4.5/5 ★ – GamersGauntletGG's review of Halo: Combat Evolved.

Halo CE is forever the OG of original Xbox gaming. It is the ONLY reason Xbox is alive and a brand. It’s was a completely different time but Microsoft dropped the ball not releasing Halo on Xbox Live. I truly believe if they got that right, Xbox would have started on an entire different level than its competitors. Halo CE is a the perfect name for the actual game because the game was a complete master piece. From the falling from The Pillar of Autumn to the ring of Halo. Encountering bad ass enemy types like Elites, Hunters, Grunts, Jackals. Coming across your first sleeping grunt you slap in the back for a insta kill, or taking in an Elite with a bad ass energysword. Halo 1 really is where it all started. Exploring in Ghost, chilling with your homies in the Worthog, praying you duo respawned in campaign. Halo pushed the amount of fun a kid could have with a game. The multiplayer also had so many deep elements despite, and even though (now) on a comp scene maps are pretty limited. Maps like Blood Glutch, The Pistol preciseness put the game above others in a competitive sense. But like stated earlier Microsoft slightly dropped the ball not putting Halo on Xbox Live or allowing it to be accessed or updated through the internet. I know it was a completely different time(I was there) but that decision kinda made it so Halo wasn’t able to start out as a 10/10 game. Just a 9/10 game. A few weapons like Needler and somewhat assault rifle not being to be updated/being slightly under powered also played a role in Halo 1 not being a perfect game. Halo: Combat Evolved will always be the best Halo game in my own opinion. Really thankful Bungie and Halo were a thing.