Halo: The Master Chief Collection

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  1. dunnyone
    Dec 4, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Not P2W.

    No Microtransactions.

    No DLC.

    Just a **** of content. Enough for months, years even. God DAMN I missed Halo multiplayer.

    Get it!!!    … Expand
  2. FlippinSnip3r
    Dec 3, 2019
    10
    This game is f##king halo on pc, for 10$ or 1$, why the f##k would you ask more, the graphics still hold up, mk is smooth and it's still a worth try experience
  3. Sarge198
    Jun 23, 2020
    5
    As someone who is Solely interested in the single player campaign, I was very disappointed to find out this game is unplayable offline. No Microsoft I will not sign in to play a single player game.
  4. x0v3rKiLx
    Dec 6, 2019
    6
    Pros:

    - Campaign is gorgeous - Graphics look amazing - FOV sliders! Reach looks like it was *made* for 120º! - Full support for custom Firefight Cons: - Some keybinds are locked and can't be remapped. Seriously? - Total absence of matchmaking, always getting stuck on bad teams. - Controller aim assist puts keyboard/mouse users at significant disadvantage. - No voting on    Pros:

    - Campaign is gorgeous
    - Graphics look amazing
    - FOV sliders! Reach looks like it was *made* for 120º!
    - Full support for custom Firefight

    Cons:

    - Some keybinds are locked and can't be remapped. Seriously?
    - Total absence of matchmaking, always getting stuck on bad teams.
    - Controller aim assist puts keyboard/mouse users at significant disadvantage.
    - No voting on maps/gamemodes. Play what you're given or suffer a quit penalty.
    - Firefight playlists suck. No Score Attack or Crashsite in matchmaking. Custom FF awards absolutely zero progress.
    - Battle pass system that doesn't give enough rewards for Firefight
    - No custom games server browser for PVP *OR* Firefight.

    I'm already bored not even 48 hours after downloading. There's a lot of room for improvement, but for right now, this is a game I'd only call slightly above average. There are several other games that I'd rather play right now.    … Expand
  5. WreckWren
    Nov 10, 2022
    0
    Absolute garbage port, easily the worst port of anything I've ever seen. 3 years post launch and these titles are STILL feature incomplete especially on PC, with bugs EVERYWHERE. Co-op may as well have been cancelled, because splitscreen is gone altogether and the netcode has been changed for first year student garbage.

    0 is not low enough for this abomination that destroyed my    Absolute garbage port, easily the worst port of anything I've ever seen. 3 years post launch and these titles are STILL feature incomplete especially on PC, with bugs EVERYWHERE. Co-op may as well have been cancelled, because splitscreen is gone altogether and the netcode has been changed for first year student garbage.

    0 is not low enough for this abomination that destroyed my childhood memories. #fire343    … Expand
  6. ReeceC2005
    Mar 29, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Right ok may go on a rant here

    The campaigns. This is the only reason to buy this and my god they are brilliant. While atm it only has Reach and CE: A, it is brilliant. The ability to transition between og graphics and anniversary make it extremely good to the people who played it as a child. Now, the reason not to buy this. If you use a keyboard and mouse, you will be ass-blasted by any controller user. Aim assist in this game is the highest in a game I've ever played, and it ruins the experience. Because halo mp focuses on maintaining good aim for a while due to the long ttk, with a mouse this can be hard if you aren't highly skilled. whereas with a controller, you don't even need to touch the joystick and you have an instant kill. So yeah, this game sticks its middle finger up at people trying to play with kb&m, just a warning. If you want xp, don't play mp, just play firefight.    … Expand
  7. Burnout95
    Dec 3, 2019
    10
    No pay to win or pay to progress. You unlock everything by playing and completing achievements. MY CHILDHOOD IS BACK BABY!
  8. SouthernBread
    Dec 3, 2019
    2
    I'm writing this upon the release of Reach and so far....this is a really, really poor showing on Microsoft's part. If this was literally any other game that wasn't dripping in nostalgia, it'd be getting reamed. One of the most bare-bones and basic pc ports I've played recently. Absolutely no graphics options at all (aside from three preset options that allow no tweaking, or even anyI'm writing this upon the release of Reach and so far....this is a really, really poor showing on Microsoft's part. If this was literally any other game that wasn't dripping in nostalgia, it'd be getting reamed. One of the most bare-bones and basic pc ports I've played recently. Absolutely no graphics options at all (aside from three preset options that allow no tweaking, or even any indication of what they actually do) and the aspect ratio is completely out of whack even at 1080p. Still very much plays like a game released 8 years ago (understandable) with no improvements whatsoever (why?). It won't even launch through the Xbox app, I have to use the Win10 start menu to get it to run.

    I expected a lot better. In depth graphics tweaks, maybe even some graphical improvements, or at least some basic QoL improvements. Instead we got an extremely basic port with extremely limited options and a terrible menu system. Take off your nostalgia shades and it's easy to see how much of a quick cash grab this was for Microsoft.

    I sincerely hope the rest of the collection is treated better instead of banking on nostalgia to get by. The marketplace is crowded and an hour or two of "oh hey I remember that!" isn't enough imo.    … Expand
  9. SPARTAN_M90
    Dec 3, 2019
    10
    Finally the PC family is (again) part of the Halo universe! Halo Reach on PC is an absolute blast and i glad that everthing went fantastc, no issues at all!
  10. coroner01
    Dec 4, 2019
    4
    It's just a console port, looks as old as it is, can't remap all the buttons, and is choppy and jumpy, plays better on xbox. It's just a money grab really - it could of been something special, but it's not
  11. treiden
    Dec 3, 2019
    2
    The game - even after being delayed - is fundamentally unfinished.

    No, I'm not talking about Reach being the only one available, I knew that when I bought it. But let me explain: - No graphics settings at all, save for three presets - No in-game subtitles. Did I travel back to 2002 or something? - Bad drowned out sound doesn't really help the above either. - I could be    The game - even after being delayed - is fundamentally unfinished.

    No, I'm not talking about Reach being the only one available, I knew that when I bought it. But let me explain:

    - No graphics settings at all, save for three presets

    - No in-game subtitles. Did I travel back to 2002 or something?

    - Bad drowned out sound doesn't really help the above either.

    - I could be imagining this, but the game's aspect ratio seems stretched out on 2560x1440. My radar is definitely not circular anymore, and everyone seems to be... bulky.

    - There are other people in the world than QWERTY users! This annoys me to no end when developers just assume everyone uses WSAD. Also one keybind per action only?

    - THERE IS AN IP LEAK ENABLED BY DEFAULT. The game does multiplayer on a P2P basis, meaning anyone with bad intentions could swoop up your IP and do bad things with it. You can change settings to mask it, but this is off by default. How in the hell anyone at 343 thought this was a good idea, is beyond me.

    I'm refunding this. It's a shame. I was looking forward to Halo finally getting the love it deserves on PC. Unfortunately, this isn't it.    … Expand
  12. markdude701
    Feb 8, 2020
    1
    The game currently only included Halo Reach. There was been no word on when the rest of the game will be released. There are countless features also missing from Halo Reach that existed on the Xbox version, such as Forge, better matchmaking, custom game XP, player tracking, etc. This game feels only 1/4 done and a cash grab. The game feels super dated now, and It's not the most fun game toThe game currently only included Halo Reach. There was been no word on when the rest of the game will be released. There are countless features also missing from Halo Reach that existed on the Xbox version, such as Forge, better matchmaking, custom game XP, player tracking, etc. This game feels only 1/4 done and a cash grab. The game feels super dated now, and It's not the most fun game to play anymore without any sort of custom games or experiences. I'm just disappointed.… Expand
  13. Seija
    Jun 25, 2020
    4
    A collection of old games whose only redeeming point is that they were one of the few things worth playing on an Xbox.

    Passable campaigns, barebones multiplayer, controller first gunplay and a myriad of bugs make it worth buying only during a sale.
  14. Lizarino
    Jul 24, 2020
    3
    This is coming from someone who never played the originals. Free of nostalgia or bias.
    TLDR; Buy it when it's heavily discounted (around -50% off or more) and / or the bugs and issues are fixed.
    - Most of the campaign levels in the games are big, empty, boring open worlds where you're forced to aimlessly drive around trying to figure out where to go as there are no waypoints most of    This is coming from someone who never played the originals. Free of nostalgia or bias.
    TLDR; Buy it when it's heavily discounted (around -50% off or more) and / or the bugs and issues are fixed.

    - Most of the campaign levels in the games are big, empty, boring open worlds where you're forced to aimlessly drive around trying to figure out where to go as there are no waypoints most of the time
    - The weapons and mechanics are very dated, even in the more modern games and with this remake, however the combat be enjoyable if you ignore the issues and try and play it not seriously on an easier difficulty.
    - The game has player collision and friendly fire. I have no idea why some games do any of these, they're just annoying and make the game worse...
    - The co-op campaigns have a lot of issues, either being laggy, disconnecting or just not working in the first place. The devs have said that they don't see any issues with the co-op and are not planning on fixing it
    - Also no spllitscreen
    - Audio is very weak and not many options. Certain aspects of the game are too quiet and muffled, namely some voices or gun shots
    - Took me 3 or 4 times to even download the separate games as they kept uninstalling themselves
    - Playing with the older graphics mode on is discouraged since you'll miss out on extra details, lore and achievements

    There isn't really any noteworthy positive things about the game, it's just okay.    … Expand
  15. Spacecheese88
    Dec 3, 2019
    6
    Don't know what I was thinking, but it was on $1 for a month of Xbox game pass... It is just Halo isnt it? I remember playing the series years ago, and to be honest it has not really aged well. FPS have come a long way and this is just 'OK' but there are better games out there if you want the FPS experience like Doom 2016, some CODs and FEAR - you could even through Metro in there too.Don't know what I was thinking, but it was on $1 for a month of Xbox game pass... It is just Halo isnt it? I remember playing the series years ago, and to be honest it has not really aged well. FPS have come a long way and this is just 'OK' but there are better games out there if you want the FPS experience like Doom 2016, some CODs and FEAR - you could even through Metro in there too.

    So really, unless you want to relive Halo for nostalgic purposes, I would probably skip it.    … Expand
  16. Frgtuw
    Dec 12, 2020
    10
    Сборник одних из самых лучших шутеров теперь вышел на ПК. Шикарный геймплей, эпический сюжет (особенно во второй части) и отличный мультиплеер. Всем настойчиво рекомендую
  17. Aagahim
    Dec 3, 2019
    10
    One of the best shooters finally on pc at the scandalously low price of 10 bucks
  18. FL4K
    Dec 7, 2019
    10
    Halo reach is beautiful and amazing game i love the story and multiplayer modes
  19. username93
    Dec 9, 2019
    9
    This game is great and you should buy it.
    Beware that some people got frame rate drop and audio problems, so far i have experienced neither of them.
    Devs told the community that we would be getting just Reach for now and they would be releasing the other games at a later time.
  20. nofunaloud
    Dec 3, 2019
    5
    What would be great is if modern studios released interesting titles instead of forcing xbox games studios to re-release games from a decade ago just so players finally have something interesting to play.
  21. mr-NachoMen
    Jan 8, 2020
    7
    Even that this is not the first time that Halo comes to the PC, this is a great opportunity for gamers that have never played a Halo game before mostly because the XBOX exclusive, to finally get their hands on it.
    Personally i felt interested into play Halo but never got the chance because i was more a PlayStation guy and the idea of buying another console to play one game was really    Even that this is not the first time that Halo comes to the PC, this is a great opportunity for gamers that have never played a Halo game before mostly because the XBOX exclusive, to finally get their hands on it.
    Personally i felt interested into play Halo but never got the chance because i was more a PlayStation guy and the idea of buying another console to play one game was really stupid.
    But finally, the master chief collection comes to the PC with enhanced graphics!!!! cool right
    ? well... yes and not, because Halo:Reach is the only game available to play right now and once you finish it that's it, the fun is over... kind off... if you want to hop in into the MP you can still have fun. But well.
    I believe that 343 industries and Xbox studios should have postpone the launch of the game, at the end what we got is an unfinished game, and that's lame.
    Now moving into the important aspects of the game, the campaign length is reasonable enough for a military shooter like 6 hrs or less, i believe it last the same amount of time that a regular Call of Duty campaign, for the story... it is not a very amazing plot, but again for a sci-fi military shooter is good.
    Visually... it looks good, the game offers 3 different graphic presets (it's sad it doesn't contain more graphic options) these presets are "performance" "original" and "enhanced" between the original and enhanced preset i have to say, i didn't see any difference they both look the same.
    The game's difficulty is a little out of place and it doesn't fully resemble the option you selected, the easy difficult felt like the normal difficult and the normal difficult felt like the hard difficult... yeah... weird right (or at least for me felt like that).
    I don't know if Halo: Reach was made in mind for CO-OP gameplay, cus i believe it could be more efficient that way. Friendly AI is a bit dumb at times, they can be useful in combat as they can inflict damage to enemies, but if we refer to orientation there's were they're dumb, let's say you want to get into a tank or vehicle and you want to shoot instead of driving, if you let the friendly AI to drive they will constantly getting stuck or they will take their time to get into the vehicle, one step at a time.
    Still... This is a great opportunity to play Halo on the PC for "the first time" in this collection and that performs very well, but so far on it's current state... the game remains unfinished with missing campaigns.    … Expand
  22. KrakenOfPepsi
    Dec 14, 2019
    6
    It's important to note that my review score refers to the port of Reach, not Reach itself. Halo Reach is actually one of my favourite games ever, and I love it dearly, I am not satisfied with the port however, and will change my score should they ever ACTUALLY FIX their game this time.

    The Halo Reach port for the most part is great, and has included many great additions and changes.    It's important to note that my review score refers to the port of Reach, not Reach itself. Halo Reach is actually one of my favourite games ever, and I love it dearly, I am not satisfied with the port however, and will change my score should they ever ACTUALLY FIX their game this time.

    The Halo Reach port for the most part is great, and has included many great additions and changes. It's far better in comparison to The Master Chief Collection's original launch on Xbox One, but it still has some problems though which I know can be fixed to make this port perfect. Very easy small too. It's hard for me to explicitly recommend this game or not however because so many core features are currently missing such as Forge World and File Share - these elements of Reach are integral to the experience, and until they're added the game almost feels like a demo.

    - Co-op for the campaign is unbearable. It didn't matter which of us hosted, the game always lagged for whoever wasn't host. I would get full second input delay when playing, whereas the online PVP modes worked perfectly fine. And while I admit that it hasn’t affected me much as it has other players, I have heard many reports of this game having horrible framerate and audio issues which a lot of people haven’t’ been able to resolve, this again seems to happen more so in the campaign than anywhere else. It seems like they focused heavily on the multiplayer without putting much work into the campaign.

    - The lack of daily and weekly challenges is very disappointing. It makes for less replay value and means level grinding later on is going to become a lot more tedious than it needs to be.

    - Not being able to vote for game types/maps while waiting in lobby is really annoying, it means you often end up with modes you didn't want. For example; if you wanted to play Infection with the Alpha Zombies game-type, you would have to simply pick infection and hope you get given that game type instead of being able to vote for it - because even though you picked Infection, there's still multiple types of infection, this applies for all of the game-mode search options. I really hope voting is brought back.

    - The new levelling system is… weird. Instead of earning credits and EXP, you now just earn EXP. And when you earn a rank up, you unlock a new tier of unlocks as well as a point to spend on them. However, the unlock system is linear, you gain 1 point every level as well as one new unlock per level, and all of the unlocks cost one point so… What’s the point in having this system again? There’s no reason not to spend points and there’s nothing else to spend the points on so why wouldn’t you just spend all of your points on the unlock you just earned as well? Very strange choice which makes little to no sense at all. I do however appreciate the changes to how medals affect the amount of EXP gained, as well as how unlocks are season based now.

    - The changes made to the Infection maps in my opinion are unnecessary, and are especially jarring when you play regular Infection in which zombies have evade. Nerfing the human’s defense options is absurd when surviving is difficult enough as is. I’ve played about 15 games of regular Infection give or take and not ONCE have the humans won. I think if anything, these map changes need to be removed for regular Infection, and not removed for Alpha Zombies.

    - Only two Fire Fight modes? Fire Fight modes are now split into Arcade and Heroic Limited, this means if you want to play any of the fun modes from Arcade, you’ll be able to do it with one hand because playing it on normal is insanely easy – not to mention you’ll never get a say in which mode is eventually picked either. Also, not being able to pick legendary is very annoying, and not being able to pick maps means I see very little variation and have even not seen some maps at all yet.

    - While this nitpick is minor I think it’s still worth mentioning; in the original game you were able to view other player’s armor during the wait for the match, this is sadly absent now. You are able to view other player’s profiles however, but this only shows you a generic profile picture type thing and you are unable to view their armor at all. It was a small but very enjoyable aspect of the multiplayer that I miss, a small change that could easily be made.    … Expand
  23. Vexram
    Feb 15, 2020
    0
    Spawns are sh*t on many maps. For some reason a spawn trap situation emerges where one team ends up spawning at rubbish locations. Lobby system is pathetically bad at matchmaking. Teams are rarely balanced. Map choosing is non existent and random map selection means that the same map ends up being picked over and over again. Team spawns are completely unbalanced in some maps. MultiplayerSpawns are sh*t on many maps. For some reason a spawn trap situation emerges where one team ends up spawning at rubbish locations. Lobby system is pathetically bad at matchmaking. Teams are rarely balanced. Map choosing is non existent and random map selection means that the same map ends up being picked over and over again. Team spawns are completely unbalanced in some maps. Multiplayer is a complete disaster just by looking the drastic drop in players. Just what is 343 industries doing?… Expand
  24. Maxmynerv
    Nov 24, 2021
    10
    There are no words.
    Just 10 out of 10.
    Price = quality.
    Respect for your fans.
    Everything is simple.
  25. zyllus
    Feb 27, 2022
    9
    Its a great game and its finally on PC. This game is the entire pack and contains the complete storyline of Master Chief (MC). The worst part of the game is that the MC refuses to speak even though the Captain asks him if he is dead or alive after a big ass explosion. MC stands like a brick when an NPC is talking to him and I am glad Sgt mocks him for it. In 3 games, he only speaks 2-3Its a great game and its finally on PC. This game is the entire pack and contains the complete storyline of Master Chief (MC). The worst part of the game is that the MC refuses to speak even though the Captain asks him if he is dead or alive after a big ass explosion. MC stands like a brick when an NPC is talking to him and I am glad Sgt mocks him for it. In 3 games, he only speaks 2-3 times in the entirety of the game which makes you wonder why hire a voice actor and pay him millions only to speak 2-3 times in a 30 hr campaign. Finally, in Halo 4, MC speaks which helps connect the player with the NPC around him and understand the turmoil MC goes through. Halo 3 was not remastered for some reason which makes you want to skip it after playing the remastered versions of the game. Halo ODST is the same with a mute character surrounded with lively NPC showing so much emotions which is infuriating for me.… Expand
  26. KIrillooss
    Dec 9, 2021
    10
    Великолепный сборник всех частей хало, кроме пятой. Его должен пройти каждый геймер
  27. gypsygib
    Sep 26, 2020
    0
    Tried to give it a bad review on the Gamepass App but magically there's an "Error" every time I attempt a low star rating. Nice try MS, guess they censor reviews. Was going to give it 2 stars but now it gets nothing. Halo CE is a terrible game, I realize now that it always was.

    The more I play the more I despise it. How bad were FPS games in 2001? Just going to watch the story on    Tried to give it a bad review on the Gamepass App but magically there's an "Error" every time I attempt a low star rating. Nice try MS, guess they censor reviews. Was going to give it 2 stars but now it gets nothing. Halo CE is a terrible game, I realize now that it always was.

    The more I play the more I despise it. How bad were FPS games in 2001? Just going to watch the story on YouTube. This game is a waste of life. I guess when there were like two FPS in existence on console at the time so people thought this was good because of graphics, sorta like a starving person hungrily eating dogfood. Starts off great then turns to the most repetitive game with absolutely horrible level design. Really makes me appreciate Reach. Halo CE will never be a classic, it's objectively an unbelievably horribly designed game. How was this ever considered not trash. 50% of the game is the MOST terrible level design I've ever encountered.    … Expand
  28. edilsonj
    Nov 29, 2020
    0
    It may have created the concept of FPS by joystick, but it looks terrible on the keyboard and mouse.
    The graphics are dated, very popin, not very pleasant textures. A game that reminds you of the Core 2 Duo vs Phenom era. It looks like I'm playing on a Geforce 8600. If the controls weren't that bad, the difficulty of configuring the keyboard wasn't something that punitive, I could still    It may have created the concept of FPS by joystick, but it looks terrible on the keyboard and mouse.
    The graphics are dated, very popin, not very pleasant textures. A game that reminds you of the Core 2 Duo vs Phenom era. It looks like I'm playing on a Geforce 8600. If the controls weren't that bad, the difficulty of configuring the keyboard wasn't something that punitive, I could still bear it. But I already let go.    … Expand
  29. Tomle1202
    Feb 6, 2021
    9
    The Master Chief Collection is an excellent package that offers far more than what you pay for it.
  30. Unstoppabull
    Dec 6, 2019
    10
    SP was finished in 6,7 hours.
    Time for some MP, see you ingame.
    Quality game so far.
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  1. IGN
    Dec 13, 2019
    95
    Overcoming its deserved reputation after a notorious launch, today the Halo Master Chief Collection is a polished, super-deluxe package of content that successfully links three generations of amazing Halo games together in a way that feels like it was made by and for people who care deeply about this legendary shooter franchise. The enhancements to the campaigns make it a joy to replay Master Chief’s story (and two other UNSC tales as well), but it’s the now-smooth multiplayer that’s worth coming back to over and over again. It’s not just a collection of some of the best first-person shooters ever made, it’s a great redemption story, too.
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