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Halo's PC Upgrades Explored

Posted by simoniker on from the banshee-banshee-banshee dept.

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?

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  1. Remember Bungie? by calebb · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I remember watching a video of Halo when it was being developed by Bungie Studios, for MacOS / Windows. It looked awesome! My roommate has an XBox & Halo, but I don't really enjoy it that much. The graphics & gameplay look good, but I need my keyboard & mouse for FPS games.

    My dream of playing Halo on a PC is back :-)

  2. Flop by Morgahastu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Halo wasn't a particularly enjoyable single player experience on the console.

    What made it such a great and popular game was it's co-operative play mode.

    That mode has been lost in the conversion and I tihnk it's a serious blow to the game. Even if they had included it to play coop over the network it wouldn't of been as good as playing with a friend on the same couch.

    I have no doubt it will be an above average game, but it won't be all that it was on the xbox.