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Compare the Past and the Present in this Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Trailer

Look at that water. LOOK AT THAT WATER!

Jul. 22 2011

Posted by: Ben

In This Episode:

Halo: Combat Evolved

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I am so excited for this.

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That's nice water.

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Party

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that water is nice though

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So when this sells millions can we expect the same treatment for Halo 2?

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The question is, what does Blood Gulch look like?

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@Gizmo: @Gizmo said:

The question is, what does Blood Gulch look like?

Yes...yeeees!

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I'm afraid that I'm going to switch between the graphics too often. I must control myself!

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need to pic me up and xbox so I CAN play this, xbox owning room mate moved out, time for me to pony up the dough

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Man the first Halo came out 10 years ago. Hard to believe it's been that long. I might have to pick this up

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This won't be a faithful recreation unless I can melee a corpse over and over again until the infinite blood splatter causes the framerate to go to single digits. 
 
Also I remember being able to drive a warthog way, way out into the water on this level and screw around underwater in coop.

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@darkecho117 said:
Man the first Halo came out 10 years ago. Hard to believe it's been that long. I might have to pick this up
You have "117" in your username. You are legally required to buy this.
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@Chadster: Yes and YES!

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@RE_Player92 said:

So when this sells millions can we expect the same treatment for Halo 2?

I  would say so, I can't see them leaving that behind after all it's what  started consoles becominig online multiplayer  rivals to pc fps.
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@Slaker117:  The weird thing is I came up with this username long before I played Halo but I suppose you are right
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I'm more excited about this than I thought I was. I'm not a huge fan of first person shooters (especially because of how many there are lately) but there's just something that really appeals to me about Halo.

I can't wait to ride through the Silent Cartographer on co-op again.

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this looks really good
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Say what you will about Halo, but I think this is a great idea. I hate the direction the series took after the first game, but I still love Combat Evolved and cannot believe that it's been ten years since it made its debut. I'm very tempted to buy this to satisfy my nostalgia. That graphic reversion button is simply awesome. 
  
Only thing keeping me hesitant on the purchase is the Reach mutliplayer. That's killer.

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@darkecho117: Huh, really? That's cool. Did you get it from your birthday or something?
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Edited By falconer

I hope some of those sounds are place holders, because... they're wrong (Warthog chaingun and Magnum).

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Some nice HIDs on that puma.

Also this is a game about love.

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Halo is easily in my top games of all time.
 
I will buy a 360 for this.

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@Slaker117: Nope just a random username that I thought sounded neat when I was younger and i've just stuck with it
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Edited By shiptoncraig

I played Halo PC multiplayer to death and was hoping that it would be brought across into this, rather than taking a small slice of Reach multiplayer :(

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I'm gonna buy this for sure, seeing as Halo 1 and Reach are the only two Halo games I actually liked, but isn't that classic assault rifle wrong? I don't remember it being so flat, nor do I remember the lever on the side. 
 
And a Google search confirms. Weird, wonder why the model is different? 
 
Edit: Nevermind, Slaker117 pointed out that they're the same. Silly me.

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@The_Nubster said:
I'm gonna buy this for sure, seeing as Halo 1 and Reach are the only two Halo games I actually liked, but isn't that classic assault rifle wrong? I don't remember it being so flat, nor do I remember the lever on the side.  And a Google search confirms. Weird, wonder why the model is different?
I don't know, it looks pretty identical to me.
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Why is this one of my most anticipated games ever? I've already played it!!!

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This looks surprisingly well, might actually consider buying this. That’s if the multiplayer is decent, I hope it’s not just a few remade maps.

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@Slaker117: Ah, yeah, you're right. I guess my eyes were playing tricks on me. 
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Not even a huge halo fan and I'm excited for this, easily still the best of the series in terms of the campaign.  I still love the old sound effect for the rifle as well, so much better than the weak sounding crap they replaced it with in 3.

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Scary that this came out when I was 10 years old. Also, the guy talking here is a really bad presenter. "fantastic"

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@Slaker117 said:
@The_Nubster said:
I'm gonna buy this for sure, seeing as Halo 1 and Reach are the only two Halo games I actually liked, but isn't that classic assault rifle wrong? I don't remember it being so flat, nor do I remember the lever on the side.  And a Google search confirms. Weird, wonder why the model is different?
I don't know, it looks pretty identical to me.
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In this build the AR resembles the AR in Reach.  In the exploding grunt video they released a couple days ago the AR looks more like the original.
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Definitely going to pick this up.

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@OtakuGamer said:

This looks surprisingly well, might actually consider buying this. That’s if the multiplayer is decent, I hope it’s not just a few remade maps.

The multiplayer is Reach. Literally.
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What is up with the framerate :S

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Wow I will totally be switching graphics mode back and forth at every scene change. 
 
Plus I really wouldn't mind playing some Halo.

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@Gizmo said:
The question is, what does Blood Gulch look like?
Exactly. They better not have changed the spawn camping mechanics. 
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@SuperSambo: ...it's still in development.

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If it's a gift, then why do I have to pay for it?

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I love that the guy playing it plays exactly like everyone I've ever seen. Very un-PR-like gameplay.

I'm really excited for this.

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I approve of this "time travel", it's so awesome!

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10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,10 years ago,

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@Fish_Face_McGee said:

@SuperSambo: ...it's still in development.

He said that he was showing a final build.

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@SuperSambo said:

@Fish_Face_McGee said:

@SuperSambo: ...it's still in development.

He said that he was showing a final build.

That's the exact opposite of what he said.
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Can't wait.

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AWESOME

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Other than playing about 1-2 hours of the first game's PC port, I haven't played any Halo games yet. Over the course of the last year, though, I bought all of them (CE, 2, 3, ODST, Reach) and I'm gonna start my Halo series playthrough soon. However, I'm already tempted to try this remake afterwards just because it looks sooooo much better!

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@MAN_FLANNEL said:

@SuperSambo said:

@Fish_Face_McGee said:

@SuperSambo: ...it's still in development.

He said that he was showing a final build.

That's the exact opposite of what he said.

@MAN_FLANNEL said:

@SuperSambo said:

@Fish_Face_McGee said:

@SuperSambo: ...it's still in development.

He said that he was showing a final build.

That's the exact opposite of what he said.

Oh, sorry I completely misheard.

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Sure you proved that you can play a FPS on a console...
 
But I'd still rather play on a PC.

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@Chadster said:

This won't be a faithful recreation unless I can melee a corpse over and over again until the infinite blood splatter causes the framerate to go to single digits. Also I remember being able to drive a warthog way, way out into the water on this level and screw around underwater in coop.

I bet you can still do that, it just takes way more blood to ruin the framerate.