Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is a spectacular remastered version of the original game, created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of the most beloved first-person shooters in gaming history. Bundled…
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is a shooter developed by 343 Industries, released 15 November 2011 on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 5 hrs to finish.
What Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is a shooter game developed by 343 Industries and released in 2011. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Blam! Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game opens just following the events of Halo: Reach, as the Pillar of Autumn exits slipspace near a mysterious ring-shaped space station, called "Halo" by the enemy in the game, the Covenant. A Covenant fleet attacks and heavily damages the Pillar of Autumn. Captain Keyes initiates "The Cole Protocol, "a procedure which destroys all navigation data and is designed to prevent the Covenant from learning the location of Earth. Master Chief and Cortana fight their way to an escape pod, where they eject from the ship along with a group of Marines. As they fly away they can see Keyes attempting to crash land Pillar on Halo. Master Chief and Cortana are the only survivors of their pod's crash…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Halo series
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is the 22nd of 55 entries we hold in the Halo series. It arrived 9 months after Halo 3 & Fable II Double Pack. The next entry was Halo 4: King of the Hill Fueled by Mountain Dew in 2012. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Halo 3 at 91.
How it was received
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 233 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Phenom II X4 960T ; Intel i3550 and AMD HD 6850 ; NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450. Install size is roughly 20GB.
What it launched against
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary launched on 15 November 2011, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition and Battlefield 3. All of them reviewed better. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition, Battlefield 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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