Halo CE is one of the most influential games of all time. It's been 16 years since this baby launched, and now, The Act Man is going to finally answer the question: "Is Halo CE a Masterpiece?"
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Introduction 0:00 - 3:00
#1 Setting The Tone 3:00 - 5:28
#2 The FPS Revolution 5:28 - 8:29
#3 Gameplay That Holds Up 8:29 - 18:10
#4 Yes, you can go ANYWHERE! 18:10 - 20:57
#5 Level Design Evolved 20:57 - 26:48
#6 Once more, with Purpose 26:48 - 28:26
#7 The Story 28:26 - 36:08
Conclusion 36:10 - 37:05
I Would Have Been Your Daddy 37:06 - 38:53
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__________________Time Stamps__________________ Introduction 0:00 - 3:00 #1 Setting The Tone 3:00 - 5:28 #2 The FPS Revolution 5:28 - 8:29 #3 Gameplay That Holds Up 8:29 - 18:10 #4 Yes, you can go ANYWHERE! 18:10 - 20:57 #5 Level Design Evolved 20:57 - 26:48 #6 Once more, with Purpose 26:48 - 28:26 #7 The Story 28:26 - 36:08 Conclusion 36:10 - 37:05 I Would Have Been Your Daddy 37:06 - 38:53 Thanks for watching! :)
Are you going to do a video like this on Halo 2? I'd like to see your analysis of it.
The Act Man watching your brilliant video fills me with both happiness and great sadness. it makes me remember the great times and makes me FUCKING HATE 343 FOR RUINING MY FAVORITE SERIES
The Act Man i fucking hate 343 for ruining halo & continuingvto SHIT on halos legacy
16:30 nice use of the spv3 soundtrack Jefet did amazing job.
343i might not make the halo we expect but they still make better then any other company would do. if anything 343 was the best company to take over halo they even agree on some mistakes they made which is very rare these days
When you first played Halo were you blinded by its majesty?
Blinded??!
@@AllknowingUnknownParalyzed? Dumbstruck?
Yet your parents were able to tell you to get off the Xbox! Unplug the sacred console! And desecrate your save file!
@@natahndolar2142 I'm sure u will understand when my parents attacked
You were right to focus your attention on the game but these overprotective parents...
The Earth is round The Earth is flat The Earth is a cube The Earth is a *ring*
Well... That escalated quickly.
Uuuhhh what’s a earth I only know of the planet of stoflgvlvyfytcphvjvuhofudugohkgukv
The Earth is a bomb
@@anomalocaristheabnormalshr3248 ALLAH AGBAR!!! (That was a joke)
*Galaxy Brain meme
The characters in the game written incredibly well, they even get you to care about a pelican pilot with no backstory or character model. RIP Echo 419, Foe Hammer.
You know our motto, we deliver
Sad every time rip
RIP to the actual best babe in Halo 😔✊️
@@buttpiratesbuttpirate5913 weirdo
Her name is Carol Rawley. It is in the Beginning of the Novelization, aka "The Flood."
So many don’t understand that CE redefined everything about the FPS. It was mind blowing to see it for the first time. You knew that it was going to create a genre all to itself.
Any gamer who was alive in that time period can probably remember the first time playing Halo CE.
I didn't but I did believe that certain individuals will love the franchise and that's all that mattered to me. I had no idea it would have been this big lol.
As someone who had been playing FPS games in PC before Halo... it was a step back, less weapons, less mobility, slower combat, very few enemy types, no bosses...
@@night1952 'it wasnt cs 1.6'
@@sukhoiboy4140 Not even close, I don't like CS, give me quake.
When the Master Chief removes his helmet, there is another helmet.
Dave Master Hatake
boiii!
Well under Chuck Norris beard there is only another fist
Or a toilet cause he's a shit character.
Oi, the fuck you said bob beetus about master chief. He is literally the face of gaming. He is a badass soldier who saves the universe so many times. Why don't you just go back to halo 5 and idolise locke.
I recently finished playing CE with a friend of mine that had never played a Halo game before. He was incredibly impressed by the simple fact that grunts ran away when stuck with plas grenades, but elites ran towards you. Simple things like that is what makes CE incredible. It's crazy that this game came out 19 years ago.
Just played this year too and liked it a lot it is actually my favorite shooter when i tried halo 2 i was desappointed... The gameplay did not feel the same i will try it later bcause this year was the first time actually played skyrim and i am in love with the game as much as i was with halo combat evolved and i replayed combat evolved a ton of times... And skyrim is even bigger so... When i finish i will give halo 2 another try cause the story seems to be better, it was just the gameplay that wasnt as good
Halo CE legendary is a rough but fun challenge.
@@wastelandlegocheem Your magnum is basically an anti-tank/air cannon
@@ciaran..G for real
@@yurifurtado1955 same the gameplay and enemy ai for me wasn't as good but the story and characters are a good improvement.
Who would've thought a 19 year old game has better AI than Cyberpunk
Dude, Pac man had better AI than cyberpunk
@@dr.rodders3329 lol okay this was savage
Honestly not really hard
The original Halo trilogy has better AI than many modern games that even work well and are fun to play. Saying it's better than Cyberpunk isn't saying much lol
Who would have thought that gaming peaked so early
14:09 “...that turn the gameplay into a sort of dance...” Yes. A Covenant Dance.
Ayyyyyy
This should have more likes
Omigosh its the name of the song lol
My computer class teacher left this on the computers for us to find and he let us play that shit for hours if he liked our test scores. That guy made all of us interested in that class and we all passed with As just because he let us play CE with each other
Wow that's really cool. Wish I could have the same experience.
Back in the days the high school computer class teacher let us play Diablo 2 al the time. We also played this F2P browser FPS that I cant remember the name. It was similar to halo. It was back in 2007 I think.
@@Dislob I think the game your talking about is Planetside. There’s a sequel out now; if you haven’t seen it, give it a look.
Now days in schools, they get offended when you say the word "black" in a single sentence.
Can I come to school with you
Masterpiece = Master Chief
Saif Alireza yes
Mario Badia master chief=more badass doom guy
ThetopGun11 7+ No...
george2p Death Battle disagrees
Anduril+ The critics, the audience and history disagree even more with you... (Worth more than a bunch of guys doing battle videos)
Just finished my first playthough and my god the rocket launcher flood enemies got me so many times. Got to say tho it still holds up today I’m impressed
Ooooo enjoy halo 2 my friend
The remaster holds up, the original is some hot ass but then again, it's a 19 year old game.
@@DsgSleazy nah dude the remaster is kinda ass
@@gio4931 Are you braindead? It's the same fuckin game with better graphics and physics. Halo as a whole is garbage anyways but the remaster is still better.
@@DsgSleazy the remaster is kinda nice in terms of models, but with animation and environments, ce wins
25:10 Strategy? Basically… 1. Use shotgun on flood 2. Use assault rifle on flood spores and any leftovers 3. Throw grenades at rocket flood
No, pistol the rocket flood. & it doesn't change the fact that you are changing your strategy compared to the combat that came before it so I'm not really sure what you're questioning here... Year old comment or not.
@@MeadeJ67 My guy, it’s a throwaway comment, not a scientific hypothesis.
I loved how the flood actually weren’t just dumb zombies. Yeah, their ai was rather simplistic, mainly just swarm ai but more complex, but I think their spawn areas are what makes them feel intelligent. They constantly surround you in the Library, and in the mission Keyes they drop from openings in the ceiling. It’s great.
syed jawad agreed they learned how to flank you too on Halo 2
It was awesome. World war z in space.
Ikr, it gives me the heeby-jeebies, unless I am actually fighting well.
GuyInTheCommentSection it's just adds to it really as the more host they take, the smarter they become.
yeah in the library my friend moved on as i was itching my nose or whatever and 7 carriers litterally spawned on me :/ not sure i can agree that the spawns are great. also fuck library in particular. its such an arduous task getting through on legendary.
“Is Halo: Combat Evolved a masterpiece?” Is a carrot a vegetable?
Does A Keyboard Have Keys?
Can switching to geico save you 15% or more on car insurance?
Is an elephant heavy?
Is EA a bad company?
Does onions have layers?
I didn't grow up playing Halo, but I started playing the MCC to get ready for Infinite. Let me say that playing Halo 1's campaign was the most enriching and frustrating experiences I've had in gaming.
I just played Legendary, never in a lower difficulty, and i can say the hardest part of the whole trilogy was the first halo tower, where you find the marines, i practically spended my whole day in that section, but after that i never find another frustrating part, i guess i learned practically everything after dying so many times.
Yeah, I just finished Halo 1 and man it was amazing but so janky as well (backtracking sucks but at the same time it shows how far you've gone). However some things also feel so modern and probably revolutionary at the time. It just feels snappy and similar to the future FPS that would be released
Me watching this in 2021: “that’s why it holds up 20 years later”
Still replay it from time to time on my OG Xbox.
Exactly it 20 years old I don't think many people understand that at how well it holds up
:)
You know my motto, "Act Man Delivers!"
The Act Man Daddy speaks.
The Act Man hellllll yaaaa
The Act Man I thought is was "Toast! " or "the actman doesn't do ballets"
The Act Man can you think about doing something like this but for 2 and 3?
The Act Man those hardcore trickster either don't exist anymore like High Impact Halo or combined their efforts like termacious trickocity
Dude the god Marty O Donnell himself just gave this video a shoutout
Yup.
Where on what when?
@@emitruoyetsawinehwem4681 His KZhead channel in his community tab
TheLongestDong Rod gave it another shout out
TheLongestDong Rod now he has interview with him go check it out
I remember being wowed by the grass textures in this game back in 2001. You could see individual blades! It was nuts!
I recall so much anger, frustration, and fun from playing CE on legendary difficulty alone. But, after several attempts, finishing a level and getting to a cut scene was always such a bittersweet, satisfying feeling.
I still have PTSD flashbacks of the Library on Legendary
Dont worry *clutches your hand* We'll do this together... *gets swarmed by infinite respawns*
*PTSD TRIGGERED* #thehorror #thelibrary #doorwontopen
Legendary is easy. Try it on LASO. Died over 100 times and took 7 hours to beat the library on laso lol
I couldn’t do it in one sitting, but two betrayals sucks balls
For me it was Tartarus on legendary halo 2 that must have taken my friend and I a good chunk of the day
"Maybe nobody is home" Few seconds later: "CONTACT! LOTS OF CONTACT!" Still my fav moment of the game. I wanna play the game again now
you just had to open your mouth
It's the "sector clear" meme before that meme was a thing.
No covenant, ya HAD to open your mouth!
Does anyone know the soundtrack to 0:18 ?
@@halostopmotionandreviews I think it's Mjonir Mix from Halo 2's soundtrack.
Two betrayals is absolutely the BEST level. I love that you played assault on the control room not too long ago and it was pristine and beautiful with sleeping grunts everywhere…then you come back and everything has gone to hell! It’s so cinematic
I actually quite liked the flood. The scene where they are first revealed you fight off wave after wave, as they crawl on the ceiling and floor, was really really cool!
Same, I love the concept and the way they fight
I love that entire sequence. You've just punched through a small army of Covenent to stop them from securing the Control Room, thereby stopping them from eradicating humanity with the push of a button. You're gunning for another fight and ready to hold the area against hell itself. Instead of that, you get sent to save the Captain from a trap without your constant companion. You arrive and can't see far because of fog. The enemy that has brought him to the brink of extinction is absolutely terrified. And not of you. As you progress you find nothing but panicked Covenant, a single insane Marine and corridor after corridor of silent blood covered walls, ceilings and floors with nothing for all that gore to come from. Then you open one last door and a dead Marine falls into your arms and the hell you thought you were prepared for arrived. You were not prepared.
they are just annoying on every level after
Just remember, a true librarian Carries a 12 gauge in one hand, and a rocket launcher in the other If you know you know
Is "Is Halo: Combat Evolved a Masterpiece?" a masterpiece?
Is "Is "Is Halo : Combat Evolved a Masterpiece?" a masterpiece?" a Masterpiece ?
Is "Is 'Is *Is Halo: Combat Evolved a Masterpiece?* a Masterpiece?' a Masterpiece?" a Masterpiece?
Masterpiece Master chief
Ben B Yes coop joy
Indeed
The funniest line of dialogue I've ever heard came from Halo CE and I've only heard it once. It happened when my brother stuck a grunt in the face and it said: "Not again!" We had to pause the game cause we were laughing so hard.
I hear it all the time lmao, in more than just the first one I'm pretty sure
Yeah wtf. Again? How did it get stuck and survive before?
funniest bit of dialogue i came across was halo 3. I randomly heard a brute yell "WE DONT TAKE AMERICAN EXPRESS".......then i spent entirely too long trying to get them to say it again
My favorite grunt line ever in Halo 1 is after you die. "Can I have his helmet?"
@@thatguyofdark I remember when I killed a brute with a headshot in halo 3 and the grunt went suicidal and said *Please Enjoy My Bright BLUE balls!*
CE was just amazing, the music was on another level
"Gods own anti-son of a bitch machine" is still one of the best lines of dialogue in gaming ever.
"I don't care if it's god's own anti-son-of-a-bitch-machine" lmfao still one of the best things I've ever heard
"Or a giant hula hoop, we're not gonna let em have it"
“What we will let em have is a belly full of lead and a pool of their own blood to drown in, Am I right marines, sir yes sir mhmm Damn right I am now move it out double time.” “All you greenhorns who wanted to see covenant up close this is gonna be your lucky day”
I remember hearing that the first time years ago. I nearly spit my water all over my tv. It remains one of my favorite lines of all time.
@@VTdarkangel When I was a child playing Halo 2 on coop with my younger brother on Delta Halo... My mom was in the kitchen making supper and she said something to us and right after, Johnson said his line, "I heard that. Jackass!" and she came in living room laughing
I mean... He wasnt wrong with that statement
Proudly saying that Halo Combat Evolved was the very first game i ever played and got me into gaming and my favorite franchise
Bro same. I wish play station players understood just what they are missing.
@@tannerjordan3754 I own a pc and a ps4 pro. Halo CE was one of my first games to play, then moved to Halo 2. I understand that i lost some good games going to ps4 team, but, in my opinion, halo 5 was bad, like actually bad, uncomparable to the original one.
@FOX-Men Fan Guy Ever think you have too much time on your hands?
Same here so many nostalgic moments for me playing this game as a kid. Love the Halo franchise.
Same
"Is Halo CE a masterpiece?" Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?
She could sleep on her side.
This game changed so many people’s lives, including mine. Ever since I’ve first played it with my friends, we’ve been hosting LAN parties on our school’s computers to enjoy the same sense of community halo brought to the world and created a new generation of gamers.
Hey there, I'm trying to get back on some online original Halo multi-player. Purhaps interested? Looking for players. LMK...
"In 2002, Halo was the first real First Person Shooter game I've ever played, and when I stepped out of that lifepod onto that gigantic ring my world change forever and so did the gaming industry" FUCKING LEGENDARY.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 PREACH
Bruh I read this as he said it!
Legendary game. I've spent north of 1000 hours on this game on PC and Xbox. Bought it with the Xbox system for my 8th birthday in 2003. 2 years later I finally played the 3rd level. I was too scared of the dark to play it LMAO!
I still play the multiplayer on PC its so addictive
George Krontiris I was too scared of the flood to play past the 5th level lol
George Krontiris for me it was 343 guilty spark
George Krontiris AHAHAHAHAHA yes dude! I have legit, the same story I also started playing halo in 03 at age 8 it took weeks to finish 😂
George Krontiris Lol
I remember my dad seeing me and my buddies play combat evolved split screen in 2017,and he questioned why we were even playing it when we had halo 4,and we told him,because its a relic of our culture that we know and love,and no matter what,it will always be good to us.
I was 18 when Combat Evolved came out. I’ll never forget playing through it - I was so amazed with it as a whole, the story, the gameplay, the experience Bungie had created was so impressive to me as I watched the credits role on the first ever completion I cried a few tears. I don’t share that with everyone but I feel like if I can’t share that here, where can I? :-) Bungie had me at Halo.
Me too!
Jesus, I will never understand that. Im envious of y'all, being able to play halo 1 and have any other feeling that anger or boredom.
@@randomenvelope lol! I bet you’re fun at parties. To each his own brother :-)
@@RuinerNet Is that what people do? Just play halo 1? And like I said Im envious, cuz even for its time I think red faction was better, released few months before halo 1 Just my opinion tho.
@@randomenvelope lots of good stuff was out around then, I was sucked into MechAssault which was made by the people who are making world of tanks now, but this was 2001, today I’m stuck on Destiny which is also made by Bungie :-)
I still play Halo Combat Evolved and it's 2019
Same
That's a good thing.
I've played 2 several times, and 3 once (since I don't own an xbox), but I've lost count of the number of times I've played 1.
Considering the campaign is probably the most fun maybe second to halo 3 who wouldnt. Reach and 2 become a grind sometimes if you dont have the proper weapons but you can make do with just about anything the 3 and ce.
Same from CE TO ODST
I first played Halo: CE when I got my Xbox One X in March 2019. During my first playthrough I felt an odd sense of nostalgia (odd because I had never played it before), mostly because it reminded me of other games that I played as a kid (mainly Star Wars Jedi Knights II: Jedi Outcast). As I got further and further through the campaign, right up until the moment I finished it, I asked myself along the way "If this game had just came out this year, would it still be as fun, influential and popular as it was when it was first released?", and I found myself answering that hypothetical with a solid "Yes" every time. It was at that moment that I fully understood the impact Halo has had on the gaming community. I was even more impressed when I learned about Halo's development story, and how quickly the game was put together despite being such an instant classic. It's like the universe aligned perfectly to give us this once in a million years experience, with characters, dialogue, story, sound effects, environments, and music that make such an immediately positive impression and become firmly engrained in our memories, to the point where we can hardly fathom of a time before we were so familiar with the Halo universe.
Harrison McCartney dude where the fuck were you. Also yeah, but rather I get halo vibes from Jedi Knight instead of Jedi Knight vibes from halo.
@@gub4941 maybe too young at the time lol I was young for halo ce. I grew up playing halo2/3 only touched halo ce a few years ago. Because it was just such an old game.
My first halo game was 3 and I instantly went back to one and two after beating it. I was like 8
Rack 'em
It's never too late for Halo.. Btw. I started playing Halo (First video game in my life: Halo CE) since I was seven years old😂
I finally got to experience this master piece for the first time 2 months ago. Since then, I have played through two times already, and am starting a Legendary play though most recently. I can’t believe 20 years later, I choose this game over any other modern shooter. Well played Bungie, and thank you Act Man 👍🏻👊🏻
Try ODST if you haven’t already. It’s really good
Nothing has ever scared me as much as that first reveal of the flood when I was a kid
The people who complain about Halo CE levels being repeated must have had an aneurysm when playing ODST
ODST doesnt repeat any levels or sections really unless you choose to backtrack....it is a story set in a different part of the same city over time, where you investigate what happen to your friends who also landed on the planet and as you get to each section of the city, you find a new clue and do a flashback to earlier in the day, which teaches you what happened and an idea of where to go, then you continue on back in the city at the present time through the similar but not the same area
@@Shadow0fd3ath24 and just about the entire city looks the same. Fun game but that’s the point he’s making every level in the city is just about the same as the last.
i didn't really like odst because it took so long to get from place to place in the city and they didn't give you any vehicles so the process could go faster
@@memes4life118 Well that's the point of ODST. You aren't a Spartan so you have to survive and carefully make your way around the city while piecing together clues as to where your teammates are.
@@memes4life118 so long to get around?? What? It takes like 3 to 5 minutes to travel across the map unless you are blind, then use the in game map. It isn’t a legitimate complaint.
The friendly fire dialogue was pretty funny too. "I'd appreciate it if you'd STOP KILLIN MY MEN" "Woah man, do I owe you money or something?" etc
On my first playthrough I got REALLY lost on the silent cartographer level, so I got frustrated and started friendly firing every single marine I could find
To play without IWHYDB is sacrilege
I just did my very first playthrough of this game with a friend who’s an absolute veteran, we did it on Legendary and it was fucking awesome. So many deaths, but such a perfect challenge.
Thank you, Act Man, for this wonderful trip down memory lane. Brought me right back to Christmas morning the year Xbox came out and I had an Xbox under the tree with just one game: Halo. And man was that the best Christmas gift, ever.
"It's not good, it's not great, or even awesome.... IT'S FUCKING PERFECT."
117th LIKE, I AM PROUD TO HAVE THIS HONOR.
It’s life if this did not exist I would die.
Moment flood are revealed, My preferred weapons became assault rifle, shotgun. One of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Even the graphics are fun. Almost nostalgic even though the game is older than me. We don’t deserve it. Hope infinite is at least half the game this was
The graphics and models carry weight and density. A lot of those original Xbox games remind me of BotW in that way.
@@jon4715 whoaaa I never thought of that before, good point.
The plasma rifle was very effective as well
Same
Rifle for infection forms and covenant while shot gun is for the flood combat forms.
Beating Halo 1 on Legendary without dying once...? *Challenge Accepted*
You too ey? As soon as I heard that I knew i had more to do than just LASO now
Love halo more than my mum but I’ll never try that hahaha. Too much else to do in ur free time man! But that’s coz, even after years and years of gaming and getting good, I’m still like a B- at games and always will be 😂
Rocket flood: Hello there
Library: I'm about to ruin this mains whole challenge
I feel like everything I was thinking about the game was put into words. A masterpiece of a video
I remember once I was playing Halo 2, right after it came out, with my dad. We did a second playthrough on Legendary splitscreen and remembered how hard Tartarus could be, so we improvised and slowly/carefully shot the wings off a Banshee and were able to squeeze it into the arena with Tartarus. I can't remember if the game de-spawned it after the cutscene, but I do remember how fucking slick we thought we were for doing that. That is the type of shit that makes Halo so damn unique to me.
You made it to the last mission and thought it was hard? lol.. Well, depends on how quick reflexes and eye sight is I guess. Outskirts and Metropolis was always the levels I had the most issues with because of the near endless Jakal Snipers and repeated checkpoint fails as they kill you. The entire campaign told me unless you have a sword fighting the flood, stay as far away as possible. So always stuck near Johnson and emptied my clips on him from up there before jumping down to grab Brute Plasma Rifles to finish him. Heard many say if you're good at hit and run that the Sword is best(not counting getting in a vehicle that is) But i could never last long with that, but rarely if ever failed killing him by staying the hell away from him lol
@@Selet101 Considering I was a kid and legendary is objectively hard on Halo 2... ya.
@@johnnywhitsel1583 yeah, that's what I meant lol. Most of the people I know considered Tartarus a let down on legendary after all the "fun" you had working through the campaign because he was not that different from the other difficulties besides that he could 1 hit ya. Only why i mentioned it. Just seemed weird when everyone I knew had the same thoughts on that fight that it was the easiest part of legendary xD
@@Selet101 Well, maybe I am remembering it wrong and we just did it for fun or maybe I just sucked back then lol. I haven't played Halo 2 since about a year after it came out as shortly after I moved to PC and didn't get the windows version of Halo 2, so it was quite a while back. BUUUT... I am getting the MCC on steam, so I guess i'll have to try it again here soon!
@@johnnywhitsel1583 Probably for fun more than anything. Me and my friends replayed the last level all the time to figure out new ways to beat it lol You wouldn't have been able to get Halo 2 for PC if you looked before anyways. Halo 1 was the only one to ever be released on PC before steam released MCC. I would recommend buying MCC soon, as the only game currently released is Halo: Reach. don't know if they will raise the price of it with more games released later on or not, so may be cheaper to grab the MCC on steam now than to wait on the other games to be released first.
Halo is older than me... and it's still one of my favorites.
same, I remember playing it on the original xbox when i was just a toddler
I played it when I was 6 back in 2011
ironface5 3 I just played it for the first time not too long ago
damn i wish i had parents that would have let me play halo and get an xbox back when i was a toddler
i played it when i was 6 back in 2001 lol
Playing “The Library” for the first time I thought I was tripping balls because of the 30 exact same rooms hahah, but once you left and got in the swamp shit got REAL
I remember playing CE and my dad came downstairs and he was like oh you playing Halo I was like yeah I just found the flood and he was like oh wait till you get to the library
Man, Halo CE does so many things right. Each level looks different and plays different. How the story is told, the music. It's so freaking memorable and well done. What I also love in Two Betrayals, is the contrast with Assault on the Control Room. In AotCR, you had managed to bring together a human resistance and try to push against the Covenant. You had team Zulu on your side, there were large vehicle battles against the Covenant, it was thrilling. But in TB, you come back and it's chaos. The human resistance is all but gone, the Flood is everywhere. You are completely alone. It's literally day and night. It's basically the same level backwards, but that only helps make the contrast stronger. As for The Library, I think it's an awesome level, for reasons you mentioned. I think the repetitiveness of the level is part of the charm. It's really a horror shooter mission. The repetitiveness level design makes you wonder when it is ever going to end. Flood everywhere, in all directions, and it feels like you are not making progress. I think it adds to the horror aspect of the mission. And I love how it totally changes the gameplay. There's no level that plays like this one. It's challenging even on lower difficulties, and fun.
my god....NEEDLER AMMO?
Blamite is a real bang for ammo
IMPOSSIBLE!
Nicholas Eitenmiller CODE RED, I REPEAT CODE-FUCK'N-RED!!! WE HAVE NEEDLER AMMO!!!!!!
When I was young me and my brother called it the gun that always ran out of ammo
Needler is best to take down elites
“A giant hula hoop.” -Sgt Johnson 2001
SeFu2006 “God’s own anti son of a bitch machine “
Soundtrack at 0:18 ?
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I will never forget playing Halo the first time... and then splitspcreen multiplayer afterward. Life changing kind of stuff, honestly.
Every time I hear the soundtrack… damn, all those memories!
Halo. Half-Life. Quake. Doom. Unreal Tournament. True legendary games, that still kick the asses of any new games releasing today unfinished, or selling off content for cash.
Hell yeah.
J.G. Don't forget the Metroid Prime series :)
hell yeah!
these games are just masterpieces pure and simple. i miss this age of gaming, we need to re-visit this style.
I FUCKING LOVE UNREAL TOURNAMENT... and all those other games too
The most revolutionary thing about Halo was that it wasn't another "find the exit" shooter. It was a sandbox. You really could tackle the objectives on different orders in many missions. Like in mission 2, it wasn't a straight line when you had to go find the surviving marines. You could go to each little group of marines in whichever order you wanted. Same with the silent cartographer (the beach level). It wasn't just a straight line. You could go around the island in different directions.
You're right about how great the level design is, however Goldeneye 64 and Perfect Dark beat it to the objective/open style of levels
@@jacobskarda perfect dark is so slept on, one of my all time favorite fps games
@@abrahamemmanuel2401 Does it get better after the first level? The first level is such a boring crawl and I could barely find the objective
@@jacobskarda it definitely picks up, for me anyway. I personally think it's even better than goldeneye
Half-life has already done that thoe ...
Honestly I think every bit of it is a masterpiece, me and my friend beat it on heroic and while We did get frustrated at some of the sections, it was worth finishing. Overall it’s a great game and is a must-play for all
Thank you for putting into words all the emotions I have about halo CE. I still remember the first time I played through 343 guilty spark like it happened yesterday that’s how gripping an experience that level was and I was in 5th grade at the time. 20 years later I’ve played all the games and read almost all the books. CE was a masterpiece in so many ways and I’m glad its still getting that recognition to this day. Thank you for making this video and bringing back so many good memories of playIng through the campaign. Might go dust off the original CE disc for a play through sometime soon
This video is a masterpiece.
Especially 18:26
Masterpiece in Fanboy masturbation .
I want to like this comment but it has "343" likes and that is too perfect for the video.
Meatbyproducts what the fuck are you talking about huh ?!!
what?! Are you serious?! Videos of this unsurprising quality are never not masterpieces.
343 needs to see this shit. theactman is totally a bro from the oldschool days!
i love your pic
Activate the rings? Bungie should
21 years of playing Halo and I only just found out about Keyes' pipe hanging there. Man I miss Bungie making Halo.😭
so Halo CE is what allowed the goddess Vert to become prominent in the gaming industry, and the Game still so beloved that it has people modding it to make it much better In the form of SPV3 is just amazing
What's a Vert?
@@magonus195 she a character from hyperdimension neptunia that is a goddess who represents the x-box
This game blew my mind as a kid. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for this one
Right man? Blew my fucking mind. Utterly shattered it.. I was like 6 and although my exact feelings have faded I still get these nostalgic tugs of how it felt, like a sudden memory of a dream, usually the feeling is triggered when looking at the covenant in PoA that are shooting at u from the dark behind the closing blast doors (when u have no weapon), and from the needler. Examining these aspects of the game always shoot me back to that feeling I had when I witnessed them. Sure the rest of the game of course, but I’m so much older now that it’s all faded, except for those 2 things…it’s like I relive it, my 6yo brain witnessing for the first time strange and scary alien creatures trying to kill me, and that mind bendingly bizarre weapon that defied everything I knew. Sorry for the rant but this game legit makes me tear up, it’s had such a profound impact on how I grew. I cannot wait to play this with my kids, while they’re young, as young as I was, before they get a taste of the jam packed stuff of today…I want them to feel as I felt. I can’t wait….
the music + fighting aliens for humanity + the seriousness (master chief talks hardly) made any kid feel that they were at the top of the world!
I remember going to school and just thinking about Halo all day. Thinking about the mission me and my friend just beat and how awesome campaign was. This game stood out from any other game back in the day
Dude where is Omegon
it blew my mind when i played in 2019 i was 23, point is the game is timeless.
" Is Halo: Combat Evolved A Masterpiece?!" Yes, next question
Exactly my thoughts, but I still watched the video.
I prefer halo 3
@@justanuff yeah.
Justa Nuff and halo 2 as well
@Murdock Brigade no
A friend and I went into a cyber cafe to play Combat evolved, campaign, legendary. (Basically everyone else was playing that also on the computers). This was my first encounter with the flood. When they came out, with a tentacled arm hitting me from behind, and those sounds...I with my headset on, reactively kicked back and slid about 6 feet in my chair away from the computer. Good thing no one was at the time behind in my travel path. Man, that was scary!!!
Seeing footage of the big open canyon section from Two Betrayals gave me PTSD false backs. It took me so long to get past that one section.
NEEDLER AMMO?!? 32:35 Wonderful video, your commentary is as epic as the game itself
Bruh, i didnt fucking do this... i was never here
Alcast jidgxth
you know shit's real when you see needler ammo
Halo: CE will forever be one of my fondest childhood memories. Specifically, that ending Warthog run! I first played the campaign when I was in my single digits and my dad basically carried my dumb, baby brain through the missions. Yet right at the end, we were screaming our heads off to get out because he'd let me drive, for some Ring forsaken reason, and the timer just passed the thirty second mark when we reached the corridor of barrels and bullshit. The urgency in Cortana's voice and the epic orchestra that only added onto the pressure. The ramp to our escape vehicle was within sight, but the crossfire between the Flood and Elites was tearing us apart. Our shields went out almost instantly and my brave papa father was shot down by those alien bastards right in front of me! I distinctly remember him shouting, "Go on without me! Tell my story!" Though I limped to the Longsword with a single chunk of health, boy, would I be telling this story for a long time to come. Because Halo: CE will always be my favorite in the series and one of the best FPSs I've ever been lucky enough to play. Future Halo titles would, naturally, evolve the formula and improve (or degrade) the mechanics that make it unique and fun, but the fondness I have for this OG killer is one and only.
Here is a good story for you then. I always played it with my older brother but what I always remember is one time he activated an elevator before I could get on I jumped down died. Respawned and we fought a while before continuing on with the mission leaving a pile of dead master chief on the elevator. I also really remember being very excited when he told me there was a halo 2 coming. When I got my own xbox halo 2 was the first game I owned myself
FINALLY a review of CE that mentions the controls. You’d be amazed how many don’t and it’s one of, if not the most important innovation Halo made. I will never forget the ecstasy of getting out of the drop pod and just being like omg… it just feels right. It just feels perfect. No control adjustment needed. Even modern day shooters rarely feel this good to me.
Act Man, I discovered your channel in 2018 and fell in love with your content. I recently built my first PC in 2021 and bought Halo: Master Chief collection and played Halo for the first time (Reach is the only one I have played so far) and I loved it! Everything you said about this series was true and more. I seriously love it! Thanks man.
To me CE was more than a masterpiece.
Jul 'Mdama It's fucking crazy how good the game actually is though
Yeah it's more than a masterpiece, it's a Golden Treasure of Mankind
Coming from jul m’dama
not better than halo 5 though
Ben nears, you better be joking. Halo CE is Objectively better than halo 5 in every single way. There is no argument.
I was like "aight this guys making decent points" and then you showed the bullshit part of the rocket flood guy from the Library and I was like "FUCKING FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT". Fuck that flood. Good vid though!
dannydinosaur That Flood is a piece of shit, it deserves to have an entire battalion of Hellbringers BURN IT!
F*** him... he was a pain in the ass in legendary. I mean, He had nearly perfect aiming.
dannydinosaur ikr seriousley FUCK the library!!!!!
Fucking hate the flood, the endless library was fucking hell.
Dog885 IT NEVER ENDS! It just keeps going and going and GOING! It's SO LONG!
I have to say that the note about the music sometimes not playing is on point. It's cool and relaxing to just silently wander through the forest (and hear the sounds of nature) or just listen for sounds when exploring the corridors.
It's the best Halo of the entire series. The music and mission levels were the greatest, along with the actual storyline.
Lol
18:51 I saw this amazing meme once. It showed Chief and the text said: I can survive hundreds of plasma shots, grenades, falling from the sky. I've defeated countless enemies countless times, and I know how to use any tech I pick up perfectly. ... But surviving in water for more than 3 seconds? Yeah, that's way out of my skill sets.
20 foot fall?😬
I used to love driving the warthog full of marines into the ocean in The Silent Cartographer and then ditching them and driving back.
I could never find my way back
Lmfao yup
@@gideonfunk8637 7y77 7 666
Your description of the Library is perfect. When I was young, I always found it to be so difficult but most importantly scary as shit at times. The Library is so large and open, yet so claustrophobic. Your one man, even though your a spartan, you can't help but feel like your at your most vulnerable during this level. Your armor isn't enough to convince you, because the Flood is a large horde waiting for you in every dark corner or hole.
Giovanni Fiordaliso I also love Sparks remark about halfway thru when the sentinels first show up, where Spark recommends that the Master Chief should upgrade his "model" from a class 2 to a class 12 in order to deal with the flood, and that the weapons you bring with you are super ineffective against the flood. Giving you some sense of context and scale and also accomplishment when you clear a room of the flood with your severely ineffective human Spartan hands!
It's really set up like a zombie nightmare.
I don't get it, but it's actually my favorite level, just because ov how many enemies and that beautiful constant use ov shotgun and rocket launcher
Nah. The Library isn't that hard really. You might die a few times but there's no parts that are hard af that take 5 lives to get past or anything. If you want some hard levels, then play Halo 2 on Legendary.
Thank you so much for talking about what I love about The Library and Two Betrayals -- they're so underrated, people don't understand how pivotal and interesting these levels truly are!
4 years later and I've finally completed this masterpiece. And I loved every second of it. Hell, I even liked The Library
The only thing i dont like is 343 fucking us up the ass with laso in ALL games. Fucking impossible without exploits ESPECIALLY on your own. After 8 HOURS alone I could not make it past the first attack in kiro station. Only one hour with a friend and we made it
I actually like the repeated missions and the feeling of dread they give you. To think not too long ago, in this same burning lifeless room sprinkled with blood, you were tossing grenades to clear out several enemies constantly swarming you that you start to miss fighting rather than the gruesome, scary flood. When you finally make it into a more open area, its either empty or you can see small patches of the covenant get overrun and the whole story gets turned to it's head. No unsc, no consistent enemy, and a creepy ass soundtrack. Fighting the flood was much nastier, and you always felt hopeless making you want to fight the covenant again settling the good ol' rivalry in massy populated canyons and ships like everything felt like it had meaning, and I feel you got an Easter egg of this thought in Keyes where you spawn in the ship but everything's upside down and you plop down to the ground. With just a simple change in view, the perception is wayyy different. Keyes and 2 betrayals usually felt like what it would feel like to walk around a chuck cheese or another entertainment center after it closes (the maw gets that feeling worst) if you get my drift.
#Thisguygetsit
It makes me cringe into the 5th dimension whenever I see people call this game a "simple generic cover shooter" They have absolutely no idea what makes this game great
nothing generic, nothing unpolished, nothing boring about halo CE
Cover shooter? I barely take cover playing any halo game and just go in guns blazing
Tell that to those people, this is not the Gears series.
@@marcosmulka The driving is unpolished.
I just smile and nod, bc deep down I know that they get high on their own sweat playing COD
How is this game still so damned fun 20 years later?
Because it's a good game.
Just finished it now in 2023. One of my best FPS experiences ever. Those devs at Bungie were geniuses. This holds up so well today.
Aside from a few rough edges (the assault rifle's lack of usefulness being the biggest one, as it is completely obsolete if you mastered the plasma pistol/magnum combo), it's aged like fine wine.
First played Halo CE (Anniversary) this year. Wow, this game!!
should've played the original my guy, you can just switch to og graphics
I still think Halo CE has the best sound effects and physics of all the halos. Everything is just so crisp.
Wurmo damn right I also have nostalgia because it was my first FPS and I was 5 when I played with the music and cutscene and the scary flood damn all those emotions in that game.
+Bad Videos Doesn't really take anything away from the game really.
The halo CE shotgun sound is the best sound effect in a game imo
The assault rifle from CE is my favourite of the whole series. It just sounds like a fucking beast
Which one? Anniversary or Classic
Its still a masterpiece. for 2001 its a miracle
Absolutely one of the worst game I ever played recently, reused accepts the game
@@soulsborne8292 What in the fuck
@@soulsborne8292 wow !! Mad person 🤣
@@soulsborne8292 you acting like a idiot
@@BabyN7 I played the game and it was a boring mess, with repetitive gameplay and copy and pasted levels without any variation, it was bad even for its time. I know it's important, but we need to be more objective, without being attacked by the nostalgia. I'm glad that actually halo 2 and 3 were far better and good games. (I'm talking about the story not the multy player)
I just finished playing 343 GS with my friend who's never played Halo before on a trip through MCC. It was amazing to see someone experience the game 20 years after it's original release.
I've been obsessed with this game for over 20 years now. My friend Jeff lured me to his house to play it promising the Silent Cartographer was just like Saving Private Ryan (it wasn't) To this day, when I replay Halo CE, I can still smell his house (his parents owned a Chinese restaurant) and I always remember that afternoon in 2002
I nearly shat myself the first time I played 343 Guilty Spark
You now have 117 likes
I'm not going to like this because the comment is perfect. But I like it mentally
@@XBOXGamerPro7281 yes, It must stay 117 likes.
Your welcome for 117.
Whoever liked, unlike
When people actually tried to Make good games
Admiral Jäger oh the good old days...
BAD SEED it's no masterpiece
Games used to be art and entertainment combined. Now they're a cash cow system.
Robert Nexion someone isnt looking hard enough.
Shame that games have turned shit.
"Stealthy precision" *LOUDEST SOUND IN THE GAME*
I played CE's campaign relentlessly, and play it every few years like im visiting an old friend. I've never done that with any other halo campaign. The physics, ambience, sound effects, and music have never really been repeated.
same but also with halo 2 , honestly the og trilogy is goated
I switched off porn for this. Also, I'm sorry I teabagged you in Halo 2 & Halo 3 last Saturday. I have become overcome with guilt for tea bagging my favorite KZheadr. Please forgive me o mighty Act Man.
SalsaSpartan7 this is so better then moist grandma dick.com
porn is always there when you need, Act Man vids don't come around every day ;)
SalsaSpartan7 I would never teabag this guy! I'd be so honored to just be on the same map as him I would just be taking every death with pride and every kill with luck.
I wouldnt feel too bad as The ActMan would likely just joke with you and still be your bro. What matters is you enjoyed the going up against the ActMan or playing along side him. As the true joy of playing Halo is being in games with other fans who play for the fun and not to be cheap gun hogs. The best thing you could tell The ActMan is let him know thanks for being apart of your game. And that it was so epic to play a match with him in it. KZheadrs love their fans and always find it awesome when fans express the joy of being able to chill with them.
SalsaSpartan7 what is this is halo custom edition?
I re watch this about 1-2 a year, and every time it brings tears to my eyes. :)
I wish more games had AI that would fight each other. Game developers watch this amazing video.
Halo 5
the ai in that game wasn't good
I know right, that's my favorite way getting rid of enemies in Quake :D
Master Chief vs. the Covenant vs. the Flood vs. Sentinels on the level Two Betrayals. It's always fun to watch them fight.
You mean, like DOOM? (Both classic and new)
"I don't care if it's God's own Anti-Sunuva Bitch Machine, or a giant Hula Hoop!"
'"AM I RIGHT MARINE"
Uh-huh DAMN RIGHT I AM!
OO-RAH!!!
NOW MOVE IT OUT! DOUBLE-TIME!
Eek the Fireuser Johnson + Halo CE pistol = God's anti son of a bitch machine.
A testament to how effective the buildup to The Flood level is - I’ve beaten Halo CE more times than I can count, but I ALWAYS try to see if I can catch up to those marines at the beginning of the stage.
It's awesome that the reasons and points that make Halo CE a masterpiece are very similar to the points that Halo Infinite has Good sandbox, Difficult but fair challenge, Interesting (somewhat repetitive) world design, Good graphics for its day, Mysterious and exciting storytelling, Iconic music, Opportunity for intentional player decision, Great art style, Player freedom, Minimum world boundaries Good pacing, Fun easter eggs, Environmental storytelling, Phenomenal voice acting, Can't wait to see The Act Man's review of Halo Infinite's Campaign
yes COMRADE TRULY YES
Act Man, all I need to know is if Halo: CE a master piece I think we both know the answer to that.