Now this is what I call a collection.

My friend got me Reach back in 2021 and I played that with them and another friend. It was a hell of a lot of fun, so I ended up buying the entire collection. What I wasn't expecting, though, was for this collection to be as in-depth as it is.

If you buy the entire collection, you will be greeted by perfect recreations of all the mainline games in the Halo series to a point. Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4 are all perfectly preserved, their gameplay and visuals nearly identical to the original releases. This includes Halo: CE Anniversary and Halo 2: Anniversary as well!

Each game has the exact same graphics, mechanics, and playstyle from the original Xbox (360) incarnations, with a few things you can modify for accessibility or preference. Such as the subtitles! Want every games' subtitles to be in a unified font? Sure, but if you do want each game to maintain their original font, go ahead! The subtitles are extremely customizable.

Each game's Campaign is playable from start to finish in singleplayer or co-op, and each game has their own multiplayer modes fully intact. Halo 3's servers may be down in the original release, but with the MCC, you have a near identical experience as you would have if you were actually playing Halo 3, just now on PC and with mouse keyboard controls. Even Halo: Combat Evolved's multiplayer is fully playable online with other complete strangers; it's genuinely such a joy to see these old games maintained so well!

The game has its own "battle pass" type system, but they're all free and all available at once. In fact, each Season was renamed to "Series," with the page overall being renamed to the Catalog. As it is now, it's less of a Battle Pass, and more of a store. No leveling system. Just complete challenges and earn points, and you can buy things from the different Series, one page at a time. It's really nice!

And have I mentioned this game just keeps getting more new content? Modding tools and the Custom Games Browser are the most notable, but we even got a new mode for Halo 3: ODST's Firefight where you can face against the Flood! Furthermore, each game has brand new cosmetics for multiplayer that were added fresh to the collection, with Halo 3 getting the most of it! It's really cool, and seeing these old and well beloved games get new content of any form is really awesome to see!

Overall, the Master Chief Collection itself is amazing. It's what all Collections should strive to be. Classic games preserved, kept as close as functionally possible to their original releases while polishing them up for newer systems. I really can't recommend this collection enough. Whether you're a new Halo fan coming from Infinite or a series veteran wanting to experience these games for the first time, please give Halo: The Master Chief Collection a try!

This game is incredibly fun. Featuring 50 (and then some) characters from across the entire Five Nights at Freddy's series, with a bunch of mechanics, new and old, there's really nothing to complain about. Each and every character can be customized on a difficulty scale of 0 - 20. 20 being hardest, 1 being easiest, and 0 deactivating the character altogether. The complete customizability can be really fun, and can allow friends or strangers to come up with their own custom challenges for others to attempt. It can be pretty fun. Speaking of, there are pre-made challenges too, and they're all pretty fun to atempt.

The game has several mechanics both new and old. Such example of these mechanics are...
Power management, from FNaF 1
Temperature, from Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
Cameras, from FNaF 1, 2, and 3
Vent System and Duct System, new to this game.

Every character in Ultimate Custom Night has a mechanic that separates them from the rest somehow. Some characters are fended off with mechanics from the old games, such as the Freddy Fazbear Mask from FNaF 2, or the Marionette's Music Box, also from FNaF 2. Meanwhile, some characters are fended off with entirely new mechanics, such as getting enough Faz-Coins to purchase plush toys, just to name a few. This game has enough stuff to prevent anyone from getting bored, without a doubt.

When you beat a night, you get a score depending on who was active at a certain difficulty. One point of difficulty gives you 10 points. These points can unlock you new office skins based on previous FNaF games. While they're purely aesthetic things and give no gameplay differences whatsoever, it's pretty cool, and a fun little thing to spice up your nights. They can also get you unlockable cutscenes. The cutscenes are... interesting, to say the least. While they aren't necessarily bad, they aren't what anyone what expecting before the game released.

The game also now has voice acting. Most of the characters will say something after they kill you, and this includes the characters from the old games. This actually leads into one of my only complaints about this game. There isn't enough voice acting. The voice acting is great and gives the characters more personality, but not all characters have voice acting. It's a shame, too.

Although not usually noticed in reviews, the game has background music that can play when starting a night. It's usually really quiet so you can hear everything else, but the music is really good. There are five music tracks that will play at random when starting a night, and they all sound great.

I highly recommend this game if you're a fan of FNaF. If you're not, you can use this game to decide if you want to buy any of the first 5 FNaF games, as most mechanics from those five were implimented in this game, including the base gameplay.