![]() The Covenant, the alien federation that wipes out human settlements and glasses planets in its free time - which Halo: Reach players should now be familiar with - isn’t just the over-the-counter baddie that you plow through while on the way to your objective anymore. Read on to find out what I thought of this new PC port of the Halo 2: Anniversary edition by Saber Interactive and 343 Industries.Ĭompared to Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 is focused much more on giving the Covenant a deeper background, so if you've been wanting a little more context as to what is actually happening in the enemy camp, you're in for a treat. As usual, I will not be exploring the story elements too deeply in this review to avoid spoilers and retreading old ground. I was lucky enough to play Halo 2 on Vista back in the day, and although my memory of it is a little hazy, I've been very excited to find out just how much has changed in the HD remaster which finally shed its Xbox One exclusivity. ![]() But of course, being years late and lacking improvements did not exactly help the port's reputation, which ultimately became the final mainline Halo title to reach PC, until the new initiative from Microsoft. Microsoft pushed out a port of the original 2004 Xbox game to Windows Vista as an exclusive in 2007, arriving alongside the now infamous Games for Windows – Live service. Many of you should already know that this is not the first time Halo 2 has been available on PC. Both of those ports were positive experiences to go through, albeit with a sprinkling of bugs. The number of available games has been slowly expanding since the arrival of Halo: Reach last year, and the newest launch is here only a couple of months after Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. That said, the series' most recent installment is one of the largest Halo games to date, ensuring that those who prefer a single-player experience are still well catered for.Master Chief's return to PC continues, with the addition of Halo 2: Anniversary to Halo: The Master Chief Collection. In fact, many of the series' entries are surprisingly short, especially when compared to some of the single-player campaigns found in other popular FPS franchises like Metro, Call of Duty, and Doom. ![]() ![]() Updated February 14, 2022, by Thomas Bowen: The Halo franchise isn't really renowned for its long story campaigns, with the developers instead opting to focus on quality rather than quantity (well, that and multiplayer mode, of course). Where available, campaign completion times are based on averages from. Those releases aside though, here's every Halo game's campaign length, ranked from shortest to longest. ![]() RELATED: Halo: The Most Overpowered Weapons In The Entire Series, RankedĮvery Halo game is included in this list except for the remaster of Halo: Combat Evolved because it's the same length as the original and Halo: The Master Chief Collection because putting six campaigns into a single game makes it unsurprisingly long. The length of first-person shooter campaigns has been relatively consistent since the release of the first Halo title but there is still some variation in length. A franchise that has now spanned more than two decades, Halohas seen plenty of first-person shooter campaigns, along with a couple of real-time-strategy and twin-stick shooters. ![]()
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