Also, since you don’t gain exp from the campaign, there’d be no point in re-running missions no matter how many modifiers you tack on. You’re practically fiddling around waiting for a certain notification to tell you that you’ve unlocked something, and you’d use a season point to grab, say, a helmet (the only one that’s available for that rank-up), before being able to unlock others. The problems are that you only gain exp from multiplayer and you’d hardly have a choice in what you’d get from ranking up. You earned experience points, and then additional customization options would be unlocked. The Halo: Reach remaster eschews that system in favor of more linear progression. These credits were used to purchase customization options for your character, even those that would appear during cutscenes. If you played the game, you got your credits. It didn’t matter if you were doing multiplayer matches or breezing through the campaign. Long-time vets may have gotten to the old progression system of using credits in Halo: Reach. Then again, this was also partly because the campaign originally allowed you to gain credits as a means of progression. You’ll mostly want to enable the score multipliers if you want to compete in the leaderboards, showing others how you’ve progressed through the campaign. These can range from ones that provide a score multiplier (no radar, increased enemy health, and the like), to those that add a bit of fun (confetti raining down when you headshot a grunt). Similarly, you’ve got roughly a dozen “skulls” or modifiers to choose from for each mission. You can even ask a friend to join you for co-op. Halo: Reach has a dozen missions counting its epilogue and “final stand.” You can play them in any order, though I would suggest following the campaign as is to experience the story in detail. Backed by a soaring soundtrack composed by Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori - note that Reach was the final game developed by Bungie before splitting with Microsoft and handing the reins over to 343 Industries - every mission emphasizes the gravity of the events that are about to transpire. Likewise, knowing what happens to the planet Reach, its inhabitants, and the entirety of Noble Team, you’ll have to prepare yourself for an emotional punch to the gut. However, with squadmates around, you weren’t just going at it like Rambo. It’s still an action-packed FPS with lots of running and gunning making you feel like a hero. It’s one factor that sets Halo: Reach apart. You don’t have to go at it alone, though, because you’ll often get backup from your Noble Team squadmates and various UNSC troopers. Set during a massive Covenant invasion, you take control of one of Noble Team’s members, codenamed Six, in a desperate defense of the planet. In fact, the in-game missions and events run concurrently with the novelization - Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund - which was published in 2001. Halo: Reach serves as a prologue to the entire franchise. Note: For more about the graphics settings, controls, audio, and the like, do check out our Halo: Reach technical review. I’ll delve a bit more in our official review. Sadly, it falls a bit short of the mark, sullying what could be a great introduction to the Halo franchise for PCs. Originally released in 2010 for the Xbox 360, Halo: Reach aims to bring its trademark action to a new audience.

Halo: Reach is the first title that’s part of the long-awaited Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

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