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5 Responses to “Halo 2”

1. To install a really stable and easily patch comes out, this will only work with Vista, and a really good graphics card. (I’m sure that at some point this year we are a real patch that allows you to be seen to use it on XP, but then …)< br />
   After the cover- box and Microsoft website, your graphics card must be “NVIDIA 6100, ATI X700 or higher.” That leaves plenty of room for interpretation, and nowhere is the minimum amount of technical specifications necessary to start the game. So, here it is: Supports

   Video Memory: 128 MB or higher is required
   Supported pixel shader version: 2 or higher is required
   Vertex install-shader version: 2 or higher is required

   warning screen copied from the game:
   “Halo 2 for Windows Vista for computers with Microsoft Windows Vista, with a general Windows Experience Index of 5 or higher conceived. ” Hmmmm, one would think that the requirement would be a 5-rating are in bold type somewhere on the field, especially since the majority of the mass-market computers sold from the shelf well below 5th

   have the minimum requirements for the graphics card and 2gig of RAM (in my Gateway MX6453 laptop) and it is terrible, and sometimes not at all.

   Ensure you have a really good graphics card, or you will suffer .

   B. T. Denyer
   April 6th, 2010

2. I bought Halo 2 for the PC to try it enthusiastically to my brand new Vista machine. I have had it for over a year and are still unable to play the game the whole way through.
   I went through the agony of creating a live account, and then with the game not “see” the account (but did not sign me because I’m “already registered”). I experienced the joys Unfun with Halo 2 by chance, you tell me my savegame file is corrupted and I start all over again. I had extinguished Updates crashing the game, my license key to support for themselves and unanswered e-mails, it took me several phone calls and more than 3 hours on the phone to get someone to fix the problem. They had to do this by removing my license key, issuing me a new one, and told me I’d lose all my “achievements” and account information. This was no great loss, as the program regularly log me in live say, then: “You are not logged into Live. You will not be able to have any success. I’m sorry to know that” Much of the messages I get say in Halo 2: “I’m sorry, know that” Sorry, yes.

   By the time I got to work the game (with a shudder framerate and random dropouts in the sound), I was just angry. Angry at all “Sorry” messages, angry at the anger I have to load only by clicking on a saved game, and is angry at the constant level savegame. I see the new Microsoft Games for Windows title, and I feel I would be stupid to jeopardize me sit through that again.

   Pyanfar Chanur
   April 6th, 2010

3. The PC adaptation of 2004’s phenomenally successful Xbox game “Halo 2 for Windows Vista” is 3 years later, shortly before the release of Halo 3 for Xbox 360th Despite this apparent discrepancy and poor planning on the part of Microsoft’s release department has Halo 2 for Vista was also the test of time?

   The first difference is the transition from the single, high -end to the other variable PC console, in terms of graphics and processing power. While even with “High” settings, I have not noticed a significant improvement over the Xbox graphics (even if opinions differ on this point) tend, Halo 2 still commands a strong “5 0 Recommended” rating for new gaming Vista rating system. To view in my current system is a “5 3″, and newer games like Company of Heroes, World in Conflict and Command and Conquer 3 above at the stop “4 1 Recommended”. Apart from its variability in terms of graphic quality, Halo 2 only other new technical feature is the ability for a wide-Heads Up Display (instead of using an outstretched in the Xbox version).
   
   Halo 2’s connection to Xbox Live is the other major new system in the PC transition, and this is also done well and irritating. It is done well, because as a console that integrates the live system, almost seamlessly into the game and adds features such as online games, unlockable achievements (the first Games for Windows title, they have), and friend lists . However, there is also a step back from Halo 1 for the PC while Halo 1 was free, no-strings-attached online multiplayer, Halo 2 is required to play at least a silver account, even the single player game. So, like Valve’s “Steam” software for Half Life 2, you must be online to play the game. But unlike Steam, you need only log on to transfer an account and then the account to a computer, after the first time, there is no obligation for the online connection for single player. The free account also allows access to Halo 2 to play online, although many of the functions (including matchmaking services, private rooms) are paid to people with reserved “Gold Accounts. Finally, Halo 2 for Vista 2 offers new official maps for multiplayer and a map editor. However, the editor said, usually for hard-core designers intended, not casual fans. Nevertheless, it is a pretty welcome addition and enables a collaborative effort in creating new and exciting arenas.

   All in all, this game did pretty well by itself. But to play in counting in its status as a ported version of a 3-year-old game, and adding the further frustration of the “Live” and its unusually high demands, I would not recommend this game to anyone who has already played. This game is the last resort, exclusively for people who wanted to have only one PC, and who’s not played Halo before 2nd I rate it around a 3 / 5

   Lisa Shea
   April 6th, 2010

4. My wife originally ordered two copies of Halo 2 from Amazon for me and my son for fathers day. However, while at Walmart I have decided to place a copy of the game, missed getting that pressure washer I have. I came home and we (my son and I) started to install the game. First, there is no option for the custom installation. You can only play during the installation. I do not really for this, in my games into a folder, not all install on my hard drive as. So okay, we waited a little while she did, it was for. I tried signing up for Live with my account and had a hard time, they log me in.. . Finding, or even the place to live log. The on-screen buttons for navigation in the menus, the A, B, X, Y buttons are available on the Xbox controller. Not very good if you ask me. I like to control from PC games and consoles. This game definitely has a console feel. So we move on us. . . . Videos are good, pretty good graphics. . . to play the game. . well it feels like a console. The target system has built in excess of compensation here is the short story, I was disappointed when this game itself feels like a console game and the menus are hard to navigate. Bungie and M $ has not much to do in the way, so that a fun game for the PC. Rather, just the console game on the PC. I will return my two copies already in shipping to Amazon for a refund and I’ll stick with the original Halo.

   Jason Nowicki
   April 7th, 2010

5. ‘ve heard from all the negative reviews, I, I was hesitant about picking up this title. I never played the original Xbox version I have not yet used on first-person shooter with a control pad, I still prefer a mouse and keyboard. It installs easily and plays perfectly. I have a fairly high-end system runs on a Pentium D 3 0GHz, two ATI X1800 cards in Crossfire mode, and Vista x64. The mouse and keyboard controls work almost the same as the original Halo for the PC version, there are some differences for dual-wielding weapons as expected. On-screen information tells you which keys to hit the keyboard to pick up weapons or take any action as the original Halo for the PC, so it does not have a direct console port only shows the handheld controller buttons as I feared have. However, my two biggest complaints:

   1 The graphics are slightly worse than the original Halo for the PC. You look a little more “cartoon” and the colors are slightly washed in places. I am not sure whether it should be, or something with my graphics card driver is the reason why. But overall, a step in a realistic quality from the original Halo for the PC.

   2 Screen resolution selection has only a few fixed modes to choose from. Again, could the original Halo for me to choose the most PC support a video mode my card, would include several 16:10 widescreen modes. Halo 2 supports only a handful of standard modes, such as 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and the only wide-screen mode, I have access to a 16:9 resolution of 1280 x 720 On my 19 “widescreen monitor that supports a 16:10 resolution of 1440 x 900, they” blow up “the image to fill the screen, so some pixelation, also leaves me with a” letterbox “view, top with black bars and visible in the field.

   Overall, it’s not a bad effort. I would not recommend it if you play on an Xbox to the original version of the console, but when you access have at all is a PC, or do you still not used to the handheld controller like me and prefer the mouse and keyboard, it is well worth looking at.

   Keith E. Meyers
   April 7th, 2010