OT: Halo for PC

[Atrocities]

Tribes shall never be equaled, only copied.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
Um...Where was tribes mentioned? Seems a bit of a non-sequitor.

Halo was orginally created to compete with Tribes, but MS bought it and developed it for the crappy X-Box

Halo is fun though, so is Planet Siege, and Half life, but they are not as good as Tribes.

[David E. Gervais]

Tribes seems like a good game, but it seems that I can only do one thing 'Right' in the game,.. DIE.

LoL, but seriously, just about every Online game I joined had people setting off bombs under them and jumping extremely high in the air. And they always managed to snipe me while doing this. Oh the joy of being PK fodder.

Nuf Said, Cheers!

[DarkAnt]

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

[zen.]

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]

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?