I'm absolutely there. Halo 2 on XBox was never as smooth as Halo 2 for Vista. Plus, when the price went down we bought four licenses and had LAN parties at our house with several PCs on the network. Big advantage: no shared screen! We all wore headphones and couldn't even get sound cues about the other players. Like playing on Live, but so smoooooth and no lag plus just our buddies.