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Halo's PC Upgrades Explored
Thanks to GameSpot for posting a new hands-on preview of Halo:Combat Evolved for the PC. This long-awaited title is making a "conservative" but professional transition from Xbox to Windows, courtesy Gearbox Software, and the enhancements are sparse but notable: "..the [in-game] resolution can be turned all the way up to 1600x1200, and the game's textures look much sharper and more defined than they ever did on the Xbox.. zooming in close to a grunt, we noted specular-mapping and bump-mapping effects on the grunt's gold-colored armor." Also discussed in more detail are the six brand-new PC multiplayer maps, plus mention of "..editing tools that will let creative players create new maps and significantly modify the game" - is there enough time for player-constructed maps to make it into Halo 2?
Not with Halo, you can't.
Gamespy provides a program that tricks your Xbox into thinking you've got a LAN connection with people who are actually on the Internet, which allows some internet play (laggy as hell, though), but Halo doesn't support Xbox Live.
Its still being made by bungie
its just microsoft decided to buy bungie and make halo Xbox exclusive
True
however GTA does not have the same sort of competition halo is facing
there are very few games that are at all like GTA and none that really follow the same exact theme
however Halo is facing up against HL2 Doom3 Tron 2.0 DeusEx 2 and more
being 2 years old i think it will probably get vastly outclassed and depend upon its reputation from the Xbox for sales
ill probably buy it but i think i will be waiting for its price to go down a bit before i do so