Romier S Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Oh boy.. “Halo 2,” the award-winning sequel to the instant classic “Halo: Combat Evolved” to make its PC debut on the Windows Vista platform Brussels, 9 February, 2006: ”Halo 2,” the game that redefined first-person combat and multiplayer action for millions of gamers worldwide, is set to explode onto PCs exclusively for Windows Vista. ”Halo 2” for Windows Vista will be developed by a dedicated Microsoft Game Studios team in partnership with Bungie Studios. Only for Windows Vista, "Halo 2" will offer gamers both the single-player campaign and multiplayer experience of the original, as well as the additional maps offered in the “Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack.” Gamers will also have the exciting opportunity to build, create and customize their own multiplayer levels. “Halo: Combat Evolved” and its sequel, “Halo 2,” have achieved phenomenal success on the Xbox video game platform as gamers around the world follow the saga of Master Chief in his battle against the Covenant forces. In 2003, the original “Halo” roared onto Windows PCs. In “Halo 2” for Windows Vista, the action picks up where the first game ended. Master Chief, with the help of a small group of marines, has destroyed the religious artifact and artificial world known as “Halo,” and is making his way back to Earth. There, he and the last surviving Earth forces will mount a titanic struggle against the marauding Covenant enemy. To date, the Halo franchise has sold more than 14.5 million games worldwide with over 600 million hours of multiplayer action logged across Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service. Credit goes to Shacknews. Verified at Gamespot also: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6143976.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickC Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 what a shocker, lol, good thing I didnt enjoy the game, otheriwse I might have been disapointed.... I was thinking of building a new PC for vista, I think most everybody who wanted to play halo 2 already has, not sure if this will have any huge effect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Anyone think MS is trying to make this a "killer app" for Vista? I do, and I also think it's pretty lame. Good thing I have no interest in Vista or a PC version of a game that I already have that, BTW, gets a nice boost on my 360. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Gamers will also have the exciting opportunity to build, create and customize their own multiplayer levels.Awesome... now if only there was a way for these to be distributed over xblive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 I might, just might, install Vista thanks to the wonders of MSDN. But this isn't a reason for doing so, when I've got a perfectly good XBox I've never bothered to buy the game for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covak Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 But this isn't a reason for doing so, when I've got a perfectly good XBox I've never bothered to buy the game for. I think MS knows that for Halo 2 PC to matter it's going to require a huge visual update. It'll be a two year old console game that already looked graphically dated to PC gamers when it first came out. What'd be the point in porting that for Vista's launch? Unless it looks way better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Or they are planning to use it as a demo/showpiece of the new Vista gaming features, like the no install feature or the new gaming zone which is to be based on Xbox Live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 like the no install feature Does this work like steam? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Maybe it works like WipEout (the first one) on the PC, where the only files 'installed' are a directory for the save and options files to be stored, only in a standardised way. Probably involving a standard dir for cache and temp files a-la the XBox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Maybe it works like WipEout (the first one) on the PC, where the only files 'installed' are a directory for the save and options files to be stored, only in a standardised way. Probably involving a standard dir for cache and temp files a-la the XBox. Exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrik Draven Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I kind of figured that pc gamers could give a shit less about anything "Halo"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon W H Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Awesome... now if only there was a way for these to be distributed over xblive. That idea has been thrown around for a while as far as the 360 Live Marketplace goes. I can see it as a plausible thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Awesome... now if only there was a way for these to be distributed over xblive. Helllo, Velocity Girl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Helllo, Velocity Girl!Keep your sexual tyrannosaur in your pants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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