Halo 2 PC Vista Only, With Exclusive Content 156
Via 1up and Kotaku, news from the most recent Bungie weekly update. Work on Halo 2 PC is continuing apace, but players looking forward to the game should know a few things. The game looks to be Vista only and, despite the promise of the 'Live Anywhere' concept, will not be interconnected in the way that the Shadowrun game will be. The Bungie update clarifies on these announcements. From the article: "Will I need a DirectX 10 graphics card to run Halo 2 on PC? No. Although you will require Windows Vista to play Halo 2 on a PC, you won't necessarily need to upgrade your graphics card to do it. Halo 2, like some other Vista titles, will work just fine on a wide range of graphics cards, including DX9 cards. We will provide far more detailed minimum hardware requirements closer to the game's completion."
Exclusive Content? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh man! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Fanboys (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
Because when they wander too far afield they get snapped back by a big semi-elastic cable tied around their ankles?
Re:And who cares? (Score:3, Funny)
Almost everything has changed. The problem is that most of these things are under the hood, so the casual user (even uninformed slashdotters) think Vista is just Aero.
Fact is:
-New directx, will mean prettier games (and faster too, they said it is faster than dx9)
-New networking stack
-Sandboxed IE7
-Better firewall and now spyware tool.
-IIS 7
-New included games
I myself will get it, even if it is only to play the newest games. That said, halo 2 is not one of them. I only hope drm isn't that bad.
Re:Oh man! (Score:5, Funny)
Nope, by the time DNF comes out Microsoft will have dropped support for legacy OS's like Vista!
Vista Halo 2 Exclusive content revealed (Score:3, Funny)
We have this quote from the Microsoft's game division formerly known as Bungie: "With the new technologies available to us in Windows Vista we can bring gamers the actual ending to the game that we envisioned instead of simply fading to credits in the middle of the story."
It was also revealed that players will need a monitor and video card with HDCP technology to actually view this new ending. "We believe that gamers will demand this new technology from manufacturers, probably in some sort of online petition."