Halo: The Master Chief Collection

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1941 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 164 out of 1941
  3. Negative: 304 out of 1941
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  1. Souls2
    Sep 4, 2023
    2
    Broken and outdated games, the Reach doesn't even have audio, a waste of time.
  2. sems
    May 4, 2023
    0
    Insultingly bad port. Good, classic games ruined by god-awful net code and games as a service management. No support from the devs whatsoever, bugs from release still affecting players. Just an incredibly poor excuse of a video game
  3. Beebah03
    May 25, 2022
    0
    Great game if u just wanna play halos 1-4 and has good multiplayer. What more could u want!?
  4. AlcoholicGoat
    Mar 27, 2022
    4
    Even on PC, nowadays, it's disappointing. Why does 343 get so many second chances? It's proven time and again they are incapable of finishing a game on time. Halo CE was broken for the longest time and took a community member to fix it. These ports are buggy, Halo 2 uses Halo 4 assets which is annoying and inconsistent, 343 needs to be removed from Halo because they have no idea what theyEven on PC, nowadays, it's disappointing. Why does 343 get so many second chances? It's proven time and again they are incapable of finishing a game on time. Halo CE was broken for the longest time and took a community member to fix it. These ports are buggy, Halo 2 uses Halo 4 assets which is annoying and inconsistent, 343 needs to be removed from Halo because they have no idea what they are doing… Expand
  5. sulaco426
    Jan 27, 2022
    3
    it aged very poorly. halo as a series has lost all the quality it was known for 20 years ago and has not developed any further.
  6. Liquiddeer
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Best value for a game i have ever played! Play it before your friends, and let them know
  7. sparkyshark
    Jun 12, 2021
    0
    This game gets a bad rap from the original owners. I, admittedly, got the game after launch and after the online issues were fixed, but even without the exciting multiplayer aspects of this game, playing 4 of the best games ever (now you can get ODST and Reach, too) really developed my love for Halo. I only played Halo 3 before this and then got to experience 1-4 on the XBOX One as theThis game gets a bad rap from the original owners. I, admittedly, got the game after launch and after the online issues were fixed, but even without the exciting multiplayer aspects of this game, playing 4 of the best games ever (now you can get ODST and Reach, too) really developed my love for Halo. I only played Halo 3 before this and then got to experience 1-4 on the XBOX One as the first title I picked up. Awesome memories staying awake until 4am playing these with friends in high school.… Expand
  8. Fuyur
    Aug 20, 2020
    4
    Bueno la verdad soy de Xbox pero la saga halo nunca me llamó la atención le voy a castigar un poco porque xbox ya abusa de los shooters la verdad,a mí personalmente el juego se me hace pesado ya
  9. HaloVeteran
    Jun 2, 2020
    1
    6 years later and the game still barely functions on Xbox with no improvements on the PC release, only more game breaking issues. Terrible ports to both the Xbox One and PC. 343 Industries has proven time and time again that they do not care about Halo or its fans. There is no love from the Halo community towards 343 as a company or the designers and developers they employ.

    343    6 years later and the game still barely functions on Xbox with no improvements on the PC release, only more game breaking issues. Terrible ports to both the Xbox One and PC. 343 Industries has proven time and time again that they do not care about Halo or its fans. There is no love from the Halo community towards 343 as a company or the designers and developers they employ.

    343 Industries has lied, blatantly scammed, and disrespected fans every single moment the Halo franchise has been in their possession. They hold no passion for Halo as a game and only value its worth as a name they can slap on whatever product they see fit, to milk whatever money they can out of the ever dwindling audience they still loosely hold. 343 Industries will be the death of the Halo franchise.    … Expand
  10. tdebug
    May 27, 2020
    0
    These games belong to the years they been released. Despite higher resolution, still the same shooter and general look&feel. If you have nostalgia then you might like those. Otherwise, not a 2020 game by any mean, period.
  11. Flashyboy89
    May 13, 2020
    0
    As a Single player Story game Halo has to be one of the worst if not the worst gaming franchises I have ever played in my 29 years of gaming. KILLZONE games S*** all over this franchise
  12. Robincito
    Apr 1, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The truth is that the price does not justify the purchase, taking into account that gamepasses give it. It's just another scammer.… Expand
  13. W0lf_0f_Snyd3r
    Jul 14, 2019
    0
    Incredibly overrated. This game sucks so bad because I want to like it so badly and I just cannot. The lore and story line are some of the best today, but the controls and redundant crap is what makes this game so damn boring!
  14. njja02
    May 15, 2018
    2
    Even after years of patches, this remastering is still buggy and awful. Tons of glitches through out the entire saga. Many crashes also occurred. This is by far one of the worst remasters I have ever played.
  15. Sonyer-Pipero
    Jun 25, 2016
    0
    Broken. Completely broken. And they won't fix it. Avoid 343i products at all cost. They are outright liars who really don't deserve to still have the reigns of a now destroyed franchise. Collapse
  16. SKELETOR420
    Apr 2, 2016
    0
    Broken. Completely broken. And they won't fix it. Avoid 343i products at all cost. They are outright liars who really don't deserve to still have the reigns of a now destroyed franchise.
  17. TheLastBandit92
    Oct 13, 2015
    1
    absolutely awful. the game's multiplayer lags and I can't find a match. Also, this game is outdated, and not in a "final fantasy 7 outdated good". It's just no longer fun. Maybe I've matured too much. Very bad.
  18. somedude14
    Sep 5, 2015
    0
    Came with my XB1 as a digital code so I figured heck, why not.

    Well first of all it's a 62gb download. So I wasn't playing until the next morning. There is no matchmaking for coop. So you have to hunt online for gamertags to add people to your game. The netcode for this mode is abysmal, you're going to get a lot of lag and desyncing issues in online coop, it's worse than what I    Came with my XB1 as a digital code so I figured heck, why not.

    Well first of all it's a 62gb download. So I wasn't playing until the next morning.

    There is no matchmaking for coop. So you have to hunt online for gamertags to add people to your game. The netcode for this mode is abysmal, you're going to get a lot of lag and desyncing issues in online coop, it's worse than what I had playing Counter-Strike on 56k in 2000.

    The reskin of Halo 1 and 2 are nice but they're still pretty ugly games. Age always shows a lot more on 3D games and these are no exception. 60fps isn't even stable in any of the games but 4. I think this is an engine limitation more than anything but it really stands out when you're playing game with obviously low hardware demands on a modern console and you get frame dips.

    Campaigns aren't that well made. Overall this game hasn't aged well. Hit detection is wonky. Level design is dull. Maybe part of me is just worn out because I played a lot of Halo 1 and Halo 2 when they were new, and this is really just a reskin and repackaging of those bundled with 3 and 4, but nothing feels fun here. It's all "Ah yeah, I remember when games played like this, we've come so far... wait they re-released it like this?"

    Multiplayer is really weak compared to a lot of online experiences I've had since Halo as well. It revolutionized the console shooter but its heyday is long over. Not worth anyone's time.    … Expand
  19. Sunykamey
    Jul 26, 2015
    1
    With almost a year after release this game is still not working properly. That should be enough to say no to that money grabbing company called Microsoft. There are just to many problems with this game to even enjoy it. Unbalanced teams, very long loading times, lags, bad Ping, favored US players and so on. But what really bothers me is that if I'm quitting the game for whatever reason, myWith almost a year after release this game is still not working properly. That should be enough to say no to that money grabbing company called Microsoft. There are just to many problems with this game to even enjoy it. Unbalanced teams, very long loading times, lags, bad Ping, favored US players and so on. But what really bothers me is that if I'm quitting the game for whatever reason, my XBOX reputation gets directly impacted. So you are no longer free to quit unless you want to play with bad rep, and bad rep means other players with reasonable bad rep will be playing with you. Unacceptable!!!… Expand
  20. davidprice96
    May 26, 2015
    4
    The multiplayer was completely broken for the first few months, which pretty much killed this games' potential community. There are also some questionable design decisions to say the least (no join in session in customs???). Now that the game is fixed the multiplayer is actually quite enjoyable, but I can't excuse a broken game being released - especially one that was designed to be aThe multiplayer was completely broken for the first few months, which pretty much killed this games' potential community. There are also some questionable design decisions to say the least (no join in session in customs???). Now that the game is fixed the multiplayer is actually quite enjoyable, but I can't excuse a broken game being released - especially one that was designed to be a system-seller.

    At launch - 4/10 (Half of the game was broken).
    Now - 8/10
    Definitely worth buying if you've never played halo because of how much content comes on the disk. Otherwise I would say pass unless you're a die hard fan...in which case you've already bought the game... but whatever.    … Expand
  21. VonRansak
    May 2, 2015
    1
    6 months in, still not on dedicated servers.

    For many that was a BIG SELLING point.

    For others, it was just a Betrayal. Which, coincidentally, seems to have sped up the Halo 5 respawn timer, which it clearly should have delayed the respawn of another Halo title. It's little inaccuracies like these that make me think they don't play a lot of Halo.
  22. JorgeRaedon
    Mar 30, 2015
    3
    Hoy 30/03/2015 sigo sin poder jugar en matchmaking a cualquiera de los modos de juego online que ofrece este título. Por lo demás no deja de ser un port de juegos anteriores de halo a excepción del halo 2 aniversario que incluye nuevas cinemáticas.
  23. Paisano_Joe
    Mar 17, 2015
    3
    I hate Halo bye
  24. Jaliver
    Mar 8, 2015
    2
    I've been a Halo fan all my life, I've grown up playing Halo. Halo has been my most played game series since the first Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001. Halo is a legendary game series that deserves anniversary edition games. Halo: Combat Evolved received that proper anniversary, Halo 2 however did not.

    Halo MCC is riddled in bugs, the date is 3/8/2015 and the game still suffers    I've been a Halo fan all my life, I've grown up playing Halo. Halo has been my most played game series since the first Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001. Halo is a legendary game series that deserves anniversary edition games. Halo: Combat Evolved received that proper anniversary, Halo 2 however did not.

    Halo MCC is riddled in bugs, the date is 3/8/2015 and the game still suffers matchmaking issues, campaign issues and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Regardless of these issues that first greeted me with the game I continued to play it, I wasn't going to let chief down, I love Halo and I was going to stick it out. I played the hell out of MCC and today I'm throwing in the towel and giving it its well earned poor rating.

    Current bugs experienced in MCC:

    Matchmaking:
    1. Uneven teams
    2. Forever loading times
    3. Random disconnects from games
    4. Random placements of games (you can search for the halo 3 playlist and somehow play another playlist)
    5. Terrible hitscan in halo 2 matchmaking still
    6. Broken party system, if you're looking to play this game with friends you will experience long delays in getting a party together and will also have to repeat the process of inviting your friends due to issues with how MCC handles party play. You can look to play with friends and it will randomly displace you on separate teams and sometimes even place you in separate games.
    7. In-game voice chat will randomly fail, that's right, sometimes you can't even talk to your friends or team mates in game and its not from disconnected mics.

    There are many more bugs to be found in this game, I mentioned matchmaking first because that seems to be the main concern for most gamers these days, however I play halo for more than the online services it has to offer, I love the Halo story and even here you will find countless random bugs.

    1. Unplayable online co-op with friends, its not an internet problem, for some reason different campaigns will fail to load or when you go to play them they will freeze your xbox. Sometimes Halo 3 Crows nest which seems to have this issue the worst will experience the worst multiplayer co-op lag while other missions work fine.
    2. Random disconnects during online campaign, you can randomly disconnect playing with your friends during your missions, very annoying especially for halo 2 legendary where the campaign is the hardest.
    3. Unexpected map failures for halo 4, if loading halo 4 campaign missions you may have difficulty with saving your campaign games. After saving and coming back to play said missions later they will crash your MCC. This happens especially often with Halo 4 "reclaimer" mission and I highly recommend beating it on one shot.

    Campaign and Multiplayer aren't the only areas effected by bugs, Halo Spartan OPs suffers from the similar random campaign lag where some missions work while others don't due to unknown lag. I'd normally classify this as a network issue but for the fact some spartan ops missions work clean while others will randomly fail to load, crash or just totally be unplayable due to random lag I won't classify it as a network lag issue on the player side at least.

    Forge mode is the last thing I'll complain about here, in every halo game switching between character and creator modes are relatively smooth and fast. While working with the Halo 2 Anniversary engine you can experience easily up to a waiting time of a minute before you switch modes from creator to character. This issue makes testing things in forge and forging things very inefficient and an overall waste of time for most forgers.

    Halo MCC has only one really good thing, the Halo2 remastered cut-scenes are fantastic, the game looks brilliant but is a miserable failure on the actual playing side. As a dedicated halo fan I can only say I'm horribly and sadly disappointed with the outcome of what should have been the Xbox One powerhouse game of the year easily. MCC has 4 great games, 3 of them arguably being some of the most fantastic games ever created put together into a terrible mosh of bugs and unreliability. When I heard of this game being created I thought to myself "this game is going to be perfect, there is no way 343 could screw this up for us." I was wrong, very very wrong. This is clear disrespect to the franchise from 343, having the Halo 5 guardians beta up while Halo MCC was suffering major and still is suffering major issues truly shows where 343 stands. 343 doesn't care about us fans, they just want to make money. Do not pre-order Halo 5. We cannot allow them to give us another game like this, if you're going to purchase Halo 5. Purchase it after release, we can't guarantee a playable game from them anymore so they shouldn't be guaranteed our money.    … Expand
  25. ufc77
    Mar 3, 2015
    1
    Complete and utter failure. Game is broken and unplayable. The matchmaking is not what we've become accustomed to with what we had in Halo games by Bungie. 343i is a disgrace.
  26. TheMostShady
    Feb 28, 2015
    2
    I was so excited for this to launch and rekindle my love of Halo and hop on again with all my buddies; But instead its been 3 months, games still broken and everyone has moved on. So disappointing.
  27. gamingisgreat
    Feb 22, 2015
    3
    This game has nice graphics and good gameplay but the reason I buy an FPS is to play multiplayer and Halo is renowned for great multiplayer.It took me 6 weeks after launch to get an online game and it still doesn't work properly.Thanks 343,I won't be buying any Halo product developed by you,EVER.This is coming from a HUGE Halo fan.
  28. DarkWolf1991
    Feb 19, 2015
    3
    OK. Enough of this! This game makes me angry and I need to get this off my chest.

    Halo Master Chef Collection looks good on paper with all 4 campaigns and multiplayer on one disc with a price tag of £45 but is it too good to be true? Yes it is. The game is a broken, buggy, pile of mess of a game! For starters the game match-making times are absolutely poor, when you do manage to find    OK. Enough of this! This game makes me angry and I need to get this off my chest.

    Halo Master Chef Collection looks good on paper with all 4 campaigns and multiplayer on one disc with a price tag of £45 but is it too good to be true? Yes it is.

    The game is a broken, buggy, pile of mess of a game! For starters the game match-making times are absolutely poor, when you do manage to find a game you either get placed in a game with unbalanced teams such as 6 v 2 or 3 v 2 v 1 and if you're really lucky you'll have the game crashed with results of you being brought back to the home screen or when you are playing you'll get the most horrible lag ever in a game despise 343i saying they run on dedicated server which I can assure you that is not true at all. Lastly good luck on trying to get a game with a friend going. The in-game roster does not work at all since it does not show your friends or invite them so be prepared to reboot the game very often.

    Microsoft and 343i should be slaughtered for releasing this game with the amount of issues and treating the loyal Halo fanbase like dirt by not saying a word and yet they have the audacity to release Halo 5 end of this year? Don't pre-order and don't buy Halo 5 on day of release 343/MS doesn't deserve our money after treating us like this.

    Finally, Don't trust any user that gives this mess of a game a high score. Chances are they are either a 343i fanboys that likes getting shafted or an employee of MS/343i.    … Expand
  29. Rolodex
    Feb 17, 2015
    0
    DO NOT BUY! Multiplayer broken to the core. HD update a joke. I created an account here just to warn anybody who would be interested in this game. This is the first time I ever asked for a refund. Be aware that if you buy a digital download on the Xbox it will difficult to get it refunded! If you are nostalgic about Halo, fire up your old 360 or play get the PC version. How bad it is? TheDO NOT BUY! Multiplayer broken to the core. HD update a joke. I created an account here just to warn anybody who would be interested in this game. This is the first time I ever asked for a refund. Be aware that if you buy a digital download on the Xbox it will difficult to get it refunded! If you are nostalgic about Halo, fire up your old 360 or play get the PC version. How bad it is? The multiplayer is so bad that you will be shocked in disbelief that such a huge franchise coming from Microsoft and with so much money pumped into it fails on a level never even dreamed by the most crappy early access game on Steam. I was playing a two player coop campaign on a game that is 8 YEARS OLD and the lag choke where making the game frame rate drop to the range of 4fps, stall and even kick out the invited player. After an hour of trying, we stopped and got Destiny. Not a simple glitch or network issue. For as much hate that Destiny got, it is truly an amazing game compared to the Master Chief Collection disaster.… Expand
  30. AverageT
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    This game has been out for so long and it still doesnt even work. I wish I could get a refund, Im so done. If only I could find a way to keep other people from buying it,
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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 69 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 60 out of 69
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 69
  3. Negative: 1 out of 69
  1. Hyper Magazine
    Feb 9, 2015
    80
    Utterly broken right now, but the central appeal of four Halos on one disc is irresistible. [Issue#257, p.54]
  2. GameCritics
    Feb 4, 2015
    45
    A bit of a disaster...Why? It's a half-assed, crudely cobbled-together product prone to crashing, lockups (and as of press time) absolutely non-functional multiplayer.
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  3. GameOver.gr
    Jan 22, 2015
    85
    The problems with the multiplayer modes of the game are still there, but you can't overlook the greatness of the 4 games this package offers.
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