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Summary: WOW!
Review: I have to admit, they did a very very good job goign from XBOX to PC. You would need a good video card though to get the best graphics, but it works good enough for me. You might have to tweak it a bit before the FPS become at a stable rate with smooth graphics. This game is very fun with the new multi online, even thought you might get laggy a bit. Over all, I have to hand it to Bungie and Gearbox, nice job guys. I will be waitin for HALO 2 on XBOX
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Summary: Best game of the year
Review: I just want to let any true gamers know that Halo is a must buy. Multi-player rocks and there are hundreds of things you can do
. in other words. GET IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Don't let this happen to you.
Review: I have a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz, a GeForce 5900 FX 256 MB, and 512 MB of RAM. Apparently I'm exactly the sort of person that Gearbox HATES. I have to run this at an atrocious 800x600 to get remotely smooth 30fps performance. And even if I turn all of the bells & whistles on and set everything up to max and it become a 12 frames per hour slideshow, the graphics STILL don't even come close to the quality of the Xbox version. Very disappointing. I was looking forward to playing Halo with mouse/keyboard support and better graphics. It simply isn't happening. I'll stick to my Xbox for now, thanks.
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Summary: Halo is a true FPS
Review: Halo rulz. But many people are complaining that it runs bad on their systems. However, it is not a problem with Halo, its a problem with their video drivers. When NVidia's new video drivers come out, the problem should be fixed. TO RAISE YOUR FPS RIGHT NOW, DO THIS
Note: This only pertains to those of you with NVidia FX video cards. ATI cards and other NVidia cards run perfectly Find the Halo shortcut on your desktop. Right click it and goto properties. Where it says target, it probable says "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" Add -console and -use11 after the " marks so that it looks like
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" -console -use11 That will make it run much better. As i said, its a problem with NVidias drivers. When their new drivers come out, the problem should be fixed and you can delete the -use11 I know it wasnt much pf a review, but Halo doesnt deserve to have bad ratings because people say it doesnt run well. Now, it will run well. It certainly made me like Halo more. Now it will be at a constant 30 or more FPS.
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Summary: No reason to complain
Review: Halo is a great game. It truly rocks. And if you arent getting more than 20 FPS its not because you dont have an Athlon processor. Like the guy who complained, I also have a geforce 4 fx 5600 256mb video card. THE PROBLEM IS WITH THE VIDEO DRIVERS. The new nvidia drivers should help when they come out. For now, if you are getting bad FPS and have an NVidia card, right click on the Halo shortcut and goto properties. Where it says Target, it will probably say "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" Anyway, after the second " marks after the .exe, add -console and -use11 It should now look like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" -console -use11 That will fix it. You should now have a pretty constant frame rate of 30+. I know this wasnt much of a review, but I love Halo and I dont liek when people act like their smart and try to diss it. I also want everyone to have a better experience with it and not give it bad ratings because of something that doesnt even have to do with Halo. When the new detonator drivers come out, the problem should be fixed and you can erase the -use11. There. NOW HAVE FUN PLAYIN HALO! Multiplayer rocks. So does single player. If you like FPS, you should be very pleased. Also, expect a demo to come out in the next few days, so try it out if you want to.
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Summary: Pentium Bad, Athlon Good
Review: Okay, first off. this game is optimised for the athlon cpu. not pentuim. so all these reviews complaining why they can't get more than 20 frames is cause they have pentuim. So what if you have a pentium 4 2.8. i have a athlon xp 2600, and i get 50-60 frames per second, now that that is over, this game is great. all aspects have been reintroduced with hi-res textures and amazing bumpmapping. this game is by far the best version of this game. from flying the banshee in multiplayer to using the fuel rod gun, this game is a blast.
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Summary: Halo PC "all hype for now!"
Review: I expected great things from the best console FPS ever made, but the PC version sucks! I have a Pentium4 2.8c, 512 of dual channel ddr400, FX5600 ultra, and SATA WD HD. I can hardly get 20 frames per second in certain areas. I have to set everything on its lowest settings in 800x600 to have a solid frame rate. I think the xbox version looks cleaner than the pc version during these settings. Very disappointed in Microsoft, bungie, gearbox and who ever wants to put there name on this product because they had all the time in the world to make a solid pc version but failed. Do not buy this knowing that you can't return it unless you know it will run perfect on your system.
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Summary: Well ...
Review: I would probably have given this game a better review if it didn't chug so bad on my system. There's just no excuse. I have a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz with 512MB of RAM and a GeForce FX 5200. This card is listed in the array of "supported" cards presented by Microsoft, and the game gives no warnings or messages at install or run time. Yet in order to get anything resembling a decent frame rate I have to drop it to 640x480 with _no_ special features. And even then the framerate is spotty and choppy. Get into a battle and it completely hangs. Hopefully I can return it. The game also requires a patch out of the box, although the patch makes no improvements to the problems with the game. The game's once-excellent graphics and technology now seem positively dated. In the cutscenes everyone appears to have lockjaw (their lips either don't move, or move almost imperceptibly). I remember when they showed a demo of this what, five years ago, before shaders were widespread and everyone freaked out. Now it's ho-hum. And it doesn't help that I have to turn everything off. That aside, the game is relatively fun. But it is by no means "combat evolved" as it claims. While it may seem immodest, we did this stuff way back in Tribes. Most of the single player and character development are lifted directly from Half-Life. With the exception of the excellent ground-vehicle physics the game is really like playing a Half-Life mod with (slightly) better graphics. But it is fun, although it is weird to see that evil aliens from halfway across the universe side-strafe, bunnyhop, and speak English. Who knew? Funny that I waited so long for the game to hit the PC, which is more powerful than an Xbox, yet it's unplayable. This one is going back. If you want to buy this game I suggest you borrow a friend's first to check your system specs, or wait for a demo. Plunking down full price for a game you can't play is really irritating (why is there no channel for game developer discounts in this industry?). EDIT: For the people who post that the game is optimized for the Athlon, not the Pentium: you don't know the first thing about business or the games industry. The Pentium is by far the more popular chipset, with a much larger install base than the Athlon. Furthermore, the original Halo (it was written for the PC then ported to the Xbox) was written for Pentium-class chips. If Gearbox specifically optimized for ATI and/or AMD they are fools. They should at least have put this information on the box. Instead it says that the minimum spec is a 733 MHz with a 32MB graphics card. My specs _far_ outreach that minimum and the game is unplayable. So it's plain false advertising. In other industries this is a crime. In games it's caveat emptor. So heed my warning: don't buy this game, you'll regret it.
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Summary: Halo PC just rocks!
Review: Wow, the multiplayer battles are just intense. This is the best online multiplayer FPS ever! And just wait until the mods start coming out, the replay value will be infinite. People on the XBox still play Halo after two years and there are good reasons. There is just nothing like it. The vehicles are masterfully integrated into the game and give you a sense of a large-scale war going on.
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Summary: Lots of fun despite a slow, disappointing main character.
Review: Huge props for the designers of Halo to put it in such a creative invironment. My biggest beef with so many FPS games is that the designers can take us ANYWHERE...so why do we so often end up in the same tired corridors and battlefields? With its sci-fi, ring-world setting, Halo joins the few other truly creative games like Half-Life and Alice that bother coming up with original, high concept settings. Now the bad part:
For a combat-evolved super warrior in bad*ss power armor, Master Chief is a wimp. There, someone had to say it, so I'll take the "not helpful review" heat from the Halo fanboys. I keep hearing that Halo is the best FPS ever and it just plain isn't. Not even close and it's mostly due to the lame character abilities. His sole superhuman power is the ability regenerate from a heck of a pounding. His super hero name would be Take-A-Lot-Of-Cr*p Man. Or Timex Boy. Gordon Freeman was more powerful in the first Half-Life and he was a science geek in an eviro suit. Master Chief can't jump particularly high or carry more than two guns and he's slower than snot. This last point is particularly irritating because Halo is full of huge sprawling landscapes for you to explore...at a tedious 5 MPH. But what about the vehicles? Well they go brisk 7 to 10 MPH and handle so badly it's a relief to get out of them (except for the flying Banshee which rules). If you get lost it can be a ten minute trek just to get back to familiar territory with no Quick Save to "unmake" your wrong turn. Going from Jedi Academy to Halo (like I did) was like going from the body of super ninja to an arthritic old man. I know the book was based on the game, but having read "The Fall Of Reach" first, I have to say the the book got it "right" even if it was retroactively. Read the novel if you want to see what a hyped-up super warrior Master Chief really ought to have been.
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