Halo: The Master Chief Collection - Halo 4

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  1. Sayari
    Nov 24, 2020
    10
    This game is different from other halo games, so this can make some fanboys mad. But as single game it's a true masterpiece. Gameplay concept is simular to Call of Duty but the level design is so smart and better than every COD and Battlefield. This game has the best music of halo franchise and one of the bests of gaming industry. The Story is amazing. Graphic is still grat.
  2. hhatam117
    Nov 19, 2020
    10
    This was a great start after halo 3. Graphics are still good in 2020. musics are awesome. gameplay is good not the best. story was great and has so much potential for the next games (but halo 5 ruined it).
  3. Tomle1202
    Feb 6, 2021
    8
    A decent enough game with only a few questionable design choices and a weird ending.
  4. FabioFisher
    Nov 28, 2020
    10
    Amazing history, the same good playability, fantastic characters, wonderfull sondtrack. I expect exactly what is delivery by this game, a continuation of Halo trilogy, a history based on forerunners. I never play this in XBox. Thank you!! Awesom game!!
  5. MaxmilianKohler
    Dec 10, 2020
    8
    New HUD, cluttered, designed so it looks like you're looking through a helmet (I'm not a fan). Finally sprint. No dual wield. Reworked guns and enemies. Guns are more accurate initially, and sound good. Zoom shooting is back. No flashlight or nightvision. Bloom lighting is still pretty bad and strong. Powerups are much better designed so you actually get to use most of them. New aliens,New HUD, cluttered, designed so it looks like you're looking through a helmet (I'm not a fan). Finally sprint. No dual wield. Reworked guns and enemies. Guns are more accurate initially, and sound good. Zoom shooting is back. No flashlight or nightvision. Bloom lighting is still pretty bad and strong. Powerups are much better designed so you actually get to use most of them. New aliens, and alien guns. New vehicles.

    Swap weapon button for switching to Banshee bomb, and switching other aircraft weapons.

    Besides the terrible bloom lighting and HUD clutter, there are a variety of things that seem poorly designed. The railgun, and walker-robot's (Mantis) missiles for example. The Reflow mod fixes many of them. Unfortunately, it seems using mods disables achievements, but most of the Halo achievements are bad anyway IMO.

    Halo 1 and 2 were much more flawless. Halo 4 brings a lot of new and good things, but also many flaws. The Reflow mod fixes most of the issues, so with the mod I'd give this game an 8.5/10.    … Expand
  6. Frgtuw
    Dec 3, 2020
    10
    Игра шикарная. Всем брать. Сюжет неплохой, геймплей отличный. Мастер Чиф снова с нами!
  7. AnderTr
    Nov 24, 2020
    10
    Um jogo bem acima da média, um ótimo jogo.
    Gráficos 10
    Jogabilidade 10 História 8
    Diversão 10
  8. abdu321
    Nov 24, 2020
    10
    this is the best halo game that i have ever seen its a fantastic game it has coop and multplayer and great grahics and can run in weak computers its the greatest
  9. MedAllion
    Nov 22, 2020
    10
    Very good game, but i bet those same losers who hated it back in 2012 and trying to do it again in 2020 . Difference is, it wont work anymore. Most PC gamers have always wanted halo 4 to PC and it finally happened. Amazing game, would recommend!
  10. RoqueNE
    Nov 20, 2020
    6
    Its "okay", but the Prometheans are ridiculous bullet-sponges. It is not fun to fight against them. As a shooter its mediocre and the story is not really interesting.
  11. trival
    Nov 21, 2020
    6
    game is... ok. BUT i haven't seen such a lazy designed ending in a loong time
  12. TheWolf1
    Nov 27, 2020
    0
    Great remake. only reason i gave it a 9 was because after i bought it they released dlc for it that i felt should have been included. the disc also stopped working but i didnt include that in the rating because i have moved to buying everything digitally now and it is the first time that has happened to me on the pc or xbox.
  13. Shadowxxx
    Aug 27, 2022
    0
    disgusting trash disgusting trash disgusting trash disgusting trash disgusting trash
  14. UnKidreal
    Jun 22, 2023
    8
    Игра пройдена на уровне сложности – Легендарная

    Всё тот же Halo со всеми его недостатками и положительными моментами. Всё та же убогая графика и всё такой же тупой ИИ, но, всё тот же затягивающий игровой процесс и неплохая хоть и простенькая история. Оценка: 7.5/10    Игра пройдена на уровне сложности – Легендарная

    Всё тот же Halo со всеми его недостатками и положительными моментами. Всё та же убогая графика и всё такой же тупой ИИ, но, всё тот же затягивающий игровой процесс и неплохая хоть и простенькая история.

    Оценка: 7.5/10
  15. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 4, 2021
    7
    Halo 4
    Annoying but beautiful
    Halo 4 is a 6 hour long first person shooter and is the first standalone game from 343 studios. And sadly after the great direction halo 3 was taking for the series, halo 4 approves the series and takes some major steps back at the same time.. Visually halo 4 is the most modern looking and beautiful halo game ive played so far.. I love the feeling of level    Halo 4
    Annoying but beautiful
    Halo 4 is a 6 hour long first person shooter and is the first standalone game from 343 studios.
    And sadly after the great direction halo 3 was taking for the series, halo 4 approves the series and takes some major steps back at the same time..
    Visually halo 4 is the most modern looking and beautiful halo game ive played so far.. I love the feeling of level variety here, not something you really get in halo games.. all the way up until reach every level kind of looked and felt the same, with no standouts.. here it felts like an actual world was crafted rather than generic space stations over nd over and over.. at least for the most part.. because the copy paste that the hole series suffers from is here as well… made worse by the fact that halo 4 is too easy to get lost in.. youll be in a new area and have no idea, thinking you went around in circles because again so many assets and layouts are just copy and pasted to new areas… and the progression indactors are just awful hee.. I get the point is to make the game not feel linear, but instead I just feel like a chicken running around with my head cut off, trying to trigger a door opening to move on…
    Halo 4 does attempt to add something new to the series with these robot like enemies and new weapons, but theyre just annoyingly frustrating..
    Ive personallyappreciated tht in every halo game up until this point you could just run through, especially tring to get through the entire series before infinite comes out.. but here in halo 4 there are tons of moments youre forced to clear the room, and the game really doesn’t do much to indicate this is necessary.. which is something that should’ve been done considering, once again.. halo games don’t typically make you clear a room to be able to move on.. . which brings me to the annoying enemies.. these robot enemies ar infurating to deal with.. halo 4 has an awful checkpoint system and in between these awful checkpoints are these enemies that spit bullets at you, or are large power houses followed by drones that not only shield enemies, but they heal them, they can also shoot, and they fold when you shoot at them.. and when you finally do hit them they seem to just absorb all of your bullets.. making th final stretch of this game more infuriating than all of the worst parts of the halo series combined..
    Halo 4 is a good game, it’s a challenging game.. it strays away from halo too much in the end.. which could be a good thing, but isn’t a good thing here…
    Im hoping for more positive change with halo 5, and less frustration.
    I give Halo 4
    a 7/10    … Expand
  16. Servase
    Mar 21, 2021
    10
    There is only one negative point i have against this game. Its too short. A single play through takes me me 8hrs. I love every minute of those 8 hours. I play through Halo 1 to Halo 4 every year and Halo 4 is the game i look forward too. Vehicles, Weapon and Combat is near perfection.
  17. frederik1478
    May 21, 2021
    7
    All the problems from Halo 2 and 3 but now with the best story , I am so sad they took away the Health bar It made it so you could be more flexible because you knew exactly how much health your head, But now we're back to Halo 2 and 3 where you have to hope that you still have some invisible health left .
    , I think the story is the best in the serious except for reach , the way that    All the problems from Halo 2 and 3 but now with the best story , I am so sad they took away the Health bar It made it so you could be more flexible because you knew exactly how much health your head, But now we're back to Halo 2 and 3 where you have to hope that you still have some invisible health left .
    , I think the story is the best in the serious except for reach , the way that Cortana and chief talk to each other is wonderful And the way you can feel their emotions from them and the way the story end is wonderful if this was the end of the series I would have been heavy happy end.
    , But this Halo game has the worst environment in the franchise And all the new enemies sucks. It is worth playing    … Expand
  18. CoreGamer1408
    May 19, 2022
    7
    Halo 4 is my least fave OG style Halo game. I do appreciate the Halo 4 (FUD) film to game tie in way more. The gameplay of Halo 4 is fun, but the actual story is bad. 343 just don't know how to write good Halo like Bungie. Three generations of my family have played Halo together in co-op and now only play Halo 1-4 & Reach now. Pass on Halo 5 and Infinite plus that dumb silver timeline show.
  19. jax2321
    May 3, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad game bad game bad game Bad game bad game bad game Bad game bad game bad game… Expand
  20. Sepherim
    Mar 7, 2021
    6
    Halo 4 ofrece el regreso de Master Chief y el avance de la historia del mundo de Halo tras los eventos del 3, pero lo hace entre claroscuros. La historia no está mal, pero tiene varias incoherencias, cosas que no explican y alguna contradicción con lo visto en juegos anteriores. A nivel de jugabilidad, mantiene las innovaciones bienvenidas de Reach, modificando cosillas menores. NuevosHalo 4 ofrece el regreso de Master Chief y el avance de la historia del mundo de Halo tras los eventos del 3, pero lo hace entre claroscuros. La historia no está mal, pero tiene varias incoherencias, cosas que no explican y alguna contradicción con lo visto en juegos anteriores. A nivel de jugabilidad, mantiene las innovaciones bienvenidas de Reach, modificando cosillas menores. Nuevos enemigos bastante interesantes por sus nuevas mecánicas, un nuevo vehículo que está bien (un mecha) y nuevas armas que en realidad solo son skins nuevas para armas ya existentes. El resultado es un juego de acción sólido, que tiene un diseño de niveles que está bien y una acción relativamente variada.

    A nivel gráfico es innegable que el juego está muy bien, tanto en el diseño (dentro de lo que es la estética de Halo) como en ejecución del mismo. El sonido está bien también, con las voces habituales, la típica banda sonora de Halo que parece sacada de una película de guerra, y unos buenos efectos. Y al menos en mi caso, no ha tenido ningún bug.

    Todo ello hace de Halo 4 un juego de acción que está bien, pero que tampoco aporta nada realmente especial. Un 6,5.    … Expand
  21. 3t3rnal
    Jan 4, 2022
    0
    Really sad about this one, but I can't finish it because halfway through level 5 all textures disappear and the game cannot be finished.

    So far up to that point, this was a pretty solid 7 or even 8 / 10. Good graphics, pretty distinct style for new enemies - though I did not like the changes to some of the old enemies. The story is kinda "stuff happens out of nowhere" and it's not    Really sad about this one, but I can't finish it because halfway through level 5 all textures disappear and the game cannot be finished.

    So far up to that point, this was a pretty solid 7 or even 8 / 10. Good graphics, pretty distinct style for new enemies - though I did not like the changes to some of the old enemies.

    The story is kinda "stuff happens out of nowhere" and it's not been very good at explaining wtf is really going on and the main villain and their motivation - feels like I am missing something and this stuff can be found in some other media, perhaps a comic or a book, but you shouldn't have to scour what is an expanded universe source to understand what's going in a mainline entry in a videogame series...

    Sound is pretty good, some of the weapons and kills feel very impactful, the music was a bit in the background and not very noticeable, which is a shame. Halo, for the most part, has great music, and it was mostly missing here.

    Gameplay was really good though, I really liked how it was balanced mostly, though for some weapons, the ammo count is a bit too low I think. Overall, though, it was fun fighting the different enemies - both new and old. The vehicle sections were pretty good, though the god awful camera-steering controls remain.

    Anyways, as part of the MCC and on game pass, can recommend, but if this is the only game you are missing for whatever reason, I can't recommend buying it / buying the MCC because of it - due to the technical issue I encountered.    … Expand
  22. Fixfix
    Feb 25, 2021
    10
    Halo 4 is amazing and i still don't understand why some people hated it, because it's just move story forward and also has one of the best stories in halo history. Who cares that they changed some stuff? You want everything to be same forever? .....
  23. KevLooney
    Sep 16, 2022
    6
    there aren’t enough ui tips. nothing key presses should be met with ui prompts for possible actions.
    halo 4. there aren’t enough tutorials that are seamless. it feels very trial and error. it needs a grenade tutorial. the movement is too slow for how much spread is on the rifle. it feels underpowered in that way. i prefer the plasma pistol. the spread mechanics on the rifle make them    there aren’t enough ui tips. nothing key presses should be met with ui prompts for possible actions.
    halo 4. there aren’t enough tutorials that are seamless. it feels very trial and error. it needs a grenade tutorial. the movement is too slow for how much spread is on the rifle. it feels underpowered in that way. i prefer the plasma pistol. the spread mechanics on the rifle make them pointless. there is no cover. the movement feels slow. the weapon is too inaccurate. the game isn’t fun. the spread indicator isn’t accurate. halo sucks. i never want to play it again. ammo is very limited.    … Expand
  24. Ray6701
    Nov 12, 2021
    10
    Awesome game it's just amazing and cool graphics for me and cool multilayer
  25. 3marooshee_halo
    Aug 2, 2021
    8
    its a good game. the hate really is not true
    its a game just like reach but slightly better and i would reccomend for a person getting into halo good gameplay and fast-paste and just smooth and great
  26. StarkAgentos
    May 21, 2022
    5
    Ремастер никак не изменил графику, так что приступаю сразу к самой игре. Серию превратили в самый настоящий конвейер. Именно в данной игре нововведения есть. Локации стали не такими коридорными, появился нормальный сюжет. Геймплей тупо пиу-пиу, как и все предыдущие части. Разрабы в этом плане ничего менять вообще не хотят (в infinite они, конечно, всё переделали, но сейчас не о ней).Ремастер никак не изменил графику, так что приступаю сразу к самой игре. Серию превратили в самый настоящий конвейер. Именно в данной игре нововведения есть. Локации стали не такими коридорными, появился нормальный сюжет. Геймплей тупо пиу-пиу, как и все предыдущие части. Разрабы в этом плане ничего менять вообще не хотят (в infinite они, конечно, всё переделали, но сейчас не о ней).
  27. KIrillooss
    Dec 9, 2021
    8
    Неплохая часть с классным геймплеем и неплохим сюжетом
  28. petrkozak13
    Dec 21, 2021
    7
    This is the last Halo I played as Halo 5 is not available for PC (but maybe I'm wrong). It wasn't the best one but still a good game. I'm definitely excited to play Halo Infinite though.
  29. aecsuter
    Aug 9, 2023
    8
    Meu ultimo jogo da Master Chief Collection e ele não decepcionou.

    ---== Gráficos ==-- Não vi uma grande evolução nos graficos das gameplay frente ao Reach porém As Cutscenes ficaram MUITO melhores. Houve alguns refinos nos detalhes das armas e cenarios mas todos eles continuam muito bons. Unico ponto que eu não gostei tanto foi o design da cortana nesse jogo. Mas talvez seja    Meu ultimo jogo da Master Chief Collection e ele não decepcionou.

    ---== Gráficos ==--
    Não vi uma grande evolução nos graficos das gameplay frente ao Reach porém As Cutscenes ficaram MUITO melhores.
    Houve alguns refinos nos detalhes das armas e cenarios mas todos eles continuam muito bons.
    Unico ponto que eu não gostei tanto foi o design da cortana nesse jogo. Mas talvez seja implicância minha.

    ---== História ==--
    De todos os Halos foi o que eu menos gostei da história, mas acredito que seja algo pessoal. Vale destacar o desenvolvimento da ligação da Cortana com o Chief e o final digamos complicado.
    Mas ainda sim tem um desenvolvimento legal e acho que a gameplay esta muito ligada a historia.

    ---== Gameplay ==--
    A gameplay é bem parecida com a do Reach o que pra mim é algo muito positivo, com mais algumas melhorias nas caracteristicas das armas e mais algumas variações.
    È tão bom quanto no Reach limpar uma area de inimigos e progredir pelas missões.
    Vale destacar um bug que tive em uma das missões ja no fim dela que fez eu reiniar ela do inicio na dificuldade legendary o que nunca é uma coisa legal rsrs.
    Tirando isso não tive nem queda de FPS.

    ---== Resumo ==--
    Dentro de uma promoção é inegavel como vale a pena essa coletanea de jogos Halo, por 5 jogos (6 se considerar a ODST que tem a campanha do mesmo tamanho de um jogo) fica quase de graça os R$32,25 que paguei.    … Expand
  30. qbangamer98
    Nov 19, 2022
    7
    i remember seeing the teaser back in 2011 and being so hyped about it , well now that master chief collection is on pc i was finally able to play halo 4 after all this years , the game has sort of a complicated and more complex history than the previous halo 2 and halo 3 but is still good halo game not the best but definetely not bad , the new weapons and enemies make it very interestingi remember seeing the teaser back in 2011 and being so hyped about it , well now that master chief collection is on pc i was finally able to play halo 4 after all this years , the game has sort of a complicated and more complex history than the previous halo 2 and halo 3 but is still good halo game not the best but definetely not bad , the new weapons and enemies make it very interesting and fun campaign the graphics are astounding too… Expand
  31. greensmile
    Apr 18, 2023
    8
    HALO 4 is a continuation of HALO from other developers which has become better in graphics, plot and staged scenes. Weapons have become more diverse, but the gameplay has degraded and it is already half-Halo-half-Call of Duty, although often the game resembles the old dynamic gameplay.

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Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. PC Invasion
    Nov 25, 2020
    85
    343 Industries has managed to bring Halo: The Master Chief Collection to a stellar close with the release of Halo 4. Despite the campaign's storyline being a bit of a mess, the developer still managed to deliver an outstanding singleplayer experience that's worth a replay. Mix in esports-level multiplayer, and you have a recipe for an outstanding last stand.
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  2. TheGamer
    Nov 23, 2020
    90
    If this is your first time playing Halo 4, prepare for a treat. Gameplay remains identical to previous installments, but with some additions enhancing the experience. The story is also a big highlight. With this game, it's hard not to consider Master Chief and Cortana as gaming's greatest duo. Halo 4 caps off The Master Chief Collection on PC nearly perfectly.
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  3. GamingBolt
    Nov 23, 2020
    80
    Halo 4 might be the black sheep of the family, but it's still a great game and an excellent way to send off The Master Chief Collection.
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