GameFAQs Opens Halo 2 Board
The good folks at GameFAQs have opened up a message board dedicated to Halo 2 in addition to their Halo and Halo Online boards. It's always nice to have more resources available, so this gets our approval.
Death by intelligence.
Halo 2 Trailer By End Of This Week?
HBO is back, and in one of the first news posts of the day Louis Wu drops an interesting tidbit:
Hopefully, DNS will propagate fast enough that by the time the Halo 2 trailer is released, folks can find us.
If one were so inclined, one might be led to believe that means that shortly after the time it usually takes for a DNS record to update-- usually 2-3 days, tops-- the trailer will be out.
Hey Matt! And Other Cans Of Spam
A site called XboxGamers recently advertised that it was looking for questions to submit to the Halo 2 development team for an upcoming exclusive interview . As it turns out, this was more a result of an overly charitable response to a bit of spam in Matt Soell's mailbox. Get the lowdown in his HBO post on the subject.
A Little Too Much To Swallow
HBO pointed out a section on The Psyjnir Complex called Tabloids. There's an interesting series of items running there purporting to be insider reports from a Bungie informant called Shallow Throat. The crux of it seems to be the plans for a total of six.. no, make that seven... (or was it nine, originally?) Halo games.
What is different between Halo and Halo 2?
According to Jason Jones of Bungie, Halo 2 is a lot like Halo only it's 'Halo' on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas, and the ninjas are all on fire, too.
Lead Designer Jaime Griesemer pointed out that it will have multiplayer over the Internet through Microsoft's Xbox Live service, and hinted at new multiplayer game types, bringing Halo's network play more in line with the original concept of squad-based gameplay.
Halo 2 is supposed to have twice the number of pilotable vehicles.
Halo 2 Announcement Roundup
Yes, the inevitable has finally happened.
No, not the release of Halo on the Mac and PC, although that will still happen.
What platform(s) will Halo 2 run on?
At the current time, Halo 2 has only been announced for Xbox. There is no word on whether or not it, like its predecessor, will be ported to other platforms (Macintosh, Windows).
When will Halo 2 be released?
Most fans originally guessed that Halo 2 would be released in Q4 of 2003 in time for the holiday shopping season.
However, Bungie announced early in 2003 that the game would not ship until 2004.
Early in 2004, Bungie announced that the game would ship in the Fall of 2004.
In May 2004, it was announced officially that Halo 2 would be released on November 9, 2004 in the US, later for other markets.
There will be two versions of Halo 2, a regular and a collector's edition that will come with bonus material on DVD.
Halo 2 FAQ
What do you want most from Halo 2?
Better graphics.
5% (3 votes)
More vehicles.
33% (20 votes)
Internet multiplayer.
25% (15 votes)
Deeper storyline.
37% (22 votes)
Total votes: 60
Offical UK Xbox Magazine Says Halo 2 Out Xmas 2003
InsideMacGames is saying that the Official UK Xbox Magazine has reported that Halo 2 is in development and will be out for Christmas 2003. There is a quote in the IMG article, but it only mentions the Xbox General Manager -- not a name.