I ran my own fansite (called Halo Command) which was featured on the official Halo page, spent countless hours on, wrote fan fiction and drew fan art, collected every scrap of media and info on the game I could find, and otherwise completely obsessed over the game until it was announced that Microsoft had bought Bungie and Halo was being made as an Xbox-exclusive first-person-shooter, which made me feel like my heart had been stomped on by Bill Gates himself.Īnd that's the extreme emotional highs and lows of my high school gaming days in a nutshell. Using HaloMD seems to give me only the former demo-version of halo. (In my opinion, it still turned out to be a pretty good game, but there was no way it could have lived up to the magical version that existed in my mind.)Īs a fan of Bungie since the original Marathon and a member of a Mac-owning family, I was one of the biggest Halo fanatics in the 1999-2001 period. Custom edition only comes with some stock MP maps, and the other maps must be. When it was finally shown, the FPS on the Xbox just looked like a generic shooter by comparison. It looked to be something like Tribes in its team-vs-team gameplay, but with a vast world requiring teamwork and vehicles to traverse, a really interesting backstory (which has always been a hallmark of Bungie), and immersive gameplay. The huge environments, realistic physics, ambient life, and team-based gameplay left so much to the imagination that the possibilities seemed endless. In its early stages, Halo looked to be more of an open-world team-based shooter. This was the introduction of the Master Chief and the concept of Spartans. Halo remained a third-person shooter up until its announcement as an Xbox FPS, as demonstrated by the video shown of Halo at E3 2000. (Personal opinion: they are also some of the best tactical/strategy games ever made.)
I also met an artist, Jahrain, building Zelda maps for the game. Bungie's previous two games, Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth II: Soulblighter, were successful RTS games, which made producing another RTS a logical choice. I spent a lot of time in high school and college (2005-07) modifying the game.
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Halo was originally announced for the Mac at Macworld 1999
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Halo was released for Mac OS X on December 3, 2003
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