[Proteus]

[quote="Jedi Marksman":f2c0f]I never understood all the furor over Halo. Sure it's a nice looking game(by the standards of when it came out)but it just looked like a run o' the mill FPS to me. I never saw why people were hailing this as the messiah of videogames. I still was not pumped when I learned it hit stores for PC. Now, HALO 2 looks interesting.[/quote:f2c0f]

It's the shear fact of it being ground-breaking in the multi-player gaming. Never before on a console could you have an 8 on 8 game, on which I have had on numerous occasions. That is what was so earth-shattering. You have to remember there was no such thing as system link before xbox.