The players play the. Start Playing After Installation. Halo: Combat Evolved was released on Nov 15, Halo: Combat Evolved is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
It's certainly mine. An all purpose jeep, the Warthog has room for a driver, a gunner, and a passenger. The weapon on the Warthog is a large anti-aircraft gun with unlimited ammunition. This one is fast and easy to use, so it'll be good to rely on.
After that comes the Scorpion, a giant tank packing a mortar launcher and a coaxial machine gun. Heavy and slow, it's great for taking out big targets, but suffers from its lack of speed and still leaves the driver partially exposed to enemy fire.
Four of your allies can also climb onto the exterior of the tank to provide you with fire support. Next is the Ghost, a small Covenant speeder. It's fast, maneuverable, and packs a pair of plasma guns. Since it hovers, it has a tendency to bounce around at higher speeds, but still has the ability to kill an opponent by running over him. Finally, later in the game, you'll use a Banshee, the Covenant flying vehicle named for the screaming sound it makes during turns.
It doesn't obey the laws of physics like other vehicles, thanks to the Covenant technology, and while easily destroyed with a Rocket Launcher, packs a mean punch with its plasma guns. Halo 's single player campaign is laid out over a series of ten chapters, all of which are pretty large. I found, when all was said and done, that I'd spent about ten hours or so running through the game on Normal mode. Inside each chapter are a series of small missions that are assigned to you as you're running through the game.
Thanks to the Xbox internal hard drive, the large chapters are the only thing that slows down the loading process. It takes a few seconds, up to a minute to load a chapter and then, inside that chapter, switching between missions and the automatic checkpoint save occur on the fly, and they're so close to seamless that you'll think they're framerate skips at first. The storyline is integrated with each mission and, while it isn't as detailed as I'd hoped, it gives you the impression that you're doing something other than running between areas, hunting for bad guys.
Once again, Bungie proves that it's got the right stuff. Taking advantage of the Xbox's multiplayer features, you can play a versus game with up to four players on the same TV, sixteen players through a System Link game, using four TV's and Xbox units, and even a cooperative mode, that lets you play through the single player storyline with your good friend.
The only multiplayer mode that suffers from framerate loss is the System Link mode, as with sixteen players, the performance can sometimes jitter. On top of this, playing against other people means that you get to use Bungie's many different multiplayer modes. They've got five different modes: deathmatch, capture the flag, king of the hill, oddball, and rally.
Each mode has different settings you can adjust for a different performance. My favorite so far is Rally, where you race one of your friends in the Warthog.
With so many options, it's easy to enjoy a multiplayer game. Halo is the Xbox's killer app for a variety of reasons, not the least of which are the graphics. Every texture in the game is amazingly beautiful and has so much detail that your eyes may just pop out of your head.
Look down at the grass and you'll see the individual blades. Approach a rock and you'll see rock striations. The Marines even have scuffs in their armor. These overly detailed textures are really satisfying when you get to see the alien artifacts inside Halo, and you find control panels with these strange rune-like symbols and panels.
They haven't skimped on the background either, as you can look into the distance and see the curve of Halo, as well as the weather effects in the distance and the ripple of water in the river as it curves up towards the horizon.
There's one mission where you jump onto a troop transport and as it takes off out of the area, you're treated to an in-game picture that looks like you could frame it and put it on your wall. Much like its visuals, Halo 's soundtrack is like aural candy. An awesome and inspiring score, designed by Total Audio run by Marty O'Donnell and Mike Salvatori , the music behind Halo is perhaps as amazing as any other part of the game itself.
Epic and very dramatic, it picks up action perfectly during battle, and when the storyline takes a slightly sickening twist later in the game, it ramps up the creepiness with music I can only describe as 'ooky. It perfectly accents the tragic fate of Humanity, and is a perfect frame to the important role that your character plays in the events of the game. While I've never been able to say much about sound effects for any game, I still know when I'm hearing good ones. Everything that you listen to in this game sounds good.
You'll hear the difference between marble and dirt underfoot as you run, and the satisfying rat-tat-tat of the Assault Rifle is something I can still hear if I think about it. The sound work for Halo is simple amazing. Although you can rave about Halo 's amazing visuals, its rapacious enemies, or the realistic physics modeling, kudos must be given to Bungie for the work they did on the AI in this game.
Starting on Easy means that you'll face opponents who can be broken in combat, don't communicate well, and don't always take advantage of their terrain or weaponry. You'll rarely see a grunt toss a grenade in this mode, and you're more than a match for any Covenant troops. Notch the difficulty setting up to Legendary and the Covenant become crack troops, breaking only under the most unnerving circumstances.
The Elites form the backbone of their forces and can direct the Grunts and Jackals to perform flanking maneuvers, or even just deliver more force at a given location. You'll need to be aware of the weaponry they're packing as well, as Grunts are grenade tossing freaks in this difficulty and the Jackals like to use their Plasma Pistol overcharge to drop your shields in one hit.
This AI isn't exclusive to the Covenant however, as your allies, the Marines, can also deliver indispensable assistance in a pinch. While they're only lightly armored, and carry an Assault Rifle, they're good at covering an area for you and picking up the slack in a battle you can't win by yourself. All together, these elements make your enemies and allies respond more realistically than I've ever seen elsewhere. It might take a minute for me to explain it all. First off, Halo was originally intended as a PC and Mac title, something that I think would've made it much better.
Playing through the single player campaign, I got the distinct impression that a lot of things had been left out for sake of making the game work well on the Xbox or to save some extras for a PC and Mac release. The storyline, anticipated to be a detailed sci-fi plot, is dumbed down to the point where you don't get much exposition, and are left in the role of grunt following Cortana's orders.
The physics engine and inverse kinematics are everything they were promised to be, realistically handling shadow, fog, falling, and the Warthog suspension. I only saw it break down a couple of times, and I think that's just because I put it into a strange situation like laying down three active plasma grenades at my feet. If you haven't heard about it before, Halo has a global physics model. Instead of animating each different thing in the game with its own physics, there's a single model that affects everything in the game equally, which can be altered based on what kind of technology you're using.
The Warthog, being a UNSC jeep, has suspension that responds completely realistically, hugging the terrain and bouncing appropriately. Fly one of the Covenant Banshee aircraft and you'll feel how different the physics are, as the Banshee uses special technology to break the laws of physics to perform slick maneuvers. Inverse kinematics is a catch-phrase Bungie has been throwing around since they announced Halo. It allows a model to perform several animations at once, letting you perform a backflip, fire your rifle, and toss a grenade all at the same time.
While you can't actually do that in the game, it gives it a greater sense of realism, allowing for proper animation of characters, and helps them look so realistic while gripping their weapons or sitting in the Warthog. Given how Bungie originally marketed Halo to the gaming industry, it appeared that you'd have a lot more freedom in playing the game, with a much more non-linear storyline and mission format.
In one of the larger trailers, we even got to see a Covenant equivalent of the Warthog, as well as two different types of animals apparently native to the Halo. Sadly, these things have been left out. In particular was the chapter Truth and Reconciliation, where you're funneled through a series of enemy strongpoints, each of which you'll need to defeat before moving onto the next.
Just take a look at some of the early impressions of Halo on one of the fansites and you'll see how it has changed, a bit for the worse. I'm biased. Very biased. As someone who has been looking forward to the game for quite some time, I must say that I'm a big fan of Halo and probably would've been even if it hadn't been the game that it is. Still, even with my bias aside, Halo stands tall on its many strengths. It is far and away the greatest title of its kind ever to grace a console system and stands par, if not better, with any PC-based First Person Shooter.
It's innovation and high quality design show that a lot of care went into its creation. A few poor elements hold it back from being the best it could be, like the overall lack of many story elements that were hyped during its creation. Also, it does seem as if a few elements have been purposefully left out, either from lack of development time, or holding them back for a PC and Mac release. Still, these items are more annoyances than anything and most certainly don't keep it from being an amazing title.
In the end, there's really only one sentence of this review that you need to read to understand my point. Browse games Game Portals. Halo: Combat Evolved. Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher. Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game.
Game review Downloads Screenshots Overall rating: 9. Download Halo: Combat Evolved. Author Microsoft. Updated Over a year ago. Last revision More than a year ago. Fortnite Apex Legends. There really is a lot of depth to the mechanics, and a lot to discover. Which brings us to the complaints you've surely heard before - level design and the Flood.
Saying that sections of Halo are some of the worst-designed levels in modern FPS history is not hyperbole. These levels are terrible, monotonous, and tedious to the extreme. They are only made manageable through the thoughtful combat. Each level becomes something like a challenge room, with a different twist through enemy makeup, pillar placement, or available weapons. Even that stretches out far past its welcome, and navigating these rooms is both confusing and dreary.
It's like Bungie learned nothing about level design and decoration since Marathon. As for the Flood, they are a parasitic race introduced about halfway into the story. They take all of the amazing advancements to AI and combat and pitch them right into in the bin. The Flood reanimates dead soldiers and sends them sprinting right at you, flailing appendages or spastically firing weapons. It brings all the joy of running backward whilst firing your gun back into an FPS that didn't remotely need it.
Perhaps the intent was to bring in some 'classic' gameplay as a break from all the tactics, but these engagements sit somewhere between 'a waste of time' and 'a pain in the ass. While every level is padded out by some bland corridors and blatantly repeated rooms, only a few use these as the majority of the map.
Most levels have unique rooms or centerpieces like the hangar bay on the alien cruiser , or gorgeous outdoor areas and structures between more generic hallways. There's no slouching here, and the outdoor areas are all lovingly crafted highlights.
There are installations built up in icy cliffs, sunny beaches to storm, hills with defensive emplacements, foggy jungles, and a mountain path to assault at night. Levels are all fairly linear, but these outdoor sections are wide and expansive, with plenty of opportunities to hop into a nimble Warthog four-wheeler, or tear apart enemy positions in the beastly tank.
All vehicles are satisfying to drive, and integrated into the game well that ending! Which brings us specifically to the PC port. Gameplay between the two versions is identical including checkpoints, but no quicksaves and no sprint option , with a possible edge given to mouse and keyboard controls.
Graphics, unfortunately, are pretty identical as well. Flat textures, very limited bump mapping, and a ridiculous amount of jaggies with no AA option!? Fair enough, I suppose, but the bane of a good PC port. At least the audio and orchestral soundtrack still sounds excellent, and all weapons are particularly punchy.
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