Halo: Anniversary - The Halo 1 remake (fuck anyone who calls it "halo ce" remake)

[Pooky]

pooky it's possible because halo ce is full of noobs. but take a situation where each player is as good as you with a full 8 v 8 game on bloodgulch... it will be a lot less likely to take down the whole team with just a full pistol n 2 frags.

also if you take away the horrible net code and add in the xbox live netcode... yeah even less of a chance.

the only reason why halo ce was mostly based on individual skill was because of the horrible netcode and the naive little kids that don't understand the concept of lead your shot.

i still think h2 had the best multiplayer. gameplay, maps. the only thing it failed in was the whole smg start for every gamevariant / map...

Hey don't get me wrong I don't dislike Halo 2, I just think Halo PC is the best version of Halo.

And obviously I've played with skilled people before. Hell, most CE regulars back in the day were better at aiming than me. King for example was way better at shooting than me, but I still remember that time I jumped off the top of Damnation, tapped him in the back and stole his rocket launcher

[Amit]

I still remember that time I jumped off the top of Damnation, tapped him in the back and stole his rocket launcher

I did that on Prisoner last year in a LAN that I set up in CompEng class. So satisfying. Except he had a shotgun instead.

[Arteen]

Random thought, but 343i should call this game "Halo Anniversary". "Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary" is a bit of a misnomer.

[Hotrod]

I always call it Halo Anniversary. As far as I'm concerned, Halo CE is Custom Edition and the original game is just called Halo. "Combat Evolved" is just a stupid subtitle that Microsoft stuck on there so that stupid people wouldn't think it was a religious game.

Oh, and Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary is just a mouthful too.

[Kornman00]

Or they could have just called it "Halo Evolved", adding further confusion in the brand that is Halo. Halo Combat Evolved, Halo Custom Edition, Halo Evolutions, Halo Recon, Halo Goes to Hollywood, Halo Hurp Derp, etc

I like Limited's "HA10"

[ejburke]

It's not even a subtitle. It's a marketing tagline. It'd be like calling a Subway restaurant, "Subway: Eat Fresh" or if a hypothetical tweenie novel was called, "Twilight: Why Do They Read This Crap? Really, Why?"

[Kornman00]

They heard we like taglines so they put taglines in their taglines so they can market while they market.

Seriously though, it probably hints that they may do other "Anniversary" games in the future. That's the only logical conclusion I can come up with. Well, this is MS/343i we're talking about. Nothing they've done thus far has been logical, and if anything, it's all been destructive to the franchise and the people who have really worked on it.

[Amit]

I don't think many people would buy an anniversary edition of Halo 2 (nobody wants to relive that cliffhanger) unless it included the online portion untouched as well. But we all know that WHEN Halo 2 Anniversary Edition comes out, the MP map remakes will be for Halo 4 or Halo 5...

[Higuy]

I always liked the "Combat Evolved" at the end

Made it stand out a bit, I guess.

[Mr Buckshot]

wow I only just found out about how the MP won't be a recreation of the original, instead just level geometry for the COD-wannabe that is Halo Reach. While I don't think Reach was fail, I just didn't like how it broke away from the old formula instead of staying with what ain't broke.

was it that hard to just do what CS Source was to CS 1.6? I'd gladly pay a full $60 to get a HD remake of the classic multiplayer. It might even make me pay for XBL in fact. But whether it's $10 or $40, I probably won't be getting Anniversary anymore. It's running on outdated hardware anyway. Maybe if a friend buys it, I'll borrow it for a night like I did with MW2, but nothing more.

Halo 1 multiplayer was just one of a kind, I honestly can't name anything besides Halo 2/3 that can be compared justifiably.