Barozi said:
There are no better controls. The graphics were a little little bit better, but no one could check them out, because the requirements were too high, thus making it a bad port, just like GTA IV and Saints Row 2. Oh wait PC version of Halo came out 2 years later. While it was a graphical powerhouse in 2001, it was only one of many good looking games in 2003. The PC version does have online multiplayer. But no 4-player splitscreen multiplayer and no co-op. So console version has more features.
Before Halo I was a PC only player, having played ALL the great FPS. Then I played Halo, bought an Xbox and enjoyed it. A Halo title always belongs in a top 10 FPS list. |
M/KB >> Controller... but let's not get into that now. 
The graphics weren't monumentally better, and the system requriements were high, but none of these is the hallmark of some horrible port that people are trying to hang these low scores on. The game played perfectly fine. The game earned that 83 on metacritic, not a poor port.
Here's a good article, naming Halo as the #10 most overrated game of all time (not meaning it's bad, just meaning it's overrated):
"Worst of all were the levels, which offered fleeting glimpses of brilliance, but all too often degenerated into recycling the same areas over and over until you were bored to tears. It was as if someone at Microsoft or Bungie realized Halo was an amazing six-hour game ... but needed to pad it out to 10."
You have anything to say in response to that?
