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The Halo mission in Combat Evolved seems rather quaint by modern standards, and there have certainly been plenty of HaloВ missions that have dwarfed it in scale, but that fleeting emotionВ of daunting exploration is something that the series hasn't quite explored in the same way, instead opting to keep the campaigns rather linear. Related: Halo Infinite's Spartan-Hunting Elite & New Enemy Type Revealed There were large open areas to explore, ongoing skirmishes between Marines that survived the escape pod crashes and dozens of Covenant, and an exhilarating sense of being marooned onВ a mysterious alien superstructure. At the end of Combat Evolved's tutorial mission aboard the Pillar of Autumn, escape pods crash land on Installation 04, aka Alpha Halo, and the player must rescue UNSC marines fighting against the Covenant in a mission aptly titled 'Halo.' For the time - released in 2001 forВ the original Xbox - the scale of such a mission was impressive. Master Chief taking on the Banished forcesВ in Halo InfiniteВ and gathering scattered UNSC troops on Zeta Halo has a very similar feel to the beginning of Halo CE.

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Infinite is ambitiously trying to convert the flagship FPS franchise to a nearly open-world format, and in doing so, may finally realize the full potential hinted at by the series' very first game. The series' sixth mainline installment, Halo Infinite, has its most ambitious campaign yet, but aspects of it harken back to the original, Halo: Combat Evolved.