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Subject: Halo: Combat Evolved Now Available on Live

Halo: Combat Evolved is now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace as a part of Microsoft's new Xbox Originals program.

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  • 12.04.2007 1:33 PM PDT

Zomg. I was totally gonna write a real signature but then I realized I have no idea what to put. Sooooooooooo, yeah. I'll see you in Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and/or whatever else I happen to be playing.

Posted by: The 13th Arbiter
Oh yeah and about this saving the planet -blam!-, our great-grandkids can go get their own damn planet.

AWESOME!!!

  • 12.04.2007 1:35 PM PDT
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Nice, I'll get on that.

  • 12.04.2007 1:37 PM PDT
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cooly

  • 12.04.2007 1:46 PM PDT

The normal DVD version of the game would scale to 1080p as well, since its not the game that does it. Its the system.

Anyway, this is awesome.

P.S. Theres also a free theme and picture pack that you can download. :)

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  • 12.04.2007 1:47 PM PDT

Get Ghost.

so there's nothing new, and I should just keep my original copy right?

  • 12.04.2007 1:48 PM PDT

Darth Vader sleeps with a Teddywookie. Pass it on.

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

You mean I can spend more to download it and I don't even get any physical product or additional features? Well, golly gee, sign me up!

Halo: Combat Evolved is a fantastic game and I'm glad I have my disc at home. If I didn't, I'd happily go out and pick it up at a local retailer from a bargain bin for a third of the price. Not only would I get the physical product, but I'd save that 2.3 GB on my already-crowded hard drive.

All that said, if they added achievements and/or online play, $15 would be an absolute steal.

  • 12.04.2007 1:50 PM PDT

And Rick Diculous

Aww no achievements.....(sad face) or none yet?

  • 12.04.2007 1:50 PM PDT
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We're all gonna die!!!
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is there multiplayer?

if not, i might buy it just for the achievements.

  • 12.04.2007 1:50 PM PDT

Darth Vader sleeps with a Teddywookie. Pass it on.

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

Posted by: Glory Dog
so there's nothing new, and I should just keep my original copy right?
Absolutely.

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Having the PC version of Halo instead of the Xbox, this will be a likely game for me to download - once an Xbox live capable ISP become available in my area, of course.

  • 12.04.2007 1:50 PM PDT

Wafer by name, Wafer by nature.

Has anyone played this in a PAL region with VGA?

  • 12.04.2007 1:51 PM PDT
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Not worth the DL, no achievements, no online why even? Buy the Halo disc if you don't have it, saved HD space, its worth the extra $2-5 bucks.

  • 12.04.2007 1:51 PM PDT

Darth Vader sleeps with a Teddywookie. Pass it on.

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

Posted by: Sakapuntes
is there multiplayer?

if not, i might buy it just for the achievements.
There are no additional features from the original disc. There aren't any achievements and you can't play it online against your buddies. I would imagine you could still do LAN parties with 360s and downloaded versions of Halo: CE, but why when other fantastic multiplayer games are available for the 360, such as Halo 3?

  • 12.04.2007 1:52 PM PDT

Get Ghost.

Posted by: Stan Marsh
Posted by: Glory Dog
so there's nothing new, and I should just keep my original copy right?
Absolutely.


got it.

  • 12.04.2007 1:53 PM PDT
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Is it even possible for the guys at Bungie to make updates to add achievements to the game? I know GoW did it, but they'd have to be some pretty damn hard achievements, because I've done absolutely everything in that game from launching warthogs to the tip top of the Silent Cartographer, playing as the flood and hunters, to driving the wraith as an elite and finishing the entire game with different record times (with my friends).

  • 12.04.2007 1:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stan Marsh
Posted by: Sakapuntes
is there multiplayer?

if not, i might buy it just for the achievements.
There are no additional features from the original disc. There aren't any achievements and you can't play it online against your buddies. I would imagine you could still do LAN parties with 360s and downloaded versions of Halo: CE, but why when other fantastic multiplayer games are available for the 360, such as Halo 3?


Well, to be honest I think Halo:CE's Campaign was the best one, and I'd gladly download it to play it again. I had to buy that game three times for LAN parties and from it getting too scratched, ha, I'll do it again.

  • 12.04.2007 1:57 PM PDT

Hai!

although there isnt online, can i private chat and such? look and my fireind, or all in all, dashboard online in-game?

  • 12.04.2007 1:58 PM PDT

And Rick Diculous

No dashboard support no ,chatty chat, nothing, just (sad face). Looks nice though, Pretty pretty......

  • 12.04.2007 2:00 PM PDT
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Woot! Thanks!

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It's a little early to start getting nostalgic about Halo: Combat Evolved.

  • 12.04.2007 2:04 PM PDT

Join Planet Reach
Hog sniping
Exalted is considered "the highest" because you can't get any bans or warnings of any kind for quite a long time, which is harder than just being a member for a long time.

I'm wondering 'Why?' since they didn't even add LIVE support to the game, much less achievements or ANYTHING else.

Seriously, why?

  • 12.04.2007 2:05 PM PDT
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Im a freshman college student who is involved in a Soccer team also got a part time job and if i got time ill play videogames cuz i like playing vdeogames Baby Cakes. The games ill play the most is Modern Warfare 2 or Halo 3 or Borderlands on my PS 3. My Gtag is Killer Smugs.

Awsome im going to get it when i get money

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  • 12.04.2007 2:06 PM PDT

Why would you bother if you already have the game since there is nothing being added to it?

And why have they changed the triggers round in the default controller setup. If you go look at the big announcement it has some standard controller layouts and the one for Halo has the left trigger as fire and the right trigger as throw grenade?

How odd

  • 12.04.2007 2:13 PM PDT
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So... do we need a 360? Or can original Xbox users just pop in their copy and whala?

  • 12.04.2007 2:13 PM PDT