Have you ever heard about Halo Combat Evolved an thought that it’s just another first person shooter game or the yip-yap about it not being as good as the other games on the Playstation 2 or the Nintendo Gamecube. Well if you have you are in one hak of a ride.


Halo Combat Evolved is a first person shooter game made by Bungie on November 15, 2001. They worked with Microsoft the creators of the Original Xbox, Xbox 360 and now the Xbox One. Bungie has created many other Halo games later in the years, like Halo 2, released on November 9, 2004, Halo 3, released on September 25, 2007, Halo Wars, released on March 3, 2009, but made only by Microsoft, Halo 3 ODST, released on September 22, 2009 and Halo Reach, released on September 14, 2010 that was also the last Halo game Bungie has ever made. 343 Industries took the title of Halo on March 31, 2011 and made their first Halo game which was Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, released on November 15, 2011. They also made Halo 4, released on November 6, 2012 and Halo Spartan Assault released, on July 18, 2013.


The reason why I picked Halo Combat Evolved out of all the other Halo games was because I thought that Bungie made the best halo games because they were the ones that came up with the Idea and they should be able to make more of them if they want to, and also sense Halo Combat Evolved was the first one ever made no one back then has ever seen something like that before. It was also awarded game of the year.


The Halo games are about a futuristic war between the UNSC (United Nations Space Command) and the Covenant (The Covenant is a alien alliance of multiple species). They wipe out entire planets at a time, and they are so fast at doing so, the humans are unable to get much information on them before they destroy Earth and all the Humans on it.. The horde of aliens is getting closer and closer to Earth with the clock quickly ticking down before they completely annihilate the Human race. Finally the line is drawn. In a massive battle near Reach, only one ship survives, The Pillar of Autumn. Everything else happens in Halo Combat Evolved.

The commander of the ship decides to lure the Covenant as far away from Earth as possible so he programs the ship's AI to jump to some random location in the opposite direction of the home system. Eventually the ship arrives at a distant area where they find both a gas giant called Threshold and its small moon known as Basis. This wouldn't be so strange except for the fact that they find a giant ring construct floating between the two objects, which is about 10,000 miles in diameter. Unfortunately for the small ship, the entire Covenant battle fleet had followed them and arrived in the system shortly before.


When you start your first mission you are in the middle of the Autumn being evacuated. That giant ring construct is Halo. In the rest of the game you will fire roughly 4 million rounds at all sorts of alien creatures and vehicles by the time you reach the end of Halo. It's definitely a first person shooter. But it's how you're motivated to deal all of that damage that makes the experience so enjoyable. The artificial intelligence of the enemies is highly evolved enough and increases in difficulty at such a nice steady pace so that you are literally getting better the more you play.

There are a handful of basic enemy types that you'll encounter in Halo including the small annoying Grunts, force-field wearing Elites, shield carrying Jackals, terrifying Hunters and the good old cloaking Elites --they carry cool energy swords that you don't want to know about. Each of the different enemy types behaves and attacks according to their specific "personalities" and so there are tactics in dealing with each.

Grunts are basically chickenish and so they likely to attack when they have plenty of backup and run away once you isolate them or show your aggression. The magic is in how they express themselves. When Grunts run away they only get so far and hide behind cover before they find some more courage and pop out again. You simply attack them at will with whatever weapon you have handy.

Elites have an entirely different plan. They have shields, just like you, so they're more likely to go toe-to-toe. Once you get their shields down, however, they panic and become even more aggressive with a running melee attack of some kind. Since their shields are down, your best bet is to smash them with a melee attack of your own with whatever weapon you may be carrying. An up close and personal attack with the butt of your assault rifle is one of the joys that Halo Combat Evolved will bring you.