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Summary: "Wake up! - Bad guys!"
Review: This game is a combination military/sci-fi FPS game, but it is anything but typical. When you walk down the dark corridors, using your flashlight, it really looks like a movie, but when you hear the little aliens talk to each other (in an American dialect, nonetheless) in high pitched voices, it adds humor to what would normally be a very serious game. I haven't laughed so hard at a computer game since UT2003. I love watching the aliens' bodies fly through the air when a grenade explodes, but what makes it so funny is listening to their "screams". They sound like little munchkins or something and they're almost cute. It's almost a shame to shoot them, but since I'm playing on Hard difficulty, I can't take any chances.My only complaint is that you cannot quick-save: You have to wait to get to the next checkpoint, but sometimes in order for you to achieve it, you have to kill all the bad guys. But if you can't quick-save, you have to kill everyone all over again, and that just sucks. I'm sorry. It takes away from the fun of the game.
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Summary: The Best PC game ever since Dracula
Review: Halo is the best game ever on XBOX, but now, it is finally on PC!! The only problems is that the controls are a little hard to remember, and get use to, and the game requires a really high, strong video card to project the correct image. But everything else, is fine. I love to use the new weapons on the multiplayer, and the new warthog. My favorite new weapon personally is the Fuel Rod Gun. There is also a flamethrower too. Now their is a new warthog with a rocketlauncher and you can use Banshees on multiplayer. To make it project the correct image, you probably need to install a graphics PC card such as Radeon, etc. or just do what the other guy told you to do with the shortcut, and properties, etc. The campaign mode is about the same, except for new comments and putdowns by Cortana, the marines and I think the Grunts. It also includes about 6 new maps I think. The maps are more exciting to play in. I really recommend this game to anyone, who likes action/adventure games.
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Summary: Majorly loved it on the XBOX. Less so on the PC. Why?
Review: I can honestly say that I loved Halo on the XBOX. Yes, the levels were repetitive, but the combat was revolutionary! For those of you that don't know - the XBOX joystick has (among other buttons) 2 thumbsticks (one for each thumb). Halo was the first FPS for the XBOX - so the Bungie programmers had to decide what these two joysticks controlled. They chose so well that countless other programmers have copied them, and those that didn't - wish they had! One thumbstick controls the motion of your character based upon the direction he is looking. The other joystick controls which direction the character looks. Did I mention that the Xbox jostick has triggers for both of your index fingers? Within 10 minutes of playing Halo on the XBOX - I was pretty good. Within 48 hours - I was one lethal trash-talking Marine! I have two problems with the PC version. First, let me prefix this by stating that I am running Halo on a P4 2.4-HyperThreaded/800MHz FSB/512MB/XP Pro/Nvidia GeForceFX 5600 Ultra 128MB. Suffice it to say that I should be able to play EVERYTHING (expect for DOOM 3) at the highest detail level while having processing power to spare. Guess what? When playing Halo for the PC and there are more than 2 aliens on the screen - my system begins to crawl under the strain. This is in the very beginning - imagine what will happen when I reach THE FLOOD (hundreds of aliens at a time)? This is unacceptable. But it is a shame that somebody messed-up Halo PC, because there will be gamers that will never know how awesome the game really is. My second problem is actually more of a realization. I now realize that Halo was so revolutionary because of the two-thumbstick/trigger controller. It is extremely intuitive to control movement with one thumb while looking with the other thumb while firing your weapons with actual triggers. The keyboard cannot begin to compete. I read a review on a reputable gaming website that basically stated the exact opposite - he loved Halo on the keyboard. To each his own - I guess. Make up your own mind, but I suggest each of you just try it on the Xbox for 10 minutes to see "what all the fuss is about!"
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Summary: Half Life-esque
Review: This game doesn't deserve all of this negative feedback. It is excellent!!! Somebody was complaining about the patches and all of that? I seem to remember there were patches coming out all of the time for Half Life. As far as the graphics they are excellent! It may take some tweaking, but they are great. Also, look at updating your video card drivers. Great game!
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Summary: C'mon, People
Review: This is not so tough. Go into the Video options and turn Vsync on. Then turn the resolution to 1024 x 768 and turn all the details to "High". Now you will see over 70+ frames per second (more if you turn any of those setting down and you turn Vsync off). Look around online for screen shots of this game to see how great it looks. If you have a decent machine and you don't see the same, you're doing something wrong (you should also have the latest driver for your graphics card). If you say the game is sluggish and looks like dirt, figure it out (and try to do so before running to Amazon to write a negative review). If you can get decent frame rates on Unreal II, Halo should run twice as fast (easily). ((and I'm playing this and other games with a p4 2.5, 768 rd ram, and an ATI 9800 pro card = smoooooooth like butter.))
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Summary: unreal....
Review: i'm only posting this because it cracks me up that someone said Halo has "bland textures" and "dated graphics". if you run the game at a lower res and with details turned down (or off) b/c your graphics card is older and you processor is slow, how is that the developers' fault? a lack of animals? lol, too funny. buy a decent card, a p4, a ton of ram, set up 1024 x 768 res and turn vsync on. you should get at least 70 fps and you can see what bump mapping is all about. the indoor alien environments look amazing in this game. and if you turn those settings down? you can hit 200-400 fps with either an ATI or nVidia card (although, i would recommend ATI at this point. nVidia has lost their edge). don't blame Bungie or Gearbox, foo.
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Summary: Disgusting
Review: After playing several missions on the X-Box version and then hearing a PC version was planned, I eagerly awaited the PC release. All the claims of being enhanced for PC were nothing but false marketing hype. First of all, the graphics look blurry and washed out. The wall textures are ugly and it looks like you are playing the X-Box version through a dirty, blurry monitor. It seems Bungie dumped the entire code onto the PC without any tweaks whatsover, save the fact you can now use a keyboard/mouse and save whenever you want. And no, new vehicles, maps and weapons aren't "tweaks", they are features. Good features, but it doesn't make up for Bungie's lazy attitude in what we got with the PC version. The framerate is absolutely awful. Unreal 2 runs faster than PC Halo, at a higher framerate and detail. No effort went into PC performance tweaking. And console to PC tweaking can be done, just look at Grand Theft Auto: Vice City if you don't believe me. Next bad feature is that the controls, although now you can run them with a mouse and keyboard, are nasty, unresponsive and in slow motion. Bungie seems too incompetent to realise that just because it should be that way with an X-Box controller, it shouldn't be with a mouse and keyboard for the PC. The input timings NEED to be changed, the aiming constantly over-rolls. Lastly, no PC co-op mode and no way to play online with X-Box Halo owners. Two extremely pathetic points. I've lost all respect for Bungie after this. Don't buy this game on PC, Bungie could have made it brilliant if they had of put a fair bit of effort into making a polished PC version, but they didn't, they just dumped a heap of code onto a PC hard-drive.
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Summary: The game is sweet!
Review: Ok what can i say about Halo its obviosly great. For the computer i think its better than on x Box, First of all using the mouse instead of the double joystick makes you think less about the controls and more in (the drivers seat.) Although on x box the graphics were better because i only have a 64 mb intel graphics card, but its still great. The one thing i dont like about it is why not A.I. i want to play the computer in a multyplayer arena not always against real people.And why not a map editor man epic games sure know how to make a game, bungie is cool though. It would have gotten 5 stars from me, and personally ut 2003 , or 2004 is the way to go on FPS for a while.
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Summary: Its's All About Microsoft????Or What ..... HALO Rules
Review: First of all its a Matter of point of View.Number 1.-:do you
like PC games?#2 Do you like FPS games?#3 Do you like futuristic enviroment
Games?. If you're answer was yes in the three questions above then you like HALO.The Bugs are Just in the inmagination of
people that just see Evil in all the things that Mr Microsoft Gates release.
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Summary: why play?
Review: there are better games available, this is an XBox game and it shouldn't have migrated to the PC.
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