Waited 10 years for the best franchise Halo CE was love.

Updated as of Aug 2020

They fixed the Audio with new XAudio2.9 update thus achieving almost closer to Waves Audio used in Reach and Halo 3. So this is a big improvement in the Audio dept. The Win7/8.1 UE4 crashes reduced a lot, with Halo 3 update including all the bugfixes from Hit scan in MP modes, they also fixed the crouch in Reach and mouse input lag to some extent, Reach feels snappy and the sound is pretty good.

I hope they fix it further and create a stable experience. Unlimited FPS is still buggy, EAC can be disabled for MP and XBL is mandatory for SP, Offline is not possible you need to play it Cracked only sadly. But they are polishing it, so we have that from 343i at-least. (Can read more at Halowaypoint updates)

Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary is straight up trash, it has horrible Input latency and the scaling is not good with difficulty, then you have projectile 30fps bugs, it's a garbage port of a garbage port, play Halo Custom Edition : Combat Evolved Refined + Chimera, you get lag free fixed transparent shaders from 2001 Xbox OG Halo CE art. MCC HCEA is 100% unplayable mess. H2A people say it's great, will update once I get there.

The Main menu videos can be modded, look for RAD tools to edit the Bink files in the MCC/Content/Movies folder. Look at Halowaypoint link here for art.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/f9237adeaf1742c09de144d7bf3f7507/topics/high-rez-halo-wallpapers/7cd1f2ff-262a-4cad-8e56-d1edcf4a1d33/posts?page=1#post2

I give it a thumbs up because they fixed the issues to some extent and are still fixing, So I recommend people to wait for Halo 4 and further to get it 100% stable state.

2022 Update

They did a lot of improvements, added a ton of mod support, gave alot of mod tools. Still Halo 4, Reach do not have tools yet, Halo 2A is getting soon. There are some unresolved problems. Yet it was a solid title. A beautiful collection.

Now this BS 343i is injecting MTX retroactively destroying what's left of the Halo fanbase and Halo franchise itself. Halo Infinite flopped like a sewage drain and the player base dropped from 200K to 6000, 4000 is the current MCC count, how the fk do they think adding MTX is going to bring the game more money, stupid fools go and rake cash on Game pass trash not this junk. Also adding some pandering points to Nameplates, changing Armors with S8. I was okay because it's the norm I guess. But adding MTX is inexcusable, all the skill based system thrown into gutters, how the heck does anyone even think to ruin the game like this ? That non canon garbage Paramount show was enough, Halo Infinite also F2P MTX trash DOA. Now this is very very bad. I won't suggest anyone to even pay a cent to this pile of trash.

2022 Q4 Update - Since 343i steered away from the BS MTX, even though I hate the BS that they did with Armors pandering for the politics. I will flip it to up because of Halo MCC being last of it's kind and a final farewell to this franchise.

Waited 10 years for the best franchise Halo CE was love. Updated as of Aug 2020 They fixed the Audio with new XAudio2.9 update thus achieving almost closer to Waves Audio used in Reach and Halo 3. So this is a big improvement in the Audio dept. The Win7/8.1 UE4 crashes reduced a lot, with Halo 3 update including all the bugfixes from Hit scan in MP modes, they also fixed the crouch in Reach and mouse input lag to some extent, Reach feels snappy and the sound is pretty good. I hope they fix it further and create a stable experience. Unlimited FPS is still buggy, EAC can be disabled for MP and XBL is mandatory for SP, Offline is not possible you need to play it Cracked only sadly. But they are polishing it, so we have that from 343i at-least. (Can read more at Halowaypoint updates) Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary is straight up trash, it has horrible Input latency and the scaling is not good with difficulty, then you have projectile 30fps bugs, it's a garbage port of a garbage port, play Halo Custom Edition : Combat Evolved Refined + Chimera, you get lag free fixed transparent shaders from 2001 Xbox OG Halo CE art. MCC HCEA is 100% unplayable mess. H2A people say it's great, will update once I get there. The Main menu videos can be modded, look for RAD tools to edit the Bink files in the MCC/Content/Movies folder. Look at Halowaypoint link here for art. https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/f9237adeaf1742c09de144d7bf3f7507/topics/high-rez-halo-wallpapers/7cd1f2ff-262a-4cad-8e56-d1edcf4a1d33/posts?page=1#post2 I give it a thumbs up because they fixed the issues to some extent and are still fixing, So I recommend people to wait for Halo 4 and further to get it 100% stable state. 2022 Update They did a lot of improvements, added a ton of mod support, gave alot of mod tools. Still Halo 4, Reach do not have tools yet, Halo 2A is getting soon. There are some unresolved problems. Yet it was a solid title. A beautiful collection. Now this BS 343i is injecting MTX retroactively destroying what's left of the Halo fanbase and Halo franchise itself. Halo Infinite flopped like a sewage drain and the player base dropped from 200K to 6000, 4000 is the current MCC count, how the fk do they think adding MTX is going to bring the game more money, stupid fools go and rake cash on Game pass trash not this junk. Also adding some pandering points to Nameplates, changing Armors with S8. I was okay because it's the norm I guess. But adding MTX is inexcusable, all the skill based system thrown into gutters, how the heck does anyone even think to ruin the game like this ? That non canon garbage Paramount show was enough, Halo Infinite also F2P MTX trash DOA. Now this is very very bad. I won't suggest anyone to even pay a cent to this pile of trash. 2022 Q4 Update - Since 343i steered away from the BS MTX, even though I hate the BS that they did with Armors pandering for the politics. I will flip it to up because of Halo MCC being last of it's kind and a final farewell to this franchise.