Halo Combat Evolved - Gamers Guide

Halo Combat Evolved

Halo: Combat Evolved is a 2001 first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released as a launch game for Microsoft's Xbox video game console on November 15, 2001. The game was ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X in 2003. It was later released as a downloadable Xbox Original for the Xbox 360. Halo is set in the twenty-sixth century, with the player assuming the role of the Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier. The Chief is accompanied by Cortana, an artificial intelligence. Players battle aliens as they attempt to uncover the secrets of the eponymous Halo, a ring-shaped artificial world.

Halo was a critical and commercial success and is often praised as one of the greatest video games ever made. The game's popularity led to labels such as "Halo clone" and "Halo killer", applied to games either similar to or anticipated to be better than it. Its sequel, Halo 2, was released for the original Xbox in 2004, and the game spawned a multi-billion-dollar multimedia franchise that incorporates games, books, toys, and films. The game inspired and was used in the fan-created Red vs. Blue video series, which is credited as one of the first major successes of Machinima (the technique of using real-time 3D engines, often from video games, to create animated films).

Bungie began the development of what would eventually become Halo CE in 1997. Initially, the game was a real-time strategy game that morphed into a third-person shooter before becoming a first-person shooter. During development, Microsoft acquired Bungie and turned Halo into a launch game for its first video game console, the Xbox.

Developer           Bungie

Publisher            Microsoft Game Studios/MacSoft

Director              Jason Jones

Producer             Hamilton ChuRick Ryan

Designer             John Howard

Programmer        Michael Evans

Artist                   Marcus Lehto/Steve Abeyta

Writer                 Brannon Boren/Matthew Soell/Eric Trautmann

Composer           Martin O'Donnell/Michael Salvatori

Series                  Halo

Platform             Xbox/Microsoft Windows/Mac OS X/Xbox 360

Release               November 15, 2001

Genre                  First-person shooter

Mode                  Single-player, multiplayer

Minimum Requirements

• Supported Operating System (OS): -   Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Processor (CPU): -Intel Pentium II or equivalent AMD Athlon
• RAM: -128 MB
• Free Hard Disk Space (HDD Space): -1.2 GB
• Video Card (GPU): - 32 MB
• Direct X: - DX 8.1

 

Recommended Requirements

• Supported Operating System (OS): - Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Processor (CPU): -Intel Pentium 4 or Athlon XP
• RAM: -512 MB
• Free Hard Disk Space (HDD Space): -2 GB
• Video Card (GPU): - 64 MB
• Direct X: - DX 9

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