

The game comes with several exclusive multiplayer additions such as the six new multiplayer maps which are Timberland, Death Island, Gephyrophobia, Danger Canyon, Ice Fields and Infinity, discarded weapons from the Xbox version which are the Fuel Rod Gun and Flamethrower and vehicles such as the Banshees and Rocket Warthog. It does, however, contain several new features, namely the ability to browse the multiplayer lobby for online matches, direct connection to the server via IP address and the ability to run the game in "Safe Mode" (for computers that do not meet the PC requirements). As a computer-port, the PC version lacks the ability to play splitscreen in multiplayer and cooperative-play in campaign.

Halo PC, for the most part, plays exactly like its Xbox version.

Halo PC was one of the most popular online shooters played until November 2004 before Halo 2 was released. To complement the release of Halo PC, a standalone, multiplayer-only custom edition for modding purposes was released on March 15, 2004, by Gearbox Software. The game demos and videos that were included in the Xbox version were removed from the PC version. A demo was also released before the PC version. It was released on September 30 and December 14, 2003, by Gearbox Software and Westlake Interactive, respectively. Halo: Combat Evolved for PC, often nicknamed simply Halo PC, was a PC port of Halo: Combat Evolved built for home computers. If you were looking for the original Xbox game, see Halo: Combat Evolved, and for the Macintosh port, see Halo: Combat Evolved for Macintosh Halo: Combat Evolved for PCĮSRB: Mature (M) for Blood, Gore, and Violence This article is about the port of Halo: Combat Evolved for Windows PCs. This article does not meet the wiki's general standards and/or standards on layouts.
