Halo: Reach Remastered

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7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 192 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 48 out of 192
  3. Negative: 33 out of 192

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  1. drossa90
    Dec 3, 2019
    10
    This game is just amazing. Awesome campaign and a really fun multiplayer, well optimized for PC version. Audio needs release corrections.
  2. vgparty
    Dec 6, 2019
    10
    Great game, great port.
    MS has done things very well.
    It's a big pleasure to go back in this awesome campain.
  3. Yukinon
    Dec 3, 2019
    10
    Just started to play it on pc with gamepass for 1$, im laughing so hard thinking in ps4 peasants
  4. Dislogic
    Dec 4, 2019
    10
    Best game hands down. Better than modern warfare :) love the pop it n lock it armour ability.
  5. Azzanation
    Dec 6, 2019
    10
    Game of last generation got even better. Playing Reach again at 60 frames at 4k only improves the dramatic story telling and combat. Considered by many as the best Halo game ever made, its an easy recommended.
  6. Yogi77
    Dec 10, 2019
    10
    I don't agree that this game is a 10. But the red user ratings are for horrible reasons, so I'll put a 10 to combat those. I'd personally give it an 8.5.

    To put this into context, here's my experience with Reach so far: - 4 missions into legendary campaign - roughly 12 hours played online. Game modes: TDM, swat, grifball, objective-based one(forgot its name), and firefight To    I don't agree that this game is a 10. But the red user ratings are for horrible reasons, so I'll put a 10 to combat those. I'd personally give it an 8.5.

    To put this into context, here's my experience with Reach so far:
    - 4 missions into legendary campaign
    - roughly 12 hours played online. Game modes: TDM, swat, grifball, objective-based one(forgot its name), and firefight

    To the complainers: Don't know what y'all expected, all 6 games? In perfection? These games are not just ports and clearly some of these users just want to vent and don't understand the work required to port a 360 game to pc with the modern expectations of a dumbed down younger generation. You all seem to forget it's been about a decade since this particular game has been released. There's a 2-generation console difference. Shame on the complainers.

    The biggest, by far, complaint in the red, whiny section, is that the game is "incomplete." This is just untrue. You can play the entirety of the campaign, you can play the entirety of multiplayer.

    The second I've seen is technical issues, including audio. Graphically, I've only noticed a couple glitches, like a pelican landing sideways but I was still able to get in and multiple times where Kat's glitched out. The audio difference, in some spots, is a valid complaint. But I'm not seeing the issues with the guns. I've compared side by side and the difference is literally negligible.

    The next complaint I've seen is "it's dated and aged." Um. Are you serious? This is a complaint? The game came out about 10 years ago. As I said above, 2 console generation difference. Of course it's going to be dated and aged. Look at any remaster of any game prior to PS4 and XBO. They ALL LOOK DATED AND AGED. That complaint is a pathetic and unsuccessful attempt to dog on the game just cause someone personally wanted an entire remake from the ground up.

    Then I've even seen a couple about crashing issues online. Literally rated red or yellow solely because their internet can't handle gaming. I've not crashed a single time. Not a single time. One guy said he's crashed 35% of the time (that's a you problem buddy!) and that made the game unplayable. OK so what about the other 65%?

    To be honest, the complaints on this are just pathetic. Do yourself a favor and spend the $10 on the game. Oh you didn't know? Yeah that's all it cost. Which makes the "I'll be asking for a refund" comments laughable. Some people just want to complain about everything.

    In reality, do yourself a favor and purchase this, heck purchase the entire MCC for $40. But if you're skeptical, you can get Reach alone for $10.    … Expand
  7. Lemings9151
    Dec 17, 2019
    8
    Reach has been good to me.
    Time has come to return the favor.
    Reach is back baby! After two weeks of playing the PC port of Ireland reach managed to condense my thoughts down into this review. It's been 9 years since Halo Reach released on the Xbox 360, now 343 has re-released on the PC for the Halo Master Chief Collection. Surprisingly the game holds up really well. The mix    Reach has been good to me.
    Time has come to return the favor.

    Reach is back baby!
    After two weeks of playing the PC port of Ireland reach managed to condense my thoughts down into this review.

    It's been 9 years since Halo Reach released on the Xbox 360, now 343 has re-released on the PC for the Halo Master Chief Collection. Surprisingly the game holds up really well. The mix between 60 frame the second game play on 30 frame character animations surprisingly works fairly well, it doesn't seem to hit the gameplay for the most part.
    Although I have noticed in my own experience during multiplayer that there is an issue with responsiveness when trying to string together actions that you would have been able to do in the original release of halo reach such as sprinting into shooting and they are into melee or or plasma pistol into melon works occasionally it does not seem to work reliably in multiplayer which is is a minor gripe but still it's a gripe nonetheless.

    As far as the technical side of the PC port is concerned there always seems to be minor issues such as frame rate drops & stuttering as well as stuttering low quality audio for things such as multiplayer announcer lines and campaign music & sound effects.

    I'm aware that there are fixes for most of these issues but one of the issues that people seem to have the most trouble with and it doesn't seem to be a fix for the amount of input lag when doing online co-op campaign. I'm playing with a few buddies of mine numerous occasions they have complained that they seem to have up to 10 seconds of latency between import and response which massively ruins the gameplay experience.

    Multiplier is just as good as I remember although there are a few issues with the launch set of the 343 has gone with. now even though the title update settings were available at launch they do become stale after a while once you've played your 17th game of 'title update DMR slayer' in a row on one of the numerously criticised DLC maps, will probably leave a sour taste in your mouth like they have mine.

    The matchmaking algorithm seems to be incredibly one-sided towards the DLC and anniversary maps as compared to the classic reach maps. Hopefully in the future 343 will balance is out in the future to allow the classic maps some room to breathe.

    Another issue with MP seems to be that Griffball is just a cesspit of afk bots & EXP boosting and what the community is currently called sword lining well all of the enemy team stand in line and one player on the other team goes and kills them to wrap up around about 12 to 15 kills to reach the max performance experience. Although as of writing this review, 343 have now started to punish accounts that have been linked to botting & sword lining.

    Although the port is not perfect & a few cosmetic changes have been made to the game, there is plenty of room for improvement for that perfect reach experience. Although I'm not sure we'll get it anytime soon as 343 have numerous other games too now port to the PC. I feel that it will have changing is the battle pass system that they currently have in place as it is getting a lot of flak from the community as well as tidying up and improving the overall UI for the game now I understand but 343 has to create a unified AI I feel like they may have to make concessions when it comes to reach as it's all my own experience differs widely from that of the previous halo games.

    I would give this game a 8/10, a solid experience with some room for improvement..    … Expand
  8. 789636
    Dec 9, 2019
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Grandioso juego como el su versión de Xbox 360 y un gran historia!! Para jugarlo varias veces!!… Expand
  9. Titocritico
    Dec 7, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Maravilha um dos melhores jogos de fps já lançados sou apaixonado msm por fps e esse é um dos melhores se n o melhor que joguei… Expand
  10. gracjanski
    Feb 4, 2023
    9
    Popular franchise, good action, many weapons, many abilities of the armour. Music is perfect.
    I had not any big technical problems, something many users here complained. It was only frustrating, that Fraps didnt work. And subtitles are not complete.
    Graphic is a bit old.
    The characters are not interesting, sometimes it was even ridiculous (Kat)
  11. willdapod
    Apr 1, 2021
    10
    After an awful launch which they were fairly destroyed for they have recovered the package into an incredible collection of some of the best games ever made. With consistent updates the game has been well supported since they fixed it and more importantly brought it to Steam.
  12. frederik1478
    May 19, 2021
    9
    Second best Halo game.
    , we finally have health bars Again and it feels like an improved version of ODST,
    the best story of the Halo games , Reason I can give it a 10 out of 10 in speakers of the space mission where the combat is just ignoring and boring just like the library in Halo combat Evolved but it is really important for a story so I cannot skip it when I we play the game ,
  13. c300g97
    Jul 20, 2020
    10
    Never owned an Xbox360 so i've missed this masterpiece...
    By playng it now on PC, i understand why the Halo franchise will remain forever signed into stone.
    Remember Noble6.
  14. MHerrera
    Mar 6, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Tô me it's one of the best games i ever play, cause he can introduce you in a squad, in a atmosphere of "take the pieces" and in the final some Hope.… Expand
  15. Epsilon-Xenos
    Mar 3, 2020
    10
    Just look at the reviews from the 360 title and they explain the campaign pretty well, although I would recommend going to Halowaypoint and other places to see the minor details on bugs and smaller issues with the game being on PC such as the; audio issues, net-coding issues, and a lot of smaller things that don't really affect game play that much. The biggest issue would be the net-codingJust look at the reviews from the 360 title and they explain the campaign pretty well, although I would recommend going to Halowaypoint and other places to see the minor details on bugs and smaller issues with the game being on PC such as the; audio issues, net-coding issues, and a lot of smaller things that don't really affect game play that much. The biggest issue would be the net-coding in multiplayer, but it's been like that since the original released.

    The game has a dedicated team of developers that are working on the game. No one here mentions the MCC Flight Programs, that alone shows how dedicated the team is working on fixing and testing the bugs for the games. They've been continually fixing all the technical issues such as the crouch issue, and they've even fixed some of the audio issues. The team behind the game is still working on fixing the game and making it optimized. People really don't give this game enough credit to the developers or the game itself. All the issues that everyone is complaining about in the reviews will be fixed.    … Expand
  16. PeakZach
    Jan 9, 2023
    8
    Of course this is a fun game. The nostalgia and story placement is and easy reason to pick this up. However, nostalgia blinded my memory of the game. Poor story arc, I don't care much about the characters, and overall progression is fine, but there's absolutely no character development at all.
  17. AkitoAK
    Dec 6, 2021
    9
    I havent played Halo since Combat Evolved, and today I did..
    Mainly cause most Halo games were limited to xbox, and nowadays time..
    But with the upcoming launch of Halo Infinite, I wanted to go back to the beginning, to the roots of the franchise.. I bought MCC on steam and booted up Reach to start the universe with Noble Six and the Noble Team.. Even though we just get to know them, I    I havent played Halo since Combat Evolved, and today I did..
    Mainly cause most Halo games were limited to xbox, and nowadays time..
    But with the upcoming launch of Halo Infinite, I wanted to go back to the beginning, to the roots of the franchise..
    I bought MCC on steam and booted up Reach to start the universe with Noble Six and the Noble Team..
    Even though we just get to know them, I enjoyed my adventures with them till the end.
    Thanks Noble Team, thanks for your hard work!    … Expand
  18. Egtyrus
    Feb 6, 2020
    10
    one of the better game of the Halos´s saga, i remember when a played halo 1, and the creators made a huge evolution in the history and player´s experience
  19. Sepherim
    Mar 5, 2021
    8
    Halo: Reach es, probablemente, el mejor Halo que he jugado de momento (a falta del 4 y 5). Primero, aunque la historia en realidad aporta poco a la historia general del universo de Halo, contando un poco cómo fue la caída de Reach antes del 1, lo cierto es que está razonablemente bien contada y hace bien el trabajo en el que fracasa ODST de hacer que te importen los miembros de la escuadraHalo: Reach es, probablemente, el mejor Halo que he jugado de momento (a falta del 4 y 5). Primero, aunque la historia en realidad aporta poco a la historia general del universo de Halo, contando un poco cómo fue la caída de Reach antes del 1, lo cierto es que está razonablemente bien contada y hace bien el trabajo en el que fracasa ODST de hacer que te importen los miembros de la escuadra de espartanos. Pero sobretodo, por la buena jugabilidad y buen diseño de niveles que tiene. Primero, tiene más que los anteriores: nuevas armas, enemigos, etc. Pero sobretodo por el muy interesante añadido de las habilidades de las armaduras, que permiten explorar otras jugabilidades y personalizar nuestro estilo según cual de ellas llevemos en cada momento.

    Gráficamente el juego está además bastante bien, logrando unos resultados bastante destacables y con una decente variedad de ambientaciones y escenarios. El sonido está igualmente a un muy buen nivel. Por todo ello, Halo: Reach se merece ser jugado si te gusta Halo, un 8.    … Expand
  20. jamiemb17
    Jun 10, 2020
    8
    This is my first Halo game and it is a breath of fresh air from stuff like Call of Duty if you've never played Halo before. The game is very immersive in terms of setting, environments, level design and plot, and has AI which is far more engaging than that of COD. Playing on Heroic difficulty (the third-most-difficult of four), the game can get frustrating at certain difficult scenarios,This is my first Halo game and it is a breath of fresh air from stuff like Call of Duty if you've never played Halo before. The game is very immersive in terms of setting, environments, level design and plot, and has AI which is far more engaging than that of COD. Playing on Heroic difficulty (the third-most-difficult of four), the game can get frustrating at certain difficult scenarios, but more often than not it is a rewarding challenge that requires a good element of tactical play. Graphics and performance are more than adequate. All that said, I wouldn't say it's an amazing game, just a very good one, and it is tarnished by installation bugs on Windows Store/Xbox app. Personally I didn't really notice any audio issues; everything sounded alright to me.… Expand
  21. kimi1775
    Nov 9, 2020
    8
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  22. LSS777
    Nov 27, 2020
    8
    Excellent remaster. I didn't play this part of the series at the start 10 years ago, but even now I enjoyed it.
  23. Levkasovka
    Jun 9, 2021
    9
    Отличная игра с шикарной одиночной кампанией и шикарным мультиплеером. Порт на ПК очень хорош, все баги были исправлены, так что сейчас лучшее время чтобы пройти эту игру.
  24. RagnarRagnarov4
    Feb 19, 2022
    10
    Отличная и трагичная история отряда. Начал знакомство с серией Halo с этой части и как же я разочаровался когда начал играть в Halo: Combat Evolved, порвался на библиотеке, ну нельзя так затягивать уровень.
  25. aecsuter
    Aug 9, 2023
    9
    Depois do ODST fui mais confiante no Halo Reach pois sabia que o Chief também não estaria presente e não decepcionou, adorei o jogo.

    ---== Gráficos ==-- Houve mais uma boa evolução entre os jogos em todos os aspectos, ambientes, armas, personagens, armaduras, inimigos e cutscenes. Um destaque legal ficou pelo capricho nos modelos dos personagens. As armaduras dos Spartans são muito    Depois do ODST fui mais confiante no Halo Reach pois sabia que o Chief também não estaria presente e não decepcionou, adorei o jogo.

    ---== Gráficos ==--
    Houve mais uma boa evolução entre os jogos em todos os aspectos, ambientes, armas, personagens, armaduras, inimigos e cutscenes.
    Um destaque legal ficou pelo capricho nos modelos dos personagens. As armaduras dos Spartans são muito bem feitas e detalhadas, é um jogo gostoso de assistir.

    ---== História ==--
    Nesta história você conhece uma nova equipe composta todos por spartans e você controla um novato na equipe, Noble Six, que com poucas palavras durante o jogo ja se tornou um dos meus personagens favoritos da serie.
    Eu gostei muito de como o enredo se desenrola e as coisas acontecem. Apesar de simples é um historia que empolga e você quer continuar jogando pra ver o que vai acontecer.

    ---== Gameplay ==--
    Também houve uma evolução nesse jogo, as armas sofreram melhorias, com uma maior variedade e as ja existentes com algumas mudanças tambem. Achei todas bem vindas porque acentuou as caracteristas de algumas armas e tornaram elas unicas. Além disso elas possuem um "acerto" diferente nos inimigos o que da muito mais imersão.
    O sentimento de estar em meio a uma guerra e você fazer parte de um pelotão muito f.... é MUITO presente nesse jogo.
    Existiu uma variação dos veiculos utilizados e todos eles são muito divertidos e interessantes. Expero que se repita nos próximos.

    ---== Resumo ==--
    Esse jogo tem uma história prequel muito legal e apesar de você ja saber como a história termina antes de ela começar, a forma como ela é contada te prende do começo ao fim.    … Expand
  26. DoomDoc_
    Aug 11, 2023
    9
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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. PCMag
    May 1, 2020
    60
    A mainline Halo game has finally come to PC as part of a much larger compilation. If you desire high-octane Halo action on PC, Reach is as good a start as any, but heed this port's rough edges and missing features.
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  2. Worth Playing
    Feb 25, 2020
    80
    Although this isn't the definitive version of the game due to the lack of split-screen play, Halo: Reach on the PC is a solid experience. The campaign retains the magic that Bungie prided itself on during its time with the franchise and the multiplayer. While the multiplayer in Reach is not as populous as the older entries, it often has more options to satisfy anyone's tastes. This is a good indication of how the rest of the package will turn out, which means that there's going to be some positive buzz surrounding each release. Whether you're buying this on Steam or taking advantage of the Xbox Game Pass on PC, Reach is well worth checking out.
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  3. CD-Action
    Jan 15, 2020
    85
    For an almost 10-years old grandpa of a game Halo: Reach still stands strong. It’s Bungie’s best Halo and a fitting goodbye with their own franchise. [02/2020, p.64]
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