Ps- Halo 3 will have xbox live co-op and playing with your family and friends co-op

pss- Halo 3 is going to be the best single player and xbox live for the whole year.

Later

That comment was made prior to our being made aware – and indeed, even before any announcements regarding – the “Alky Project’s” compatibility with Halo 2 and other Vista DX10 games.

Even so, as far as I can tell, the “Alky Library” has not yet been made available in a form that runs Halo 2 on Windows XP, at least judging by this quote taken from their own site:

Welcome to the Falling Leaf Systems preorder special for both Halo 2 and Shadowrun! By preordering your titles using the links below, you will receive, free of charge, the initial release of our Alky Compatibility Libraries when they are completed, allowing you to run these Windows Vista titles on Windows XP! The current estimated time of release is late July.

I may be wrong, but the way they phrased it, the Alky Compatibility Library, in its current form, does not run Halo 2 yet.

Anyway, be that as it may be, I don’t think that makes it necessary to start heckling over a month-old post, don’t you?

 Idiot.
 

DirectX 10 isn’t something small that’s easy to port back to XP’s DX 9 platform.

I’m than beyond-sure that some of the games for XBox 360 would run just fine on XBox 1.0 hardware – same going for PS2 -> PS1, etc.

It’s economics and a money game, it’s not pretty, but it’s not exactly wrong either.

Consider Texas Hold ‘em Poker for Ultimate.. It runs on Home and Business, but it’s an “Ultimate Perk,” so why is it so difficult to consider Halo 2/3 a “Vista Perk” as well?

I’m all against lying and claiming it’s for technical reasons, but it’s Microsoft’s right to decide what operating system it releases its own software/games for, including IE7, .NET 2.0, and Halo 2.

I think someone should send a mobile MRI machine over to the big building in Seattle and offer free C.A.T. Scans for all of Bill’s cronies.  A Game that was designed for 7 year old hardware somehow requires cutting edge hardware and software?  And especially when Vista starts at what?  $150?  Who’s kidding who? 

No, unfortunately it’ll only be out for Windows Vista. Microsoft cites “technical advantages” in Windows Vista and DirectX 10 as being the main reason behind this move.

(BTW, that’s one of my favorite books too!!)

However, Halo 2, in comparison to the other games out there, is still a decent game. I’m looking forward to Halo 3 and Halo Wars, but Halo 2 isn’t a total failure, just a let-down.

One more thing: Halo: Combat Evolved + all the patches is MUCH MUCH better than the original Halo.. The entire gameplay was practically re-written in some of the later patches!!

True, HALO 2 had better graphics than HALO, but we all know that graphics are only part of the story.  HALO 2 lacked a decent story and had no soul.  So “Vista’s better graphics than the XBOX version” means squat, at least to me.

Save your money.  Stick to HALO.  Or see if Bungie redeems itself with HALO 3 and wait for it for Vista or get an XBOX 360 console if you can.

Thanks for sharing,
SL