SummaryIn a desperate attempt to keep a conquering alien race called the Covenant from finding Earth, you--a cybernteically enhanced soldier representing the peak of human military evolution--and a ragtag group of Marines flee to a distant uncharted system where you unexpectedly stumble across Halo, an enormous alien artifact in orbit between a gas gian... Read More
Rated Mfor Mature
Developer:Bungie
Halo: Combat Evolved
Xbox
Released On:
Nov 15, 2001
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
97
User score
Generally Favorable
8.6
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
97
100% Positive
68 Reviews
68 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Surprisingly impressive. In fact, the enemy and ally A.I. is done extremely well. Even on lower difficulties, you'll find enemies give you a challenge.
100
Your objectives are simple enough that you never have to flip switches, jump over pits or hunt down missing keys, but at the same time the smart enemies, brilliant level design and strategic combat will tax your brain more than any scavenger hunt ever could.
User score
Generally Favorable
8.6
84% Positive
3104 Ratings
3104 Ratings
9% Mixed
330 Ratings
330 Ratings
7% Negative
248 Ratings
248 Ratings
Sep 21, 2026
10
Halo: Combat Evolved is a 10/10 for me because I did not just play it. I grew up with it.I remember sitting with my friends, passing controllers around, shouting across the room, arguing over weapons, and laughing when someone got betrayed for the rocket launcher. We would finish one match and immediately start another. Those nights became part of my **** campaign still feels incredible. I remember the music, stepping onto the ring, the first Warthog ride, the Covenant battles, the Flood, and the panic when everything suddenly went wrong. Halo made every fight feel like an **** combat still has that perfect old-school feeling. The weapons hit hard, the enemies are fun to fight, and the violence gives the game a real edge. Plasma burns, grenades throw bodies across the room, and a shotgun blast never gets old. No hand-holding or sanitized nonsense, just confident, straightforward **** multiplayer became part of our friendships. We crowded around one screen, linked up, talked online about matches, built rivalries, and created memories we still laugh about. We were not only playing a game. We were living through something together.I feel genuinely lucky that I got to be part of that era. Gaming felt fresh, social, exciting, and full of possibility, and Halo was at the center of it for me and my friends. It still plays beautifully, still makes me smile, and still gives me that same rush.Halo: Combat Evolved is one of the greatest games ever made. Remembering that time still warms my heart. 10/10.
100
A game that will become the new benchmark for first person shooters. Quite frankly, it's one of the better ones that I have seen in a long time, at least since Half Life.
98
From the look and feel of the game to its balanced learning curve and careful pacing, every aspect of Halo has been polished to perfection.
96
Not only the perfect next-generation first person shooter, it has redefined the genre, on a console no less. Never before has a combat game been so amazing in every way.
90
Though all of the vehicles, especially the Warthog, are given odd control mechanics, playing with the vehicles adds quite a bit of enjoyment to the otherwise standard FPS game mechanics.
80
The first half is fast, exciting, beautifully designed and constantly full of surprises. The second half is festooned with gobsmacking plot twists and great cinematics but let down by repetitive paint by numbers level design.
Sep 10, 2026
10
Most influential game of all time. And somehow the gameplay still holds up.
Sep 6, 2026
7
This game really aged kind of bad but not in all it's aspects, still feel's awesome to play it once and again, there are thing's that are really clanky or weird like the warthog physics, the enemies that go berserk towards you and stuff like that, but still it is a great one, it always remind's me why this saga was the king of two generations, truly a classic one but if you ask me, if you're a casual, don't touch the legendary difficulty, you will suffer like never before.
Honestly I prefer halo 2,3,odst and reach, all that came with 343 doesn't even exist and it's not cannon, just like Disney star wars
Apr 10, 2026
7
the gameplay's still fun, it's halo. BUT OH MY GOD WHO THOUGHT THE ENTIRE LAST QUARTER OF THE GAME WAS A GOOD IDEA
Dec 16, 2022
4
Unfortunately, this is what Microsoft company understands from the game. The interesting part is that most of the video game reviewers do not understand only the simple and non-development game genres such as FPS and Sports, let's move on to the review without further ado. First of all, is the game good, which is the exaggerated part? Unfortunately, the game is a disgrace, let alone being bad. We can use a maximum of two weapons with an incredible variety of weapons throughout the game, which makes the game incredibly boring and repetitive, not only mechanically, but also as a level design, the game makes you walk around the same places like a closed box from start to finish. Designs and mechanics Aside from the constant repetition, the game's lack of variety is another matter. Let's come to the most praised subject of the game, artificial intelligence, yes, artificial intelligence has proven that it is good at microsoft software, as never before in the game world. Enemies analyze your movements and play against you, and in the game This is the only tangible thing. Unfortunately, the game makes the only good part of it useless due to its crappy mechanics, level designs and diversity. This game is neither an Arcade FPS or a Realistic FPS, a game that failed both. Stop comparing it to Unreal gold and Quake 2. Serious sam The first encounter opponent I can't even say that if these games are masterpieces, this game is a disgrace. As for the score of the game, it's 42/100
