Master Chief Dual-Wields His Way to Windows Vista

Official Press Release:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/2006/0206-halo2vista.htm

Now why spend precious time porting H2 to PC when they could be making Halo 3?!

Halo 2 for Windows Vista/PC? Whatever man, whatever. Unless it can play with other XBL subscribers, this wont really matter a whole lot. This will just give those Sony fanboy's another Halo game to play amongts themselves on PC, not XBL. That and it also gives MS another marketing idea to sell a new OS, and what better way for them to do that with such a great Xbox title than to develop it solely for their brand spankin' new OS !!.

Thats gay how come they get a map editor.

This is pretty simple. MS needs to push their sales of Vista and to do that, it's simple. Make a game that everyone is fanatical about exclusive. People will buy a $300 console just to play the game - Microsoft thinks that people will pay $249 to buy Vista so they can spend another $50 on Halo 2.

PC users are a little more business savvy I think and realize what MS is up to. We will just end up pirating the OS and then the game because it's not really a good game when you compare it to PC FPS. (Halo 2 vs. Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R, Counter-Strike Source, etc...) Never mind the FPS that will be out within the next 6-8 months will offer some good fun (though the story isn't always guaranteed ;).

As for the map editor feature, well it's simple. The PC has had this model where people don't have to pay for extra content like you do on Xbox live 2.0 . That model has been around for about 15 years until the xbox live 2.0 came out. Now things that used to be free cost you $$$ and the console people accept that. I'm sure a map editor will be available for your usage as long as you pay $7.99 and MS gets their act together so they can sell a keyboard/mouse for this "next generation" console.

halo pc sold pretty well, this time they should be able to iron out the glitches and really tweak it for the mouse and keyboard fans. it should only take a small percentage of the bungie team to advise M$ on the conversion. so Halo3 shouldn't really suffer any delays.

this will keep the game in the forefront of consumers minds till Halo3 and the movie come out.

and with WETA studios doing the CGI for the movie, it shouldn't suck like DOOM.

thus paving the way for more record breaking sales. only this time I won't be standing in line for 3 hours

Milk it for all its worth M$. just like Sony milks Metal GearSolid.

Point number 1: in the grand scheme of things, there is very little overlap between those who play on PC and those on console
So MS/Bungie want those that don't play console to have the chance to (buy) play their game
Point number 2: Halo PC (and subsequently Halo Custom edition) had a huge following and there are still people playing and enjoying it (and modding it)
Halo 2 will be popular for PC for a good few years after it has completely died on console
Point number 3: of course MS wants to sell its new OS so making it appeal to (some) gamers by making Halo 2 PC Vista only will drive sales (excellent marketing) and push their Direct X10 (WGF 2.0) right out
point number 4: no-one is making you buy this
Point number 5: a PC OS has MANY more uses that just to play a single game. I would think a single investment of 3-4 hundred Pounds for the OS would redeem istelf within the time to the next windows OS by all the opportunities it will allow that XP/2000 won't in the coming years.

Point Number 6: Map editor. Uber bonus points for the modding community
point number 7: Its Halo. You know you will buy it if you have the spare money for it.

Originally Posted by xgamer459
Not all Map Editors are created equal my friend.

why, why, why, halo is an xbox game sure it will look better on comp. but who cares lets shut out the halo 2 comp. game for good.

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