- An award-winning, twisted, sci-fi story, filled with complex characters and cunning enemies
- Fight on foot, in vehicles, in the air, and beneath the surface of an orbiting alien ring
- Intense 16-player, online PC/Mac battles; new weapons, maps, and vehicles
- Increased precision of obliterating the Covenant swarms with a mouse and keyboard
- Play as a single-player or take the battle online with gamers all over the world
Product Description
Halo takes you deep into the far future, with the fate of humanity hanging on your shooting skills!…
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A lot of the reviews I read before buying this games said that you need the best computer to run it. This is not true. I have an eMac G4 1Ghz, ATI Radeon 9200 32Mb Video Card and a 17″ screen. This game runs fine even at medium graphics settings. Although there are some choppy glitchy parts, I noticed this also occured on some of my other friends’ higher-end computers on the same settings. I would recommend getting it for Xbox although it is better to be played with a mouse and keyboard rather than a game controller.
On another note, those parents who keep track of what their kids are playing, do not let the M rating of this game prevent you from letting your kids play it. Rent it for Xbox or buy it used and then sell it back if it doesn’t suit your standards. I would compare this game to many T games that I have played, such as Golden Eye: Rogue Agent, Metroid Prime, the 007 James Bond games, Mercenaries, and Star Wars: Battlefront. Most of the explicit content of the game can be disabled or won’t even be noticeable during gameplay. The main thing that I have noticed to be a problem is the blood on the ground. Just a tip: You can turn this off in the Options Menu by locating the choice called Decals and disabling it. Other than that, there isn’t really any other content that should require an M rating.
Let me add one more thing. If by chance some paranoid parent thinks that their kid might enable anything that they have disabled, trust me. Unless your kid just lives to annoy you and make you mad, they wont because they will be so thankful to you for getting this game for them, they won’t do anything that might have a chance of taking it away.
REMEMBER!!!!!! Runs fine on a G4 1 Ghz Mac with a ATI Radeon 9200 Video Card….(The video card is standard for any eMac or iMac G4 or G5
Play it long, Play it hard!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
I have a 1.25Mhz G4 iMac with a 17″ screen. It is roughly two months old. Halo is the first software title that I’ve bought since getting the iMac. When I installed it and started playing the first time, I was horrified … I thought, “I’ve spent $2,200 for an iMac that doesn’t even have the guts to run this game?” If you are having this problem, or if you’ve experienced the same thing and haven’t upgraded to Panther … do it now. Once I upgraded to Panther, Halo started playing great. Without Panther, the cut scenes were awful. The characters’ looked like sticks, and their mouths stayed open when they talked, exposing their teeth. It looked more like resident evil than Halo. With Panther, however, those problems have been fixed.
Graphically, I’m a little disappointed. But I bought my Mac for my design work, not gaming.
Game play, however, is awesome. Online play with my DSL connection is seamless. Sound is great.
I am not at all disappointed that I bought the game. I would recommend it. I wish I could see it in all of it’s glory … but now that I’m hooked, I have a feeling there’s an Xbox and Halo 2 in my future.
Rating: 5 / 5
I just purchased this game after getting my new 24″ Intel iMac (dual 2.16ghz, 2gb RAM w/ 256mb GeForce GT 7600 upgrade) and I am very disapointed with the Intel port (2.0). On my monster machine it runs at 15-20 FPS on nominal graphic settings, even at 800×600 with all textures on normal. I don’t know what MacSoft did with the 2.0 universal update but it runs like an absolute dog on my high end iMac.
To put this into perspective: DOOM 3 maxes out at 60FPS (and 60FPS is the built-in limit for DOOM 3) for 95% of the game on the same machine. Oh, and that is running at 1920×1200 on the highest possible detail, so it’s not ‘lacking the grunt’ so to speak.
My friend has a Powerbook G4 1.5mhz with a 32mb video card and Halo 1.5 (PPC) runs faster than it does on my new high end iMac… So if you’re planning on buying this to play on an Intel Mac DO NOT DO IT, YOU WILL BE VERY DISAPPOINTED.
Rating: 1 / 5
Over the past month this has been a truly addictive game. Just the campaigns have had me cringing and jumping out of my seat. The graphics are nifty, even on my somewhat modest dual 867 Powermac G4 with a paltry 32 MB of VRAM. If the campaigns are cool, the multiplayer action is downright marvelous! I connect via gameranger and play for hours against whoever is out there in myriad settings and game types. I am considering upgrading my machine in the hopes that there are more HALO titles coming! Kudos to whoever is responsible for porting this so that we few trivial Mac gamers can enjoy a taste of what the rest of the world is playing…albeit a few years later:-(
Rating: 5 / 5
Hello, welcome to my review. I play a lot of Halo on my mac and this is what i can say:
1) Sound-5/5: This game has great sound. You can hear all the gun fire and voices from the computer players on campaign mode. On Multiplayer, it’s so life like so it feel like you are actually in the game.
2)Graphics-4.5/5: This game sets the bar for Mac games. Yes the people don’t look to realistic, but once you play with other people in their SPARTAN suits this games graphics just blew the roof. All the guns look like there supposed to be so you don’t have to waste your time picking it up to find out what it actually is.
3)Controls-3.5/10: The controls are really confusing at first but once you get them down they’re a piece of cake. I wouldn’t recommend changing them when you get the game, because it’ll just make it more difficult to play. The best kind of mouse to use for this game is a Microsoft mice, since it has the two click so you can shoot and throw grenades. The one click Apple mice are harder to use, because you have to press control then click for the grenades. **You can even buy a gamepad for it. I would highly recommend it.**
4)Multiplayer-5/5: In my opinion this is the best multiplayer game for the Mac. They have all the original game modes in Halo and Halo 2 for the Xbox such as: Capture the Flag, Slayer, and King of The Hill just to list a few. They also have your favorite multiplayer stages: Blood Gulch, Side Winder, ect.
5)Gameplay-4.5/5: This has great gameplay. You are a SPARTAN an undefeatable warrior. Like all futuristic games, you must save your planet from Covenant (aliens) invasion. You get powerful guns used by the humans and you are also able to pick up the Covenant’s weapons. This is also based on objectives or missions, some include: protect the area from the Covenants, infiltrate the base protect fellow teammates. This also has a great tutorial level just to get you ready for the real stuff. A very well laid out game.
6)Overall-5/5: This is a must buy if you enjoy computer gaming on Macs, especially if your into First Person Shooter games.
Thank you for taking the time to read my review on Halo: Combat Evolved on the Mac.
Rating: 5 / 5