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Halo for the PC and Mac
smelialichu writes "According to this news article, Halo is finally on its way to the PC and Mac. Gearbox is handling the PC version, and Westlak Interactive is working on the Mac version, but it won't be released untill next summer. The official announcement says "Halo for PC is expected to be available in summer 2003. The Macintosh version is also expected to be available in 2003. Additional information regarding game content, features and enhancements will be announced at a later date." We can only assume they have some cool new features up their sleeves, maybe we'll be seeing Halo with even better graphics, optimized for the new Radeon? Anyway, this is certainly a huge relief to many gamers who thought they may never see Halo on their home PC's."
Hopefully, halo 2 (which will come out about a month or two later) will be xbox exclusive, that would be a good strategy of MS in my opinion; i'm sure many people couldn't wait another 1.5 years to see halo2 on pc after they have played halo "1".
The guy posting the article link is from the site it's at? Jesus, that story came out about 2 days ago and this guy is pimping his site with. No dignity.
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It only took three years for the general PC market to catch up with the power of the X-box. Not everyone has a GeForce 3+ yet and Halo relies strongly on programmable pixel shaders. The effects for surfaces like ice and water are amazing and cannot be replicated on current (by current I mean what most everyone has, not GeForce 3+) video cards. Halo is a lot better game because it cut out inferior systems like PS2, Gamecube and low-level PCs.
I would have to disagree....
gaming peaked with Space Invaders, that was the lounge table. You know where could sit down, and the screen was in the table...man that was sweet
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no Direct3D port for the Mac. In fact, isn't Apple pushing OpenGL accelerationg heavily for OSX? So, is Microsoft going to go to the trouble of porting DirectX 8/9 to OSX or are the going to allow the developers to use OpenGL? To me, neither of those sounds like likely options, but if I had to guess, I'd think that they'd half-ass a port of DirectX. Much like they half-assed the ports of IE to other systems.
Or is there some third option I'm missing?
Sitting next to Doom 3 on the shelf, this thing is going to look like a relic of a bygone era. It's too bad Bungie really screwed this one up. And I'm not even sure it gave X-Box the big boost it was supposed to.
A year ago, I was really jazzed about Halo. Now, I would suggest that Bungie forget about giving Mac and PC users some warmed-over port of a two year old console game.