As leaked prior to the event, 343 Industries went on-stage during the X019 convention’s opening ceremony and shared new information aboutHalo: ReachandHalo: The Master Chief Collection. The leak wasn’t wholly correct, however, asHalo: Reachisn’t launching on Xbox One today. Instead,Halo: Reachwill be launching on both PC and Xbox One at the same time. Today’s big announcement is thatHalo: Reachis less than 3 weeks away and will launch on December 3.
It was previously announced thatHalo: Reachwill be coming toHalo: The Master Chief Collectionon Xbox One free of charge and that still remains the plan. Previous owners ofHalo: The Master Chief Collectionand Game Pass owners will gain instant access to the game when it arrives December 3 without additional charge. For PC owners,Halo: The Master Chief Collectionwill be released game by game, starting withHalo: Reachon December 3. The rest of the games in the collection will arrive later.
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Halo: The Master Chief Collectionhas been available on Xbox One for over 5 years now, which in retrospect is a lot longer than it may have otherwise seemed. The package includes 5Halogames, withHalo: Reachbringing the total up to 6. The games included areHalo: Combat Evolved,Halo 2,Halo 3, theHalo: ODSTcampaign, andHalo 4. WithHalo: Reach’s addition, the only game that will be missing isHalo 5: Guardians.
What’s really exciting about the PC rollout ofHalo: The Master Chief Collectionis it gives players the opportunity to experience the full franchise in chronological order.Halo: Reach, being a prequel, will start the series off. Then the remaining games will be released in 2020 one by one, withHalo: Combat Evolvedreportedly starting it off andHalo 4ending it.
Halo: The Master Chief Collectionon PC and the release ofHalo: Reachon Xbox One are arriving just in time to scratch the itch left by anticipation forHalo Infinite.Halo Infinite, the next major release in theHalofranchise, is expected to arrive holiday 2019. That means 343 Industries and Xbox can roll out the games in theHalo: The Master Chief Collectionthroughout 2020, leading right up to the release ofHalo Infinite. TheHalohype train is only just beginning.
Halo: The Master Chief Collectionis available now on Xbox One and starts rolling out December 3 on PC.
