Since they went ahead and spruced up the geometry it doesn't always align with the old geometry which is what's used to calculate hit detection. For the most part I kept the new graphics, except where it became a bit of a problem. The animation is the same so it can look a bit wierd and you can't change graphic style while in the middle of a cutscene. I really appreciate this detail as it doesn't lock you in, sometimes you want to remember what it looked like in the old graphics. The graphics were enhanced to look a bit more like Halo 3 but what's really cool is the ability to switch back and forth between them in real time. The anniversary part of the pacakge is pretty interesting. The Xbox brand may very well not exist today if it wasn't for Halo. Master Chief became a sort of mascot, Xbox was a success and the rest is history.

Halo became permenantly associated with Xbox. To those who have only played this way, it's a lot like using Zoom to talk to friends, it works, but it's not the same.

Unfortunately, most multiplayer since has gone online-only. Having a pizza party with 16 other people and playing Halo capture-the-flag was amazing. Having played a few, this was the pinnacle of multiplayer and I'd argue to this day still is. Halo was the first (viable) console game that could link up-to 4 Xboxes to have 16 player games, making the LAN party available in a low cost console (if you could setup a few TVs). Part of it's sticking power wasn't just the ahead of it's time FPS combat and large open levels but its multiplayer component which was all the rage. This was a perfect storm of good fotune, Halo was a blockbuster and sold tons of Xboxes. Microsoft trying to gear up some games bought them and they worked to get it out on Xbox. Halo had been in development for a long time from creator Bungie, who was a Mac-centric game developer. At this time a lot of people were pretty suspect of Microsoft entering the console space and how long they would last. Halo was a launch title for the original Xbox. It's been interesting revisiting one of my favorite game series after so long, and especially the older ones which I haven't touched in at least a decade. Lucky for me Microsoft ported it to the PC (well except 5, which is the only one I haven't played). Even though I'm not so excited for Halo Infinite at this point something did get me in the mood for Halo. It's been quite a while since I've played a Halo game having skipped the Xbox One X entirely. Over Christmas I recieved the Master Chief Collection for PC.

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Halo custom edition maps suck