That’s right, for zero dollars and zero cents, you’ll get several incredible first-person shooters, including: Strategy spinoff Halo Wars 2, developed by veteran studio Creative Assembly, launched back in February to little fanfare on Xbox One as well as Windows 10.Halo: The Master Chief Collection is available this weekend for the ultra-low price of free until Oct. The last main entry in the series was 2015’s Halo 5: Guardians, which released to relatively positive reviews, but fell short of the universal praise the original trilogy had received. Following online infrastructure problems rendering much of The Master Chief Collection unplayable at launch in 2014, Microsoft may have decided to allocate its resources elsewhere. What wasn’t announced was a remastered Halo 3 like Microsoft had published for the first two games. As Halo 2 was never released on Xbox 360, it isn’t compatible yet.

That has since changed, with Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and Halo 4 also available.

The acclaimed shooter was praised for its “definitive” conclusion to Master Chief’s story (that didn’t last long) as well its excellent online multiplayer component, but up until this point, the Xbox 360 version of the game wasn’t available through backward compatibility on Xbox One - users had to purchase Halo: The Master Chief Collection instead. The announcement comes just a few days after Halo 3 celebrated its 10th anniversary. Schell Games’ I Expect You To Die, previously released on Vive, Rift, and PlayStation VR, will also support the platform, as will media platforms like Hulu. Other titles already announced for Windows Mixed Reality include Ark Park, a spinoff of the smash-hit survival game Ark: Survival Evolved. “It’s a fun, brief introduction into the world of Halo,” Kipman said.Īs it’s a free title, we don’t expect too much from Halo: Recruit, but it should, at the very least, help show the potential for the series in a virtual reality or mixed reality environment.

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