OT: Halo for PC

Renegade 13 · #1 July 8th, 2004, 06:05 AM

Well I was thinking about buying Halo for PC (now that its dropped in price...), and was wondering if any of you had played it, and what you'd thought of it. Will it run on an "average" system (because that's what I have!), and is it worth the money? Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Goatfoam · #2 July 8th, 2004, 07:56 AM

It's amazing on the XBox. Haven't seen the PC port though, but I imagine it would be better, what with mouse control. Not sure about the system specs, though.

I would say check out the system requirements and if they fit go for it, I really doubt you'll be disappointed.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 July 8th, 2004, 08:05 AM

There's a demo. I'm not a real judge of FPS's, though, not being good at them.

se5a · #4 July 8th, 2004, 09:54 AM

I have *heard* that the PC port has some problemes on some systems, though that may all be patched now.
down load the demo and try that.
I have a fairly high end system and it ran well, the graphics are nice. it wasent realy my type of game though, I prefer a FPS where you dont have to empty three magazines into a bad guy before they die...

Atrocities · #5 July 8th, 2004, 10:03 AM

Tribes shall never be equaled, only copied.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 July 8th, 2004, 10:45 AM

Um...Where was tribes mentioned? Seems a bit of a non-sequitor.

DarkAnt · #7 July 8th, 2004, 04:02 PM

I personaly enjoy halo for x-box more than halo pc. But like narf poit chez BOOM said, check out the demo.

zen. · #8 July 8th, 2004, 04:47 PM

Halo for the PC is cool in that the graphics are crisper. Unfortunately, the way they did things, you can't use antialiasing or any of the other nifty effects your spanking new video card has (well, technically it's feasible but requires changing .ini files and downgrading other graphics...TMI, I know), so say hello to jaggies. Graphics and models are not that improved from the XBox Version, so expect older technology in terms of modeling and so on. Still, it was very fun to play and the campaign/story more than made up for it.

They essentially bring the XBox experience to the PC...almost exactly, even! You can decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but if you've played the XBox Version, you've played the PC Version.

Keyboard and mouse control, per a first-person shooter, is standard and much more exacting (to me, at least) than the clumsy console controls.

Now, the thing that irks me the most? They took out co-op play. What made it so fun on the XBox was the fact you could play through the whole game with a buddy. Despite the vastly superior capability of the PC to multiplay (with a full screen, no less), they decided 'that's not where they want to go'. This is not to say there isn't multiplayer...there is. From what I understand, it's pretty fun, too, but the couple of times I tried it, it was pretty abusive on-line. I'm no slouch in the FPS department, but it was pretty brutal.

So to conclude my ramblings: if you haven't played the XBox Version before, and it's going for $20, give it a shot. It didn't have much longevity for me; I played it through a few times, and have no compunction to reload that sucker...and I bought it for $40.

zen

Renegade 13 · #9 July 8th, 2004, 07:23 PM

I've never played it on Xbox, and I just finished downloading the demo. Speaking of brutal, try downloading 135 MB demo when all you have is dialup! Took bloody near 14 hours of continuous d/l. Anyways, I just wanted to get a few opinions on it while I was getting the demo, and thanks for them. I've read a bunch of reviews for it, and most of them said that you needed a high-end system to play it without lag...can anyone confirm this?

PvK · #10 July 9th, 2004, 12:29 AM

You can't play co-op multi-player on the PC Version? That stinks...

PvK