Microsoft & Bungie dropped the ball thrice in a row.

User Rating: 2.8 | Halo 2 PC
By LoneHusky | Review Date:
Halo 2, expected by many to be a very good shooter certainly failed noticeably by the many blunders from both Microsoft and Bungie together, both companies "expected" to bring customers rather than avid players aching to enjoy a game with great story behind, amazing effects and a plot that would make having sequels worth it. Instead they brought a title that had a great success in console and pc alike, and attempted to use that to make people buy a new operative system in order to play, promising visual improvements, capabilities and to be a title that would debut when windows vista arrived.

Almost 6 months after vista was released and no signs of halo 2 anywhere... great way to keep your promises bungie.

Don't take me wrong, I am biased against vista right now, changing OS in order to play a game that could have been played with the existing tested OS with the same or greater quality just to promote new, untested, and potentially glitched software...no thanks. Add insult to the injury by allowing gamepad users have an advantage over mouse users, (go aimbots go!) in multiplayer games and the biggest blunder of halo which is repeated... AGAIN! no co-op campaign mode, not even using direct IP connection.

Then Microsoft made the biggest mistake here by trying to force the OS down our throats.
Bungie made the same mistake by following the money-hound.

Halo has a great story, more deep if you read the existing novels, hard to imagine spectacular scenes and an unimaginable alien fleet attempting to destroy humanity, and at the same time begining to battle its own people in a escalating civil war. and mankind stuck in the middle trying to survive the hail with its small forces and rapidly draining resources.

Had Halo 2 been made available for XP it certainly would have raised the favor of the gaming community that enjoys FPS's but since that' not the case, more compatible games are chosen (BF2142, Sup Com, Half Life)

Halo was a great success in Xbox since it brought upa new innovative gameplay, and gotlimitedby thelack of multiplayer via internet,when Halo PC debutted bungie gave players several bonuses, improved gameplay by network and internet, extra weapons and the capacity to create maps and play them using HaloCE, but Halo2 for PC does not include anything new, its exactly the same game as Xbox, even though graphics improved in size and quality the content is the same without any extras and now, to play online you have to pay?

So if you are a devoted halo fan and want to spend $50.00+$250.00+$??.00 in this game, consider that your hardware might need upgrading to accomodate windows vista and then pray to whichever deity you like and hope vista's bugs don't prevent you from playing your hard earned game, but if you are like me who wants companies to appreciate the consumer more rather than leech them off, just play something else.

You'll have more fun.
LH.

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