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#1 ck753
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To toggle the third person cameras use F4. You can cycle through several camera views -- there is one camera that looks like it's mounted on the "hood" of the ship, and another that's a true third-person trailing-view camera just like in Freelancer.

To cycle through the first-person cockpit cameras use F3.

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#2 ck753
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...but like I said before, Halo 2, BFD. Sorry about the double post. Have fun, damen und herren. Don't take any wooden nickels.
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#3 ck753
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Nah. Nyet. Nein. Negatory. You can fancify it any way you want. But there's no changing the simple facts: it is part of a transparent effort to try to establish the "necessity" of having Vista on your system. And to try to set a trend for other game developers to follow suit.

As in: "Omigosh! this game is so old and outdated it even works on Windows XP!"

Which in turn leads to: "My operating system is so outdated, I can't even play Halo 2, not to mention these other must-have new games with the dynamic spinning molecules and the fully mapped individual raindrops and the authentic pupil dilation effects on the monsters....

"Holy cow! Must...grab...my copy...of VISTA!"

Marketing 101, my dear sirs and madams. Create the perception (or the illusion) of necessity. Sell the "necessary" item or service. Make money. Begin planning for the future obsolescence of said item or service. Introduce a shiny replacement, and attempt to establish the former version as obsolete. Return to step one.


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#4 ck753
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No not really... Halo 2 is being used to showcase some of Vista's new features. Rapid Install, Live Anywhere to name a couple. These you CANNOT do on XP. If you really think Microsoft thinks people will buy Vista for the sole purpose of playing Halo 2, you really don't understand either product...

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This is the most sensible post ever. To think that Microsoft cares about the tiny markey that buys OS in the store is rediculous. All PCs sold now come with Vista and that is where they get their money.





Those new features (rapid install etc.) sound like the real cutting edge of PC gaming technology. Right up there with the GPU.

But seriously, you contradict yourself. If Microsoft is "showcasing" the features of Vista, but are not marketing towards the "tiny" segment that buy an OS separately (as opposed to preinstalled with new PC's -- in other words OEM packages), then who are they marketing towards? The new PC buyer? "WOW!" said the avid PC gamer. "Look at all these cool Vista features, as showcased by the swell new PC console port game 'HALO 2 (TM)'! I must scrap my dual-core gaming system with the 8800 series video card and outdated XP installed, and go buy a new PC with VISTA installed!" Ridiculous, right?

"Showcasing" a product means they are trying to sell the product. Since OEM's have little choice but to start implementing the new Windows OS, and since people are not likely to buy a new PC for the sole reason of getting a new OS, then it stands to reason they are marketing toward that "tiny" segment ready to shell out money for a Vista software package. When Microsoft releases a new OS, standalone sales are big business, make no mistake.
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I guess Vista is not turning out to be the "must have" software that Microsoft hoped it would.

It's silly, really quite silly. Who in their right mind is going to go running to buy new OS software, and do a new OS install just so that they can play a converted console video game? Please tell me where I can find that bonehead; I have a substantial stretch of the Brooklyn Bridge I want to sell him, and for a reasonable price.

 I might have given Halo 2 a try, but since it's Vista-only, I will happily do without. Happily, I say.

I will convert to Vista when I eventually get a new PC. Not a second sooner.

Rather than helping Vista sales, this will hurt Halo 2's PC sales. Perhaps massively. At least early on--they'll unveil the magical XP-compatibility patch within a couple months of release, would be my conjecture. Halo 2 for PC, big deal anyway. Wasn't this game all the rage, like, what, three years ago?
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#6 ck753
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Well. buddy, your computer may be really old, relatively speaking, but there's good news: some of the best PC games are really old. Indeed, at least half of the new stuff to which Gamespot gives high ratings is actually boring, unbalanced, tedious, unimaginative, all-flash-no-substance crapola. That's right, the Gamespot boys see cool graphics and some high-tech physics engine and they are like little kids with a shiny new 2007 nickel. Well, give me the tarnished old mercury-head dime any day.

Here are some worthwhile older games.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (also known as HOMM3). This game looks great, sounds great, and has the ultimate gameplay of any turn-based strategy game I have ever played (or any strategy game regardless of whether turn-based or real-time). It also has a strong role-playing or character-building element. I have wasted more time playing HOMM3 than any other game.

Unreal. This fps is loaded with atmosphere, has some supremely cool weapons, and had the cutting-edge graphics engine of its time. It should play okay on your system. You might have to experiment with the patches. When I ran it on my older machine years ago, I think it was the second-to-last patch (I think it was 224) that worked best, running with the OpenGL option which, for me, provided smoother framerates than Direct 3D.

You might try Serious Sam: the First Encounter and Serious Sam: the Second Encounter. Most fun I ever had with a shooter. These may or may not play okay on your system. I had good luck running the first Serious Sam on my older machine, which was an Athlon 500 MHz, less than 512 MB RAM (think it had around 256 MB), and a GeForce 3 video card.
 
Planescape: Torment. This is one of the absolute best computer roleplaying games.

Myth II. A good real-time strategy game. However, there is no getting around the obscenely long loading times, especially in the later missions.

There are many, many others out there but I don't want to be any worse of a word hog.
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#7 ck753
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Serious Sam: the First Encounter and Serious Sam: the Second Encounter are probably the best shooters I have evah played. The pacing is just unbelievable, with wave after wave (after wave after wave) of diverse monsters. Sometimes they start appearing on the horizon, slowly closing in and bearing down inexorably in huge numbers. Sometimes you're trapped in a little room with them.

The clippety-cloppety sound of the dreaded kleer skeletons is enough to set your teeth on edge, and the screaming of the beheaded kamikazes...sometimes at night I still hear the screams. The surprises are numerous. The weapons are great, and you will use all of your weapons throughout the game.

Also, Unreal and Half-Life are phenomenal. Clive Barker's Undying is good too, with both conventional weapons and magical arts at your disposal.
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