Halo: Combat Evolved Trial
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The Halo Trial is the demo version for the popular Halo: Combat Evolved, for both PC and Mac. It features the campaign level, the Silent Cartographer, and the multiplayer level, Blood Gulch for online play.
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[edit] Features
[edit] Campaign
Only the Silent Cartographer mission can be played in the Halo Trial. Similar to Halo: Combat Evolved, the level features similar environment, weapons and enemies. However, players would not be able to save the level, as doing so will restart the level.
[edit] Multiplayer
Blood Gulch is the only map featured in the game with the capability of hosting up to sixteen players per game. In contrast to Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo Trial's version retains similar weapons and vehicles but features low graphics settings, as players are encouraged to buy the full version. There are only two gametypes: CTF Classic (First to 3 Flag Captures) and Free-For-All Slayer (First to 25 Kills).
[edit] Trivia
- When the player closes the demo, an advertisement for the full Halo PC appears, which features Sergeant Johnson telling (almost ordering) the player to buy a copy of the full version. However, one can simply bypass the advertisement by pressing Alt + F4 or Ctrl + Alt + Delete and ending the program, or by using the -novideo command line parameter on a windows. On a Mac, the player can just press Escape or Enter. The video can also be removed by deleting the demo.bik file in the program files.
- The demo contains all of the weapons from the full version. Fuel Rod Canons & Flamethrowers for Multiplayer and Snipers are only in Multiplayer. It also contains half of the vehicles of single player, but has a Rocket Warthog and Banshee for Multiplayer matters.
- Halo: Combat Evolved Trial has maintained incredible popularity since its release in 2003.
- Players can join Blood Gulch maps with different gametypes hosted by players with the full version even though the demo allows the player to make a Slayer and Capture the Flag server only.
