So what do you guys think of Halo 2?

[QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?Erlkoenig

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

^ This guy thinks Halo 2 is one of the best FPS ever and Far Cry was total crap. Make what you will of that.

Woohoo somebody else who hated Farcry. Through i was the only one who saw that crap for what it was!

Oh and im not going to buy vista for years of ever so halo2 can get stuffed. 

Look at the bigger picture. You're falling for Microsoft's trap. They got you to buy Vista and now want you to buy a 3-4 year old game. Shouldn't that gave have come free with the 100$+ operating system you just bought, I sure think so.

Halo 2 is crap on Vista. 77% on game rankings.com. There is no reason on earth why it should be Vista only. It's monopolization by Microsoft yet again. Time to take a stand. Just say no to that and Lost Planet.

Two way over-hyped games. If you want a real game, get Deus Ex. 10$ and rips Halo 2 a new one. Get it from steam.

Deihmos, the screenshots you posted remind me tremendously of CS1.6 Scoutzknivez map or a slightly updated outdoors. You seem to be a major XBox fan, so I guess to each their own though. I think you're letting a little bit of fanboyism into your opinion, but it may just be that for some reason you particularly liked it. If so, since you didn't like HL2 Fear or Far Cry, you have very odd tastes, imo.YourOldFriend

I never said the graphics are superb. They look decent and I am not a Halo fan I just got it to check out vista features. The graphics are not as good as Battlefield but they are ok and the game is a lot of fun online. The review you looked at was only for the single player because the servers just went Live yesterday. I doubt I will ever play the campaign and will only play the multiplayer which is fun.

Look at the bigger picture. You're falling for Microsoft's trap. They got you to buy Vista and now want you to buy a 3-4 year old game. Shouldn't that gave have come free with the 100$+ operating system you just bought, I sure think so.

Halo 2 is crap on Vista. 77% on game rankings.com. There is no reason on earth why it should be Vista only. It's monopolization by Microsoft yet again. Time to take a stand. Just say no to that and Lost Planet.

Two way over-hyped games. If you want a real game, get Deus Ex. 10$ and rips Halo 2 a new one. Get it from steam.

Unstoppable_1

You really think Halo 2 is Vista only to get people to buy the OS? It's vista only because it uses features that only Vista has like rapid install, tray n play and Windows Live.

[QUOTE="Unstoppable_1"]

Look at the bigger picture. You're falling for Microsoft's trap. They got you to buy Vista and now want you to buy a 3-4 year old game. Shouldn't that gave have come free with the 100$+ operating system you just bought, I sure think so.

Halo 2 is crap on Vista. 77% on game rankings.com. There is no reason on earth why it should be Vista only. It's monopolization by Microsoft yet again. Time to take a stand. Just say no to that and Lost Planet.

Two way over-hyped games. If you want a real game, get Deus Ex. 10$ and rips Halo 2 a new one. Get it from steam.

Deihmos

You really think Halo 2 is Vista only to get people to buy the OS? It's vista only because it uses features that only Vista has like rapid install, tray n play and Windows Live.

Don't bother with them.  People have such lack of respect these days its unreal.  Your opinion is just that and no conspiracy hides in it.  You like the game, others are bitter for whatever reason raising their blood pressure and shortening their lives over something so insignificant.  I am sure a demo will come out eventually and all can try it for themselves.  sigh...

[QUOTE="coolmonkeykid"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?Deihmos

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

Why would you buy a 3 year old port for $50? I doubt the graphics are better than todays FPS.

WHy?

It's not exactly the same. The graphics are improved, it has widescreen support and the multiplayer will be awesome. Windows Live is also impressive and I bought it for $40.00 which is nothing. I cannot think of much recent FPS games that look as good. Maybe just Battlefield 2142 but even that is nothig special.

BWHAHAHA

WOW, what a biased fanboy. There are tonnes of FPS that blow Halo 2 out of the water graphically. Hell, there were back on 04 with Far Cry, HL2, DSom 3. Halo 2 is vastly overrated, no one who plays PC really cares much for HALO for a reason. The graphics look dated, it is $50, Vista only, and was overrated to begin with. all reviews mention the outdated graphics.

Game that look better then halo 2:

Stalker

Far Cry

HL2 EP1, and HL2

FEAR

Rainbow Six Vegas

Quake 4 

Doom 3

Battlefield series

Resistance

Gears of War 

etc... 

More screenshots,

[QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="coolmonkeykid"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?spiltmilk

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

Why would you buy a 3 year old port for $50? I doubt the graphics are better than todays FPS.

WHy?

It's not exactly the same. The graphics are improved, it has widescreen support and the multiplayer will be awesome. Windows Live is also impressive and I bought it for $40.00 which is nothing. I cannot think of much recent FPS games that look as good. Maybe just Battlefield 2142 but even that is nothig special.

BWHAHAHA

WOW, what a biased fanboy. There are tonnes of FPS that blow Halo 2 out of the water graphically. Hell, there were back on 04 with Far Cry, HL2, DSom 3. Halo 2 is vastly overrated, no one who plays PC really cares much for HALO for a reason. The graphics look dated, it is $50, Vista only, and was overrated to begin with. all reviews mention the outdated graphics.

Game that look better then halo 2:

Stalker

Far Cry

HL2 EP1, and HL2

FEAR

Rainbow Six Vegas

Quake 4 

Doom 3

Battlefield series

Resistance

Gears of War 

etc... 

I never once said halo 2 was graphically impressive. It doesn't look bad but there are a lot of games that have better graphics. I am not a Halo fan and have not played it in years until yesterday. I did not get it so much that i wanted to play halo but to test Live for Windows and I had a blast. Capture the flag and many of the other game modes are just plain fun and the Windows live features are great. If only all games had just a nice online setup.

Live makes it really easy to use mics in these games. I was able to use my Live headset and here voice from my headset and not through the speakers. Don't think that was possible with any PC game before. Plus people actually used the mics and it was easy to add contacts. Check my gamertag below.

[QUOTE="spiltmilk"][QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="coolmonkeykid"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?Deihmos

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

Why would you buy a 3 year old port for $50? I doubt the graphics are better than todays FPS.

WHy?

It's not exactly the same. The graphics are improved, it has widescreen support and the multiplayer will be awesome. Windows Live is also impressive and I bought it for $40.00 which is nothing. I cannot think of much recent FPS games that look as good. Maybe just Battlefield 2142 but even that is nothig special.

BWHAHAHA

WOW, what a biased fanboy. There are tonnes of FPS that blow Halo 2 out of the water graphically. Hell, there were back on 04 with Far Cry, HL2, DSom 3. Halo 2 is vastly overrated, no one who plays PC really cares much for HALO for a reason. The graphics look dated, it is $50, Vista only, and was overrated to begin with. all reviews mention the outdated graphics.

Game that look better then halo 2:

Stalker

Far Cry

HL2 EP1, and HL2

FEAR

Rainbow Six Vegas

Quake 4

Doom 3

Battlefield series

Resistance

Gears of War

etc...

I never once said halo 2 was graphically impressive. It doesn't look bad but there are a lot of games that have better graphics. I am not a Halo fan and have not played it in years until yesterday. I did not get it so much that i wanted to play halo but to test Live for Windows and I had a blast. Capture the flag and many of the other game modes are just plain fun and the Windows live features are great. If only all games had just a nice online setup.

Live makes it really easy to use mics in these games. I was able to use my Live headset and here voice from my headset and not through the speakers. Don't think that was possible with any PC game before. Plus people actually used the mics and it was easy to add contacts. Check my gamertag below.

LOL, not a PC gamer are you? You have been able to use Mics and headsets in PC games for ages, befiore consoles. Anything a console can do, it was done before on PC.

PS, you are backpeddling, you said initially you do not knwo of any other shooters that look better then Halo 2, which was total bogus.  

[QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="spiltmilk"][QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="coolmonkeykid"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?spiltmilk

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

Why would you buy a 3 year old port for $50? I doubt the graphics are better than todays FPS.

WHy?

It's not exactly the same. The graphics are improved, it has widescreen support and the multiplayer will be awesome. Windows Live is also impressive and I bought it for $40.00 which is nothing. I cannot think of much recent FPS games that look as good. Maybe just Battlefield 2142 but even that is nothig special.

BWHAHAHA

WOW, what a biased fanboy. There are tonnes of FPS that blow Halo 2 out of the water graphically. Hell, there were back on 04 with Far Cry, HL2, DSom 3. Halo 2 is vastly overrated, no one who plays PC really cares much for HALO for a reason. The graphics look dated, it is $50, Vista only, and was overrated to begin with. all reviews mention the outdated graphics.

Game that look better then halo 2:

Stalker

Far Cry

HL2 EP1, and HL2

FEAR

Rainbow Six Vegas

Quake 4

Doom 3

Battlefield series

Resistance

Gears of War

etc...

I never once said halo 2 was graphically impressive. It doesn't look bad but there are a lot of games that have better graphics. I am not a Halo fan and have not played it in years until yesterday. I did not get it so much that i wanted to play halo but to test Live for Windows and I had a blast. Capture the flag and many of the other game modes are just plain fun and the Windows live features are great. If only all games had just a nice online setup.

Live makes it really easy to use mics in these games. I was able to use my Live headset and here voice from my headset and not through the speakers. Don't think that was possible with any PC game before. Plus people actually used the mics and it was easy to add contacts. Check my gamertag below.

LOL, not a PC gamer are you? You have been able to use Mics and headsets in PC games for ages, befiore consoles. Anything a console can do, it was done before on PC.

PS, you are backpeddling, you said initially you do not knwo of any other shooters that look better then Halo 2, which was total bogus.  

I am sure i said battlefield looks better. It looks a lot better than far cry in multiplayer mode. anyway I have nor played enough to compare graphics but i was never the one to care too much about graphics. i am havign a blast playing worms multiplayer and the game has the simplest graphics.

 Maybe you did not understand what i said about voice support. i know some games have built in mic support (not many) but I always wanted voice to come from a headset and not my speakers. Halo 2 is the first game i have seen with this option but it's in the Live features.

[QUOTE="spiltmilk"][QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="spiltmilk"][QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="coolmonkeykid"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?Deihmos

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

Why would you buy a 3 year old port for $50? I doubt the graphics are better than todays FPS.

WHy?

It's not exactly the same. The graphics are improved, it has widescreen support and the multiplayer will be awesome. Windows Live is also impressive and I bought it for $40.00 which is nothing. I cannot think of much recent FPS games that look as good. Maybe just Battlefield 2142 but even that is nothig special.

BWHAHAHA

WOW, what a biased fanboy. There are tonnes of FPS that blow Halo 2 out of the water graphically. Hell, there were back on 04 with Far Cry, HL2, DSom 3. Halo 2 is vastly overrated, no one who plays PC really cares much for HALO for a reason. The graphics look dated, it is $50, Vista only, and was overrated to begin with. all reviews mention the outdated graphics.

Game that look better then halo 2:

Stalker

Far Cry

HL2 EP1, and HL2

FEAR

Rainbow Six Vegas

Quake 4

Doom 3

Battlefield series

Resistance

Gears of War

etc...

I never once said halo 2 was graphically impressive. It doesn't look bad but there are a lot of games that have better graphics. I am not a Halo fan and have not played it in years until yesterday. I did not get it so much that i wanted to play halo but to test Live for Windows and I had a blast. Capture the flag and many of the other game modes are just plain fun and the Windows live features are great. If only all games had just a nice online setup.

Live makes it really easy to use mics in these games. I was able to use my Live headset and here voice from my headset and not through the speakers. Don't think that was possible with any PC game before. Plus people actually used the mics and it was easy to add contacts. Check my gamertag below.

LOL, not a PC gamer are you? You have been able to use Mics and headsets in PC games for ages, befiore consoles. Anything a console can do, it was done before on PC.

PS, you are backpeddling, you said initially you do not knwo of any other shooters that look better then Halo 2, which was total bogus.

I am sure i said battlefield looks better. It looks a lot better than far cry in multiplayer mode. anyway I have nor played enough to compare graphics but i was never the one to care too much about graphics. i am havign a blast playing worms multiplayer and the game has the simplest graphics.

Maybe you did not understand what i said about voice support. i know some games have built in mic support (not many) but I always wanted voice to come from a headset and not my speakers. Halo 2 is the first game i have seen with this option but it's in the Live features.

Sigh, getting sound from the mic to the headset has been done for years bro, I understood fully. Your exact quote at first was:

"I don't know os any shooters that look betetr then Halo 2". You you want me to quote the post for you? Halo 2 does not come clsoe to far cry in any way shape or form graphically.  Not Sp, not MP.

Can you then tell me how I can get voice to a headset and not my speakers in battlefield 2142? So voice will come through my headset only and everything else plays through my speakers. AFAIK it is impossible.

talk about selective quoting and i doubt you ever played farcry because the multiplayer was just aweful and looked and played nothing like the single player. I think it was a last minute add on because even the xbox version of the game had a better multiplayer mode.

What i think of Halo 2 (pc)?

i think it would be a nice little addition to the list of pre-bundled games for windows vista.

other than that i wouldn't pay a dime for it.

[QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?Erlkoenig

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

^ This guy thinks Halo 2 is one of the best FPS ever and Far Cry was total crap. Make what you will of that.

far cry was total crap 

Please dont buy it.

If you didnt download a game from torrents before, do it for this game.

Dont dish out $50 to M$ for this BS. 

X360 fanboy>>>>>>>>> HALO2 + Vista

[QUOTE="Erlkoenig"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?newbpwnage

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

^ This guy thinks Halo 2 is one of the best FPS ever and Far Cry was total crap. Make what you will of that.

far cry was total crap

Thats your personal opinion. 

[QUOTE="joykills"]"So what do you guys think of Halo 2?"

what i think?

halo 2 = old run n gun for add kids

vista = total garbageTheC0m1ssar

i agree. not only are the graphics outdated (PC Gamer said that they could see the blocks on screen, and it's even more noticable in their review screenshots) but you also have to buy Vista in order to play.

Microsoft made a horrible mistake by making it only for the Vista. They have lost about 80% of the PC gaming population, and now they wont want to buy it becuase its on Vista.

I will only buy it if they:
1. Make it for the XP
2. Make Vista around $60-$90
3. (which also goes with 2) Fix the horrible gaming bugs with Vista.

Face it, Halo 2 is about 2 generations behind the current PC games. If they wanted to make money off of it, they should have released it about 2 years ago.

I completey agree. Makign it vista only was one oif the stupidest things ms has ever done. 

Wow, able to play the game WHILE you're installing it? That's awesome!

Now if only they could get in some optimization for high end systems, then I'd get it.

TheC0m1ssar

watch otu you dotn fall over youll get dizzy with all that spinning. 

Im very dissapointed they only made it for Vista....I wouldn't get it.aajohnny

Don't worry sooner or later Vista will be the standard and Xp will be old news. i remember hearing all this whining when XP came out. Everyone was saying Windows 98 is so much better and XP is unstable blah blah blah. Now who is using Win 98?

Vista is a rock solid OS imo and it's super fast plus it does not slow down like XP. When i first installed it the nidia drivers were not the best but now it's on par with XP.

[QUOTE="aajohnny"]Im very dissapointed they only made it for Vista....I wouldn't get it.Deihmos

Don't worry sooner or later Vista will be the standard and Xp will be old news. i remember hearing all this whining when XP came out. Everyone was saying Windows 98 is so much better and XP is unstable blah blah blah. Now who is using Win 98?

Vista is a rock solid OS imo and it's super fast plus it does not slow down like XP. When i first installed it the nidia drivers were not the best but now it's on par with XP.

that is total garbage. XP using the nt kernal has ALWAYS been way way more stable that win98. win98 crashes about twice a day. 

[QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="aajohnny"]Im very dissapointed they only made it for Vista....I wouldn't get it.ForlornHope

Don't worry sooner or later Vista will be the standard and Xp will be old news. i remember hearing all this whining when XP came out. Everyone was saying Windows 98 is so much better and XP is unstable blah blah blah. Now who is using Win 98?

Vista is a rock solid OS imo and it's super fast plus it does not slow down like XP. When i first installed it the nidia drivers were not the best but now it's on par with XP.

that is total garbage. XP using the nt kernal has ALWAYS been way way more stable that win98. win98 crashes about twice a day. 

When it first launched there were buggy drivers and software then people said the same thing they are saying about Vista. Half of them never used the OS or have a dinosaur PC.

can u install this on more than one system and play lan? or do you need multiple copies? and do you need gold to host lan?theshadowhunter

so did anyone find this out? because my dad will get it if you can play with silver hosting and have one copy on multiple computers playing the same game on lan.

[QUOTE="newbpwnage"][QUOTE="Erlkoenig"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?BLiTZv3

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

^ This guy thinks Halo 2 is one of the best FPS ever and Far Cry was total crap. Make what you will of that.

far cry was total crap

Thats your personal opinion.

He is correct. Far Cry was indeed total crap. 

[QUOTE="BLiTZv3"][QUOTE="newbpwnage"][QUOTE="Erlkoenig"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]

[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]Has anyone here bought Halo 2 yet? I saw it at the store today and was considering it, but I already played it on my Xbox and even though I have Vista, I still don't have a DX10 card yet and likely won't until sometime next year. So for those who own (bought, not pirated) the PC version, what do you guys think of it?ChocoKat

It's pretty good and the graphics are really good. It looks a lot better than most of the current FPS games. I bought it to check out the new vista features and so far i am really impressed. I even plugged in my xbox controller and it works really well. It really made no difference if I used a mouse or controller. I like the rumble in the controller though.

By the way it's not DX10 and you better off asking in the Halo 2 board because you wouldn't get a proper response here. Look at the previous response for example.

^ This guy thinks Halo 2 is one of the best FPS ever and Far Cry was total crap. Make what you will of that.

far cry was total crap

Thats your personal opinion.

He is correct. Far Cry was indeed total crap.