[quote name='kayne2000']the differences are graphics, you can add skulls(not sure if gamestop is still selling the ones with exclusive plasma grenade exploding grunts or not so you will be missing probably my favorite new skull), terminals which tell some of the back story of the orical orb thing which is probably an extra 20-30 minutes of story here at least and of course as mentioned by hitting select you can switch between graphics, and there is some kinect support nothing ground breaking as far as i know though one thing that annoys me is i think kinect users get exclusive access to the in game encyclopedia or something.
it is otherwise mechanically the same game. multiplayer is reach though tweeked for instance it adopts the deadly pistol. 7 maps i think not sure and one firefight map. it gives a code so you can play it with the reach disc if you have reach if not it plays off the anniversary disc. oh the game does add subtitles something i think the original is missing. for me who has some hearing problems i could never hear the whole story correctly of halo 1 so it was nice i finnally heard all the proper dialogue.
personally i loved it then again im a halo nut. even the achievements were a tribute to the old game and some of the fun oddness and hard to do things that were popular to discover back in the day. even finding skulls to unlock them is done in this vain.
i'd love a halo 2 remake done with this level of care personally.
i thought it was worth 40 dollars new. and i am happy with that especially given the grunt exploding skull where all grunts that die turn into exploding plasma grenades. its great with the boom and banana skulls you can get latter. full of massive LULZ[/QUOTE]
Halo 2 on the PC looks better than the Xbox version, when put on high. And it has the benefit of being a GFWL game, so you can actually access LIVE while playing it, unlike the Xbox version of 2, and it has achievements. It's not a full HD Remake like CEA is, but it's pretty good. I'd definitely recommend it over the Xbox version.