Destineer Inc. Subsidiary on Monday announced that its long-awaited Mac conversion of the popular first-person shooter Halo: Combat Evolved has reached Gold Master status, the final development milestone before the game is sent to duplication and ships.

MacSoft noted that the game will go into manufacturing on Friday, Dec. 5, and will begin shipping from Destineer's warehouse on Thursday, Dec.

The company anticipates that Halo for Macintosh will hit North American retail store shelves beginning the week of Dec. 14, with European retailers receiving the title later the same week. Tells the story of the Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced human soldier of the future fighting a last-ditch defense against a fanatical alien cabal known as The Covenant, bent on the total annihilation of all humanity. The Master Chief's battle takes him to the surface of Halo, an engineered ringworld that may hold the secret to humanity's salvation.

The world's first public look at Halo occurred on the stage of Macworld Expo in New York in 1999, when Bungie CEO Alex Seropian shared the keynote stage with Steve Jobs to show off an early prototype version of the game. Bungie's acquisition by Microsoft ultimately led to Halo's development as a title exclusive to Microsoft's Xbox console, much to the chagrin of many Mac gamers. Bungie's promise to make Halo available for PC and Mac platforms ultimately came to fruition earlier this year thanks to the development efforts of Gearbox Software, which engineered the PC version of Halo, upon which the Mac version has been created. Mac game conversion studio Westlake Interactive has been hard at work on the Mac version of Halo for months. Several key differences exist to differentiate Mac and PC versions of Halo from their Xbox counterpart.

You can play with up to 15 other players online in multiplayer modes. The Mac and PC versions also support dramatically higher resolutions and new graphics effects on video cards that support vertex and pixel shading. New vehicles, a new weapon, new multiplayer maps and customizable multiplayer game modes round out the improvements. Mac and PC users can play against each other in individual and team-based games like King of the Hill, Capture the Flag, Death Match, Race, Oddball and more. You can also fly the Covenant's Banshee vehicle in multiplayer games, or use a rocket-equipped Warthog (the all-terrain vehicle of choice for human military forces). Or you can control a Covenant Gun Turret.

The new Fuel Rod Gun is a new weapon choice for players looking for more firepower. Minimum system requirements call for a G4/800MHz or faster; Mac OS X v10.2.8 or higher; 256MB RAM; 32MB AGP video card (GeForce2 MX or ATI Radeon 7500 or better); 1.4GB hard disk space. Halo is available for pre-order for $49.99. This story, 'MacSoft: Halo for Mac goes Gold Master' was originally published.

Embed this Program Add this Program to your website by copying the code below. Preview Preview. The controls in Halo: Combat Evolved are as good as any FPS and you'll immediately feel at ease blasting away alien intruders, launching grenades and strafing behind pillars and walls.

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As you proceed through the game you are joined by other Spartan II super soldiers who help you annihilate the aliens. The graphics are a little outdated, after all this is a game released in 2003, yet you won't suffer any lags and scenery and little details are on the whole satisfactory. At least it won't distract you whilst on your various missions. One of the great features of Halo: Combat Evolved is the number of vehicles and weapons at your disposal like the Warthog or Banshee.

The artificial intelligence (AI) in Halo: Combat Evolved is well developed and the three levels of difficulty should keep you well occupied. Another great feature in Halo: Combat Evolved is the multiplayer, with classic deathmatch, capture the flag and king of the hill games great fun among friends. Although it's certainly aged a little (check the graphics) Halo: Combat Evolved is still great fun and an excellent fps. By Anonymous Excellent online and campaign.

Ive played both the online and campaign versions - both really good!! It was the only game we could play on a Mac at school that was ffun - super addictive!

The campaign is long too compared to other demo examples. Highly recommend considering its free. In my opinion the graphics are so bad that they are good. Dont need a good computer to play plus its retro and loads of people play.

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Pros: Great game. Cons: sometimes drops out reviewed on September 9, 2013. By Anonymous The best $0 I've ever spent. Very fun game, and I've been playing the demo version of Halo: Combat Evolved for two years. Even though i t only comes with one level and one multiplayer map, it is very engaging and has a moderately large online community.

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Provides enough time to satisfy those who have yet to buy the full game, and even having the demo alone is large enough to be worth a download. Pros: Includes 'The Silent Cartographer,' one of the better campaign levels in Halo: CE. Includes 'Bloodgulch,' the most popular Halo: CE Multiplayer map Moderately large online community. Cons: It took a second for me to realize that on the Mac, one had to press function-F1 to see the players stats and function-Enter to restart a game. Reviewed on March 4, 2012. By Anonymous Halo demo= great.

I have only played the Halo demo so I cannot rate the campaign but you can play online with other people in the demo, there is also a way to chat while playing (the key is 'f'). The only 2 problems for me is that 'cause I have a 'Mac OSX' the 'checking score' key does not work',the other problem is that the connection online sometimes does not work. As I said, I have only played the demo but I am sure that the campaign would also be awesome! Reviewed on January 2, 2012.