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Halo: Master Chief Collection multiplayer takes you down memory lane (impressions)

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This is an impressions piece on Halo: Master Chief Collection’s multiplayer. GamesBeat will run a later review of the multiplayer after release. –Ed.

I felt like a time traveler the other day. I sampled the multiplayer missions in Microsoft’s Halo: Master Chief Collection, starting with Halo 2 multiplayer, playing in a map that I hadn’t played in a decade. Then I played a Halo 3 map from circa 2007, and I finished up with a Halo 4 multiplayer map from 2013. Here’s my impressions from that short demo experience. The collection — which is part time capsule, part treasure chest — comes out Tuesday in the U.S. for the Xbox One.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.