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AWESOME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Do you like shooting aliens? This is a first person shooter with an interesting storyline. There are 4 difficulty levels, Easy, Normal, Heroic, and Legendary. I first played on Normal and finished the game in about 20 hours of game play. Playing thru on Heroic now and it is much tougher. Checkpoints save your progress, so you don't have to replay parts of the level you have successfully completed. Overall, a great game.

I am the Master-Chief

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If somehow you have missed the original version of Halo combat evolved, you are missing a great game. Worth this price and worth playing. Get it!! you won't regret it!

Loved single player. Never played multi-player

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this about a year ago. I loved the single player game. Never played the multi-player version so my comments do not apply to multi-player. I prefer single player. This was a lot of fun action that was enjoyably addictive. I would do a good, bad, and ugly review, but whether I would recommend this game (today in 2008) depends more on the buyer than the game.

If you are a hard core cutting edge game player who plays PC 1st person shooter games more frequently than you blink, and you laugh at any PC game that has less than 20 different keyboard controls that you have to memorize just to avoid being killed within the first 30 seconds, and you have a super-turbo charged PC that you have to bolt down to the floor so it doesn't fly away because of all the over-clocking and super coolers that you have installed, then this is probably not for you (by 2008 standards). Those guys should check out Crysis. The demo of that alone brought my PC to its knees. You'll love the challenge of just getting Crysis to work with its graphics settings on high.

But, if you have a relatively decent gaming PC, that didn't cost more than your new car, and you like 1st person shooter Quake and Doom types of games that are simple and straight-forward, and you don't play PC games more hours than you sleep on average, then you will probably love this game.

The graphics are pretty decent. But, they aren't super impressive, especially compared to games coming out now. But, again that depends on you and your PC really. I think comments on this site within the last year that criticize the game because of its graphics or lack of complexity in the graphics are a little unfair. Modern games (like Crysis) have graphics that are unbelievably realistic. But, I think they require you to own your own small nuclear power plant to run them and they really require at least two graphics cards installed in a brand new gaming PC to work. No joke.

The graphics in Halo are great but not relative to newer games obviously. That is an advantage if your PC isn't a small power plant like I described above because you can actually play the game. The story line is fun and easy to move through. You don't have to invest a whole lot of time just to get past a certain level or room. You can keep progressing fairly easily without feeling "stuck." The music is very cool and adds to the dramatic scenes. Like a previous post said, the vehicles (jeep, banshee flying ships, etc.) are really cool and both fun and easy to operate. Like a previous post said also, the sounds the aliens make are not really impressive. I didn't even think of it unill I read that comment. But, it is true. The aliens movement is sometimes a little awkward and it is a bit awkward to have a sniper rifle at the end of a level and then find that you no longer have it on the next level because it basically starts your character over with the original weapon.

I think Halo is exactly what it was designed to be. It is a simple, straight-forward, and fun 1st person shooter that is fairly easy to progress through. It has a lot of fun action and variety but isn't so huge spacially that you sometimes feel lost. It is designed so you and the action keep moving forward. If you are an avid modern (2008) gamer, you may not care for this. If you are someone who loves video games and 1st person shooters but plays PC games occassionally, then I think you will like Halo a lot. Plus it's only $20 here on Amazon.

One of the Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've played quite a few games of this type and I loved this one from start to finish. First, it wasn't too hard for me. I'm old, slow, and I'm playing on a laptop with a touchpad and no mouse (that's the way I want it). The first thing I liked was that there was only 1 CD. Great! and unusual. And yet the graphics were beautiful. From the beginning of play, I loved the outdoor scenery. The indoor scenery was extremely repetitious, but I guess that's how they saved all that space. One of the things I liked best was the humor, something these games usually run short of. The grunts and the monitor are both hilarious. I was daunted in the beginning by not being able to save the game anywhere I wanted. I typically can only get through rough spots by repeatedly saving every tiny move that I make correctly. Here, the game saves itself at predetermined checkpoints instead. I learned to live with that. It made things more challenging, and that turned out to be a good thing. Another extra challenge was the limit of only 2 weapons on board at a time. Since you don't know what's coming up, you don't know whether you will be better off with a plasma gun or sniper or shotgun, and you have to choose. I learned that if you are in a place where rocket launchers are lying all around, you probably should pick one up and take it along. But a lot of times it was a guessing game. The mutants were really creepy, but the game is not gory. I was horrific at driving all of the vehicles, but they were fun and I was saved by the fact that crashing was usually an okay way to land or stop. Overall, this was a highly entertaining game and well worth the time. I just wonder why it took me so long to get to it.

Halo is here for the PC. Now make me care.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Console gamers have been raving about the Xbox version of Halo since its release. Having followed the game since it was announced on the PC around the same time as Black and White (read: several years ago), I expectantly picked it up for the PC when it came out.

Frankly, Halo can't compete with modern PC first-person shooters. Compared to the detailed environments of Half Life, the slick feel of Jedi Outcast, or the incredible story of Deus Ex, Halo just falls flat. The game is very outdated, and it shows. Everything from the *extremely* repetitive level design to the uninspired weapon layout (including a targeting reticule that's the size of a QUARTER) barely compares even with what PC gamers were playing right around when it was released for the Xbox originally.

In short, Halo is what PC gamers have been playing already for years, and what edge it had has been dulled in the time between its Xbox and its PC release.

My advice is to buy something newer for your money. If you're looking for the rich multiplayer that console gamers have been raving about (and PC Halo fails to deliver), pick up Unreal Tournament 2004. You won't regret it.

Halo for PC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great classic game at a great classic price. The way it should be, wish I would of got on the Halo bandwagon along time ago. This is really a fun game and will go down as we all know as one of greatest games of all time. Live on Master Chief....

Trust me

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was a little worried about buying this game due to the mixed reviews on this website. I found the official site for the game which to do that i googled the keyword Halo and when I went to their website you can download a free trial consisting of 1 single player mission and 1 online multiplayer level. I'm not one of those next gen gamers looking for the best graphics in the world, and these ARE NOT the greatest graphics in the world but their enough to have a fun time. All in all this is a fun game with awsome online capabilities. This is definently a buy.

One of the best FPS ever

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The best game on xbox gets even better on the pc.

Better than the Xbox version...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The title says it all. I think this PC version is better because with a easily found internet mod, Halo can be played entirely in 3rd person view instead of the first person view. I love Halo in the 3rd person view...Halo is a very fun game if you like FPS (or TPS). Has multiplayer and a decent single player campaign. My only discrepencies are that some of the multiplayer maps are very small in size.

Fantastic game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a really good game, you can kill aliens all day long and you want more. the multi player mode its just great, tons of fun

Really funny ending in Legend Mode :)

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