Halo 2

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GAME INFO
publisher: Microsoft
developer: Bungie
genre: Shooters

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
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ESRB rating: M
homepage:
www.microsoft.com/games/halo2/

release date: Nov 09, 04 (released)

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Jun 07, 2011

What It's Like To Cover E3 (in 2005)
I would like to extend my condolences to those sad souls currently covering E3 as journalists. I haven't been in years, and that makes me happy. It was reorganized after I last went, so I don't know what is like now, but at least before that, it was hell.

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»	Mar 03, 2009 Bungie Marks One Billion Halo 3 Matches Bungie made the confirmation that since Halo 3 launched for the Xbox 360 in September 2007, the incredibly popular shooter registered billion matches played online. » MORE

»	Nov 13, 2008 Halo 3: Recon A 3-5 Hour Game According to Microsoft's announcement, the upcoming standalone expansion pack Halo 3: Recon tells of events that lead up the story told in the third installment. » MORE

»	Oct 09, 2008 Halo 3: Recon - Standalone DVD Release Coupled with the announcement of Halo 3: Recon and a spiffy new cinematic trailer, Microsoft confirmed that this expansion pack is going to be a standalone DVD release, which won't be requiring a copy of Halo 3 (360) in order to be played. » MORE

»	Aug 04, 2008 Halo 3 on PC Soon? Bungie, the makers of Halo 1, 2 and 3 are at present working on three different projects. "At the moment we do have three distinct projects underway within Bungie - some familiar, some not. » MORE

»	Feb 12, 2008 Battlefield, Halo Veterans Set up Dev. Studio Word just reached us that a team of experienced game designers founded a brand new development studio called Tyrant Studios. At the helm of this newly-formed company are Exec. » MORE

»	Oct 02, 2007 Bungie Splitting Up with Microsoft? Teh Intraweb is abuzz from a developing story about a possible split between Bungie and Microsoft. Still in the realm of rumors, but steadily gaining steam, the story originated on a blog called 8bit Joystick. » MORE

Sep 24, 2007

Halo 3 Review - We've "Finished the Fight"
After three years of waiting, we finally experience Microsoft and Bungie's third installment in the renowned Halo series. Were we pleased with the game or not? Did Halo 3 live up to the huge expectations? Find out by reading our full review of the game right here.

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»	Sep 17, 2007 Halo 3 Ending Leaks Onto Web Halo fans be on alert. As Halo 3 media hype reaches levels close to its peak, a crappy cellphone recorded video of the Halo 3 (alternate) ending has leaked onto the Internet. » MORE

Aug 14, 2007

Master Chief to Outsell Spider-Man
Microsoft whips out the ole' measuring stick as the company's director of creative marketing, Chris Di Cesare, announces plans for Halo 3 to make in the neighborhood of $155 million on launch day, besting the $151 million opening weekend for "Spider-Man 3," the current record holder for a pic at the box office.

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»	Jul 31, 2007 4-Player Online Co-op for Halo 3? This report verifies that during a press conference in Amsterdam, Bungie announced that their seriously overhyped shooter, Halo 3, will have a set of co-operative features many loyal fans have been longing for. » MORE

»	Jun 26, 2007 Halo 2 Vista-Only? Don't Think So! Well, it was bound to happen. It was only a matter of time. Notorious hacking group Razor1911 released a patch allowing gamers to run Halo 2 and Shadowrun on the Windows XP operating system. » MORE

»	Jun 13, 2007 The Painful Truth About PC Games Here's the top-selling software chart, covering the week of May 27th - June 2nd, 2007: 1. World Of Warcraft - Vivendi 2. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack - Vivendi 3. » MORE

Jun 12, 2007

Halo 2 & Shadowrun for Windows XP?
Lo and behold, Falling Leaf Systems is offering preorders of Halo 2 and Shadowrun for Windows XP (thanks, Xbox 360 Fanboy). Falling Leaf Systems actually plans to provide compatibility software that's going to allow Halo 2, for now only playble under Vista, to run on Windows XP.

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May 31, 2007

Windows Live Now Live
Halo Vista is now officially live, and apparently, so is Windows Live -- the cross-platform online matchmaking service. And no hairy developer butts are showing in the map editor anymore (which is the reason why the game had to be re-shipped in the first place -- the infamous.

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»	May 25, 2007 Absurdity Reaches Unprecedented Heights in the Gaming Industry There is no news per se, but I'm honestly dumbfounded with the lengths that Microsoft went to, to remove female breasts from Halo 2. You can simply read the news item below to find out the details. » MORE

»	May 24, 2007 Halo 2 Vista Delayed Again, Still Showing Up in Stores Halo 2 for Vista suffers another delay. Maybe if they delay it for long enough (till, say, around mid to late 2008), I might actually get Vista and play it. » MORE

May 10, 2007

Halo 2 Vista Media, You Know You Want It
At the risk of being thrown into the bottomless pit for posting news on this (cause I know how all of you must be fed up with hearing about it), I give you the latest Halo 2 Vista media update, which includes a batch of new screenshots and a trailer (though, the movie is a few days old).

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»	May 05, 2007 Two More Weeks Before Halo 2 Vista Microsoft appears to have delayed Halo 2 for Windows Vista. They haven't given any official confirmation on this, but, according to Gamestop, the game will now be coming on May 22nd, as opposed to the slightly earlier date - May 8th. » MORE

»	Apr 18, 2007 First Issue of Halo Comic on the Way Details have emerged on the first issue of the promised Halo comic book. What's even more important is that the comic now has a July shipping date (thnx, EvilA for the heads up). » MORE

»	Apr 17, 2007 Halo 2 Vista Gone Gold VE has news that Halo 2 for Windows Vista has gone gold. Will be a little hard for us to review it on Vista. Mainly because, oh, we are sort of reluctant to switch to that "revolutionary" piece of software. » MORE

»	Apr 14, 2007 Halo 3 Trailer Explanation It's Saturday. And you know what that means. Last week I didn't say anything about the customary update from Bungie. Because, I was frightened you lot might slice me in two. » MORE

»	Apr 10, 2007 New Halo 3 Trailer The boys from Bungie have released a new trailer for Halo 3. I guess you want it? Right? Check it out here. Halo 1 was a game I enjoyed quite a bit at certain moments. » MORE

»	Apr 09, 2007 Gears of War Content Held Hostage Apparently, the much-delayed downloadable content for Gears of War is, according to Epic's outspoken VP Mark Rein, being held up by Microsoft, who actually wants to charge for it. » MORE

»	Mar 14, 2007 Games for Windows LIVE Set to Launch in May We all knew this would happen, so here it is. Microsoft announced that the company will launch its Games for Windows Live online gaming service on May 8, 2007. » MORE

»	Feb 15, 2007 Gears of War PC Coming Eventually It's the news we've all been waiting for. An interview with Mark Rein follows up on a sea of rumors surrounding a possible PC version of the Xbox 360 smash hit, Gears of War. » MORE

»	Jan 23, 2007 Bungie Self-critical About Halo 2 Ending Interestingly, even the team at Bungie admits that the Halo 2 single-player (and especially the abrupt cliff-hanger ending) was a bit underwhelming. The way I see it, this is good news for those of you anxiously awaiting Halo 3. » MORE

Jan 03, 2007

More Ways to Get Into Halo 3 Beta
So besides the previously announced methods of getting into the Halo 3 beta, like applying on the official site, and buying a copy of a 360 game, Crackdown, MS and Bungie have revealed yet another way of getting yourself in the beta testing process.

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Dec 07, 2006

Many Business PCs Aren't Vista-ready
Microsoft appears to be confident enough about its upcoming OS, Windows Vista, which will be broadly available by January 2007. Analysts predict that over 90 million copies of Windows Vista will ship next year (as opposed to the 67 million mark reached by Windows XP).

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»	Nov 22, 2006 Gears of War Sells Like Hotcakes Epic Games' Gears of War becomes the fastest selling Xbox 360 game ever (an achievement somewhat marginalized by the age of the console) by selling over 1 million copies in just two weeks. » MORE

Nov 15, 2006

Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta Coming Spring 2007
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Halo franchise (gratz, Master Chief!), and to celebrate (and sort of offset the November 17 launch of the Playstation 3 in the States), Microsoft and Bungie have made three big-ish announcement in regards to Halo 2 and Halo 3.

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»	Nov 02, 2006 Windows Vista Dated Do you tire of Windows? I sure do! That's why I'm excited to announce that Windows v6.0 (Windows Vista) will be reaching gold status later this month, and be shipping out to businesses on the 30th of November. » MORE

Oct 27, 2006

Halo 3 Scans and Info Surface
Halo fans hungry for info on the ellusive third game in the series will be happy to hear that a Swedish games magazine has spilled the beans on Bungie's highly-anticipated shooter with pictures of new levels, weapons, vehicles, and talk about multiplayer and other features.

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»	Oct 24, 2006 It Pays to Be A Celebrity When big time Hollywood stars lend their precious voices to video game characters, their agents charge the publishers through the roof. But when a relatively anonymous theater actress Jen Taylor does it, she receives $500 dollars. » MORE

»	Sep 28, 2006 Gears of War to contain full single-player game in Co-Op mode Xbox 360 has been touting Gears of War for awhile, CliffyB is working on it, why wouldn't they want to promote this exclusive shooter? I remember the last exclusive Xbox shooter, Halo and Halo 2. » MORE

»	Sep 20, 2006 GTA 4 on Wii? Nintendo has realized why no adult (obviously a generalization so shut the hell up) played the Gamecube. Because there were no mature titles. Their solution? Talk to Take-Two about getting GTA 4 on the Wii. » MORE

Aug 24, 2006

MS Announces Two More Vista-optimized Games
I don't know how excited you'll be to hear this, and honestly, I don't understand how this even qualifies for a show announcement. Microsoft has announced that they've added two more games to join Flight Simulator X, Crysis, Shadowrun and Halo 2 PC as Vista-optimized titles.

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»	Aug 22, 2006 Halo 3 to 'Feel' More Like Halo 1 In their latest Halo Weekly Update, Bungie had some rather interesting things to say about how Halo 3 compares to Halo 2 and Halo 1 gameplay-wise. The gist of it is that Halo 3 should "feel" more like Halo 1. » MORE

»	Aug 17, 2006 Halo 2 Player Makes Guinness Book of Records Pretty amazing stuff. On second thought, frightening actually. Saw over on EvilAvatar that Joystiq is running a story on Cody Miller, who beat Halo 2 on Legendary in under 3 1/2 hours. » MORE

»	Aug 16, 2006 MS Talks Live Anywhere and Vista The tiny minions of the big Redmond giant talk more about Live Anywhere and how it will work on the PC. Essentially a chance for Vista users to have Xbox Live functionality on their PC and play games like Shadowrun against 360 users. » MORE

»	Aug 14, 2006 Microsoft unveils 'anybody' XNA According to Microsoft, this is their effort to stimulate young creative minds to design the kind of games that burnt out stressed game developers are not able to produce under pressure. » MORE

»	Jul 15, 2006 Halo 3 Weekly Update The latest Halo 3 weekly update is up on the Bungie site. Sort of interesting to read how the game is coming along. The audio in the game (Halo 3) right now seems remarkably polished, although I'm reliably informed it's all placeholder. » MORE

»	Jun 15, 2006 Halo 2 Vista News Bungie once again confirms that Halo 2 for Vista won't be Live Anywhere compatible. In other words, you won't be able to play online matches on your PC against Xbox players. » MORE

Mar 23, 2006

More On Halo 2 (Windows Vista)
Here's a quick scoop for all you Halo fans. Bungie.net posted a Q&A, revealing more on how Halo 2 is being optimized for PCs and Windows Vista. What kind of things do Windows gamers expect from a game that aren't currently in Halo 2? Windows gamers have come to expect HD quality visuals.

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»	Feb 09, 2006 Halo 2 for Windows Vista Announced Microsoft officially announces that Master Chief will "dual-wield his way to Windows Vista", MS's XP successor. So that's like a killer "app" for Vista or something? To an extent that's even true. » MORE

»	Feb 02, 2006 Halo 2 PC On The Horizon? Good news for Halo fans. Reports are coming in that the talented lads over at Bungie are working on the PC version of Halo 2. We all know that Gearbox handled the development of the PC version of the original Halo. » MORE

Nov 10, 2005

Halos to Look Prettier on Xbox 360
The latest news from Bungie is that Halo 1 and 2 will support 720p and full scene anti-aliasing when played on the Xbox 360. But here's another bonus - the hardware in the 360 can do a lot of nifty stuff, and specifically in the cases of Halo and Halo 2, it can display the graphics in wide screen, at 720p, with full scene anti-aliasing.

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»	Aug 29, 2005 Halo 3 An Xbox 360 Launch Title? This is just a listing on Best Buy, so don't get overly excited. Still, it's interesting that they are taking pre-orders for Halo 3 on the Xbox 360 with a shipping date of 11/16/05. » MORE

»	Jun 15, 2005 Halo 2 World Champion Crowned First of all, congrats to King Tuur, the new Halo 2 world champion. One of 50,000 contestants, the Dutchman won $1,500 U.S. cash, a 50 inch Samsung flatscreen HDTV, a DVD recorder/player, and a trophy. » MORE

»	Mar 26, 2005 Mornin' I'm pretty sure I know why Bungie is charging for a multiplayer map pack and calling it an 'official expansion pack.' If they didn't, they'd have to actually try and release a proper sequel to Halo 2 (one with an ending and meaningful innovations). » MORE

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