MS announced today that they will release Halos 1-4 on a single disc this November for the Xbox One.

Halo 1 Anniversary (360 Graphics)

Halo 2 Anniversary (Remastered for Xbox One)

Halo 3 (no remaster, but increased frame rate

Halo 4 (360 graphics)

They also completely remastered 6 Halo 2 maps, and will have all 100+ Halo 1-4 multiplayer maps playable over Xbox Live

Cost for all 5 games will be $60 Total.

Pics From Halo 2 Anniversary Cutscenes:













More info:
[url]http://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/games/halo-the-master-chief-collection

[This message has been edited by TexasAggie_02 (edited 6/9/2014 4:58p).]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

Oh My ****ing Lord. I'm definitely gonna have to get the XBone now.

Jealous of you xbox1 guys, that ascension remake looked amazing. It's debatable but I've always argued that halo 2 had probably the best multiplayer maps of any single game ever. You're talking about: Lockout, Ivory Tower, Sanctuary, Turf, Warlock, Coagulation, and so many others. Ah the memories.

Playing homegrown zombies before they screwed it up by creating the variant in reach was some of the most fun I had with friends back in high school. Very jealous of this.

So are all MP (1,2,3,&4) all accessible from the same server. As in you can be playing 2 then 3then 1? Or is each one separate with its own level progression.?

The way it was explained by Frank O'Connor, there is one ranking. And while he didn't go into specifics on the system, he said it would be similar to Halo 2's ranking. When you go to the multiplayer tab, you'll select a game type just like you do in any other Halo. When you are brought to a voting screen, you'll have a vote on 3 gametype-compatible, randomly selected, maps from the 100+ Halo 1, 2, 3, and/or 4 games (including all dlc maps.) For example, if the group selects Halo 2's beaver creek, it'll boot the Halo 2 engine and you'll play whatever game type playlist you selected and play it as it would have in Halo 2.

I don't remember but haven't the controls changed a fair amount over time? Especially with 4?

Wish they would port one or all of them to PC. I would probably pay $30 just for Halo 2 on PC.

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Wish they would port one or all of them to PC. I would probably pay $30 just for Halo 2 on PC.

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Halo 2 was ported to pc, in 2007

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The way it was explained by Frank O'Connor, there is one ranking. And while he didn't go into specifics on the system, he said it would be similar to Halo 2's ranking. When you go to the multiplayer tab, you'll select a game type just like you do in any other Halo. When you are brought to a voting screen, you'll have a vote on 3 gametype-compatible, randomly selected, maps from the 100+ Halo 1, 2, 3, and/or 4 games (including all dlc maps.) For example, if the group selects Halo 2's beaver creek, it'll boot the Halo 2 engine and you'll play whatever game type playlist you selected and play it as it would have in Halo 2.

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That is legit. Hopefully they'll have game specific playlists as well, just in case I just want to play halo 2 or halo 3 one day.

A) I'm playing Halo 2 on PC right now. They ported it over whenever Vista came out.


B) Halo 2 will look awesome on a nex-gen console.

Halo 2 was and will be the greatest console game ever made. Can't wait for it to come back out.

They also said super-bouncing and button combos (BXR and Double Shot) will be doable.

Probably also means the infinite energy, no time delay between swings, energy sword is coming back too. If there's an award for the most unbalanced fps weapon of all time.....well maybe the pistol from halo 1.....

Was waiting for something like this. Now I will buy an Xbone later in the year for it.

This is going to be Microsoft's Orange Box.

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What you can expect, however – and this is huge news for fellow old-school Xbox gamers – is that Combat Evolved’s multiplayer will be playable, online, in its original form.

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Finally.

So Frank O'Conner gave an interview yesterday, the matchmaking will include all the maps. Players will be given 3 choices (with a logo next to each one showing what Halo game it came from). They will then vote, and then the game will load whatever game engine it needs and start the match.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u15qpXrJhyQ

Will pre-order this for sure!

Could be the biggest release for MS in how long?

there is a rumor that Halo 4 play on Live has been plummeting, and MS is running scared. They tried to emulate Call of Duty type play with loadouts/etc and it didn't resonate. By combining this massive collection of maps and gametypes into essentially one game, and having players vote, they can get a better feel for what people really want out of Halo 5.

I want halo to be like halo 2 was

In that interview above, Frankie was asked and said they learned a lot about MP from Halo 4... in other words, he better be saying that "yep, that totally was not Halo MP and players don't like it!!!" Halo Reach and Halo 4 got no love from me on the MP side of things... Halo 2 and Halo 3 were definitely the glory days.

I'm actually a bit concerned how they are doing MP for the collection. So if you choose Team Slayer, you can go between Halo 1-4 MP maps... how does that work??? Considering how in Halo 4 you have rankings, unlocks, weapon loadouts... vs. Halo 1-3 where each player is on equal ground and you fight to control the power weapons / vehicles.

I'd much rather have the options to just play Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, or Halo 4 MP and not mix/match them. Or, at the very least, make it Halo 1-3 MP and leave Halo 4 as it's own separate entity... Halo 4 just does not fit with the other 3 at all and simply doesn't belong in the rotation if you ask me!!! I can't be the only one vocal about that and hopefully they will fix this before release!!!

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there is a rumor that Halo 4 play on Live has been plummeting, and MS is running scared. They tried to emulate Call of Duty type play with loadouts/etc and it didn't resonate. By combining this massive collection of maps and gametypes into essentially one game, and having players vote, they can get a better feel for what people really want out of Halo 5.

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It's not really a rumor anymore these days. Look at the player counts per day for both 4 and reach, more people play reach right now than 4. Halo made it's name for itself with its arcade style FPS. People didn't want customizable classes, sprinting, reticule bloom, and a lot of other things they've been slowly introducing into the series.

Don't be surprised when halo 1, 2, and 3 are the most played multiplayer maps of that release. The big thing I'm looking forward to is what kind of code gameplay will we see in Halo 5. If they are indeed using this to get a feel for what players want, they would be stupid to continue down the path from 4.

[This message has been edited by Agfan2013 (edited 6/10/2014 11:55a).]

guess i should have phrased better, the rumor is b/c of halo 4 problems, they are using the MC Collection to see if players want to go back to the old style.


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Not sure how the halo 4 classes/rankings will work into matchmaking. In the interview i linked above, the Collection has a unified user interface, you won't have a Halo 1 screen, or a halo 2 screen, etc. They also said that there would be some kind of unified ranking system. So you wouldn't have the old Halo 2 1-50 ranking, and then the Halo 3 officer ranking, etc.

For campaign, you pick the mission you want, and it jumps to it. There will even be playlists that allow you to play all the "warthog" missions from all 4 games, for example.

They said that all missions and all skulls would be unlocked from the get go.


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They said that all missions and all skulls would be unlocked from the get go.

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*sigh of relief*

It's odd how pretty much all of us admit that there are way more games out there than we have time to play... yet this will come out in November and I'll be dropping my $60 to play through all 4 games again, even though I've played through each one of those games at least twice!!!

The ultimate replay value test: Will you buy it a second time?

Granted this is like 4 games for the price of 1

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DO you have the option to join the multiplayer queue and play a specific game version each time? During the announcement (and as y'all have mentioned), the option exists where you will join the queue and can decide between different maps on different games. However, if I just wanted to run through Team Slayer on Halo 1 maps, would this option be available?

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DO you have the option to join the multiplayer queue and play a specific game version each time? During the announcement (and as y'all have mentioned), the option exists where you will join the queue and can decide between different maps on different games. However, if I just wanted to run through Team Slayer on Halo 1 maps, would this option be available?

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Right now it doesn't sound like it. In that linked video they were messing with menus and when he went to MP and Slayer for example, it had the games highlighted that were in that play list. But I'm hoping the community speaks out because I certainly want the option to only use play Halo or Halo 2 MP maps if I had want. And I don't want to hear about custom games being the answer cause I don't always have 8 friends online.

I was wondering what they meant when the distinctively called it "Next Gen Arena Multiplayer" in the Halo 5 MP Beta tease. Well, I was listening to a podcast in the background while I'm working and they were saying that "Arena" refers to the old style of MP where teams fight for the power weapons (Halo 1, 2, 3). This is not confirmed obviously, but all signs (and the fact that Halo 4 MP was poorly received) point to Halo going back to it's roots!

I've seen something else that indicates there will still be armor abilities, but it's a good bet we will be going back to the good old days of Halo MP.

I wish I could preorder already.

Shut up and take my money!

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God dammit now I have to buy an Xbox One

Yeah... This makes me consider the Xbox 1.

Halo 4 mp sucked because there were so few people in the end.

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Shut up and take my money!

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They already have my money, they just don't know it yet.

Or actually, they probably do know it already. They can pull a list of online stats and reference which guys bought each and every halo game, played them all more than once, spent countless hours in MP, and they can pretty much say, "yep, he's totally gonna buy this!" They can also look at which guys are still holding out and say "welp, looks like darkoverlord69 will be buying an XB1 in November". *high fives all around*

http://www.totalxbox.com/78078/be-upstanding-for-halo-the-master-chief-collections-full-map-list/

List of all the maps to be included.