![]() ![]() ![]() But the element of the package that will most excite Halo geeks is Halo 2: Anniversary.Ĭreated especially for this release, it’s a ground-up remastering job, with stunningly updated cut-scenes. Plus an awful lot more.Ģ011’s remaster of the original game, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, along with Halo 3 and Halo 4, have received light makeovers for The Master Chief Collection, each upscaling the graphics resolution commensurate with the jump to the Xbox One. And it really has been curated: stick Halo: the Master Chief Collection’s single disk in your Xbox One, and it gives you the full single- and multiplayer elements of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2 Anniversary and Halo 3 and 4. Developer 343 Industries (keeper of the Halo flame since creator Bungie bowed out to make a date with Destiny) has curated it with plenty of love and not a little skill. There’s no doubt that the ambition of Halo: The Master Chief Collection vastly outstrips any previous retro remake – indeed its budget probably matches most brand new projects. On the one hand, it shamelessly invites us to wallow in the past on on the other, it’s one of the biggest Christmas blockbusters for Microsoft’s shiny new Xbox One. Halo: The Master Chief Collection, however, represents a very upfront form of reminiscence. Usually, the retro scene operates in a determinedly underground space – forty-somethings recreating bygone days by trawling eBay for Sega Mega CD classics Nintendo slipping its back catalogue on the eShop entire libraries of 16bit games added to shady emulator sites Microsoft Xbox One £45 Pegi rating 18+Įven though the games industry is by far the youngest star in the pop culture firmament, there’s still room enough in it for nostalgia. ![]()
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