Cortana has a bad habit of talking over herself if you progress through a level too fast (which is easy to do on Pillar of Autumn especially). There are a few Halo-specific bugs I’ve noticed. Where is my list of settings to set to “Ultra” so I can feel smug?

Speaking of which, Halo sports the same three options as Reach: “Enhanced,” “Original,” and “Performance.” As with Reach, any halfway decent gaming PC will run Halo maxed out, so I understand logically why 343 didn’t bother with more granular graphics settings-and yet I find it weird. It’s an aberration, and I wish 343 would simply give PC players the option to use the scroll wheel, or map “1” to primary weapon, “2” to secondary, and “3” to swapping grenades. I’ve adapted to a lot of strange control schemes in my life, but this one flies in the face of PC shooters both before (i.e. This is not how PC games handle weapon swapping. It’s been three months, and it still irks me. Hitting “2” to go to your secondary instead changes your grenade type. Mirroring the Xbox controls, swapping between primary and secondary weapons is done with a single mapping, the “1” key. First and foremost, the bizarre manner in which weapon switching is handled. My complaints about the original Halo are identical to my complaints about Reach. We mined the levels for secrets, like the hidden room on the Pillar of Autumn.

We spent hours perfecting the Warthog Jump, and stealing Banshees to get to parts of the level we weren’t supposed to see. I can picture it, every step of the way: The winding corridors of the Pillar of Autumn, those first cautious steps onto the Halo installation, the beaches of the Silent Cartographer, the arrival of The Flood, the fate of Commander Keyes (and his pipe), the Warthog run. Instead, my buddy and I spent a lot of time playing and replaying the Combat Evolved campaign. IDG / Hayden Dingmanīut I barely played the original Halo’s multiplayer at the time-only ever in splitscreen, and only with two people. I finished once on Heroic, once on Legendary, and then never went back. There, I’m nostalgic for Lockout, Ascension, Zanzibar, all the time I wasted in those iconic arenas. Sure, I played every campaign, but I finished Halo 2 maybe twice and spent the rest of my time with it (hundreds of hours as a teenager) on Xbox Live. I associate the Halos that came after with multiplayer, primarily. Still, it’s the Halo campaign I’m most nostalgic to boot up. It’s very much a game that tried a lot of interesting ideas, but with one foot still stuck in the ‘90s. Even the once-impressive outdoor levels feel small and stilted by today’s standards. Level design is dated, with an over-reliance on labyrinthine corridors, especially in the infamous Library level.

Voice acting is passable, but pretty rough circa 2020.

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