To get the full story, we visited the offices of Gearbox Software in Plano, Texas, for an all-access look at the game PC owners have been dying to play for years. After spending a few hours playing it for ourselves, we're ready to forget all about the Xbox version: this feels like the platform Halo was always meant for, and could well contain the best combat seen in a first-person shooter, any game, any platform. Ever.
Suck it, X-Box piece of crap. i hope.
Later in the preview:
However, while my review also mentioned my personal frustration with using the Xbox gamepad, I never realized how much of a difference it would make until I actually got to play with a mouse and a keyboard. From a combat standpoint, it feels like a totally different game. No longer do you have to grapple with two analog sticks to snipe. No longer do you have to crank the control sensitivity to the highest setting and still find yourself swearing in frustration when Flood bio-forms attack from all sides. Sniping is now a joy (the pistol takes on a renewed life) and even the Gearbox guys looked on with an evil glee as I set up double and even triple kills of Grunts with the sniper rifle, with a swiftness I was never able to achieve on the Xbox with a gamepad.
Look, we know there are lots of people out there who are perfectly happy using the Xbox controller … and we're happy you're happy. But here at GameSpy, most of us were raised on Quake, and anything less than a mouse simply isn't good enough. So, Microsoft and Gearbox: thank you.
Now if they’d just get around to releasing it we might all get to know this ourselfs.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Gee, I wonder why Halo was originaly going to be released to PC in the first place almost three years ago? Could it be because the PC is a superior platform? Maybe? Fucking Microsoft. In the very least they could have gone the Playstation route when it comes to releasing games to PC. Release it for the console and then 6-9 months later have it ready for PC release when the game will still be big and all that. Instead they fucking wait two whole years and now Halo will be up against the likes of Half-Life 2 and will be slaughtered in the sales.
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
Plus Halo for PC is likely to be missing Co-op mode. Whoops!
Do not meddle in the affairs of insomniacs, for they are cranky and can do things to you while you sleep. The Realm of Confusion
"Every time you talk about Teal'c, I keep imagining Thor's ass. Thank you very much for that, you fucking fucker." -Marcao SG-14: Because in some cases, "Recon" means "Blow up a fucking planet or die trying." SilCore Wiki! Come take a look!
Hotfoot wrote:Plus Halo for PC is likely to be missing Co-op mode. Whoops!
Umm, in order for that to be missing that would mean no multi player capability. I find that extremely unlikely. If your talking about playing split screen on a PC, well good luck finding anyone who even wants to play splitscreen on a PC.
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
Hotfoot wrote:Plus Halo for PC is likely to be missing Co-op mode. Whoops!
Umm, in order for that to be missing that would mean no multi player capability. I find that extremely unlikely. If your talking about playing split screen on a PC, well good luck finding anyone who even wants to play splitscreen on a PC.
Co-Op means going through the entire singleplayer campaign and making it multiplayer compatable. Deathmatch just means taking the deathmatch maps and making them multiplayer compatable. It is much, much more difficult to do the former than the latter. Just look at I-War 2: Edge of Chaos. All reports out now say that deathmatch/etc. is in, but Co-op is not very likely.
There is one important feature of Halo currently in danger of not making the PC version: support for cooperative play. To get Internet play working properly for the PC, Gearbox had to rebuild Halo's networking architecture from the ground up -- completely separate from the single-player game. To add co-op support properly, it "would be a year of work for three engineers," says Pitchford, personnel they don't currently have, not to mention having the potential to break other parts of the game in the process.
So for now, Gearbox is looking for an alternative means of adding co-op support to Halo, something they can implement easily and won't run the risk of causing any bugs in the process. "It's high on our list," says Pitchford, "I wouldn't rule it out, but can't promise it."
Do not meddle in the affairs of insomniacs, for they are cranky and can do things to you while you sleep. The Realm of Confusion
"Every time you talk about Teal'c, I keep imagining Thor's ass. Thank you very much for that, you fucking fucker." -Marcao SG-14: Because in some cases, "Recon" means "Blow up a fucking planet or die trying." SilCore Wiki! Come take a look!
Another reason to fucking hate Microsoft for stealing Halo in the first place.
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
Alyeska wrote:Another reason to fucking hate Microsoft for stealing Halo in the first place.
Agreed. Total asslicking shitstain motherfuckers.
Do not meddle in the affairs of insomniacs, for they are cranky and can do things to you while you sleep. The Realm of Confusion
"Every time you talk about Teal'c, I keep imagining Thor's ass. Thank you very much for that, you fucking fucker." -Marcao SG-14: Because in some cases, "Recon" means "Blow up a fucking planet or die trying." SilCore Wiki! Come take a look!
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Oh dear, guess it's HL2 and Doom 3 for me.
Ho, and indeed, hum.
Deus Ex 2, Thief 3, and Jedi Academy here.
Do not meddle in the affairs of insomniacs, for they are cranky and can do things to you while you sleep. The Realm of Confusion
"Every time you talk about Teal'c, I keep imagining Thor's ass. Thank you very much for that, you fucking fucker." -Marcao SG-14: Because in some cases, "Recon" means "Blow up a fucking planet or die trying." SilCore Wiki! Come take a look!
I'm so owning this game. Owning this game, and everyone I play.
Mayabird is my girlfriend
Justice League:BotM:MM:SDnet City Watch:Cybertron's Finest "Well then, science is bullshit. "
-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
DPDarkPrimus wrote:Banshee and Fuel Rod Gun in multiplayer?!?
I'm so owning this game. Owning this game, and everyone I play.
Not if someone gets a bead on you with the Warthog chaingun.
Whoever said I would only use the Banshee and Fuel Rod Gun exclusively?
I'll pistol-snipe the gunner before he gets in range.
Mayabird is my girlfriend
Justice League:BotM:MM:SDnet City Watch:Cybertron's Finest "Well then, science is bullshit. "
-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
Fucking Microsoft. In the very least they could have gone the Playstation route when it comes to releasing games to PC. Release it for the console and then 6-9 months later have it ready for PC release when the game will still be big and all that. Instead they fucking wait two whole years and now Halo will be up against the likes of Half-Life 2 and will be slaughtered in the sales.
