In 2001, you needed an Xbox to experience Master Chief's first adventure. Over the years, however, it's become increasingly convenient to play Halo: Combat Evolved. These days, you have your choice of anything from playing the Master Chief Collection on PC to embracing the contentious Campaign Evolved remake on PlayStation 5, leaving anyone interested in the series with little excuse to avoid it any longer.
If that still doesn't sound convenient enough, the latest way to play the game will. Halo: Combat Evolved can now be played without even inserting a disc or downloading a local file, and it all works better than you might expect.
X user mithcellhynes annnounced the launch of a Halo: Combat Evolved browser port, which makes both the game's campaign and the multiplayer mode playable in browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. The port is based on a recent Halo: CE decomp, which made it possible for the original Xbox version of the game (rather than the classic PC port) to run natively on PCs without the use of emulation.
Surprisingly, the frame rate isn't too shabby, although you may need decent hardware (and hardware acceleration enabled in your browser, which it should be by...
