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About Halo: The Master Chief Collection (per Wikipedia): Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a compilation of first-person shooter games developed by 343 Industries, Certain Affinity and Saber Interactive and published by Xbox Game Studios. It includes the first six main games in the Halo franchise released between 2001 and 2012, originally developed by Bungie and 343 Industries. It was released for Xbox One on November 11, 2014. At launch, the collection comprised Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (2011), Halo 2 (2004), Halo 3 (2007), and Halo 4 (2012) with their respective multiplayer suites, and boasting graphical and performance enhancements, including resolution and framerate improvements. Halo 2 was remastered as Halo 2 Anniversary, with new art, audio, a set of remade multiplayer maps, and new cinematic cutscenes produced by Blur Studio to commemorate the game's tenth anniversary. The single-player campaign of Halo 3: ODST (2009) was added in May 2015. The Master Chief Collection was released for Windows between December 2019 and November 2020, coinciding with the additions of Halo: Reach (2010) and the Firefight multiplayer for Halo 3: ODST. The Xbox One version includes access to the live-action series Halo: Nightfall, and hosted the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta on Xbox One that ran in 2014–15. Gameplay The Master Chief Collection packages together the first-person shooters Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4. Each game features their campaign modes, multiplayer maps and game modes, in addition to including additional content that was added in further updates that is based from Halo Online, content based from earlier builds of the games such as from pre-release multiplayer betas, and cut content from the original games. There have been no story or gameplay changes to the original releases. The games are first-person shooters with vehicular combat that takes place from a third-person perspective. Each campaign has four difficulty levels and access to gameplay modifiers known as "Skulls". All four campaign modes can be played alone or cooperatively via split screen or Xbox Live on Xbox One and Series consoles. The Microsoft Windows release does not have split screen capability, but it can be played cooperatively online with Steam friends and Xbox friends. As in Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2 players can swap between the original and remastered graphics on the fly. Additions to Halo 2's campaign mode include "Terminals", and new prologue and epilogue cutscenes to link the series for Halo 5's debut. Since only six of the game's multiplayer maps were remastered, there are two Halo 2 multiplayer modes. The Halo 2 anniversary multiplayer mode uses the six remastered maps, while the standard Halo 2 multiplayer mode includes all of the original game's released maps with a full graphical update but no remastering. The Collection multiplayer includes Mission Setlists, curated lists of levels selected from throughout the series. The Extras menu includes access to live-action video series Halo: Nightfall via the Halo Channel and the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta, until it was removed prior to the game's release (with the Xbox versions instead allowing players to launch directly into Halo 5 from the Master Chief Collection). The compilation features new Achievements, and all difficulty and game modes are unlocked from the start. The game launched with a total of 4,000 Gamerscore spread across 400 Achievements—the largest amount of Gamerscore given to a game on the Xbox platform since its introduction. The subsequent additions of Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach introduced 300 additional Achievements for both Xbox One and Windows, bringing the total Gamerscore up to 7,000. The Master Chief Collection held the record for the highest amount of Gamerscore on Xbox and PC until it was surpassed by The Elder Scrolls Online in 2025.