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Halo: Combat Evolved
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One of the launch titles of the original Xbox, Halo: Combat Evolved is a sci-fi first-person shooter telling the tale of an advanced cybernetic super-soldier known as the "Master Chief".
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"It's easy enough to look past the original Halo's more dated qualities given Anniversary's tasteful visual refresh and a combat formula that's still plenty exciting."
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Evolved combat: The game that officially brought Microsoft to the console market and the start of the Xbox family.

Some awesome games and consoles have changed gaming history as we know it. This is one of those awesome games & consoles that are important and influential pieces of gaming history. The first inst… Read more

"The Birth of a Spartan"

Halo is a series that defines the Xbox brand as we know it today. As a shooter series that predates both Battlefield and Call of Duty , it is a franchise best known for its innovation when it comes to… Read more

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Halo: Combat Evolved Review

Even nineteen years later, Halo: Combat Evolved remains the most impressive FPS I’ve ever played. Sure, there have been shooters since it’s release that have had superior level design, better shooting… Read more

Genesis

Note: The following review is for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition specifically and was originally uploaded on June 7th, 2014. The original version was deleted in a wiki re-organisation and th… Read more

Mini Review: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

This review is of the Master Chief collection version of Halo. The foundations are here with great combat that requires some thought like it is half puzzle all action. Along with a few nice set piece… Read more

Genesis

Back in 2011 there was entire decade separating the FPS genre from the release of the original Halo, but it didn’t feel like it. Part of this was the way the years naturally fly by, but this phenomeno… Read more

how do i buy?

how do i buy games because i am new and im confused like really confused about it so someone tell me please because i want to play games on here really really really bad so just tell me how to buy it… Read more

Perfect game on the Xbox console

Game-play This Halo game is the first one in the series and when you play it you'll feel like this game give a good begining to the series. The game is based on a Sci-Fi First-Person Shooter. Altough… Read more

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

It is hard to believe that it has been a little over 10 years since the release of the first Halo. In that time the series has accomplished a lot: successfully launched the Xbox, sold tens of millions… Read more

Theres something seriously wrong when sixty dollars for ODST seem

It'a been while since I've played and I alread typed up a blog about this and had it eaten up by Gamespot so forgive me if this one feel a little half assed, it's hard to care as much the second time… Read more

Halo Lets take a look back

On November 15, 2001 A game was released as a launch title for the Xbox. Halo Combat Evolved was definitely a game like no other. There was no aiming down your sights or fighting against the Axis forc… Read more

Authentic Campaign, but Multiplayer is a missed opportunity

I'll make this as clear as I possibly can: My pair of rose-tinted glasses for this game are the rosiest and foggiest of glasses. This and the Resident Evil series essentially defined my early childhoo… Read more

To the fans, with love

I don’t want to blow anybody’s minds here, but Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is Halo: Combat Evolved. Very little has changed, and that is far from a bad thing. Captain Keyes still hands you an emp… Read more

Halo: CE Anniversary Review

Halo: Combat Evolved changed the course of videogame history and its name is etched on a list of titles that defined the medium. Before Bungie’s milestone was released in 2001, the gulf separating con… Read more

Halo Anniversary

Let's be honest. Very few folks in the gaming community don't already have a firm opinion as to the gameplay and mechanics of Halo. As these points have been belabored for the last ten years, I won't… Read more

I don't like Halo

Halo isn't a very good first person shooter. The HUD of Halo is just annoying. Instead of being like other contemporary FPSs, Halo insists on representing all of its ammo onscreen as lots and lots of… Read more

Halo Combat Evolved Review: Cue monk chants

Halo: Combat Evolved, the game that started a series which dominated the first person genre for years and put the Xbox on the map. When Halo came out I was not a big fan of shooter games. I had loved… Read more

Halo: Combat Evolved Review: So it begins

Halo: Combat Evolved, the game that started a series which dominated the first person genre for years and put the Xbox on the map. When Halo came out I was not a big fan of shooter games. I had loved… Read more

Master Chief, an elite marine with a badass suit

A game that penetrates the mainstream audience like Halo did only happens once in a blue moon, did Halo deserve the praise or was it a fluke? Starting out, Halo was a curious game. It originated as a… Read more

Nine years later, still a showstopper.

When Halo originally came out in 2001, I had no intention of buying an Xbox, so I only played bits and pieces at friend’s houses. It seemed like a competant shooter but nothing worth going gah-gah ove… Read more

Why I don't like Halo

Halo isn't a very good first person shooter. I know, I know. You're a Halo fanboy and you think I'm just a mindless hater. You think I'm just going along with the crowd. That I'm some sort of dude who… Read more

Why I don't like Halo

Halo isn't a very good first person shooter. I know, I know. You're a Halo fanboy and you think I'm just a mindless hater. You think I'm just going along with the crowd. That I'm some sort of dude who… Read more

Halo: CE... has all the elements of a great fps.

I followed the hype of Halo for years, confused about how a generic shooter like this could be so popular. Before I played it, I assumed it would be pretty cut and dry like most fps at the time. Sure… Read more

Halo review (Xbox)

HALO (XBOX; 2001) - Graphics & Audio As I review this game I will try to keep it in perspective and review it as a game released during the year it came out like I try to do with all games I revie… Read more

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The Bottom Line is: You need to play this game

Now when I review this game I'm going to be speaking in retrospective or basically review the game from a 2001 perspective as opposed to a 2009 perspective because to be honest it would be harder to r… Read more

Halo is the greatest First-Person Shooter ever made.

Halo: Combat Evolved is a Frist-Person Shooter developed by Bungie for the XBox, and it's the first installment in the Halo series. Halo is regarded by many as one of the best First-Person Shooters to… Read more

One of the Best Ever

If you're visiting Giant Bomb, then you already know what the Halo series is generally about. However, you might not have played the original Halo: Combat Evolved. If you haven't then I will skip righ… Read more

One of the best first-person shooters of all-time!

When you say the word "Bungie", you usually think about the Halo series, one of the most well-known franchises in existance, And now, with my first review here on GiantBomb, I am going back to the gam… Read more

Where has halo been all my life

Not since half life 1 which was released in 1998, there has been a better fps out there in the gamig world. Halo redefines this genre with its explosive gameplay and multiplayer action. It just took t… Read more

Still holds up.

Let us take The Wayback Machine to a much simpler time, Nov. 2001. The PS2 had been out for a year, the Dreamcast was on it's deathbed and the GCN and Xbox had just been released. Think of console FPS… Read more

Starts off well but then drags on.

I never got into Halo back in the day because I got halfway through and then just stopped and I could never remember anything from the game so I wondered why I quit. I got out my copy that I bought ba… Read more

A defining achievment for the console FPS genre

When Halo first arrived, it was hailed as a revolution for the console first-person shooter genre. Seven years later, this game still holds up as one of the best console FPS's ever made. What makes Ha… Read more

An amazing game that started a fantastic and much needed series.

This is the game that got all of those Xbox systems off the shelves. This is the game than ensured Microsoft success. This is the game that revolutionized console shooters. The graphics are top notch… Read more

A console FPS that has stood the test of time.

Still standing tall after all these years.Halo was Microsoft's "killer app." It propelled the Xbox beyond all expectations, and put Xbox on the map as a gaming machine. However, before its release, th… Read more

Halo Combat Evolved PC Review

In Halo: Combat Evolved it's the year 2552 and you play as a super soldier codenamed Spartan 117, but is usually called Master Chief. In the game the humans (you) discover a planetary ring called "Hal… Read more

The game that started it all

Halo: Combat Evolved released in 2001 as an Xbox launch game. This game is by far the best launch game ever. Gameplay: Excellent gameplay. One of the best FPS games ever, especially for its time. The… Read more

My first real console FPS

So, I know it's 2008 but i'm a late bloomer... at least that's what all the teachers said in school... and my mom... and well never mind that. I finally picked up a copy of Halo about a year or two ag… Read more

One of the best: Halo

"WART WART". Know what this dialog is from? If you don't, you need to see help immediately. Not only because it's from one of the most well designed and well rounded games ever, but because the name o… Read more

A great Xbox game, and now a great PC game!

I'm not going to mindlessly praise this game, so please don't skip over because of the high rating I gave it. I'm not some mindless fanboy here to tell you this is the greatest game ever, it isn't. Th… Read more

One of the best FPS you will ever play.

Gameplay The gameplay in Halo is one of the best you will see ever in a game. In halo you play through the eyes of a character known as the Master Chief. The combat in Halo is challenging and never ge… Read more

Amazing FPS Action! Not The Best But Still Awesome!

After a year of being out on the Xbox, PC Gamers eagerly awaited this amazing FPS game to come to the PC. With games like Half-Life, Halo cant be called the best FPS shooter on the PC, not by far but… Read more

Remarkable Xbox FPS Shooter! Great Multiplayer!

I could explain how great this game is, but i would need too put approximately 8000 words, 268 pictures and 84 videos but yet it would still mean nothing compared to playing the game. It is the one Xb… Read more

It's still for noobs....

We all have seen the big black box that led us to experience seizures while killing the Covenant or the Flood. I’m sure most of us played it and enjoyed it or played it and said it was for noobs. We m… Read more

Halo is one of those "had to be there" experiences.

I'm probably one of the few people on the planet who's managed not to play Halo all this time, which is really too bad because even after all these years, the game holds up quite well. It's more of an… Read more

Halo

Yeah, the first game. In the past I've played and enjoyed bits of the campaign and some multi-player, but I'd never sat down and played it through. I worked through it on a friend's Xbox, and I'm glad… Read more

The best FPS for xbox

Now when I say best shooter ever I mean it, With a hardcore campaign and awesome multiplayer halo has something for everybody. Im going to start with the campaign so here goes nothing. Halo's campaign… Read more

Halo fits the bill nicely as the first Xbox FPS.

In 2001, a little known Apple-based developer called Bungie released a game that would be on of the launch titles for Microsoft’s first venture in the video game console business. Its name was Halo. S… Read more

Great Port To PC

Halo is a great port from xbox. Everything is pretty much the same from the orginal xbox version but Pc version quality is a bit better something you would not except from a console to PC port.Graphic… Read more

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