’s offering over time and to start with the originator. With the release of Halo Master Chief Collection, it gives new players a chance to go back and replay the entire series. Twenty years have passed since Halo: Combat Evolved first appeared on the Xbox in 2001, and over the years the franchise has grown into a true juggernaut.

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