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If you can't get the reg. XBOX Halo, get Halo PC!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: September 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When my friend rented Halo then started to tell me about it, I knew that I would want to play it. It took me a day or so to get used to the controls, but then he had to return it. A week later he bought it, and after another week, we had beaten the game together. We have now beaten the entire game on all the difficulties three times, working on our fourth.
I don't have an XBOX, so I was overjoyed to hear what my mom had gotten me for my birthday... she had preordered Halo PC! Judging by Halo, I am certain that Halo PC will be at least as good. Me and my friends are adiment Halo fans, you can even check out my site,[website] I hope my reveiw was helpful!

Lies, deceit, sabatoge

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

_You know...I am an absolute Halo fan...for Xbox anyway. I played at my friend's house...we had 4 xbox's hooked up, with 4 peeps on each. I swear...that was the epitomy of all gaming. It...was almost a religious experiance for me. I cannot possibly describe how much fun it was.

_Alas, I do not own an Xbox, nor do I ever plan to own one. I do not buy an expensive console system for the only game worth playing on it. So...when the PC version was coming out, I was overly thrilled. I wanted to be able to play the main game...experiance the storyline I heard so much about...play in large multiplayer games that didn't take months of planning to get 4 xbox's in one house.

_I read up on it, in magazines and in newspapers. Reviewers hit it hard for it's graphics and lack of coop main game play. This didn't phase me. I could live with that. I think every game is infinitely better with coop mode and multiplayer, but for Halo, I could do without coop. I could also live with reduced graphics. So, I went about getting the game.

_When it comes out, my computer crashes, so I have to wait. Finally, I get a BRAND NEW computer. Halo is one of the first things I get, because I simply can't wait. I read the min requirements before I buy it...which is absolutely deceiving.

First row will be the system requirement for the game, second row will be what I have.

733 hmz processer | 3.2 GHZ
1.2 GB hard drive space | 65 GB free
32 MB video card | 128 MB Geforce II
128 MB ram | 512 MB

_So I get it and install it on my computer. Theoretically, this game should fly on it's best settings. Especially because I see the graphics, and I have larger games with better graphics that run perfectly smooth. But what happens? I get into the game, and I think it's paused because I try to move and nothing happens. 12 seconds later, I'm suddenly in a new spot. Serious, serious lag time.

_Dissapointed that the game isn't running on highest graphics settings, I decide to put it on lowest, and progress higher until I find a comfortable medium. Well...the game doesn't even run on minimum settings. It runs better, but not at any playable speeds. Clocked at about 1 frame / 5 seconds.

_I figure there may have been some coding error in the game, so I connect and download a patch from microsoft. I was almost correct. The game runs now at 2/frames per second. So, I'm a lot closer to playable than I used to be, but it's still unplayable. Wasted money.

_I try multiplayer, thinking that perhaps it is just the campaign mode that's bad. But it isn't. Multiplayer is just as bad, though thankfully not worse. You'll be happy to know, though, that once you get killed and your carcass is falling to the ground, there is no lag at all! THAT runs perfectly smoothly. However, I played a 45 minute game OL, and never got to leave my base. There were 3 snipers around the base, in an 8 vs 8 game. And I had a bullet through my head as soon as I respawned. Lag wouldn't kick in for about 3 seconds, so I tried to run, but alas cheap cowardly idiots had me and 6 others of my team constantly dead...with progressively longer respawn times, of course. Interesting how I never got to leave my respawn point, or even my base area. I'm told this is par for Halo, so even the multiplayer I wanted to partake in was flawed. The servers are chocked full of cheap snipers.

_Don't get me wrong. Snipers are fine if you're defending your flag or a strategic point for your team or whatnot. But...when you kill the enemy within their own base AS they respawn...that's going overboard. There should be a system where if you snipekill a person within 3 seconds of them respawning, you get killed and have to sit out for 5 minutes. Because, newsflash, those people are there so they can play, not die where they spawn and watch the clock tick away how long they have until they can rejoin.

_I know I sound crazy, but the only possible way a smaller game with horrid graphics can run that badly is deliberate sabatoge of the code. Microsoft, I'm sure, did this to prevent TOO many purchases of the PC version, and help out it's Xbox by keeping it's only good title more afloat. So, for now I search OL to find someone who's hacked the code and made it playable.

_I see a man selling bootleg Microsoft software every day on my way to work. I never respected him for what he does. The day after I got Halo, I walked up to him, shook his hand, and donated $50 to his cause. Told him, "Good job", and caught my bus.

_This game just isn't worth the web space to trash talk it.

Great FPS for its time...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

But releasing it so late for the PC makes it an unworthy competitor to today's top FPS games like UT2003/Unreal 2, America's Army: Operations, the upcoming AA: Special Forces, and other FPS games.

Halo multiplayer is also extremely flawed. In Blood Gulch, good banshee pilots will simply start spawn killing and the opposing team won't be able to get a foothold in the battle (CTF).

Or worse, you have team killers who also ruin the fun.

The banshee and warthog interface isn't what I expected.

If they used the Descent engine for the Banshee, and Rallisport Challenge for the Warthog, then it'd be one heck of a game.

Overall, it's not worth the money to buy this game since it's already 2 years old. Save your money for something up to date and more fun.

Disappointed....must have been better for Xbox

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting for awhile to play Halo because I don't own a Xbox.My friends haven't shut up about the game since it came out. I even consider buying a Xbox just for the game. So, once I started playing the very first stage I was immediately disappointed in the game play. EXTREMELY SlUGGISH!!! So, I set all video setting to the minimal and I experienced a very slight improvement. Well, you must be thinking that my PC must a little dated. It's not the top of the line but it is a P4 2.8Ghz, 1 gig of ram, and GeForce 5200, and with all current drivers. I spent several hours to get the game to run faster but nothing worked. If games like Call of Duty and Half-Life 2 run just fine on my PC, there is definitely a problem with the PC format of Halo. Don't waste your money...just rent or buy a Xbox if you really want to play the game. I'm surprise that Microsoft has difficulty making a game that runs fine with Windows.

Can't touch this one,... but I want to!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What else needs to be said. Even with a low-end Graphics card this Masterpiece is FUN! Perfect combination for a laptop/notebook. Too bad Sir William Gates won't allow a PC version of Halo 2. Well anyways seeya in Halo 3 Deathmatch

All i got to say that i am mad!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was no fun when i flew through it. sure i beat it i patiently went to the end of the game so i have a right to write this review and i still hated the game. I dont mind the story still i dont care graphics are not that great efcets are average i seen better and more of all my pc has trouble running texture of land inside buildings more than 5 aliens my computer goes dead slow. I dont know how i got through last parts with those yellow things. In games like UT2K4 graphics are pretier i never lagg or suffer slow frame rate and i did npot even patch it yet.ON the other hand later i played Xbox version MUCH BETTER so fluid and actiony.
I cant think much more of things to say beside i hate this game and those 50$ i spend where not worth it. i should have bought far cry or something. I WILL BURN THIS COPY YOU SHOULD2!!!!!

Amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: September 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I never played the game on the X-Box, but I got to play the beta of the PC version.

Now I know what all my X-Box friends were talking about- this is the best action game I have ever played. I felt like I was in Star Wars, battling all these strange creatures on cool alien worlds.

The multiplayer version of the game is even more fun. You get to use all those vehicles from the single player game and play games like Capture the Flag, King of the Hill and Oddball. The new maps that come with the PC version were made with a lot more room for driving and flying around.

Best X-Box shooter coming to PC!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 28
Date: August 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game ... and it was one of the best shooting game I have ever played. At first when I played it I was sucked into the game so badly... So I was thinking about playing it, but how can I play it if I didn't have Halo or X-Box! ... Finally, I found out that Halo was coming to PC!!! I was very happy. Only worry was that if I have the system requirments. I'll just have to wait for the requirments(I have Intel Celeron 2.5, 1025 RAM, 128MB GeForce 4 ti 4600, 56x CD-ROM, some Blaster 2 sound card, and 60GB hard drive). Anyway, the game has lots of cool vehicles to drive and if you do co-op mode you can even shoot while your friend is driving. It has retarded looking aliens and it has few good guns. My favorite gun is the Assault Rifle (I'm not sure what it's called. It's the gun they give you from the start if you even played it). Also it's not that difficult or that easy. If you play the X-Box version, you can't control the shooting that good. So it will be much easier on PC with the mouse control. This game is very addictive, almost as addictive as Counter Strike. The most thing I'm excited about the PC port version of Halo is the multiplayer mode! In X-Box you can do the co-op mode but only up to 4 people and it's not against each other, you just help each other to finish the game. But the PC version will have co-op mode and THE MULTIPLAYER MODE which will have maximum 16 versus 16 people ONLINE! I gaurantee that this game will worth the price of admission and you will like than any other shooting game for PC (maybe except for Counter Strike, Medal of Honor, Battlefield, and Call of Duty that will come out sometime in September). I also hope that Halo 2 for X-Box come out for PC.

This game is terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: October 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the worste game performance I have ssen. It slows down so much you can't help but to just turn it off. Your money would be better off used to start a beach party bon fire. This coming from Microsoft go figure? I will never buy a Microsoft Title again. It Overwhelms your system so much, all the ram and graphics power you throw at it wont help. Please pass it up. Mine is going up for sale for what ever i can get for it.

Youll laugh, youll cry , youll kiss fifty bucks goodbye!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: October 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I loved Halo on the Xbox. Truly the first or second best shooter on any platform. "Half Life on the PC is the other contender". On my Multimedia super killer Dell wide screen notebook with the new Pentium M processor, Nvidia FX 5650 Go Video with 128 mb video RAM and 1 gig of main memory, Halo performance is abysmal.

I figured the others who said this may have been a bit over the top. They werent! For Microsoft to have released this piece of drek is irresponsible in the extreme. It is the full Halo game and if you set to the higher resolutions, the scenery is Gorgeous, But, But, But!

Unfortunately, even with virtually all the pretty video features turned off and resolution set down to an abysmal 800x600, the massive frame rate (and motion update) slowing (to as bad as less than 1 frame per second) that takes place whenever major scene motion occurs (especially in the middle of gunfights and always during in battle reloading). Make the game practically unplayable. I completed Halo on the Xbox in Normal and Heroic mode. But the PC version in standard mode is going to be a real challenge because the frame rate and sluggish mouse update are so bad. Really, Really Bad.

There were things that could have been done to fix these issues before release, but lets face it with Halo2 looming, Microsoft had to dump it out here now to have any chance of selling it at all. Half Life works on the PC and has a truly excellent interface. They do use lower resolution figures and scenery, but the whole thing works together. Halo on the PC is on the other end of that spectrum.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, IT IS AWFUL! Go out and buy an XBox and get Halo for it. XBox Halo, alone is worth buying an XBox for. The only thing of value in the PC version is the Box it comes in.

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