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3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 Good PC version of the X Box game, 2007-11-21
Same as the X Box version, only runs on Vista however. As usual, several start up screens to wade through. Game play, both on-line and local, is smooth and fluid on a modern computer with a good video adapter. Possible to use a gamepad or mouse/keyboard.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 The best action shooter ever (so far), 2007-10-31
Halo 2 extends the storry of Halo, and adds many new exciting new story elements. The multiplayer is very good indeed, and I never tire of laying some hurt on my closest friends and strangers. Plays very well on Vista.
4 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Halo2 for Vista has BIG flaws, 2007-09-24
Well to start I am a huge Halo universe fan and love Halo combat Evolved for PC. I waited the extremley long and unecessery time for Halo2 to be finally released for PC the game platform this game is really meant for.
Well first off the dropping of Gamespot was real bad on microsoft games/Bungies part it was easy to find a match and play. Now we have Live I signed up and well when I did the name I picked was free so cool I figured thats it away we go...WRONG everytime I try and log on to live to play Halo2 online it tells me the name that I picked and it approved during the enrollment is taken...Yeah by me but it will not let me use it! WTF??? comeon Microsoft fix this with a patch.
Now on to the game Gameplay in several areas is ridculosly hard even on the easy setting. When I get a game I play through on easy to get the story then go back on the normal setting. A prime example is the levela "Let the buyer beware" Very very trickey to progress through the area to the next chapter. Even worse is Tatarus at the end Give me a break any heavy weapon you have won't otuch this guy but a NPC's weak assualt rifle drops the shield???? and while your weapons are useless until about 60 seconds into the level his hammer yes a hammer for godsake is a kill hit even if it misses and slams the deck next to you.
The end of the game is totally lame very very weak and disapointing.
Another flaw you have no way of commanding NPC's in vital situations and they will get you killed by drivng right up to enemy tanks instead of staying out of it's range and letting you pick them off with the Warthogs cannons.
I can only hope Halo3 addresses these flaws and that Microsoft doesn't wait two years before releasing it to PC. There should have been a simultanious release for both Xbox and Pc for all of the Halo games. I mean the kids with consoules have what two years to hack and cheat the game by the time a PC gamer gets it and we get sniped because of this. Come on Level the field and release for both at the same time! I guarntee your slaes would nearly double!
Finally a noter about Vista I have a brand new machine to run Halo2 while it has everything Microsoft says it should have Halo2 says I don't the big thing being I run a Athlon64X2 4 GHz processor and Halo2 misreads it typical Intel bias. AMD has had dual core processors for nearly a decade now and Intel just came out with them last year.
6 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Okay, but not worth it for the single player campain , 2007-09-23
Okay, but not worth it for the single player campaign
I don't play online, but I enjoyed Halo for what it was, as short as it was and really wanted to see where it was going. The answer, nowhere, really.
Halo 2 is more of a re-hash than a sequel. The computer voice admits it at the end "yeah, sounds familiar, I know" she says telling you how you are going to once again blow up the enemy by overloading something. Yea! Great?
What Halo 2 does do is offer some tighter controls (the vehicle improvements are vast if not perfect) though you drive and aim with the same movement, so you are always flying or driving towards your target, but you feel at least some control as you kamikaze! What I really hate is the zoom - aim feature, because if you take a hit it un-zooms and you have to zoom back, it's very annoying if you play like me and try to take out as many bad-guys as possible before moving in.
There's some issues with the dual-play feature as well, you are both Master Chief and some alien called Arbiter whom Master Chief defeated in the first Halo. The problem with Arbiter is that he plays just like Master Chief, so you don't care that it's different, his stats are purple, MC's are Blue! The issue is I keep forgetting who to shoot at and keep killing Arbiter's allies out of habit. Since he fights just like MC, why play as him at all?
The cut scenes are rendered to cinematic levels, but the actual graphics range from slick to badly pixilated and blurry. Too often I felt claustrophobic and ended up having no idea which way was up, or out.
As for the Campaign, I have no idea what online play is like, but if you don't play online borrow, do not buy this game for $50.00. This game will take a maximum of 8hrs for a novice player. You never go back more than a few minutes when you die, which is great, but that there are no puzzles, no searching, no tactics to work out here, just point, shoot, collect, move! The game forces you in each direction, you never have anywhere to go but where you have to. There are no extra areas to explore, no secrets to find, no hidden treasures or mysteries.
The end, once again, is uneventful. Worse, it's a cliffhanger! I felt like the game barely began and it was over and unresolved. What a massive disappointment.
I have to wait for H3 to come out on PC because I am not buying an Xbox360. Oh, well. If they combine the three games into one, it might be worth $50.00.
As to technical issues, I had none. I'm running a HP PV9000 custom laptop. Vista Ultimate 64, 2gig ram, 100 & 150gig sata hard drives, 2gig ready boost SD card, with a AMD 64 Turion x2 @1.8ghz. I had to use 1280 X 768 resolution because the full 1680 X 1050 my screen uses made the mouse move too slow. The game ran fine at all settings to max but the mouse movement was too slow even at level 10 speed, lowering the resolution made no difference in how the game looked, none, so it didn't matter at all.
10 of 11 customers found the following review helpful:
Sort of Halo, 2007-09-10
Others are right, you will be playing an out-dated game, if you're not already manipulated into buying Microsoft's X-box to keep up with Halo then you must buy Vista to play Halo 2. Otherwise nobody really needs Vista that I can see, unless they force it on the market (and MS will).
I did a dual boot system with XP, because Vista won't run all my software or hardware yet, mainly to see what Halo 2 would be. Make two partitions for dual boot or use two drives, and wait until Vista is compatible with all it left behind, to fully switch to that OS.
As to the game, it was somewhat disappointing by comparison to Halo 1. Very artistic graphics are an improvement, but seems to have been the priority, along with many more weapons. But they're stuck in half sized campaigns that aren't so distinctive. I got lost in circles a lot, looking for the next segway, because cloned graphics made entrances and exits look much the same. Still, finished the whole game on the first day I loaded it. Definitely not like Halo 1 there. Not such an epic adventure as Halo 1, with the ending pretty much saying buy Halo 3, to get any real ending.
There are good new features that made some sense. But some came with annoying key location changes if you played Halo 1 a lot. You also spend half the game playing as an Elite, not just the M.C. It reveals a lot more of the story line, which is not such a good thing if you really think about it. Best not to.
Really disappointed in some of the audio. MOST of all I miss the grunts amusing chatter and voicing, funny enough to overlook aliens speaking English even to each other. I imagine doing that particular voice was difficult, so they apparently did them with a pitch shifter to create the grunt high pitch, and they sound synthetic and characterless as a result. Over all, this really wasn't worth waiting years for IMO.
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