The Master Chief Collection

Rating: 7/10

Back in the fall, 343 Industries released the Master Chief Collection on Xbox One with all four Halo games including the remastered Halo 2 Campaign and over 100 multiplayer maps from all the games including DLC and PC-only maps. The game also included access to the Halo 5: Guardians beta and access to the series, Halo: Nightfall that tells the events leading up to Halo 5. They have also remastered six multiplayer maps from Halo 2 and added new Forge maps running on the redone Halo 2 game engine similar to what will be in Halo 5. The game boasts 60FPS on all maps and new features in Forge such as EMP's, working doors, switches, and many other new additions. While all this sounds good, there are still many problems with the game. There are numerous matchmaking bugs that they are still patching, one Youtuber posted a sped-up video of waiting to play on multiplayer for over 4 hours. There are also many bugs within Custom Games and Forge that make it extremely hard to play Halo with your friends. While 343 has been able to patch many of the bugs, there are still a lot in the game and will take more time to patch all of them.

 

Gameplay from the redone maps

Gameplay from the redone map, Bloodline, from the view from a Hornet

 

A Forge map made in the game