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Summary: Long awaited PC version quashed?
Review: Halo, yes, I've read the reviews, and I've also just recieved the game myself. I have heard that it "lags" on some computers even though they have accelerated video cards. This is probably because of the game's intense graphics, your video card also may have special functions not fit for Halo's gameplay. The game itself, is spectacular. It has a nebulous storyline, one that is so mysterious and hazy, that you'll be lusting for more of its out-of-this-world plot (literally). The intensely delineated environs of Halo, are as vast as this world itself. The action of this game is tense, from raging through Halo on a "Warthog" to kickin' some ass with the Marines. It has realistic speech from both sides, sometimes the Marines ramble on about the most hilarious stuff, and the Covenant yelp with shock as bullets rain upon them. The Covenant, however are not stupid. They have a very prodigious AI system. Covenant Elites even scream out battle commands, and the Grunts listen to them (in Heroic or Legendary). They sometimes even try to flank you with enemies! The most enjoyable part of this game is its immensely detail saturated plot. Halo is about a super-soldier, one so strong it alone could mean the survival or annihalation of the human race. This soldier is called a Spartan. The Spartan we are talking about is the only one remaining. This Spartan is the Masterchief. The story starts out as Masterchief aboard the spacecraft, The Pillar of Autumn. The Pillar of Autumn is being attacked by Covenant forces (the enemy), and has to be abandoned. After abandoning the Pillar of Autumn, the escape pods landed on the nearest planet, HALO. And the epic journey begins as Masterchief crashes into Halo, and begins his epic journey through the unwarded mists of Halo.
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Summary: What's with the inaccurate guns
Review: I am interested in the unnamed disaster that killed every Marine on Earth. I concluded this must have happened because there is no way the Marines I have known would take such inaccurate weapons into battle. The weapons of the future should be BETTER than what we have now, but I found myself wishing for an M-14 or M-16 with the 203 grenade launcher. If it takes more than 5 or 6 hits to the body to kill something, you have the wrong gun. I abandoned the Marine weapons asap for the alien weapons that would at least hit what you aim at. Other than this all to common problem with futuristic shooter type games it was fun, worth the money overall.
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Summary: Halo is a fantastic game...for 3 years ago
Review: Let me start off by saying that I think Halo is a pretty good game. Its good qualities far outstrip its bad ones, but, unfortunately, there are too many bad qualities that keep it from truly shining.Halo starts off with one of the best intros I have ever witnessed in a game (outstripped only by Half-Life, but we'll get to that later). Throughout the game, the story never gets boring, nor does it seem like the same old "whoo hoo, I'm blasting space aliens into oblivion", like so many science fiction games nowdays. The weapons assortment is well balanced, though somewhat skinny. A great part about the weapons system is that you can only carry two guns at a time: this adds a role-playing element to it, because you have to plan ahead for what will most definitely be needed, and what is most effective to take out the enemies that lie ahead of you. The voice acting is also topnotch-all the characters were believable and made me care about them. I was shocked and mortified when I found Captain Keyes was - well, just go find out for yourself. Now, unfortunately, for the bad news. First, Halo is extremely laggy. Now, I don't have a topnotch computer: for all you ultra turbo computer nerds, like me, I did not know motherboards got as crappy as the one that I have. But I do have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz, and an nVidia GeForce FX 5200, and EVEN STILL, I have everything to the lowest settings, and it gets laggy with the outdoor environments. It's pretty retarted when you're in the heat of the battle, and suddenly, everything becomes a slide show. Onto the environments themselves. They flat-out suck. When you're inside the metallic rooms, it feels like there are only two or three and you are going through them over and over and over. BBOOOOOOORRIINNGGG! The outdoor environments are infinitely better, but still lack some ambient life (read: moving things that you don't have to kill). The graphics are pretty much outdated by today's standard, although they are nice. It seems like Gearbox (the developer) could have updated the graphics fairly painlessly, but, instead, we're left with mediocre graphics that could have bashed the competition to a bloody pulp three years ago. But, alas, we are stuck with the graphics we had on the XBox. And, finally, the enemies. They are great, except for the "grunts", which are pathetic little children-like things, which scream and run away in terror if you kill more than half of their compadres; which sleep on the job, so you can literally sneak around and bash each of them upside the head (the battle is won, no shots have been fired); and are just all around pathetically weak. The grunt, i think, should have been more of a challenge. And now to the truly depressing part. There is no cooperative play. There is absolutely no excuse for this. In the XBox version of Halo (it came out roughly three years ago), the superb cooperative play was the real reason you bought the game. I have personally played it, and let me tell you, it is a blast. But Gearbox (the developer) had everything right there for them, and I can't see why they erased it. It just doesn't make sense. This is the main reason why I am giving this game three stars. Usually I believe in judging things y how they stand up to the competition, not based on whether or not it measured up to it's predecessor, but this is just unexcusable, seeing how they had all the potential to make it a great game instead of a good game, and all they had to do was port the co-op. It infuriates me. I know all of this sounds bad, but it is actually an excellent game. If you are a fan of shooting things, but don't want to fire upon your fellow man, than this, Half-Life, Unreal I and II, and the upcoming Doom III and Half-Life II are your games. But if you could only buy one more game for your entire life, can stand to sacrifice some graphics quality, and are looking for the best of the genre, the one that started it all, by all means, go and buy Half-Life. It came out in '98 or '99, so you will have do fork over some graphics, but it is without a doubt the best game I have ever played, and is certainly worth the money. I kid you not, it has the best EVERYTHING. If you can afford it, try to get it bundled with Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Team Fortress Classic, and Counter-Strike. These are all excellent games (Counter-Strike remains to be the most-played game on the internet of all time). But if you already have Half-Life and thirst blue alien blood, do yourself a favor, buy Halo, and hope that a co-op patch comes out soon.
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Summary: Gearbox Sucks At Ports!
Review: LAG!! This game is more like in a beta stage as of right now. Major graphics issues and network lag. I'm going back to Unreal 2K3 or wait until Unreal 2K4 comes out. Maybe Gearbox can get some updates out but probably too late. I run a Video Gaming Shop and have seen issues with this game on a wide variety of system configs. It's not the sytems it's in the coding.
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Summary: WTF
Review: Jesus, thank you very much MS for ruining HALO. For those who don't know, Halo was originally a game being developed for PC until Microsoft needed a trophy game to launch it's XBox console. So instead of being original (God forbid) they do what they do best. They bought out a company developing a much anticipated game called HALO (the company's name was Bungie). Well, the fruits of their labor have finally paid off to the PC market close to 3 years LATER. The graphics are very tell-tale that it is a console port, the sound is like listening to an old walkman, even with high machine specs it runs slow and choppy. Thanks MS, you've done it again. I'm taking my copy back to GameStop.
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Summary: The truth about Halo PC
Review: Halo Pc requires a decent computer system, a good connection (for online play) and patients (learning or tweaking controls to fit your need). I am running a system with AMD XP 1800+, 512 DDR 400mhz ram, Nvidia (Albatron) Ti4200 (128MB AGP8X w/ DDR),1500kbps/128kbps cable connection, MSI K7-N2 motherboard, and built in sound card. I can have every setting all the way up with my hardware, and experience minimal slow down, and I have V-Sync on and it runs very nicely. My online name is "§A-§TiLLeTo" if u play me let me know if you read this review. Email is "STiLLLeTTo@hotmail.com" for any questions and any other information.
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Summary: good game, bad port
Review: this is a great game...on the xbox. because on the xbox it can play. on the computer it struggles to the point where the fun dies. either you have it look horrible so it lags less (keep in mind, it still struggles) so you can play it, or you turn up the eye candy and slow down to 10fps when you fire a gun. this is unacceptable, especially for 50 dollars. the multiplayer is tame and boring over the internet because there are plenty of better games that actually work. and the character moves slower than the guy in unreal 2. don't buy this yet. wait and save your money for when its 10 bucks and there are patches to fix it. no one should profit from this game, everyone who bought it should get their money back. keep in mind my problem with this game is not related to hardware. i can play unreal 2 on my computer with everything maxed out without a stutter. but this graphically tame game somehow warrants the resources it uses? i don't think so. i was really dissapointed because i really looked forward to playing this game since i enjoyed the portions of it i played on xbox. again, this is a great game...just not for the computer.
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Summary: Good Game - To Hardware Intensive
Review: This game is definitely worth buying, but make sure that your computer can handle it. I've got a top of the line system and the game won't even run the way it should without alot of tweaking. They are supposed to be fixing this but we'll have to see. For a multiplayer game and a single player shooter, this is definitely the game to get though
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Summary: A really good game but could have been better than this
Review: First I thought this is only an online playing, but later on I found this game also has single player game as well so I downloaded the demo and played it for an hour. I found out this game is really fun. So I bought this game and found out information about this game: Single Player
The game is really got your attention from it, when I am playing it, I almost didn't want to stop at all because of the game is so much fun and offer a great storyline along your mission. I was suprised about the game later on though. At first, I am fighting some monster from other planet and as soon as I fought my way to Halo. I found out that I end up fighting some undead monster or zombies whatever you'll call it instead of some regular monster. Therefore the game turn out to be a little bit alike Half Life later on the game. I would be rather fighting some real monster such as the elite or the hunter instead of fighting zombies, they are just looking sick to me when you're shooting there head or arm off of them and they're still alive and attack you, which this is making me real sick. The storyline is really got my attention a lot for this game. Also from what I'm seeing at the end of this game or I should say at the end of the last mission for this game tell me this is not exactly the end of the storyline, which mean Microsoft will probably going to make another Halo expansion pack for this game for sure. Well I don't think this is going to happen until they relase Halo 2 from XBox next year anyway. Multiplayer
It is very fun to play with other people, but there's actually a lot bad things about multiplayer; I can't tell who is the enemy I am fighting with nor one of my team player betray me in the game at all. They all either blue team or red team so it is impossible for you to tell which player is which people at all. Also you do not get to choose your own team that you want to join in. There is no voice chatting in the game either. Respawn after you got kill by your enemy or betray by team player, sometimes you don't even where you are at then you get kill again already. What I really hate the most about multiplayer game is team player, whoever betray me I can't really get them back at all although it does display a message let me know whom betray me but since I can't really know who the player by its color then it is useless. You'll see what I mean when you play the game. Another thing that I've find is so unfair is, what's up with some new weapons and vehicle in single player anyway? Why are they bother to make some of those weapons and vehicle available only for multiplayer anyway? Haven't they fotgot that the single player game is just as important as those multiplayer game. Personally to me I think single player is more than multiplayer. It is actally take some of the fun out the single game because of lacking of some weapons (even though there's only 2 type of weapons that is not available in single player). One of the weapon you will being attack by your enemy in single player but you won't able get that weapon though. There's more things I don't like multiplayer but I do have one thing that I hate about single player is there is no quicksave in the middle of the game whatsoever. Another minor thing, you won't get to use the tank in the single player game but one part of the game only. This game would have been a 5 stars if multiplayer is setup a little better and more organize. Overall it is worth to get this game, I just can't to see the sequel version or expansion pack for Halo. There storyline is just excellent for this game execpt those zombies in the game which change story a little bit than I would have expect it to be.
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Summary: Even better than X-Box version!
Review: This game is arguably the best game for x box and the systems first real hit. This game takes a first-person shooter to the next level with its intrigeing story line and fast gameplay. The PC version of this game is much like the original but the new levels in addition to the online play makes this game an instant PC classic. I strong;y encourage every game fan to buy this game if you haven't already.
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