Before you get excited, drawn in by the deliberately misleading (but not factually incorrect!) headline, let me crush your spirits. Yes, Halo is coming back to the PC – but only in Russia…and as a free-to-play game.
That’s according to IGN, whose Russian counterparts attended a launch event for Halo Online. Built on the now rather aging Halo3 engine, it’s meant to be able to run on even low-end computers. It take’s places right after the events of Halo 3, but doesn’t include a campaign mode.
Instead, it is set on a secret UNSC space station called “Anvil” where Spartans train together to test new technology. Games will handle between 4 and 16 players, and will probably be infested with microtransactions.
It’s being developed by Sable, the people who did the Halo remaster, with Microsoft’s 343 studios functioning as project overseer. According to Microsoft, there are no plans to bring the game to other territories. Should that change though, Microsoft says it would “have to go through region-specific changes to address player expectations.”
It may still happen, but don’t expect Halo on your PC any time soon. The last Halo game to get a proper release on PC was the first one, and by the time it did, everything that made Halo special had already been replicated in other games, severely lessening its impact and causing many PC gamers to feel a little underwhelmed by the exploits of Master Chief.
What say you, PC gamers? Do you feel a little left out when it comes to Halo?
Last Updated: March 26, 2015
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 26, 2015 at 13:06
I don’t feel left out. I played the first one on PC when it came out & consolers were raving about it like it was the best thing since sliced bread. It was okay.
Lord Chaos
March 26, 2015 at 13:10
Peasants and their bread… I’ll stick with my cake. 😛
Admiral Chief
March 26, 2015 at 13:16
Glorious cake >>> bread
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 26, 2015 at 13:19
The world needs a cake sammich.
Admiral Chief
March 26, 2015 at 13:26
That being said. Not just any cake. There are too many cakes out there that either look bad, taste bad, is dry, too sweet, with not enough taste etc.
I mean seriously, how hard is it to get a decent cake?
9 out of 10 cakes bought were a severe disappointment! Luckily my sister in law’s business bakes cakes, and I’ve yet to have paid for a cake in like 3 years.
And yes, I feel strongly about this. Dammit, Y U NO MEK PROPIR CAEK
Lord Chaos
March 26, 2015 at 13:30
RED velvet cake, or black forest cake wit a RED Cherry.
Pariah
March 26, 2015 at 13:30
The only cakes I eat are Cheesecake and Ice Cream Cake. Almost never a disappointment, but there’s a lot of difference between a decent cheesecake and an amazing one.
Lord Chaos
March 26, 2015 at 13:33
Would ice cream cake not be just opening a tub and digging in?
Pariah
March 26, 2015 at 13:36
Pretty much why I always have a tub in my freezer 😛
Lord Chaos
March 26, 2015 at 13:38
LOL. Is it Origin or U(don’t)play that keeps breaking your heart causing you to indulge?
Pariah
March 26, 2015 at 13:41
Neither. I just love ice cream. 😀
PS, Origin really is good. Their support, the software, everything. It’s easier to use than Steam is, and their support team are top-notch. Plus, they run regular specials (albeit with their limited library)
Lord Chaos
March 26, 2015 at 13:47
I, unfortunately, run all 3. Never had a single problem with Steam.
Pariah
March 26, 2015 at 13:53
Oh I have no problem with Steam, I’m just saying that it’s easier to use Origin. That is mostly due to Origin not having as much functionality requirement, but even the store and game libraries just feel simpler and easier on Origin.
Again though, Steam is fine, it needs to change nothing.
Lord Chaos
March 26, 2015 at 13:55
Think I just like things complicated.
Brady miaau
March 26, 2015 at 13:53
My late gran used to walk into her favourite restaurant and order supper like this “Greek Milk Tart (or Cheese Cake) and Coffe Milk Shake”, even before she sat down. Always.
Pariah
March 26, 2015 at 13:55
She must’ve been awesome 😀
Brady miaau
March 26, 2015 at 14:22
She was extremely awesome. A very strong woman. Very British, High Tea, that of thing
I remember once she asked my mother to get a friend of my mother a headache pill. The friend said, but why I do not have a headache. My gran said but you must have, your halo is on very tight, you know. This friend had spent like an hour waxing about how healthy they eat, how they help the poor, how they read for the blind and so forth. So my gran decided to stop it. I like that.
Hammersteyn
March 26, 2015 at 13:37
The Cake is a lie like HL3
Brady miaau
March 26, 2015 at 13:52
But cake == bread when the famous expression was coined
Lord Chaos
March 26, 2015 at 13:56
I’d like to see you put cake in a toaster. XD
Pariah
March 26, 2015 at 13:56
Or put mince, bacon and egg on it for breakfast.
Lord Chaos
March 26, 2015 at 13:58
Cottage (pie)cake.
Brady miaau
March 26, 2015 at 14:17
Marie Antoinette famously said let them eat cake. Cake was a sort of bread thing that was a staple food source.
And I think you should see my toaster
Lord Chaos
March 26, 2015 at 14:32
Do you believe everything the French say? 😛
Brady miaau
March 26, 2015 at 14:36
She was Austrian. So I believe most of what said.
James Anderton
March 26, 2015 at 13:44
Half Life was better. Always.
HvR
March 26, 2015 at 13:58
Precisely the same experience, didn’t even finish it.
The problem with this stupid business model is all the good design parts of the game will have made its way to other shooters so by the time it reached PC it felt like a dated generic space shooter.
And it isn’t if there is a lack of FPS games on PC and the Halo story is that wow.
So meh to Halo
Viking Of Science
March 26, 2015 at 15:01
Console Gamers ddn’t know any better, The didn’t have Quake Or Halflife…
Geoffrey Tim
March 27, 2015 at 07:20
Quake 1 was released on the N64 and the SEGA Saturn. Quake 2 made it to the PlayStation 1 AND the N64. Quake 3 arena was released on the (beloved, awesome) Dreamcast – and even had online play. Half-Life was released on the PlayStation 2.
YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID.
As I said in the post, Halo came to PC years after its console release, so whatever made it fresh, new and exciting had already been copied and cloned to heck, making its impact on PC…well, not very impactful and very, very underwhelming.
Viking Of Science
March 27, 2015 at 07:47
okay let me rephrase it then: Console gamers
got gimped versions of PC FPSs and Loved them(I assume, considering how FPS on consoles have grown into their own thing) .
A Console FPS makes the jump to PC, is improved in some ways (that old resolution and framerate chestnut) and Still fails to impress. What I was trying to get across was that of course Halo suffered when it came to PC, it had to compete with a long history of shooters on PC. And honestly, how was it’s multiplayer ever going to compete with the likes of Unreal Tournament, Quake III and Counter-Strike?
Geoffrey Tim
March 27, 2015 at 07:50
Look, honestly, I think Halo is shit as well. ;P
Brady miaau
March 27, 2015 at 08:02
Yeah, me too. I played Halo 3 for a while. Man. So you shoot some stuff, go on this mission where you need to either drive or be driven. Both shit. Just not fun.
BUT I hate FPS games.
Lardus-Resident Perve
March 26, 2015 at 13:35
I would seriously play Halo 1 to “wherever the hell we are” on PC…on console – Halo 4 is still sealed…
Kromas is drunk with power!
March 26, 2015 at 14:37
I think they may be Putin us on. 😛
Brady miaau
March 26, 2015 at 14:43
Ouch.. It burns.
But quite good! 🙂
Metal Rabbit
March 26, 2015 at 16:15
I wonder if the oh-so-subtle header-bait worked out well o_O
One thing I’ve noticed from trying out a few mobile games ( like Stormfall for example) – is that there’s a shitload of Russians putting in some serious game-time. Companies go where the markets are… that’s life.