I bought this game for my 13 year old son who played it with his 9 year old cousin all summer long. He loves to go on line or just on the computer and play this game. He plays it every chance he can.

I remember the big hype about Halo, when it was released. I would have bought it right away if my machine had fufilled the minimum requirements. Lucky me, I had to wait until now and could get the game for a low price. Here is why:
The graphics are not great. Even for the time Halo was released, the textures are not too detailed and the landscape looks like cut from cardboard. Unreal did almost as well in 1998. The story is good enough with three parties, each stiving to achieve their own goals. Also, the use of vehicles makes the game some fun. But the rather lame and very linear construction of the levels don't live up to the possibilities.
Multiplayer might be great with MODs, otherwise it is just slow and boring.
It was ok for 10 bucks, but I recommend to get something better (e.g. Far Cry, Max Payne).

dont get me wrong i love halo alot i have all of them 1-3 and love them but this game is not differnt then the xbox one all it has new is some guns maps and a new warthog i know that sounds cool but its all online only look if you never played a halo game[like every one has]then pick up halo 2 its better but if you want to know the full confuseing story then get this game.

Halo what else can be said that other's have not?

I love the game, not the speed of play, not the FPS, not the graphics, not the other graphics cards of now days but just the game of capture the flag or team sports.

Halo has hit the mark on the spot. The ping response then frame rate the lag...does not matter I adjust and continue to play. The OBJECTIVE of what ever you select it to be is what matters.

I have some who see this game as a pawn ownership (most kills) but that is not any game in Halo,except slayer (don't play that unless you have the game hosted and one the best hardware known to man and also cheat).

The Objective is what matters and so you must achieve that regardless of your ping, or connection. This will mean you must hide, you must run, you jump, you switch weapons, you get better weapons...

That might mean go for the enemies flag, the skull in oddball, the mountain, some differently choose random spot on the map within a crown you just defend for a longer time.

It's about a goal here. Nothing else matters regardless of the splatter of text from others... If you get the job done then the chatter is just noise.

Great game, very fun to play, play is tight and enjoyable, AI is very good, love the music and the graphics aren't bad.

Unfortunately, in the middle of the game there is a long segment of repetitiveness, and it feels like your just slogging through the same enemies over and over again. If they took out the majority of that part it would be perfect.

This is a really good game, you can kill aliens all day long and you want more. the multi player mode its just great, tons of fun

Really funny ending in Legend Mode :)

Halo, the game is one of the main reasons the xbox did so well on the console market. All I have ever heard from most of my friends was "halo, halo 2..," so when I finally get my hands on the PC version of the game, I thought that I was going to be in for one of the most extreme and best experiences in game history. That's not really what happened.

Graphics. This game is showing its age, it was made in 2001!

Sound. This sound is amazing, the sound director certainly did his job.

Gameplay. Ahh, well, yes the AI does give you a great experience, it wears off quickly, it's not helped by the fact that the levels are very repetitive. The enemies you fight are either the Covanent or the Flood, that's it, 9 different enemies. Well the gameplay was not everything I was told.

Plot. Great story, nothing more to be said.

Multiplay. Yeah, its fun, but it doesn't live up to my expectations from the 6th best game of all time.

Replay. You may decide to occasionally hop into multiplayer, or play the campaign with a friend, but that is it.

Sorry, Halo fans, but on the PC, halo doesn't really hold up to the high expectation, especially when it was released two years after the xbox version. It would have faired better if it was released at the same time.
On the PC, halo is crushed by opposition like Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty, and Medal of Honor. That concludes the review, I am going to go play Unreal Tournament 2004.

Graphics 5/10
Sound 10/10
Gameplay 7/10
Plot 9/10
Multiplay 7/10
Replay 6/10
Stability: On the second to last level I experienced some serious graphical corruption, and after that the game messed up by graphics driver

Overall 6/10 - Passable (Sorry)

I bought this game because my friend said it was sweet so i gave it a try. i downloaded it on my computer and it worked well but after about a week it woorked for about 10 min then it shut off my computer. if you are going to play halo 1,2or 3 get it for xbox or xbox 360.

The title says it all. I think this PC version is better because with a easily found internet mod, Halo can be played entirely in 3rd person view instead of the first person view. I love Halo in the 3rd person view...Halo is a very fun game if you like FPS (or TPS). Has multiplayer and a decent single player campaign. My only discrepencies are that some of the multiplayer maps are very small in size.

Remember back in the day when the PC version of a game was WAYYYY better than any of its console counterparts??? ...well I do and this is NOT a prime example. Although it does have the HALO feel and vibe of the XBox version, it just lacks the controls and awesome imagery. The controls on a keyboard and mouse are a little rigid to play at first and I thought the graphics were kind of "blocky" and not as detailed as the XBox version. As for multiplayer mode....not bad to spend some time, but definitely not as involved nor as fun as....you guess it....the XBox version. All-in-all 7.5/10

Great classic game at a great classic price. The way it should be, wish I would of got on the Halo bandwagon along time ago. This is really a fun game and will go down as we all know as one of greatest games of all time. Live on Master Chief....

There was a problem with the delivery of this item (but not a fault of the seller) and the seller quickly and responsively resent the item. Item was as described

I bought this about a year ago. I loved the single player game. Never played the multi-player version so my comments do not apply to multi-player. I prefer single player. This was a lot of fun action that was enjoyably addictive. I would do a good, bad, and ugly review, but whether I would recommend this game (today in 2008) depends more on the buyer than the game.

If you are a hard core cutting edge game player who plays PC 1st person shooter games more frequently than you blink, and you laugh at any PC game that has less than 20 different keyboard controls that you have to memorize just to avoid being killed within the first 30 seconds, and you have a super-turbo charged PC that you have to bolt down to the floor so it doesn't fly away because of all the over-clocking and super coolers that you have installed, then this is probably not for you (by 2008 standards). Those guys should check out Crysis. The demo of that alone brought my PC to its knees. You'll love the challenge of just getting Crysis to work with its graphics settings on high.

But, if you have a relatively decent gaming PC, that didn't cost more than your new car, and you like 1st person shooter Quake and Doom types of games that are simple and straight-forward, and you don't play PC games more hours than you sleep on average, then you will probably love this game.

The graphics are pretty decent. But, they aren't super impressive, especially compared to games coming out now. But, again that depends on you and your PC really. I think comments on this site within the last year that criticize the game because of its graphics or lack of complexity in the graphics are a little unfair. Modern games (like Crysis) have graphics that are unbelievably realistic. But, I think they require you to own your own small nuclear power plant to run them and they really require at least two graphics cards installed in a brand new gaming PC to work. No joke.

The graphics in Halo are great but not relative to newer games obviously. That is an advantage if your PC isn't a small power plant like I described above because you can actually play the game. The story line is fun and easy to move through. You don't have to invest a whole lot of time just to get past a certain level or room. You can keep progressing fairly easily without feeling "stuck." The music is very cool and adds to the dramatic scenes. Like a previous post said, the vehicles (jeep, banshee flying ships, etc.) are really cool and both fun and easy to operate. Like a previous post said also, the sounds the aliens make are not really impressive. I didn't even think of it unill I read that comment. But, it is true. The aliens movement is sometimes a little awkward and it is a bit awkward to have a sniper rifle at the end of a level and then find that you no longer have it on the next level because it basically starts your character over with the original weapon.

I think Halo is exactly what it was designed to be. It is a simple, straight-forward, and fun 1st person shooter that is fairly easy to progress through. It has a lot of fun action and variety but isn't so huge spacially that you sometimes feel lost. It is designed so you and the action keep moving forward. If you are an avid modern (2008) gamer, you may not care for this. If you are someone who loves video games and 1st person shooters but plays PC games occassionally, then I think you will like Halo a lot. Plus it's only $20 here on Amazon.

Once you play Halo, then try MP, you will get hooked into the Halo universe.

It is pure fun.

The original Halo for PC still attracts hundreds of players at any given time online, night or day.

Highly recommended.

As an avid FPS fan, I found this game to be quite enjoyable. Inclusion of Coop Mode would have added to this game immensely. Multiplayer gaming is about what you would come to expect from any of the current FPS Multiplayer games available. I do like the added customization for multiplayer and the added vehicles and weapons are wonderful.

I found the Multiplayer aspect lent itself better to LAN gaming that Internet. But either were entertaining. If you followed the Marathon Series of Games, this is a natural progression.

This was a great game but I really got tired getting eaten by these little round guys. Glad there was an easy mode. Difficult at times. The timed ride at the end was hard. I did it about 10 times before I got it. Got worn out. Don't want to play Halo again.
No Cheats. Wish there were a god mode for this one.
Great Graphics and beautiful moviie parts. Congrats to the creators. WOW

The game is fun and enjoyable. The weapon and vehicle choices are good. I like the game but I get games for multiplayer value. This game has some good maps for multiplayer but... This game does not autoassign teams each game so they can be stacked and if a team wins they remain the same and can just be repetitous with one side abusing that. Also vehicles can be abused and the map design itself especially blood gulch can be just a lame game.

A team can just squat on portals and above hills and spawn kill you and portal ambush you. Players will also portal block you which will force you into one of their other ambushes. The map is also not symmetrical and gives advantage to red or top side.

You would think that before putting it on pc which what originally it was designed for they would have changed that. Glitches and bugs and flaws are still there.

It can be a fun game but online players abusing things and betraying when friendly fire is on ruins it. Free multiplayer but expect cursing and to be frustrated by abuse of game and map flaws.

Glad I own it but sometimes I just prefer a well rounded game like star wars battlefront 2 over this flawed creation.

First a review of the single player campagin. This may be my all time favorite game or at least in the top 5 along with Halo 2 and 3. I played Call of Duty 4 and I still think Halo 1 is better than that!! It has better gameplay and story than COD4. And I even like Halo's graphics better than COD4 even though they aren't as advanced!

First I played Halo 1 for the PC several times over, including 2 or 3 times on Legendary level of difficulty. Then I bought an xbox 360 just so I could play Halo 2 and 3, which I did. Then I bought a far more powerful computer recently, and I'm playing Halo 1 on it !again! in legendary mode! Also I found a hack to play it at 1680 x 1050 resolution on my widescreen LCD monitor. It's fantastic! Halo 1 NEVER gets old! I still discover something new sometimes! Halo 1 is like an action version of a chess game. People never get tired of playing chess, and I never get tired of Halo 1. It's always different each time you play it, because you can decide to use different strategies and the enemies do different things in response. So it's never exactly the same twice. It's so much fun. This is very unusual for me because I never play the same videogame more than once or watch the same movie more than once. Halo 1 is probably better than a lot of much newer games because they put so much into it and did such a great job on it. Halo 1 has definitely been a very special, life enriching experience. The story is epic and grand. It really sucks you in, like it's a real world. I think it's as good as any science fiction novel. So after I finish playing through Halo 1 again, I plan on playing Halo 2 and 3 again. I can't wait until Halo 4, which I'm sure they will make even though I haven't heard any announcements yet. They couldn't possibly end a game series that has made far more money than any other game series and has sold a lot of xbox and xbox 360 units.

Now for the multiplayer. There are still people playing this game in multiplayer mode on the internet. It is very easy to play multiplayer Halo. I found multiplayer to be a bit amusing but not extremely engaging or addicting. It is possible to play online using a 56K dial-up modem. It does work, and I killed some players with it. Just try to connect to a server with a low ping number, otherwise there will be too much lag. It'll probably be much better once I upgrade to DSL. Halo 2 and 3 I'm sure have far better multiplayer than Halo 1, but Halo 1 still has some value. Why else would people still be playing it online.

Halo is one of the best video games in history. Here are some of the pros and cons. (not many cons though)


Pros:
Good graphics, fun game play, lots of vehicles and weapons, and 16 player online multiplayer

Cons:
The assault rifle acts like an oversized SMG, the pistol acts like a rifle, the voice acting is not very good, and most of the people never blink in the entire game.

Over all Halo is one of the best video games ever created!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just got this game 5 years late.I bought it because all the games out now are just console games adapted to play on the pc and are hardly playable.The graphics may not be up to 2008 standards but then neather is my graphics card and my Dell XPS is only a year old.To play the new games comming out you need to have windows VISTA and upgrade your graphic card every few months.This older game is superier to the more recent releases and it plays better on the pc.I hate what the game makers are doing to pc gamers and wish we would stop buying there crossover games.Then they might start making pc games again.

I bought the game, based on all the hype about H3 and H2 for Vista. It was OK, but frankly, HL, a game of the same era was more interesting. Maybe I am just jaded by the current generation of games such as HL2 EP2 or BioShock. In any case, OK for an older game, just don't pay much for it at this point in its existance.

This is an older game...I got that part. It is a little cheesy, though. It is decent to play but I would not pay over $15 for it.

I had a ton of fun playing this game. Two downsides of it though are:
-it came 3 years too late
-no coop?!? WHAT?!

The story is unique, and the game itself is amazing. Many people say that Halo isn't innovative and is overrated, and they have a point- Halo didn't really invent anything. But it did combine vehicles, melee attacks, awesome, easy to use grenades, fun weapons, a cool protagonist, and great multiplayer effectively and creatively for the first time, and the game turned out to be great.

Still, no coop for the PC version. Again, WTF.

I've played quite a few games of this type and I loved this one from start to finish. First, it wasn't too hard for me. I'm old, slow, and I'm playing on a laptop with a touchpad and no mouse (that's the way I want it). The first thing I liked was that there was only 1 CD. Great! and unusual. And yet the graphics were beautiful. From the beginning of play, I loved the outdoor scenery. The indoor scenery was extremely repetitious, but I guess that's how they saved all that space. One of the things I liked best was the humor, something these games usually run short of. The grunts and the monitor are both hilarious. I was daunted in the beginning by not being able to save the game anywhere I wanted. I typically can only get through rough spots by repeatedly saving every tiny move that I make correctly. Here, the game saves itself at predetermined checkpoints instead. I learned to live with that. It made things more challenging, and that turned out to be a good thing. Another extra challenge was the limit of only 2 weapons on board at a time. Since you don't know what's coming up, you don't know whether you will be better off with a plasma gun or sniper or shotgun, and you have to choose. I learned that if you are in a place where rocket launchers are lying all around, you probably should pick one up and take it along. But a lot of times it was a guessing game. The mutants were really creepy, but the game is not gory. I was horrific at driving all of the vehicles, but they were fun and I was saved by the fact that crashing was usually an okay way to land or stop. Overall, this was a highly entertaining game and well worth the time. I just wonder why it took me so long to get to it.

If somehow you have missed the original version of Halo combat evolved, you are missing a great game. Worth this price and worth playing. Get it!! you won't regret it!

Do you like shooting aliens? This is a first person shooter with an interesting storyline. There are 4 difficulty levels, Easy, Normal, Heroic, and Legendary. I first played on Normal and finished the game in about 20 hours of game play. Playing thru on Heroic now and it is much tougher. Checkpoints save your progress, so you don't have to replay parts of the level you have successfully completed. Overall, a great game.

I played this on the Xbox when it first came out, and have now decided to buy it for my pc and play it again. Master Chief is a true video game hero, and this is one of the best ever FPS games.

I had never ventured into the first-person shooter arena before, and I wasn't even interested. But Halo looked so much like Metroid Prime (which I like and hate because it's a good game, but I don't care much for the first-person shooter change in format) that I decided to give this a try on my PC since I never had time to use the TV for Metroid.

What I liked where the graphics, very good, sharp, clean for the time it was made, very smooth playing most of the time. The sound was merely okay, mostly thumping heart-beat noise to try to make us feel we where in a horror film, doesn't work. I wanted a more spatial, 3-D sound, like Metroid.

What I didn't like, absolutely hated was the control for the vehicles! The move the mouse to move the vehicle thing sucks, the control was awkward and I just wanted to get past those parts. What really annoyed me is the 6-minute ending where you have to race to the end in a combat vehicle through an obstacle course. It took me six tries, and what a pathetic finale!

This game is too short! You don't get to keep anything thing, and when I had the weapons I wanted, the area would end in the next area I'd have default weapons. Either way on and off for three days and the campaign was complete. I don't play online,

I wanted more to do. A new, DVD edition with added content and more expansive areas would do this game justice. The save feature is great, because you never get more than a few minutes behind in game play when you die, so all that you have to repeat is a small area, and it's automatic so you don't need to bother about it. I get tired playing games when I reach a tough area and spend twenty minutes and then die, do it again, die, do it again, turn off game! Halo spares you that.

Over-all a fun, but limited game with no map, no sub-screen, and all your routes laid out so you never get lost, it's a little too easy even on Heroic setting.

This game is great. Awesome for some one like me who does not own an Xbox. This game has a lot more then the original on the Xbox did like a lot more multiplayer maps. Not to mention you can play with a lot more then 4 people. Hours and hours of fun on multiplayer alone.

You're also entitled to download Halo Custom Edition. Its free. You are able to play custom maps on this version. You can even download the Halo Editing Kit (or HEK) and make your own maps!

This game doesn't require the fastest PC to run decently, but it needs a fairly new video card. I was running it on a 1.5Ghz P4 and 512MB of RAM with an nVidia FX 5200. The game lagged to the point that it was unplayable. I had to set all the video setting to low, and turn some settings off like shadows and detail. The game would run fine like this but when there was a lot of sprites on the screen it would still lag a little. I replaced my video card with an nVidia 7600 GS and turned all the video settings up. The game runs perfectly now. I have two friends that have a PC purchased in the last year or two with on board nVidia chip sets and the game runs fine for them on the default settings. I'm not saying you need a hardcore video card, just a fairly new one.

Really fun to play and wonderful location development. My only complaint would be the lack of being able to save a game when I want to instead of having to go through set accomplishments.

Hell-llo!??!? What part of Follow the Monitor to teh Index DONT U understand?!? Sheesh!!

Anyway,a side from that complain't I cant tell you how good a fps this game is! Stay with it through the surprises (HEY< USe Spoiler ALERTS peo-ple) and be rewarded. The end of the game is glorious and sad as the same time! You think of the people who didn't make it and all they went through together! Now, who will play Master Chef in the movie??

This was the first time I bought something on Internet, but the experience with Amazon was excellent!! The game is absorbing, the story is excellent and you can play it for hours without getting bored. If you want, you can eliminate the blood from the graphics and you are more aware of your own survival and on how to get to the next level than you are on just shooting aliens, so I think the label "mature" is an exaggeration. Anyway, this is not a game for children. I would not buy it for someone younger than, say 18 or 20. If you are looking for a game that will have you on the edge of your seat, on something that is a real challenge, look no further. It is easy to master, you have plenty of chances to accomplish the objectives and there are many options on the quality of graphics, sound, etc., so you can personalize it to the speed and capacity of your computer. By the way, don't waste your money buying a joystick or something, it is much better, easier and accurate to play it with the keyboard and the mouse!

Excellent! Son loves it and it arrived really quick. Thank you.

Every single server i play on has lag. And i have the new Verizon FOIS.Fiber optic and still lag. Please bungie make some good server in Halo 2 Vista and Halo 3 For 360!

I'm a big fan of shooters, But I wouldn't recommend this game the game play sucks the animation looks like a 3rd grader drew it with crayons. If you want a good shooter go with Battlefield 2, Delta Force Xtreme, or even Call of Duty