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Halo 2 Coming To Windows...Vista

by Maarten Goldstein, Feb 09, 2006 9:31am PST
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Microsoft today announced that a dedicated Microsoft Games Studio team is working on a PC port of Halo 2, to be released for the Windows Vista platform. The port will feature the content of the original game and the multiplayer map pack. A level editor to create new multiplayer levels will be included as well. Thanks Chris.

"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.


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    By: mrflamey x
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    Ha! They want us to believe that our pcs can't run *incredible* Xbox games like Halo 2 without the latest cutting edge tech. It'll probably just be another slightly dodgy port with no coop like the last one. I seriously doubt they will be upgrading the graphics - unless they plan on doing a re-release for the 360 too (which I also doubt, since Halo and Halo 2 are both fully backwards compatible).

    If Halo 2 is the only game they have to try and convince us to switch, well, I'm happy with what I have. Afaik, the main reason Halo is popular is not because it's a really amazing game, but that it just happens to be the best FPS for the Xbox at the moment. From what I have played, it's reputation is really not well earned and it is really outshone by a good deal of pc FPS games that obviously do not require a new OS to run (since they have been available for months/years).

    Anyway, since I am living in Japan at the moment, I can probably pick up an Xbox and a copy of Halo 2 for 1/2 of the price Halo 2 will cost - never mind the upgrade to Vista.

    Seriously though, I can't believe this story - it sounds too much like a joke. Maybe if was Halo 3, I could understand, but Halo 2. Christ, I bet even Halo 3 would be fine without needing Vista.
    Feb 09, 2006 4:21pm PST
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    By: nudel x
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    I disagree with a company actively using artificial technical reasons to force people to use/buy one of their products in order to use another one. If they're spending effort on stopping people from playing under XP -- or if they're refusing to spend the minimal effort it would take to make it work under both Vista and XP (i.e. making the new gaming system optional) then I think that's bullshit, and you can bet your bum-hole that if Microsoft didn't own the OS they wouldn't be doing this and that almost no other company will produce Vista-only games for a good while. It's a conflict of interest, just like Apple artificially forcing the iTunes-iPod tie-in when they could easily licence their DRM to other stores and support other DRM systems on their music players.

    Then again, why they think many people will care about Halo 2 for the PC when Vista ships is beyond me. The singleplayer game wasn't even that good and there are probably much better multiplayer games on the PC platform already (I've only played it single player so I say "probably"; maybe it's really amazing online, even compared to a PC online experience).
    Feb 09, 2006 1:23pm PST