Halo is a sci-fi shooter that takes place on a mysterious alien ring-world. Packed with combat, Halo will have you battling on foot, in vehicles, inside and outdoors with Alien and Human weaponry. You are the Master Chief, you must uncover Halo's horrible secrets and destroy mankind's sworn enemy, the Covenant. Now Universal Binary by chargeable download.
Online Review by Inside Mac Games Click for an IMG online review where it scored 9.25/10 Score: 9.25Readers Review by Alan
I loved this game. Pilot several vehicles in imaginative ways (you can hijack enemy vehicles, turrets), nice graphics (especially if you're on a G5 and can use full screen anti-aliasing), and a decent quality story to boot. The only drawbacks were that it is linear, only allows you to hold two weapons in inventory and has the console style save position at last checkpoint. I can understand why they did this but couldn't they have a computer version and a console version of save? It only really bugged me on bits where the checkpoints were far apart though (about two). I only experienced a slowdown where there was a hell of a lot of shooting/explosions in front of me but I didn't mind this (though I'm on a G5). Score: 9.5Readers Review by Mikey
At last! Marathon VI Like a lot of old-school Mac gamers, I've been waiting for this game for a long time.
Too long, really. it's not the huge revelation it would have been 3 or 4 years ago, just a state-of-the art FPS.
Unreal Tournament has the edge on eye candy, and arguably Medal of Honour gives good competition in Bungie's specialist field - story - but Halo is a good solid contender for your forty quid.
Some of the level design in the middle section of the game is a touch repetitive, but the 'silent cartographer' and 'maw' levels are worth the price of admission alone.
I run it on a 1.25ghz G4 with 2 Gb of RAM and I can just about max. all the settings (except the mysterious FSAA) and still get playable speeds.
For me, it was worth the expense of upgrading my Mac, but then I have been waiting to play this game for 4 years! Score: 10Online Review by Inside Mac Games
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Halo is a sci-fi shooter that takes place on a mysterious alien ring-world. Packed with combat, Halo will have you battling on foot, in vehicles, inside and outdoors with Alien and Human weaponry. You are the Master Chief, you must uncover Halo's horrible secrets and destroy mankind's sworn enemy, the Covenant. Now Universal Binary by chargeable download.
