hmm...Halo-2 was promised to be a better version of the original (but I think that's impossible, because Halo the original scored a minimum review of 9.8 and that review stayed for almost a full year)
Half-Life2 may be a problem for a lot of the computers
Minimum requirements
P4 2.40 or AMD Anthlon 3500+ (64-bits)
NVidia GeForce (256MB in video memory)
or ATI Radeon (I doubt any motherboard has a port open to this video card)
512MB RAM/DDR PC-3200
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basically I'm getting Half-Life2 for its ENGINE, not the game purpose
I was planning to MOD it into a CS/NS type of game or something like that
but anyways...I think only an alienware could run this game smoothly
I would suggest Aurora because it has AMD, and also AMD is known to crash less than Intel
