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The best game the Mac has had for a long time!

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

Wow, this game is awesome! You've probably played Halo on the Xbox and were most likely blown away with it (I was), and now it's come to the good ol' Mac. This game takes your idea of a traditional first-person shooter and stretches it...really big. Taking place on an artificial ring planet, you (as Master Chief) must fight for the human race against the deadly Covanent alien force and find out who controls this mysterious "Halo." I know, I know, same old good vs. evil, save the day kind of plot. Well, this is where the gameplay comes in. In this game, you are given numerous weapons (that are all really cool) and you must shoot hordes of bizzare aliens to get rid of all the opposing forces that stand in your way. Plus, you can press the 'F' key to use your melee attack and smack them over the head with the butt of your weapon, followed with a satisfying crunching sound... The one thing that sets this game apart from all shooters is the ability to hop into nearly vehicle you see on the battlefield, and take over their controls in order to wipe your enemies out the fun way. The selection of vehicles include Warthog jeeps with rotary cannons, tanks, alien speeders (Ghosts), and the airborne speeders, Banshees (which are addictive to just fly around and shoot in). This game, since it's now on Mac and PC, uses the intuitive keyboard and mouse controls to control the FPS mode and vehicles. Overall, this unique game is amazingly fun to play and get into, especially now that it has an online multiplayer feature, but watch out for the high system requirements it demands. I have an 800 mhz, 512 RAM, GeForce 2 3D accelerator card, version 10.2.8 iMac, and when I turned down the graphics on the game just a tad bit, the game ran fine, except for a few graphical glitches. You just can't have a fast enough computer anymore, ya know what I mean? So, if you need a high-quality game for Mac right now, I strongly advise going out and buying Halo. You won't regret it.

Waited Years for this Moment, and it's fianlly here

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Remember when Halo was going to be released for the Mac... back around 1999? Well, after Bungie being bought by the Micro$oft, and watching the other platfoms get it, Halo is fianly here! Well worth the wait. A very solid game, great multiplayer. My only beef with it is that the Single Player is too short (Beat the 1st two difficulty levels in 3 days), although that might just mean I have too much time on my hands....

Runs Fine On A Mac Ti

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have a Mac Titanium (circa October 2002) with an 800MHz processor, 60 GB hard drive, 1 gig of ram and a Radeon 7200 and I've found I'm able to turn on all the bells and whistles in the graphics in 800x600 mode and get gameplay virtually the same as on the X-Box.

In the highest resolution mode it can get a little jumpy but it's still pretty playable on my machine. It wouldn't run initially; I had to load the included "additional performance" stuff on the disc and load a new Radeon driver for 10.2.8 and it works just fine. I have no idea why all these people are having so much trouble with this game. My system's fairly run-of-the-mill, and it's a laptop, and in my case it works fine. I have no complaints.

It's also nice because in 800x600 it plays as well as it does on the X-Box and I can play it in the car. When you have TONS of enemies it can slow down a little bit but not much. The X-Box does this too. You're not sacrificing anything except the gamepad. I thought it was weird to play it without a control pad but I quickly got used to it, even just playing with my track pad.

The better version of Halo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have Halo for the Mac. I also have an Xbox, and I would have to say that the original Halo is better then Halo 2 and Halo on the Xbox. One of the reasons that makes Halo better on the mac is because of the multiplayer. You can join in on multiplayer brawls in slayer mode(which is the first to 25 kills)or you could do a nice enjoyable game of capture the flag. Also in multiplayer you get to use banshees,flamethrowers, and fuel rod guns which you couldn't use in the Halo for Xbox.

Awsome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks! I previously had the older Halo for Mac game but this new Universal one runs much faster! The graphics are spectacular and I have lost 99.9% of the lag! A Must Have for gamers, with an Intel Mac!

Halo For MAC

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was one of the better games that I have played. The plot of the game is good as well as the graphics. I was really suppriesed. The xbox version dosent have this kind of clearity. And i love it!

Loads of fun but crashes a bit

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm running Halo Combat Evolved with the 2.0.2 patch applied on a Mac Mini Core Solo 1.5 GHz with 1 GB of RAM and OS X 10.4.9. Halo runs quite well on this Mac, better than I expected. For the busiest scenes, I've had to turn off all of the graphics fanciness, but I don't really miss the effects since the game is quite involving.

Single-player mode is really fun, and there is a long enough plotline to keep you busy for many hours. The story itself is good, and reminds me quite a bit of Bungie's earlier Pathways Into Darkness and Marathon series (so much so that I hope Bungie finds a way to clearly tie the excellent Marathon elements into Halo later on). I particularly enjoy one of Bungie's ongoing themes, the proxy battle between the intelligent computers, one of which appears to be on your side and sane, and the other with an unclear but usually hostile agenda, both of which manipulate your character towards their own ends.

Multiplayer mode is fun, but is nothing new as it is similar in most ways to the many other multiplayer FPS's, and for an older gamer like me, is mostly a good way to get killed in quick and humiliating ways by 12-year-old trash talkers.

My only complaint, and it is a serious one, is that Halo likes to crash fairly often, usually right after a cutscene or a savepoint. This can be worked around by starting the current level over, but that can take quite a while if you're close to the end of the level when Halo bombs out.

I hope that Bungie and Microsoft bring Halo 2 and 3 to the Mac, and make the user-generated maps more compatible with the Windows and XBox versions of Halo.

Overall, an excellent game, and a worthwhile buy for Mac owners looking for some fun.

READ THIS FIRST!!!!! IMPORTANT!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It is a true statement when I say that Halo for Mac is indeed BETTER than Halo for the PC or Xbox, and this is why:

-Halo for Mac has BETTER GRAPHICS. The code has recently been rewritten for Mac, and offers things like Advanced Pixel Shaders, Detailed Objects, and even Model Reflections. FSAA is also offered for the Mac version of Halo... all things that PC owners are just now seeing in Halo 3 for Vista. Impress your friends. Laugh at their PCs.

-Halo for PC is old. Bug fixes were implemented in patches, but the game was never actually IMPROVED like the Mac version.

-Make sure that you install all updates up to 2.0.2 after purchasing the retail box.

-Tons of people still play multiplayer in this version. Halo 2 and 3 are Vista only. Who wants to have Vista?? HA!

Anyway, as long as you download all of the updates for the game, you will be very pleased. On top of all the graphics mumbo jumbo.. it's also overall a good game! ^_^

Major problem

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: May 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lets see on a top of the line mac this game is very choppy. I can't run at full screen mode 1600x1200 with hi res graphics. Very, slow. Under 5 frames per second. So I bumped it down to 800x600 medium graphic and got choppy but ok game play. Like playing a new game on a 5 year old system. In a word bad.

UT 2004 looks great, plays great at 32bit color, 1600x1200 with full graphics. This game won't even play well at the low end of the settings. (...)

Oh, the full system was Dual 2 Ghz G5, 1.5 GB RAM, ATI Radion 9800 128 MEGS ram.

Jay Wilman doesn't know what he's talking about!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is the coolest, most action-packed game to hit the market so far!!!! Although the other games he has mentioned aren't to be looked down upon, Halo is by far the best. If single player gets boring, thats why there is a thing called internet, so you can play against real people with real intelleigence and far better skills that the AI controlled Covenant Aliens.

Buy this game!!! If not for computer, than for Xbox!!!

And for those parents concerned with ESRB Ratings, this game is very similar to many T (Teen) Games and almost everything that would give this game an M (Mature) Rating can be disabled or are hardly noticeable to begin with.

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