Halo, Halo 2, and the Map Pack. Backwards-compatible on Xbox 360. One of my personal favorites.

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Product Description

The Halo Triple Pack combines all three Halo games available for Xbox. Choose your game, choose your weapon, and wage war on an epic scale. Features:

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5145 in Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: 5388
• Released on: 2005-10-04
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Xbox
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 5.25" w x 7.50" l, .96 pounds

Features

• Halo - Combat Evolved - Bred for combat, built for war, you are the master of any weapon, pilot of any vehicle. and fear no enemy. Fight for humanity against an alien onslaught as you race to uncover the mysteries of Halo.
• Halo 2 - In this second installment, you'll experience new weapons, new abilities, and new environments that change the Halo universe in unexpected and exhilarating ways.
• Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack - Nine all-new intense battlefields featuring a huge variety of locations - from swamps to space stations, and beyond. Game play enhancements intensify weapon, grenade, and melee combat.

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Customer Reviews

Best collection you can buy for new xboxers
Most of the rest of us are all Halo'd out, but if you are new to xbox or the 360, this is the best set you can buy. The games will play at 720p/1080i in widescreen (if you have an HDTV) on the 360 and you will have months if not years (not days) of multiplayer longevity to these titles.


Note the multiplayer maps disc sold separately for Halo2 (if you originally bought Halo2 long ago) is a rip-off.

Sweet!!!!!!!!
This rocks!!!!!!!!!!!! It has each game cd. It is not just one cd with all of them.
In mine halo 1 was the platinum hits version and halo 2 and the map pack are regular.
I play this on my xbox 360(yes I have one) and it runs great on xbox live and story mode. If you dont have any halo games get this!!!!

A personal attack?
I rarely write reviews to personally address other reviews of a product, as you would notice if you were to read a few of them. However, I feel the whiny personal complaints and nitpicking here warrant a counterattack. First off, maybe Halo CE is better than Halo 2 if you like unbalanced weapons and running through the same levels a second time - backwards. But personally I prefer more variety and depth in my games.

That's not to say that Halo CE isn't a great game. At the end of this review, where I actually make my recommendations, you will see that I in fact have lots of praise for it. However, many people cling to sentimentality and familiarity. Maybe Halo CE's campaign was revolutionary in some ways, but Halo 2's is clearly an improvement. I refuse to be blinded by my bias towards whatever came first; Halo 2 enriches the Halo universe and it's storyline significantly. Halo CE by comparison is a relatively simple and typical FPS storyline: "shoot to survive." As far as the Arbiter, I'm sorry if you prefer to draw nice easy to read lines between good and evil, but I personally am intrigued by the idea of playing from and learning about both sides. Also, at least the Arbiter has some attitude - I can only take so much of the Master Chief's cheesey one-liners.

And in the end, all I can suggest is that you stuff your big opinions and just enjoy two games that are both incredibly well made (I can't think of any better reason to buy an xbox than these two games, with the possible exception of Morrowind.) This pack is a great opportunity for people that didnt catch all these games the first time around. In addition to Halo CE and Halo 2, it comes packaged with the Multiplayer Map Pack. I have written an extensive review of this product on its own but rest assured it was almost all positive. So it is certainly no reason NOT to buy this product if you dont already own these three items.