As Master Chief, you are awoken on the Pillar of Autumn, a ship that has just made a blind slipspace jump from Reach. We all know it by now but let’s recap anyway. Once I had convinced my step-dad to buy me an Xbox and Halo, I never looked back. This was the sign of things to come for me though. I didn’t realise it had been that long but the retail attendant sure made me feel like like a jackass for basically just enjoying the game. When I was about 12/13 I was actually kicked off a Halo demo Xbox at a retail store because I had been playing it for an hour. I have an embarrassing story about Halo:CE that I am at pains to tell as it is rather ridiculous. The universe of Halo was so rich that being dropped into it didn’t feel strange, you felt immediately at home. We were introduced to non-linear level design on a scale previously unthought of.

Not only did it run well, play like a dream and look fantastic, it gave us shooters in a space they’d traditionally been average in. Halo:CE literally altered the playing field for console FPS. Articles // 7th Nov 2014 - 9 years ago // By James Furlong Wake Me When You Need Me: Halo: Combat Evolved

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