Halo: The Master Chief Collection (2014)
PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S
4.22 from 1371 ratings
5108 members have it in their collection · 380 playing now · 1710 backlogged · 464 wish listed
How long? Main story 39h · with extras 49h (from 28 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- 343 Industries
- Publishers
- Xbox Game Studios
- Genres
- Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction, Warfare
- Franchises
- Halo
- Events
- The Game Awards 2020, Xbox E3 2019 Briefing, Xbox E3 2018 Briefing, Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Nov 11, 2014 (Worldwide) Xbox One
- Nov 14, 2019 (North_America) Xbox One
- Dec 03, 2019 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Nov 17, 2020 (Worldwide) Xbox Series X|S
Related
In this bundle
- Halo 3 (Sep 2007) · PC, X360, XONE
- Halo 3: ODST (Sep 2009) · PC, X360, XONE
- Halo: Reach (Sep 2010) · PC, X360, XONE
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Nov 2011) · PC, X360, XONE
- Halo 4 (Nov 2012) · PC, X360, XONE
- Halo 2: Anniversary (Nov 2014) · PC, XONE, XSX
DLC
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection - Halo 3: ODST (Sep 2020) · PC, XONE
Seasons
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 1 - Noble (Dec 2019) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 2 - Spark (Jul 2020) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 3 - Recon (Sep 2020) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 4 - Reclaimer (Nov 2020) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 5 - Anvil (Jan 2021) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 6 - Raven (Apr 2021) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 1 - Noble (Dec 2019) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 2 - Spark (Jul 2020) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 3 - Recon (Sep 2020) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 4 - Reclaimer (Nov 2020) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 5 - Anvil (Jan 2021) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 6 - Raven (Apr 2021) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 7 - Elite (Jun 2021) · PC, XONE, XSX
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 8 - Mythic (Oct 2021) · PC, XONE, XSX
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Rating distribution
5 stars
586
4 stars
565
3 stars
171
2 stars
34
1 star
14
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status Bluespade Mar 6, 2025
Play on Heroic: after 4 or 5 levels it starts to get tedious, getting one shot by surprise attacks, having to use more than a full magazine to kill one enemy, being discouraged from using any risky or fun tactics. Switch over to Normal difficulty: the enemies forget they have guns, dying is impossible, you just kind of walk casually …
Read morePlay on Heroic: after 4 or 5 levels it starts to get tedious, getting one shot by surprise attacks, having to use more than a full magazine to kill one enemy, being discouraged from using any risky or fun tactics. Switch over to Normal difficulty: the enemies forget they have guns, dying is impossible, you just kind of walk casually thru every battle. Kiiiiinda feel like there should be a difficulty setting between these extremes, lol. Also, what even happens on easy difficulty?
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Status maeday Jul 28, 2024
So, I've run into an issue I hadn't considered when playing Halo 4 legendary in the MCC. In every other Halo game, except for 3 perhaps since the main antagonists is Brutes more than Elites, there's a common combo of weaponary to use to take them out fairly easy. Everyone knows this. Plasma pistol, long range weapon, be it a …
So, I've run into an issue I hadn't considered when playing Halo 4 legendary in the MCC. In every other Halo game, except for 3 perhaps since the main antagonists is Brutes more than Elites, there's a common combo of weaponary to use to take them out fairly easy. Everyone knows this. Plasma pistol, long range weapon, be it a pistol, a battle rifle, a DMR or a covenant weapon such as a carbine.
However, in Halo 4, sure sometimes you gotta fight off Elites and Grunts and that same combo works, but your main antagonists are the Prometheons. And...really...nothing seems to work well against them. Some of their weaponary is okay, but on the whole, I'm really struggling to find anything decent to take them down easy with. The gameplay isn't hard, despite being on legendary, it's challenging because the weaponary simply isn't as effective as it is against your other antagonists.
This wasn't something I'd anticipated lol
Status maeday Jul 28, 2023
3 levels left in my Halo 2 legendary run. Took down 3 whole levels today in about 4 hours, which is pretty good honestly. In other news, the girl I'm moving in with is in the hospital, and I'm super close to quitting life again. Same old shit, different day.
Status maeday Jul 23, 2023
I'm on mission 9 of 15 on my Halo 2 Anniversary legendary run. Powering through, bit by bit. Halo 3 and Reach are already finished, and then it's Halo CE Anniversary and (ugh) Halo 4. Closing in on the completion of legendary campaign runs slowly but surely.
Status Sheldipez Apr 27, 2023
Halo 3 ODST campaign complete.
- Not as good as I remember it, feels like Bungie's contractually obliged entry before they allowed their freedom from Microsoft so its a bunch of the greatest hits moments from other, better, games.
- City feels sparse and barren. Not much fun there so it's all down to the missions.
Status Sheldipez Apr 8, 2023
Halo 3 finished. I thought this was a bit underwhelming on release; Halo 2 Chief was back to earth ready to finish the fight. Here we return but it doesn't feel epic. There's still some of Bungie's circular level design but it's much reduced. This looks rougher than Halo 2 as well that's been reskinned with higher resolution models and …
Read moreHalo 3 finished. I thought this was a bit underwhelming on release; Halo 2 Chief was back to earth ready to finish the fight. Here we return but it doesn't feel epic. There's still some of Bungie's circular level design but it's much reduced. This looks rougher than Halo 2 as well that's been reskinned with higher resolution models and levels whereas this is the Xbox 360 port with less jaggies. Fair but underwhelming. Achievements still buggy and not unlocking... Good job I'm not a cheevo hunter. Buyer beware though if you are.
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Status Sheldipez Apr 5, 2023
Halo 2 complete
-Looks much better than the Anniversary re-skim of Halo: CE. Could be due to not being over-designed and how everything is neon in CE. -In retrospective it seems mad finishing the game as Arbiter; I don't recall being annoyed at the Arbiter sections on release but it seems crazy taking action away from the Chief for the …
Halo 2 complete
-Looks much better than the Anniversary re-skim of Halo: CE. Could be due to not being over-designed and how everything is neon in CE. -In retrospective it seems mad finishing the game as Arbiter; I don't recall being annoyed at the Arbiter sections on release but it seems crazy taking action away from the Chief for the abrupt finale. -The universe is an interesting one; what Bungie do mixing up with the introduction and Brute uprising keeps it fresh.
Status Sheldipez Mar 30, 2023
Halo: CE is complete. Few thoughts as long-time fan (played these when they came out, had a day off to play Halo 3 and have read more of the novels than I care to admit)
- This game hasn't aged well. The new skin on top of the old game is neat but there are some areas where the new game …
Halo: CE is complete. Few thoughts as long-time fan (played these when they came out, had a day off to play Halo 3 and have read more of the novels than I care to admit)
- This game hasn't aged well. The new skin on top of the old game is neat but there are some areas where the new game is harder to make out than the old (but that's usually the opposite) so it's great you can flick between the two.
- The flood are terrible, cheap enemies, what's worse than the Flood? A Flood with a rocket launcher
- Few times I was shouting out for a checkpoint and that's on normal. urgh
- The latter levels are less satisfying to play and The Library remains the worst level designed in a videogame... ever
- Like John Williams is to Star Wars, Martin O'Donnell music make these games so much better. Love it.
- Finished on normal, no achievements popped so the Master Chief Collection's reputation as buggy is still justified (I had one crash to dashboard too)
