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Halo: Combat Evolved
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Overall Critic Score:3.8225
Halo: Combat Evolved Critic Reviews
The drama unfolds in a distant galaxy known as Halo for the huge planet-sized ring-like object that floats there. Humanity's long standing war with the amalgamated alien race known as the Covenant has brought you to Halo via the Pillar of Autumn (a mini...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Game Revolution
Well, what do you say about a game as good as this? - If you own an Xbox it's highly unlikely you haven't played Halo or at least know all about it, and now it's out on Microsoft's own budget label and available for Ł19.99 or less there seems to be little...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at GameCell UK
Halo. The hype leading into the release of this game was so staggering that there was no possible way it could live up to it...right??? WRONG. Quite simply, Halo ranks as one of the best videogames of all time. I know that is a big claim to make, and many...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Thunderbolt
Halo. One of the best first person shooters (FPS) since the Goldeneye/Perfect Dark era on the Nintendo 64! Most will say that Halo is exactly what the Xbox needs to make it in the console wars against Sony's PlayStation2, and Nintendo's GameCube. Whether ...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at GamersMark
Halo immediately throws you into combat as the Master Sergeant, who is dragged out of cryogenic sleep when his ship comes under assault from the Covenant. From that point, you must get to the bridge for your orders from the ship's captain and then fight y...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Into Liquid Sky
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HH alo is a first-person, space-marine shooting game from Bungie Software, the makers of the classic Marathon series of games for the Macintosh. Players take the role of a cybernetically enhanced marine non-com who is entrusted with getting the computer c...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Science Fiction Weekly
Halo was the first must-own title on the XBOX, and it is the greatest game that I’ve ever played. It is extremely well rounded, and a lot of thought was put into making this game. The graphics, for starters, are simply amazing. Screenshots just don’t do ...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at PGNx Media
This is review is for Halo and if you're on this website than i can bet you have played this game by now. What more can be said about this game?! Halo 2 is expected in 2003. The follow-up to all follow-ups. Halo is breathtaking and revolutionary in the wo...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Extreme Gamer
Take traditional FPS gameplay, throw in a sci-fi setting, some of the best graphics ever seen, add some amazing detail and set pieces and you'll be getting close to the greatness that is Halo....read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Silicon Fusion
A few years back there were rumours of Halo appearing on Game Boy Advance. Certain websites laughed at the idea, but not us: an isometric shooter set in the Halo universe would have worked just fine on the handheld. Plus, when the rumours emerged,...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Games Asylum
AS LAUNCH TITLES GO you couldn't ask for anything more than Halo. Critically acclaimed, hugely successful and embraced by hardcore gamers worldwide. Does it still stand up nearly a year after it was released in the USA? Of course it does. Read on to find ...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Gameplanet
Last year's Xbox came out with a lot of hype but very few games that really made you stand up and take notice. When it was announced that Halo was going to be an Xbox-only game, a lot of people whined and complained. However, I can see why Microsoft wante...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Four Fat Chicks
Great launch titles make selling new hardware platforms much easier, and with Halo in its arsenal, the Xbox's job just got easier....read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at GamePro
Halo is not your typical first person shooter. In fact, I actually prefer to not even call it a FPS at all. You play from a first person point of view, pick up weapons and kill enemies, but that's where the similarities to your run-of-the-mill FPS ends....read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Gaming Age
A sci-fi shooter that takes place on a mysterious alien ring-world, Halo will have you battling through amazing indoor and outdoor environments, in vehicles, and on foot with the largest arsenal of futuristic weapons, vehicles, and combat roles of any sho...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Xbox Addict
Halo is a first person shooter (fps) set on and around a ring world of the same name. A ring world, the concept first mentioned in the Ringworld series by Larry Niven, is a ring band, or thin donut shaped world were the cities and population resides upon ...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Game Industry News
Any console released nowadays requires that one game that sets it apart from the pack, a 'killer app' if you will. Traditionally these games are either platformers (read Super Mario 64) or fighting games (read Soul Calibur or Tekken Tag Tournament). To a ...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at MS Xbox World
In a nutshell, you are Master Chief, who is unthawed early to thwart an onslaught of an alien faction called The Covenant. The Covenant have a few different species fighting their war and you'll be introduced to them fairly quickly, as they have...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Cheat Code Central
As the march of an alien species, known to mankind as the "Covenant" violently set in, the spaceship "Pillar of Autumn" was the last hope for mankind to avoid alien contact with planet earth. In an attempt to lure away these aliens from the human home...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Frag Land
The first thing you will notice about the game is just how damn good-looking it is. Halo has the best textures yet seen in a FPS and are only rivaled by those in DOA3. Bump mapping is in full use and really gives an incredible amount of detail to the...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at XBox Exclusive
While on the surface, Halo may seem to be nothing more than a regular shooter of humans vs. aliens, it’s actually much more complex than that. The year is 2552; you are John 117, the Master Chief, a SPARTAN II soldier, the last of your kind, and...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Talk Xbox
Much has been made about Halo's visual presentation, and the accolades are definitely legitimate. Everything is highly detailed, and effects such as reflective metal and realistic lighting elements left me thoroughly impressed. The environments are...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Jaded Gamer
What do you get when you mix an upstart console with an upstart game developer? You get a flagship title called Halo. Microsoft and Bungie Studios scored a huge hit with the launch of the Xbox console and the little known title that could, Halo. To say...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at XGP Gaming
What's to Like: Everything. FPS goodness at it's finest (on a console, no less). What's Not to Like: Getting used to the controller rather than a mouse/keyboard combo. ...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Game Rankings
Developed by Bungie, Halo is a first-person shooter that covers ten monstrous levels of action-packed gameplay. At first glance, Halo might seem like your typical first-person shooter, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. While many of its...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Game Over Online
You play Halo through the eyes of a character known as the Master Chief, an enigmatic cyborg commando whom you don't know much about but whom everyone in the game seems to have heard of and talks about reverentially ("He's taller than I thought." "Glad...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at GameSpot
You think you know, but you have no idea how great this game is....read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at IGN
You are the elite, the best of the best. No, I’m not talking about Top Gun either. I am talking about the Marines. Still confused? I am referring to the new Xbox game “Halo: Combat Evolved”. You are a military machine -- enhanced, and retrofitted...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Gaming Target
In multiplayer-mode, communicating with your fellow player or players will become vital, as you will quickly find yourself shouting out commands and positions in order to work as a team to boost your chances of survival. During single player mode, if you...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at TeamXBOX
I'm a creature of habit first of all. I've had the same keyboard configuration for a decade. I use A-S-D-F for my player movements, and the trusty mouse to look around and shoot. Anything other than this setup would be grounds for immediate dismissal....read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Netjak
There are more than enough instantly striking elements in this game to keep me typing for hours, as soon as you start a game the graphics smack you like a sack of bricks, then you hear the sound and sit in awe. Then an enemy is encountered – AI has...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Gamers Europe
"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at GameZone
Halo is a very great game, what can I say? It’s a game in which all X-Box developers should look up to. It’s a game, which all X-Boxers should purchase. This game has huge amounts of hype, so much I thought it would fail. But, was I wrong! It was far...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Game XC
Halo takes place more then 500 years into the future. Mankind is at war against the Covenant, a group of different alien species bounded by their religion. While humanity struggles to survive, a group of military scientists try to perfect the cyborg...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at DreamStation.cc
It's not the prettiest Xbox launch title (though it comes close), but it's the best. It plays like a non-stop action-packed assault, sounds like Hollywood's finest blockbusters, and features one of the most engrossing single player campaign scenarios to...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Game Power AU
The textures on this game are some of the best I have seen on any game before. And the attention to detail is superb. For example the menu on the front of the closed canteen, during the first level which just adds to the over all realism and ambience of...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at DarkZero
Back then, Bungie was still Take 2's puppy, and the Xbox was simply a couple of neat tech demos and a whole lot of bombastic announcements. Since that time, well, you all know what happened: Microsoft successfully managed to convince most people they're...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at ActionTrip
Arguably the finest Xbox launch title of the bunch, "Halo" is an epic sci-fi action game that's played from a first-person perspective (similar to "Doom" or "Quake"), and from a third-person perspective when driving vehicles. Players are marooned on an...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Cincinnati Enquirer
Let us tell you about a game development company located in Washington State of the United States. Before Bungie materialized as an actual business entity, a game called Gnop! came about in 1990 that recreated the Pong experience for the MAC. Bungie,...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Xequted
Goldeneye and Perfect Dark aside, first person shooters haven’t exactly been received with open arms by console players over the years. The first reason is clearly control. Hardcore FPS fans point out (quite correctly) that there is no substitute for...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Armchair Empire
Where to begin... Halo:- Combat Evolved is an amazing gaming experience.
I've never been a FPS fan but Halo had me coming back time and again to finish the game. It's polish, story, characterisation, audio & control system is (IMO) superb.
EVERY...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at ThumbBandits
Since the dawn of time, frag-freaks have been grunting on about the superiority of the PC when it comes to first-person shooters. And the annoying thing is, they've got a point. With heavy duty processing power, fancy graphics cards and super-precise...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Computer & Video Games UK
Why? Well, for one thing, Halo has the best control of any console shooter I’ve ever played. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is. Maybe it’s the responsiveness of the controls, maybe it’s the joystick placement on the Xbox controller, I...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at Electric Playground
The one-player offers a challenging enough experience, which starts off with a Half-Life esque introduction, before you’re plunged into combat against the Covenant forces. There are so many moments that will have you gushing to anyone who cares to...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at RewiredMind
Before diving into the review of this much-loved title, feedback assistance was sought by asking fellow gamers what exactly makes Halo so great. The spittle heavy responses ranged from: "Dude, Halo rocks!" to "Halo rules, man!" Not exactly the keen...read the complete Halo: Combat Evolved review at My Gamer
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