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Great!!..for the most part

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As a person who has a personal hatred for console gaming (mainly because of the control method) you can Imagine my ellation when I learned of a Halo release for PC. At which pointed I waited...and waited..and then waited some more, then when when IT was supposed to come out I waited agian, finally HALO for PC was released, the game is quite fun, it can be both hardcore and fun at the same time. Multiplayer is probably the best part for me as you can now have OH MY GOD 16players, luckily microsoft didnt expect us to share our monitors with 16 other poeple, the graphics by my standards are decent the gameplay is very fun and immersive in single player, the music is perfect as far as im concerned. but the game truly shines in multiplayer as I said earlier, and now with the ability to use mouse and keyboard ones control can be fast as a greased pig wanted for butchering... THe primary reason I have not given HAlo PC 5 stars is that it has issues with stability, Exception erors, compatibility issues, and you will sometimes fall through the floor while playing the game, luckily you die almost instantly so you arent stuck forever.

Overall Halo is a good buy, for both XBOX players and PC gamers alike because it is filled with lots of new content and you can make it look perty!..thats all I care about

Awesome game but.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It is a great game, but it still could improve.
The specs are wierd and my video card cant play Halo very well.
For u people who have video problems i have an answer.
Right mouse click the Halo icon and select properties, Where the target is press space and type useff. That should help the game play faster and smoother.

Very fun, not overrated

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Note: actual grade: 4.5 stars

Halo is a lot of fun even if you don't have a top of the line computer. It runs just fine on my 2 gig Celeron with an ATI radeon 8500 64 MB graphics card. It doesn't run perfectly, and it only works on medium detail level, but it is still one of the best first person shooters on the PC. Multiplayer is exceptional, the weapons are exceptional, and the graphics, while not exceptional, are not outdated (not yet, anyway.)

Great game, somewhat misleading advertising

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game lacks the cooperative campaign mode for which Halo for Xbox is known. I was not aware of this fact when I purchased this game for my PC. I did play the PC demo, and the level was clearly designed for two players. Not until afterwards did I discover via Google that the co-op feature had been dropped for technical reasons: internet latency. The level design was an artifact of the feature as implemented on the Xbox. I was very disappointed, as that was IMO the best feature.

(As a side, I am not satisfied with the internet latency excuse given by the development team. I did not intend to play co-op over the internet; I intended to play over a local LAN with a friend. A 100 Mbps ethernet LAN has little latency and high bandwidth. The developers should have _at least_ permitted this feature in LAN play.)

Aside from that, I'm very pleased with this game. Despite all the talk of video cards, I found that the graphics engine scaled _very_ well for older video cards. This game runs just fine on my two-year-old laptop GeForce 4 Go chipset. I may not have all the eye candy, but it works and still looks good in comparison to other games on the same system. The multiplayer mode is still very fun, the lack of co-op notwithstanding. The AI is outstanding; each class of enemy units have a distinct personality. One might stand his ground. Others might flee after witnessing the fall of a superior. "Run for your lives!" "Little people first!" "He's gonna kill us all!" "He's everywhere!" On more than one occasion, I found myself laughing out load in the middle of a large gun fight.

Halo is awesome, but still needs alittle more work

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great game, it really is, but there's a few things that I don't like about the game. In the campaign mode, it's waaaaay too hard to figure out where you need to go because every place in a level get really monotonous. And there's no way to find out where you need to be at, and you often find yourself getting lost in the levels, which gets annoying sometimes. Not to mention those little aliens called "grunts" those aliens are cowards and run away when you try to fight them screaming in little funny cartoon sounding voices. And they speak in English, which is fake considering the fact that they're aliens. Their cartoonish voices also take away the serious and the anger away from the game, too.

I like the weapons in the game. You could use both the Human weapons and the weapons from the aliens, which is pretty fun. I just don't like the fact that you could only carry 2 weapons in the game......it does NOT make the game more "Professional" or "Advanced" It just makes it annoying when you have to give up a gun you like just to trade it for something else. Some people say it makes it more realistic, but who the heck cares about realism in a video game, anyway, video games are supposed to have huge amounts of imagination anyways.

Multiplayer mode in Halo is freaking awesome, and probably the BEST Multiplayer you'll ever play. Having a game of 12-16 people is awesome and exciting beyond words. I have had this game since the year 2004 in July, and I still play multiplayer up to this day, that's how fun it is. Only problem is, you're definitely going to run into some rude, trash talking, cursing players, or people who kill people on their own team, and it kinda ticks you off, (it even turns you into a bad trash talking solider, hahaha) but you do see some servers where you have nice people in it who don't allow things like trash talking and cursing.

Overall, Halo is an excellent game, and I'm glad I bought this game it is so much fun, so many times in school I'm thinking "Can't wait to get home and play some Halo" Buy it now, its the best first person shooter game I have ever played in my life.

the best game i have ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this is the best game, if you, like me, dont have a xbox then you must get this, fun gameplay, great graphics, awesome sound. this game is the reason im getting a xbox 360, i deffinately recomend this if you dont have a xbox. (plus free online)

Very Good, not great, excellent story line

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Life has gotten a lot tougher for video game makers. Ever since Doom and Grand Theft Auto 3, all serious video games have shifted to lush 3-D environments. Halo is no exception. What sets Halo apart is it's innovative story line which makes a game like this much more engaging and rewarding to play. If there is a solid plot line behind the action, the game succeeds (look at again, The Grand Theft Auto series, and Manhunt, though the plot was dimented, once you got to the end of the story, the plot made great sense), if there is a weak or little plot line and just action, the game fails to generate excitement (see 'State of Emergency') regardless of how great the graphics and action are, if the plot stinks, the player loses interest rapidly.

Halo, has a great story line, which makes it's graphics and gameplay a very rewarding experience, especially when the player reaches the end of the story. I commend Microsoft for an outstanding job on this title, now I need to run out and buy Halo II.

Halo, one of the best!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I wanted to start my review today by listing the cons of Halo, but, as I was writing, I found that there is only 1 real con. Levels! The level design in some areas is absolutely beautiful, and stunning. In others, it is so incredibly boring and repetitive that it almost made me fall asleep. The game has you running through room after room after room, and they are all identical. This imho, highlights the development idea that a user enjoys a rich environment full of detail.

The reason I say it highlights that idea is because at one point, I was ready to stop playing. The levels were getting so boring, I was ready to throw in the towel. Let me say I'M GLAD I DIDN'T QUIT!!! There are some surprises (pertaining to level design) at the end that are just stunning!

As far as game play goes, its all on key. The game play is absolutely solid, the physics are dead on, and feel good, motions are smooth and believable, etc etc... Graphics are all top notch, and the game is quite challenging as you will be involved in many epic battles with hoards and swarms of baddies, one after another....

Story? After all, it is primarily a single player game! The story is extremely thin, yet surprisingly gripping. I found myself wondering what was going to happen next, and wanting to know how it all ends. Its not the best single player FPS story around, but definitely good.

Bottom line:
If someone were to ask me "should I get this game?" I'd have to say definitely, in fact, get 2 copy's!!!

Shockingly short, leaves you wanting something more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had never ventured into the first-person shooter arena before, and I wasn't even interested. But Halo looked so much like Metroid Prime (which I like and hate because it's a good game, but I don't care much for the first-person shooter change in format) that I decided to give this a try on my PC since I never had time to use the TV for Metroid.

What I liked where the graphics, very good, sharp, clean for the time it was made, very smooth playing most of the time. The sound was merely okay, mostly thumping heart-beat noise to try to make us feel we where in a horror film, doesn't work. I wanted a more spatial, 3-D sound, like Metroid.

What I didn't like, absolutely hated was the control for the vehicles! The move the mouse to move the vehicle thing sucks, the control was awkward and I just wanted to get past those parts. What really annoyed me is the 6-minute ending where you have to race to the end in a combat vehicle through an obstacle course. It took me six tries, and what a pathetic finale!

This game is too short! You don't get to keep anything thing, and when I had the weapons I wanted, the area would end in the next area I'd have default weapons. Either way on and off for three days and the campaign was complete. I don't play online,

I wanted more to do. A new, DVD edition with added content and more expansive areas would do this game justice. The save feature is great, because you never get more than a few minutes behind in game play when you die, so all that you have to repeat is a small area, and it's automatic so you don't need to bother about it. I get tired playing games when I reach a tough area and spend twenty minutes and then die, do it again, die, do it again, turn off game! Halo spares you that.

Over-all a fun, but limited game with no map, no sub-screen, and all your routes laid out so you never get lost, it's a little too easy even on Heroic setting.

Frustrating and disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: April 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you asked what my favourite type of computer game was, it would be the first-person shooter. So I was pretty excited when I finally got my hands on this game, a so-called revolutionary game for the genre. Revolutionary, huh? This game is so regressive that I have to wondor what drugs its fans are taking and whether or not they'd mind sharing some with me. Quite frankly, its mediocre at best.

OK, it does have its good points. The graphics are fairly nifty, the aliens aren't stupid and the ability to drive is a definate plus. However, the level design is shocking. The game looks monotonous. The weapons don't feel at all meaty and you can only carry two of them at a time. The sound effects are simply horrible - from the muffled gun shots to the ridiculous squeeling coming from aliens that look like lumps of trifle and walk like penguins.

On top of this, it seems you need to have an absolute top of the range computer to run the damn thing with it jerking around. I'm on an AMD Semptron 1.6ghz with 512mb of RAM and an ATi Radeon 9200 graphics card. Not top of the range I know, but that's more than twice the processor power and four times the RAM the game claims is required to play this game. Its not like I have the settings on maximum for crying out loud.

When compared to the Half-Life games or the Medal Of Honour games for example, Halo falls very short. As someone who's been playing this genre since Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, I can definately tell you that I have seen and enjoyed much better.

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