James Delahunty
10 Feb 2006 18:55
If you are a Halo fan and would like to play the best-selling Halo 2 game on your PC, then you will be forced to upgrade your PC to Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system. The decision to make the game Vista-only is driven by the Redmond-based software company's desire to get as many people as possible upgraded to Windows Vista quickly. This could prove to be an expensive upgrade for gamers.
While Microsoft has not yet published any minimum requirements for Windows Vista, information gathered from pre-release versions detail a resource hungry and power demanding operating system. At the very least, users will need an advanced video card, as Microsoft has made major changes to how the operating system will handle graphics. It will also be Memory hungry, and will require a sizable hard disk drive.
Tying Halo 2 to Vista could seriously stunt the game's appeal, at least on the PC platform. The Vista edition of Halo 2 will offer single and multi-player versions of the game, extra maps from add-on packs as well as software tools to create new places to play. 14.5 million copies of the Halo games have been sold, and gamers have spent over 600 million hours collectively playing the game on Xbox Live. Windows Vista is expected to be released later this year.
Source:
BBC News