I am also extremely glad and relieved that by Halo 3's launch on PC, the audio issues have been resolved completely. Of course, the classic Halo music keeps pumping the atmosphere with tons of concentrated awesome, easing in and out alongside important moments and action segments. Johnson's sweet one-liners, a certain ancient intelligence's rhymes, and even 343 Guilty Spark's weird giggles were music to my ears. This being the end of the saga, all the surviving big players make a comeback to see the story off. The Elites are now in the highly underrated ‘let’s not destroy the galaxy’ gang alongside the humans, and the duo is going up against the leftover forces of the Covenant and the Flood as more Forerunner ruins keep delivering trouble to the universe. It accomplishes this task without fail, coolly making you forget all the years of waiting, as the Chief is back, and there's a fight to finish. The story picks up right where it left off, simply dropping Master Chief into the fray as if it's a new page in a book. I went in completely blind, and it was an absolute blast.
In this review I go over how the now more than a decade-old title fairs on the new platform, which I found out by playing through the campaign (in co-op), experiencing the multiplayer portion for many hours, and witnessing the other weighty changes that have been made to the Master Chief Collection as a whole, such as the much-awaited audio fixes for Halo: Reach.īeing one of those people that have stubbornly stuck to the PC platform exclusively and simply took the hit of not having any more of Halo after the second game, this was the first time I got to experience Halo 3. There are still quite a few PC-specific enhancements attached to the project, but everything from the original graphics to the gameplay has remained largely intact, as have most of the quirks. Much like other games in the Master Chief Collection, Halo 3 arrives as a port, not a remake or a full-on remaster over to the new platform.
This is the Halo that has always dominated conversations around the franchise even a console generation and over a decade later, with many deeming it to be the peak that was never hit again.
The 2007-released shooter began Halo's trend of skipping the PC platform and became the Xbox console exclusive series we (used to) know it as, painfully leaving Halo 2's cliffhanger dangling indefinitely without a resolution, until now. Halo 3 has entered the Halo: The Master Chief Collection on PC. It has now been over six months since Master Chief's escapades began returning to PC, and following three games, Halo: Reach, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and Halo 2: Anniversary, that one game everyone seems to be talking about has rolled in atop its royal Warthog.