Today was the final day for the Half-Life 2's Gordon Freeman vs. Halo's Master Chief poll. And it appears that the vote has been split 50%-50% with a total of 43860 votes. It looks like MC can go toe-to-toe with GF again when HL2 and Halo 2 are released next year. In the meantime put those shot glasses down; time to take care of the babies with the green-visored helmets.
IGN is toting a new Halo PC Guide, according to my brother; unfortunately it's part of IGN's premium service called Insider. It might be worth the look to see what they have to say. If you have an Insider account check it out at Guides: Halo Guide (PC).
Another promising Halo PC review is up over at DailyGame, it is pretty much positive on most notes, and gave Halo PC a 9.5 overall score. They say that the port was worth the 2 year wait. Check it out.
Grenadiac over at HaloMods located a list of Halo's dedicated server commands over in the Gearbox forums. Killing went digging into the dedicated server package itself to find them and guess about their functions; there are slightly over twenty of them documented there.
Game Revolution's Shawn Sanders has given the port of Halo to the PC an A- report card, citing superior controls on the PC and online support as reason enough to buy it.
Jake 'Evergreen98' Billo at The Junkyard has reviewed PC Halo and given it a 9.3; several points were deducted from a Perfect 10 to account for performance issues, authoritative server model... and a cardboard sleeve? Can't please everybody,I guess.
Steve at Cortana.org took some PC Halo in-game screenshots and added them to their PC Halo gallery.
The "Gamespy Grudge" between Half-Life's Gordon Freeman and Halo's Master Chief hasn't ended quite yet; and in a reversal of the early trend, the two are now neck and neck, with Freeman leading only 51% to 49%. If you haven't already, go vote!
The Total Assault Gaming League has launched a ladder that supports Halo; they say they're the first such system, and who are we to argue? Their Halo ladder page also has some useful PC Halo info, such as how go gain access to the console and how to enable in-game screenshots. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
Louis Wu at HBO wrote that gaming site Shacknews now has added PC Halo to its list of games for which users can write reviews.
gfunk over at Red vs. Blue has put up a gallery of viewer-submitted items to keep everyone entertained in the gap between Blood Gulch Chronicles season 1 and season 2. The most interesting seems to be the Sarge MS Office assistant that appeared in one PSA; it seems Paul_NZ actually went ahead and made one.
Got my copy of Halo for the PC the other day and have been playing for a while. Heard "Killtastic!" for the first time today from the game's announcer. That was pretty funny. I was attempting to take over the hill on "King of The Hill" and when I arrived at the hill on foot I saw maybe 6 or 7 enemies defending. Happily I had Invisibility, Shield, a handfull of grenades, and the Fuel Rod gun. Heh. When I gleefully unloaded on them with a big grin on my face I heard, "Double Kill!", "Triple Kill!", then "Killtastic!". What a riot.
ON-X (and a bit later, Jimmy T) pointed out in the HBO Forum that the PC Halo CD contains a PDF file with a preview of the upcoming Halo novel, Halo: First Strike. This book is supposed to cover the period of time between Halo and Halo 2.
Well, somebody has to be first, so this is it. A site called HaloBunker.net has a modified version of Blood Gulch, with some weapon and vehicle modifications (namely, the LAAG fires rockets) as well as some movies of the modded map in action. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
Halomods.com, the site that is home to the only currently-released (although unofficial) Halo map editing tool, Sparkedit, is running a poll on what new features users would like to see in the next version. Head over and vote if you're planning on editing Halo maps.