The wonky cutscene animation, the bugs and glitches that are either old annoyances or central to a player's overall strategy, they are there too. The backtracking through repetitive areas is there. It was meant to be a real-time strategy game, a kind of sci-fi version of Myth, until Microsoft bought Bungie Studios and had them rework it into an FPS for exclusive release on the Xbox.Įverything Bungie did for that finished product remains in place for Anniversary, not just the good parts. It guaranteed success for Microsoft's Xbox and provided another vexation for Nintendo, whose industry dominance had already been seriously eroded by Sony and their PlayStation brand. Combat Evolved was a revolution for gamers who preferred a control pad to a mouse. Now we look back and recognise it as the game that changed everything. When Halo: Combat Evolved was released ten years ago, it was swiftly proclaimed as the greatest console first-person shooter of all time.
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