Man, this makes me feel old. I could have sworn it looked better. I guess that's just my memory telling me how wonderful it was at the time and filling in the details I want.

It did look better than that in the final version, Morganth.

You notice those framerate issues? That's because it's on a mac...

Since when did Elites just give it up without a fight?

FYI, this was in May of 1999, almost 12 years ago...

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a)Wow this makes me feel old
b)Wow those framerates suck (even for games at that time, Open GL was known for boosting framerates to great levels; 30-60fps)
c)Wow Jobbs must have blown a gasket when MS stole Halo from them

Couldn't the appearance of a low framerate be possibly attributable to the poor framerate of the video recording itself?

There's gotta be a higher quality capture somewhere...I seem to remember watching this Macworld originally on Apple's Quicktime site in much higher quality (though it may have been just the keynote speech).

Exciting times, they were. This was the video that convinced me (at the time) that Halo was going to be the next step in emergent, open-worldy type shooters. It really looked like you could drive for miles and miles and really explore the space. I was huge into Starsiege Tribes at the time so seeing those huge open spaces in a more single-player, exploratory context really blew me away. Still sorta impressive.

Wow, this just angers me all over again about the whole MS stealing Halo from the REST of the world (not just Apple) who didn't want to play it on a big green bugar machine.

>> ^griefer_queafer:

Wow, this just angers me all over again about the whole MS stealing Halo from the REST of the world (not just Apple) who didn't want to play it on a big green bugar machine.


Well, to be honest, I feel like Halo was a bit of a letdown. The story is crap and really the game is just run, shoot, run, shoot without much else going on. Half-life, which came out around the same time as the original Halo was a LOT more interesting in my opinion. As far as I am concerned, the racist 15 year olds on Xbox live can have their Halo and Gears of War franchises.

>> ^griefer_queafer:

Wow, this just angers me all over again about the whole MS stealing Halo from the REST of the world (not just Apple) who didn't want to play it on a big green bugar machine.


Halo was released on Xbox, Windows, Mac OSX, and Xbox 360. If you didn't play it on the platform of your choice, that's your fault.

The following were released in 1999:

Starsiege:Tribes('98)
Descent 3
Freespace 2
Quake 3
Unreal Tournament
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
and the amazing
System Shock 2

Halo compared to them, released or not, meh. I'm thinking that the only reason Halo is popular is because it was one of the first decent FPS games on a console.

Awesome sift! I never knew this took place... looks a bit like Marathon.