"HALO is a great game, way better than golden eye IMO. I would love to know how many people here who say crap about HALO havent even played it."
Yeah, well we're not fanboys if we didn't think Halo was the greatest game ever made. In MY opinion, Goldeneye kicked Halo's ass- much better locales, missions, multiplayer, and just plain more fun. Suer Halo is an amazing FPS, but it's just like any other FPS out there. It offered nothing new to the genre, it's levels were all very similar, and it had barely any variations of enemies. Even when the Flood came, most were just organic versions of the Covenant. The 2 gun limit I hated- sure it's realistic, but sometimes realisms doesn't mean fun, and in this case that's true. The game would've been a lot better if they not only had the option to carry more weapons, but had more KINDS of weapons, too. I mean come one- the game was in development for *years*- they could've at least designed some more levels, enemies, and weapons. It would've given the game much more variety, especially when you compare it to other FPS's that have enemy and gun variations out the wazoo. It's multiplayer was alos pretty dull- I imagine the 16 player network option is a blast, but I haven't personally experienced that and doubt I ever will. The arenas were boring and often times way too small, and there were barely any multiplayer modes (look at how many Timesplitters 2 had!). I'm not saying Halo was a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, it just didn't offer anything new and hindered itself in many areas. The rest of the game Bungie got down great, which is why it's such a blast to play (it also has a great story, something nearly all FPS's lack almost entirely), but it was not innovative and could've been done better. I still hold by that Timesplitters 2, Doom, Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark were all better.
Alos, true 90% of Halo's sales will be on the Xbox, but the fact that the PC version is there at all really hits the whole "buy an XBox for Halo!" thing, or at least it would have if it were released sooner- sure people like to play games on TV's, but they'd rather not spend $200 plus the game so they can do that. I imagine PC sales of Halo 2 (which looks almost exactly like Halo 1- not that that's entirely bad, but I'd like to see Bungie really show their talen instead of catering to the obvous audience) will be more balanced with the XBox version than Halo 1.