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  • looking at some of the updated environments i feel as though some of the atmosphere of the original is lost. some areas have just been filled up where they were once sparse. a little restraint in some areas would have helped.

  • mm-HMM! dayum right ah æhm! moverout!

  • Is it the original voiceactors aswell?

  • game spot gave this an 8, ign gave this an 8. gamespot had valid reasons. ign had BULLSHIT reasons.

  • @RandomAnonymousBeing

    You and every other traditionalist are such stubborn idiots. Even though they give the same rating and they both give similar reasons, you still feel the need to bitch out IGN for daring to mention the features that Bungie has since phased out.

    Jumps are too high, there's no recoil/ragdoll/hijack/assassin­ations, graphics aren't as good as Reach, etc... SUCK IT UP.

    Either go back to Pong for the rest of your life, or fairly acknowledge differences.

  • @HatoburekaSutajio no, igns reasons for giving this an 8 were horrible, they prety much took of marks for the sole reason it wasa remake. the reason 343 didnt change the gameplay to reachs because they wanted it to be FAITHFUL to the original game, adding in assasination would change the gameplay too much. and as for the jumps being to high, that has been in halo games 1-3. its part of the series physics. reach minimised the jump hight cause they wanted it to have a more realistic feel.

  • @RandomAnonymousBeing

    And you're telling me what everyone already knows, because...?

    Seriously, what does it being faithful have... ANYTHING to do with it's quality as a standalone game? I'll tell you what: nothing. Time of release and future or past legacy have NO BEARING ON THE QUALITY OF ANY GAME.

    To be fair, you must judge against what is possible. Halo Reach was possible, and compared to that, it has some severe disadvantages.

  • @HatoburekaSutajio but had they made it play like reach, then it wouldnt feel like the first halo game, 343 didnt want to stray too far away from the original game.and tbh this game had a betr frame rate than reach.it is true that the graphics arnt as good,but that is cuz they used the saber engine,they used that engine so you could switch back and forth between old n new graphics.im not sayign thtat this game deserves a betr score than reach,im saying that ign took off points for dumb reasons.

  • @RandomAnonymousBeing

    "but had they made it play like reach, then it wouldnt feel like the first halo game,"

    SOOO WHAAAAT!? Everyone knows this! It's true! Why bring it up?! It's ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT!

    No one's suggesting that it SHOULD be like Reach you dumb shit, they were just comparing the experience to Reach! Like any good judge damn well should!

    Reach's campaign has a lot of great things this one doesn't, so logically it will SCORE LOWER.

    GET IT YET?

  • @HatoburekaSutajio K, first of all you need ta chill. second of all, I agree, in my opinion reach is beter. however IGN gave the original Halo CE a 9.6 out of 10. they gave this a lower score. it is exactly the same as the first except it has extra stuff. not saying this game deserves a score that high, but some IGNs reasons were dumb. and please dont reply to me, im tired of arguing with u

  • @RandomAnonymousBeing

    When grading on a 10-point scale, critics will rarely be able to approximate how much better a game can be 10 years from now.

    Back then, Halo was THE shooter, so naturally it got a high score out of 10. Today it's around par with what we usually get, so it's lower. I've suggested this already.

    I'm chill, but there's a perfectly legit reason to be frustrated with stubborn asses who can't understand fundamental concepts.

  • @RandomAnonymousBeing

    Alexander Bell's first working telephone was the SHIT, 140 years ago.

    What kind of reception do you think that hunk of crap would draw today?

  • @HatoburekaSutajio thats why the game is a REMAKE. jesus, if you dont like halo CE anniversary then fine, dont buy it. but remember, if not for that first telephone,then there wouldnt be any smart phones. so if there wasnt Halo CE, then there would be no Halo Reach.

  • @RandomAnonymousBeing

    It's a remaster, not a remake.

    You're pulling a strawman argument by falsely insinuating that I meant I don't like the game.

    And for the umpteenth time, you're not telling anyone what they don't already know. Whereas I've repeated the idea of "legacy is irrelevant to quality" multiple times with differing degrees of clarity and it still hasn't penetrated you thick skull.

    Your words are fallacious all the way around, and therefore corrupt.

    Block.

  • @HatoburekaSutajio You know what? your right, this conversation is going around in circles, so lets end it. (stop replying to me)

  • @HatoburekaSutajio Reach's campaign is boring, wtf are you talking about? Obviously you're not a true Halo fan.

  • @ThePandemic101

    I've completed Halo CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo: Reach on Legendary and have played them all extensively online.

    Despite it's improved mechanics and multiplayer, Reach's campaign disappointed me. Other than it's gamebreaking bugs, it was very mild compared to Halo 2, however it was still entertaining to a degree just as can be said for even some of the worst games.

    Now let me ask you: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

    Where'd you come up with that shit?

  • Has anyone ever noticed that 343 just took stuff from previous games and mapped it over the item? Ex. The assault rifle is the one from halo 3. The "M6D" is the one from halo 3, which is an M6G. The sniper is from Reach. The phantom has a turret for another man, when there wasn't on in Combat Evolved. 343 cut corners.

  • @JerryTheSpartan well it is a remake so obviously they're gonna intergrate features from the later games.

  • @JerryTheSpartan

    Whatever.

  • Why does the Sarge look like a Jeff Dunham character?

  • They should have had more firefight maps

    

  • Wait, so does that one Easter egg cutscene with sgt. Johnson and the Elite hugging still happen? Lmao

  • i'd get it if there was a split screen co-op

  • @drgoodman8 There is

  • @drgoodman8 there is.

  • best halo campaign ever...of all time

  • @MarkVIOperator "of all time" it only came out 11 years ago.

  • Its a great game, faithul to the original, but perhaps TOO faithful! 343 had a brilliant oppurtunity to modernise this game which they could have easily done if they were careful, bringing level design and gameplay into 2011 and bringing continuity up to date with the other games in the series but hopefully retaining the classic halo feel,

    But as it is I'm disappointed, it looks like game made in 2009/2010 but plays like a game made 10 years ago!

  • I now wanna play it...so bad!

  • Halo is the best fuck COD

  • Damn right i am lol

  • guys halo bean like 10 years why be so mean i got the new one and why dont you guys be nice and you guys should be proud how they made it and if you press the back butten you got 10 years old halo i mosly like the new halo

  • how come johnson is just so badass?

  • I remeber playing this when i was 7. All i used to do was fly the banshee on that winter level and try and slide down the frozen waterfall. Good times.

  • I like the first one they brought out, but the second and third one's got tedious. Where they all shooters?

  • Just get it for the co-op campaign and the new firefight map. Reach competitive multiplayer blows.

  • any one hear the ahhhh when guilty spark is talking?

  • Is there only co op campaign in this?

  • saw an ad for gamespot on a gamespot review

    logical

  • "Mmm... d*** right I am"

  • Now do Halo 2!

  • To all who own this Halo remake:

    Besides The Campaign and regular Matchmaking, is there anything else to do in CE Anniversary?

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  • @speedenforcer918 hunting for skulls is always fun, and there are hidden terminals that will reveal clues to what will happen in halo 4 through videos starring guilty spark.

  • @speedenforcer918 custom games and forge

  • @HaLOaddict001Thanks for the info. Have you tried Halo 2 on the Xbox 360? And does il look, feel and work the same way as when played on Xbox 1.

  • @yxan99 Good. Would be unfortunate if i played both Reach and Anniversary just to realize that i cant play Halo 2 on the 360. What old Xbox 1 games can be played on the 360 by the way? All or just a few titles?

  • @Izak80 um you can play halo 2 on 360 and there is only like 300 games that can be played or something i dont know the number

  • men, here is where we show those split chin squid head sons of bitches that they could not evict the worst the worst enemies in the human race, we are going to blow the hell out of those scum balls until we have nothing left to shoot them with, and then we are going to strangle them with their own living guts, AM I RIGHT MARINES!!!!

  • @MrPudude SIR YES SIR!!!!!!!!

  • @MrPudude scum Bugs*

  • @MrPudude SIR YES SIR!!!

  • @MrPudude SIR, YES SIR!!!

  • If i play this can i then go on and play Halo 2 on my newly bought 360?

  • @Izak80 yes you can

  • I played the campaign a few times and then tried the multiplayer, and I must say it really felt weird to play it after the campaign because the crosshair is lower for like half the screen lol

  • I thought that this game was borign as hell. Bought it. Played it for 5 minutes and took it back to the shop for refund. 1/10.

  • @martynblackburn1977 wow. your clearly have one huge stick up your ass.

    seriously I speak on behalf of all true halo fans when I say go kill yourself,we dont need your kind here.

  • @TheRaptorGaming Was speaking the truth though. I found it to be monotonous.

  • @martynblackburn1977 the first 5 minutes is the freakin tutorial.

  • @martynblackburn1977

    WTF Halo - 5 mins , boring , 1 /10

    you must be trying to get a job as a gamespot reviewer , cos they usually talk that kinda shit aswell

  • my childhood has been remastered :D

  • he sounds so excited about it then gives it a 8 i think it should get 8.5 or something

  • At least it's not as bad of a review than IGN's. Still, people like GameSpot and IGN should probably create a new section for 'HD remakes' to categorize HCEA in. It would probably- no, undoubtedly score a 10, perhaps the best HD remake in videogame history. Halo and Splinter Cell are tied as my favorite games, but CEA s**ts dramatically on Splinter Cell's HD remakes. 343i actually cares for Halo, other companies are only in it for the money. WHY ISN'T HALO IN THE VIDEOGAME HALL OF FAME?!

  • why does this have dislikes?

  • why didnt he mention 'no bloom'? I thought the anniversery playlists were no bloom playlists... wtf.

  • why does he use words no body even knows what they mean?

  • @thebourneman This video is for people who have a basic grasp of the english language.

  • I love watching the review for the remake on gamespot and then watching the review for the original version on gamespot. Thumbs up if you agree. P.S. Joe fielder should of reviewed the remake on gamespot.

  • Did anyone else get a halo advertisement before this?

  • thats it from now on i'm am never watching game reviews ever again. Every title the reviewers just get dumber and dumber. From now on i'm just gonna buy the game and who gives a fuck what these "Professionals" think. The majority of reviewers suck at these games and its their job to play them, isn't that ironic.

  • It would have blown people away if they attached this to the end of halo reach

  • So... either people who watch IGN are just douchebags or they didnt watch this review.. bc as far as i can tell they game .5 more score than ign and only has 26 dislikes... great.

  • THIS is what i call a HD Remake... fuck GoW HD textures!!!! this is what HD looks like!

  • I keep thinking there's going to be a spoiler, then I realize i've beaten this game more than 10 times..

  • Halo is great.

  • I was 18 when Halo 1 came out. O_o''

  • Will buy a 360 just for this game this christmas.

  • @Izak80 Same here lol

  • Guys, no remake can ever be a 10 unless it's loaded top to bottom with the most expertly tuned new game content and bonus content on the side. This is a game that came out 10 years ago with graphics that look like games in 2008. Sweet, we can play it online. And some bonus maps for Reach? Cool. All good. But when the main attraction was your "OMG SUPER HD REMAKE, 10 YEARS AGO" and your game doesn't even bother to look as good as last year's installment, it just feels like next year's model.

  • @infinitextimes Plus you can now only have 2 players on a console. The original had 4. Oh well, looks like I'll pass this one up. Save my money for Fallout 4 and Halo 4.

  • @slayerkiller47 What you mean? The Co-Op has always been only 2 player on one console. MP you can play up to 4 players on the same console just like 10 years ago

  • @hardcoreLazors Really? Hmm, ok. Man, now you made me want this game again.

  • I wanted Halo:CE multiplayer on xbox live! Not Reach!

  • @MrJamesYabut the anniversary is the same as the halo 3 physics and stuff which is atleast good enough

  • is this going to be like halo odst but u have the reach game as the multiplayer cause my reach broke and im planning on getting this to get both anniversary and reach

  • @MyXboxFTW You only get like 6 maps with this game that are remade maps from Halo 1 or 2. It's still the Reach gameplay, but you don't get the original maps from Halo: Reach.

  • it annoys me that all comments on youtube just try and get likes

  • LOL wtf. No justifiable reason for the score. Based on how he was talking i thought it would at least be a 9...fuck gamespot now. I thought they were better than IGN but apparently they both suck.

  • @RKO1988

    its a remake with sub par graphics and literally copied multiplayer maps. how does it deserve a 9

  • THAT IS THE EXACT SCORE I WOULD GIVE IT!!!

  • Amazing game, even to this day it is such a perfectly crafted title...literally has everything. Plus playing this in debug mode in 3rd person, invinsibility with bottomless, infinite clip is AWESOME.

  • When the game first game out gamespot gave it a 9.7, This version has more to do with skulls/terminals/Achievements/­Multiplayer on xbox live/Firefight/and updated graphics, so for them to give this game a 8.0 i think its kinda stupid. im not mad cause dont give a shit about review scores i just find it weird. That a game can have more to do and be better and get a lower score. oh well still a fun anyways. i still have my original copy of Halo CE.

  • Its gay how its only on xbox360

  • @jasonsan10 PC FTW

  • @Moocman Exactly :D

  • sgt johnson looks fatter in this one xD

  • Gamespot offices

    GameSpot employee 1 Sir six Games came out today

    GameSpot employee 2 are any of them Cod?

    GameSpot employee 1 no

    GameSpot employee 2 None of them get over a 8.5

  • @Blackjesus209 You mean IGN offices XD

  • the skyrim of fps

  • 8....?......EIGHT????

  • I remember failing my exam because of HALO! AWESOME! but seriously, i had to quit HALO-ing for a while back then.

  • where can i download the original for pc i can't find it anywhere to buy

  • please note reviewers are not reviewing halo cea based on nostalgia

    thats why it got an 8

    besides 8 is still good

    if this game got a 7 fuck no

  • gamespot sucks at rating games,however I must say they did a MUTCH beter job rating this than ign did

  • 343 industries!? 343 Guilty Spark!? 343!? AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Darius135gease and if you notice, in the reach challenges, some daily and the weekly are worth 20343cR for example- 20-343cR

  • @gobodito Holy SHIIIITTT, I can never play a Halo game again...

  • @Darius135gease LOL why?

  • @gobodito 3...4...3.......

  • @Darius135gease i don't understand your point

  • He didn't even say anything bad about the game so how did it get a 8???

  • red vs blue

    return to blood gulch

  • It atleast deserves 9/10

  • @hardcoreLazors No it doesn't. They're rating the game based on releases coming out now. Maybe when the game came out it deserved a 9, but it is beaten by a lot of other games now and to be honest, is just a basic shooter.

  • @MrMambalam it is halo combat evolved the game that redefined the fps genre it is perhaps one of the greatist games in exsistance so the improved graphically updated revamp deserves the same rating as the original as it is the same game with a different graphical out look.

  • 8/10. Seriously. I guest the Master Chief assassinated IGN And Gamesplot

  • Really? Honestly... THIS is why I like Destructoid.

  • best game ever, hope my xbox and possibly play this

  • can u still kils sgt. johnson like in the origonal? the first halo c.e. is the only halo that you can actually o that in if i recall corectly

  • Did he just say "Jumping is a bit floaty"

    Has he never played Halo before??

  • @billie1123 He's probably used to Halo: Reach. I'll agree that Halo CE/Halo CEA's jumping is a bit "floaty" compared to newer halo games.

  • @billie1123 i know because if you were in space you would jump floaty

  • @billie1123 i reckon what does he think, that spartan armour is to heavy or something its only half a ton.

  • IGN gives this an 8: OMGZ THIS REVIEW SUCKS! THEY ARE COD FANBOYZ!

    Gamespot gives it an 8 also: Good review. You are so not biased.

    Something's wrong here...

  • @scyther206 Because IGN bitched about how the game plays and how it's the same as 10 years ago. But this guy actually knows how to review this game. But this deserves a 8.5 atleast more 9

  • i  sense Sgt Johson in uglier...

  • Not on PC. FAIL.

  • @HawkerSolo Microsoft's a bitch.

  • @HawkerSolo Why remake on PC >_>

  • Man here is we show those spit cham sons of bitchs that they could not of picked a worse enemy than the human race. We are going blow the hell out of them...AND THEN we are going to strangle them with their own livin' guts....am I right Marines. ."Sir Yes Sir" ... mm damn right I am ... My favorite movie clip part in the game :)

  • Everyone knows halo 3 was the best

  • Jesus crist how can people not be angry or upset that 343 has destroyed this game! there completely copied the multiplayer from reach the only thing that is still CE in it are no bloom and the maps! no bloom and DMR is bad REALLY bad hell i think 343 are just lazy cause they needed another studio (saber) to make the fucking engine.

  • @ApeoplePers0n they wanted to keep the reach community going because its only been going on for a year, and small things like the bloom being changed, no one gives a shit and i kind prefer it that way because it puts me off.

  • @MrJayCE3 its just that this is meant to be a remake not something different and like i said no bloom+DMR= easy headshots which would make this game very unbalanced i think if they did a mode for the original multiplayer i would get this

  • i guess IGN and gamespot are in bed together now.

  • @papercut192 I believe IGN owns gamespot

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  • @papercut192 why?

  • @papercut192 What about 1up? They'll always score an extra point together.

  • @papercut192 Don't forget machinima!

  • I fuckin love Halo Anniversary hahaha shit I've hardly stopped playing it since it came out. Worth every penny.

    2 gripes though,

    a) it seems like they kept some old voices, but revoiced the new cut scenes and Master Chiefs voice actor seems apathetic now.

    b) only one firefight map, which I love, but by the sounds of things, this was the last chance to make a Flood firefight and they missed it.

    In 2001 Halo was a 9.5, and in 2011 its still a 9.5 for me!

  • best game ever made :) end of story

  • 5:20-5:22 "Mmm damn right I am!" Lol

  • WHY IS IT THAT NO GAME HAS MASTERED TALKING?

  • RIP bungie =(

  • @hellopants123 why? they are still out there, they may work with Activision now and their next game will be released to all major platforms

  • @hellopants123 bungie still exists...

  • 343 did an awesome job remaking every aspect of this game

  • Fucking kinect features..

    Isn't it enough that I have to play my favorite series on consoles, now they also take away features that could've been executed with a button just as well.

    Oh yea, Microsoft rly needs that money..

  • @Wofaze You know its 40 bucks and you can still play it without Kinect

  • I hope the library was tweaked a bit. That level was horrible

  • He barely said anything negative but he gives it a 8?

  • how the fuck do you say so much good stuff about a game and then only give it an 8? i honestly don't get it.

  • @Jonty097 because they didn't get payed for it....thats why

  • Im gonna be the turd in the punchbowl. Halo 1 and 2 are the only reason original xbox ever survived. First xbox is the worst console to date. I bought it 9 years ago expecting amazing games....but all i got was god awful games, fiddlers green....and grabed by gholies.... fable was ok thoe. But come on guys if you really sit down and think about it for a minute xbox had nothing going for it. The 360...sure it has its problems but its still 40x better then that 1st xbox and alot more games to.

  • @halo6534 - The original XBOX had a ton of good games like Crimson Skies, Blood Wake, Halo, Ninja Gaiden, Splinter Cell & many more. You are a dumbass and you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

  • @410MaXiMuS ok ill give you slinter cell but nothing other than that. And i guess ninja gaiden was ok. And wow what a very mature response.

  • @halo6534 - No, it was a semi-immature response to a semi-immature comment. Jet Set Radio Future Forza Motorsport series Fight Night series Psychonauts Crimson Skies Splinter Cell series Ninja Gaiden series Grand Theft Auto series Elder Scrolls: Morrowind Burnout 3: Takedown The Chronicles of Riddick Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Fable Rainbow Six 3 Jade Empire Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic XBOX had great games. Am I right, or am I right?
  • @410MaXiMuS ok so you said 15 games. Just because you like em doesn't mean everyone else does. And dude gta was a ps2 exclusive then got ported over xbox. Im not a sony fanboy cause i prefer the 360. But the ps2 is one of the best gaming consoles ever. Not only did it have 60x more games then xbox but the games were better quality. 2,500 games for ps2. And a mere 700 for xbox. I know 700 sounds like alot but not when you have 5 amazing games. 10 ok games. And the 685 others are mediocre.

  • @halo6534 - meant to say xbox*, not 360

  • @410MaXiMuS Your very immature and there just a troll and there no reasoning with you cause your not gonna be civil at all. Im done here.

  • @halo6534 - Of course you're done... I just totally smashed all the stupid shit you were saying. You talk out of your ass while I present factual information.

  • @410MaXiMuS crimson skies FTW :D

  • this game is a cash in

  • CE will always be the best halo game... so much mystery and interest

  • @HeartsandFlames

    yeah, mystery was something that the newer games didn't have much of.