Halo Combat Evolved... 14 Years Later

Great video. But Halo is amazing. I don’t mind the retreading of levels and the Library being so big and long gives scope to how big Halo is. Just nitpicking at this point. However this is a great video and held my attention the entire time. Halo is flawless. There wouldn’t be a Xbox without Halo. Halo Infinite is awesome AF too. Yes the flood reveal was a little thin, if they rebooted it maybe have it like a Aliens scene when they first go into the Hive. Can’t wait to check out your other videos.

MCC was my first introduction to Halo: CE and I regret not having played it with its original graphics and without the loading screens.

Enjoyed it all but I would disagree with your feelings towards the story and all. I think the first was somewhat generic at times but halo has such unique lore and I really enjoy the story progression, but the gameplay does suffer for it tbh

Love how real this dude was with the story. Actman giving the campaign a 10/10 while trying to be "subjective" is laughable

I played Halo Combat Evolved for the first time in December 2021 (20 years after it's release). I absolutely loved it as someone that had played Doom, Quake and Half-Life on PC for a while, was really impressed by the big environments and moment to moment action. I do think the game is too repetitive for it's own good but the campaign was a blast to play through for the first time. I played it on Master Chief Collection and didn't really mind the loading screens, but I do agree, it would have been nice if those were removed to keep the original's surprise.

Doesn’t this guy have his separate channel?

What's wrong with the Anniversary edition?

Ugh, did you have to use the remastered graphics?? Disliked.

This video aged badly

It’s still amazing!

This game is better than halo 2, change my mind.

20 years damn

damn I remember watching this video when it came out...why is life going fast

I still find myself coming back to this series and watching it again from the beginning. Finally I got an Xbox 360, and now I've gotta get these games and play them after seeing this so much. I feel like someone else mentioned it, but you sound like Solid Snake from 2 or 3, and for whatever reason, I find that extremely bad ass, and ironic lol.

So, this is where Raycevik’s career as a game critic began

343 Guilty Spark is still one of my favorite levels in the Halo franchise. I love how the game completely shifts into a horror tone. Even though I've played through the game many, many times I still admire the level for how good the atmosphere is and well they built up the twist.

Also, I completely agree that the new graphics harm 343 Guilty Spark's atmosphere. I mostly like the updated graphics, but the changes to that level really disappointed me.

Halo ce has had its 20 year anniversary now, it's 2022

Back in school I actually dropped the game in those infinite rooms and corridors in Assault on the Control Room. What a mess of a level design that part of the game is.

I don't understand this complaining about how the twist has lost its affect on you after knowing what the twist is. Are you still shocked each time you watch the twist in Se7en? Give me a break

It’s refreshing to not have nostalgia talking in a video , he’s enjoying the game now not when it came out

i dont mind the copy paste rooms.

"the flood aren't fun to fight" WHAT???????

Now 21…..

Hey man, I hate to be that guy but there were a total of seven ads in this video.

I understand that you want to make money on these and that you worked very hard on them but seven different ad breaks over 30 minutes is quite frankly unacceptable and for that I have to dislike the video.

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Honestly, for me Cortana not telling Chief what the threat is and telling him just to run always made sense. An AI always relaying information to you who suddenly just tells you to run because there's no time accentuates that there's a grave danger coming even Cortana's scared of, but it can be taken both ways because she's still talking OOC, even if this might be justified 'cos we're dealing with a mothafukin flood here

Years ago this used to be a bustling town, now it's a ghost town

These Ipad kids will never get to experience the initial wave of multi-player gaming. It wad an amazing and toxic time haha

the weapons more powerful, even melee attacks had farther range....explosions made ppl fly across the room lol

Halo hasn't got the respect it deserved since combat evolved, the gravity and special physic has been deleted to make it "another" fast pace fps. I was playing multiplayer LANs at that time, when H2 came out, everythings collapsed, H3 included. HReach helped a little though

They probably say Blood Gulch is the best because of red vs blue because otherwise if RvB didn't exist I'd say it's the best btb map in ce a game full of shit btb maps so compared to the rest of the series it's one of the worst

I’m surprised that you don’t like the flood. IMO they’re a great addition to the roster of enemies. While the covenant are strategic and smart, the flood are swarm-like enemies, trying to overwhelm you with their numbers.
Sure, if Halo had only the flood as an enemy, it would be monotonous, but in combination with the covenant, it works really well, and makes for some welcome change in the dynamic of the fights.

Furthermore in another video you said something along the line that only the shotgun and the sword were viable against the flood, which IMO, is simply not true.
Sword and shotgun are definitely great to fight the combat forms of the flood, but any headshot capable weapon (except the sniper rifles) are also viable. You can actually take out the combat forms with a single shot to their “head”, then proceed to punch the corpse to prevent them from getting revived.
When my friends and I played, we often carried a precision weapon and a melee weapon to fight the flood, and it worked great.

Despite my disagreement, I enjoyed the video a lot. Great work!

I do not appreciate your viewpoint of this series. You need to change your attitude very quickly and not think that you know better than the community.

I have never heard the term XBONE until now

As someone who loves this franchise with all of my heart, it’s great to see someone give it a completely fair shake without the bias of years of replaying these games over and over. I watched all of these videos years ago and am rediscovering them now and I really appreciate your style and writing for your videos.

Raycevick, well done man.

the most egregious of the mcc loading screens has got to be the one loading into gravemind in halo 2, cause it just shows the entire gravemind, completely ruins any surprise.

My first playing Halo CE, which by the way I played it before on Anniversary, was on legendary.

I'm not alone thinking the Flood are annoying to fight! 🥲

I played Halo for thr first time in like, 2008, 09? When i was like, 13, on my first ever PC, I LOVED it at the time, I liked the combat, the large levels vith vehicles, and i thought the Flood was a really cool enemy, however, now, over a lifetime later at 28, playing Halo 1 for the second time, i honestly agree with a lot of your criticism, the Flood is cool conceptually but fighting against them gets old fast, the large levels honestly bore me, and Assault on Control Room feels even worse knowing how many times you have to go through it.
It's still a masterpiece, but perfect? No way

Halo CE is a truly unique and important FPS experience.

The worst part about the remaster is chiefs tiny hands

24 years later?

In 4 years and 5 months, this video will be 14 years old, as old as Halo CE was when the video was first published.