IMAGE: IDG JANUARY 2020 PCWorld 31
Halo: Reach PC impressions—
the prodigal son returns to the
PC, with some quirks
Once more unto the Reach. BY HAYDEN DINGMANT
he original plan, if I recall correctly,
was to have the entire Halo: The
Master Chief Collection (go.
pcworld.com/msch) on PC by the
end of 2019. Alas, that’s not going to happen.
But 343 Industries did manage to get Halo:
Reach out before the end of the year, the first
Halo game to hit the PC since Microsoft’s
ill-fated attempt to use Halo 2 to sell copies of
Windows Vista back in 2007.So how is it? I won’t lie—it’s kind of janky.
Given how many rounds of testing Reach
went through this year, I expected a more
exhaustive PC version. But it works! If that’s all
you care about, if you simply need to satiate
your nostalgia...well, you’re probably already
playing. After all, Halo: Reach “reached” the
top of the Steam sales charts on release day.
If you want to know what works and what
doesn’t though, read on.