![]() ![]() That bouncing, careening Warthog escape at the end of Halo 3. I immediately started jumping around the games, looking for the missions that were most memorable to me. They’ve even tweaked some of the lighting in the latter two titles, so as to spruce it up for this new platform, although that’s much more difficult to notice than the treatments they’ve given to Combat Evolved and Halo 2’s Anniversary editions, obviously. It packages up Halo: Combat Evolved’s Anniversary Edition, along with a similar treatment for Halo 2 and the Xbox 360 versions of Halo 3 and Halo 4, all multiplayer is touched up to run at 1080p and 60 frames per second, and all but Halo 2’s campaign mode runs similarly. This latest release in the series is a celebration of the lasting power of the main Halo games. Halo has been – continues to be – a phenomenon. ![]() It’s sci-fi that has not only influenced the medium that it dominates – across all means of consuming it – but permeated the mainstream and stretched its influences out to the broader audiences of cinema, television and literature. To millions of fans of the right age and console choice, Halo is their Star Wars. It’s not simply the epitome of a brand or the manifestation of a philosophy of console gaming. Halo hasn’t just defined a generation of console shooters, influencing all that came in its wake. ![]()
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