Halo 2 Vista is a flop. My review

[Snowy]

Ok that's true, you get a slightly better FOV when you're in wide-screen mode. But why in the world should I only use half of my pixels when I paid $300 for my 1600x1200 monitor? Because of lazy development?

[Nick]

I wonder if I could convince TheGhosty to make a "Halo 2 Vista Bitching" forum. Hmm, but then I guess no one would have reason to post anywhere else - damn.

Nick

[xExus]

I agree with you in a lot but also agrees with Flyboy that you made your review in a little negative way like "just same as the old, crappy xbox version" and so on.

[Zeph]

I disagree with the score. I'd only consider giving it that low of a score if it was being compared directly with the xbox version and other games that have multiplatform support across the PC and consoles. It works and deserves a passing grade for that.

well when halo 3 does come out, it should be great since h2v and Vista itself was horrible but i'm not saying vista is horrible and it has its uses too but come on! a service pack already?!?! quality always beats fast-paced quantity

Erm, you know how long it was before XP got its first service pack?

edit: I have a good feeling this kid doesn't know, so I'll save the time of having to wait for him to reply. XP's SP1 came out about 11 months after release. Seeing the utter mess of the gold release of XP, I'm suprised it didn't take them longer, then again they saved a good large amount of things for SP2. Vista has been out for about 8 months now and the service pack should be released in less than 3 more months. If you add 8 and 3, you might just get a number that's been mentioned before.

[InnerGoat]

Ok that's true, you get a slightly better FOV when you're in wide-screen mode. But why in the world should I only use half of my pixels when I paid $300 for my 1600x1200 monitor? Because of lazy development?

You should use them all and wait until a FOV hack comes out, and I wouldn't call it lazy devs, more like clueless devs that don't know how a low FOV affects gameplay...

Despite having the widest FOV in the game, I too want it to be wider. The current one gives me headaches sometimes. This is similar to Half-Life 2 making people ill because of the tight FOV it used.

[Nick]

Ok that's true, you get a slightly better FOV when you're in wide-screen mode. But why in the world should I only use half of my pixels when I paid $300 for my 1600x1200 monitor? Because of lazy development?

You only paid $300 for a monitor, oye. How about this: Why should they spend development time giving a better FOV to cheap bastards?

Nick

[Flyboy]

Why should I run 1920x1080 in windowed when I run it fullscreen as is?

You don't need to. If you have a widescreen, by all means use it. The game should get something along the lines of a 6.5 or 7. A 4 is for a game you hate playing. And seeing as half the people mod here they would agree with me that they don't hate the game. Do they love it more than games like Half-Life or CSS? thats a different story.

[Wakeboy1337]

What he said

Lol

[spookers622]

I think it's well worth the money. How limited it may be, the editing kit makes it worth it and is the reason i bought the game (although i dont have halo 1). As TheGhost and Kornman have shown, microsoft we're wrong to think the editing kit could be actually kept limited. Also, H2Vista's graphics may not be directx10 but i still a noticable improvement over the xbox version (which i own). Last, but not least, the server browsing makes it a lot easier to play custom games than halo 2 xbox because you no longer have to wait half an hour to an hour for your friends to join your custom game.

[Chromide]

nice job....i totally agree