- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Terran Grunt
They're all obsessed with Half-Life 2 because the Xbox is starting to show its age, ignoring that fact that Halo has the best gameplay.
Not quite.
Console games show marked improvement over the course of the hardware's life, because developers get far more used to working with it. "showing its age" for a console usually means "doing things no-one considered possible at launch". When the Playstation was first released, with games like Loaded and Tekken, no-one could have imagined the likes of Chrono Cross being released on it.
Halo 2, as a third gen X-Box game, gives most PC games a run for their money graphically, because although the PC has hardware many times more powerful, the developers for it are constrained by what the lower end units which make up 50% of the market will run, and the fact that they have the Hideous Bloated Mess™ (Windows, to the uninitiated) getting in the way all the time.