Halo: Combat Evolved Gets PC VR Mod With Full Motion Controls

The full Halo: Combat Evolved campaign is now playable via PC VR.

Available to download via GitHub, this Halo: Combat Evolved VR mod lets you experience the entire campaign with full 6DOF motion controls, a two-handed aiming mode for weapons, rebindable controllers, and more. Compatible with the original 2003 PC release, it requires using SteamVR and you can see this demonstrated in LunchAndVR’s video below.

However, you can’t use this mod with the Master Chief Collection or the remastered Anniversary Edition. The original PC version isn’t legally available digitally either, though physical copies can still be found secondhand through places like eBay. LivingFray notes this mod hasn’t been tested in multiplayer, and that the original PC release never included co-op.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Halo in VR, with other efforts including a Rec Room crossover, an attempted fan remake, and a cancelled Halo: Reach VR mod. More notably, early Windows MR headset users may recall when Microsoft released Halo Recruit back in 2017. However, this 5-minute experience offered little more than a disappointing VR wave shooter where you shoot targets on a flatscreen.

Given there are no indications from Microsoft of adding VR support to its Xbox consoles, this Combat Evolved mod is likely the closest thing we’ll get to a full Halo game in VR for some time.

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