Its been a wonderful 10 years of gaming with the Xbox, and this has been on the back of the mind of many gamers, the game that started it all. And 343 Industries has delivered. Halo Combat Evolved was, and still is, the creator of all gaming styles of this generations. It was only a matter of time until the anniversary of such event would finally come. See what I did there?
While there isn't much to talk about this game, there's really only two things to truly focus on: graphics and audio. Graphics have definately been tuned up, while not to a 2011 level, but to at least only a few years ago, with barely a hiccup along the way. Worldly animation is quite brilliant, with nostalgia quite certain for any of us who are old enough to actually remember the original title (The average age of a Halo gamer being 13) and/or the stylised gameplay it offered. In the company's own words "...offering billions of hours of entertainment." the remake is definately worthy of anyones time. Audio, for both the now instant classic musical score and characters have been reampted and are quite clean this time around. Playing this game 10 years ago, I misheard many of the lines, and now with both the cleanliness of the audio and dialect (And with the help of subtitles) the sound quality is quite fantastic.
Halo's orginal mutilplayer was unable for me with the original game (As my family didn't have the internet in those early years of its existance) it was quite enjoyable to be able to play many of the classic maps this time around, And I must say, I am quite impressed with the availability of both finding matches and the look of the maps.
However, there are some small faults.
While the game has been remastered, many of the fans would agree that Master Chief doesn't look exactly right, his helmet and armour being slightly off from both the original and to the remade version for Halo: Reach. Controls can tend to be slightly sticky, especially around checkpoints as well as both some points in the game, Master Chief being just as fragile as he was back then.
While remakes tend to be horrible for the most part *COUGH - Goldeneye - COUGH*, Anniversary tends to be exactly the same as the original back in the day. Its shows that Halo 4 is definately in the right hands.
Out of 10, I gave Halo CE Anniversary an 9/10
Good points: Graphics are quite beautiful
Subtitles & Audio = Sublime
"We're just getting started"
Bad points: ...Not few many changes....
Sticky controls - multiplayer & campaign alike
Master Chief tends to die...by the slightest Ghost touch...
Halo CE Anniversary is out now for the standard price of $45
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