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I thought about makin this earlier instead of posting

this shit in whatever video game thread was around...

and Weapon X pushed for it so here we go...

 

8 min Halo 2 trailor, fresh from E3

This video also appears are newly made Halo discs, (in high res)

replacing the game demos...also has making/commentary videos.

 

Multiplayer videos, featuring Elites, duel wielding, and formentioned commentary videos

Sorry mac users, only comes in windows format

 

New features for Halo 2

  • Improved graphics, physics
  • Vastly improved AI (Elites won't just stand around waiting...they will HUNT you, move objects, scale walls, etc...Marines will also be much smarter, you can command them, make them drive the vehicles, send squads, etc..)
  • Dual Wielding (Check the video above)
  • Virtually everything will be destructable and can be used for cover (Different
    materials will provide longer cover [i.e. a wooden table vs a totalled car])
  • In multiplayer you can choose to be a Spartan (Master Chief) or an Elite
  • The warthog will have different turrets mounted (rocket, chain gun, etc)
  • You can lower your gun and run twice as fast
  • New covenant Species and weapons
  • OSDTs (BAD ass marines) and new human weapons
  • EVERYTHING else in the game will be much more fine tuned

 

Now for some pictures....

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http://www.xbox.com/assets/en-us/flash/games/halo2/images/image09.jpg'>

Oh yea, you can hop on vehicles and kick the driver out

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That big fan in the back will knock cars up into the air, and sometimes land on people and explode.

 

http://www.xbox.com/assets/en-us/flash/games/halo2/images/image03.jpg'>

 

More multiplayer pics

Edit: Replaced 1 meg images with 640x480 ones

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The ATV

http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/Gallery/Renders/atv_front.jpg'>

 

The all new Battle Rifle

(The battle rifle. When in normal mode, it fires short bursts of fire, but zoomed, it fires single rounds, reminiscent of the pistol. One weapon with two distinct modes adds more strategic stuff than you'd expect.)

http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/Gallery/Renders/battle_rifle_front.jpg'>

 

The all new SMG

http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/Gallery/Renders/smg_front.jpg'>Dont worry, I'll keep this shit updated

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i just spent ehhhh a little over an hour watching new trailers. shit looks sick for this year. MGS3, silent hill 4, killers 7, halo 2, half life 2, DOA: Ultimate, New Legend of Zelda for GC, fuckargh i need it all! i am going to E4 next year without a fuckin doubt.

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Originally posted by adderall

doom 3 > halo 2

 

Pfftfft, don't be bringing that jazz up in here,

that's not what the threads about foo.

 

Playing as elites in multiplayer is gonna be

great...plus energy blades...fuuuuun.

 

The story of Halo 2 takes place after Halo (duhhh)

when Master Chief arrives at Earth he looks out the

window of his ship only to see a scarred Earth being

bombarded by Covenant forces...so he opens the hatch

(the air pressure's blowing all crazy like) and he just

fuckin jumps out the ship and free falls.

 

^ The Halo 2 trailor linkage )

 

So yea, Covenant are fucking up Humanity and

you have to come save the day.

 

Halo 2 will also fully utilize Xbox live, so you can play

around the world, or around the block.

 

That's it for now...

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EDGE_Cover_Oct02.jpg

 

The Brute

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So, the game launches on November 9th, 2004, but we bet you can't wait until then to check out what the special, limited collector's edition looks like, so, here, for the first time ever, are pics of the box prototype.

 

Halo 2: Release Date and Collector's Edition Unveiled

Halo 2 will be available in stores on November 9, 2004. That's the long and the short of it. You'll be playing Campaign, multiplayer or both on November 9th. And if you pre-order, you'll have the chance to purchase an extra-fancy collector's edition in a metal box.

 

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More news from E3...

During E3 Bungie set up a special room to

test out Halo 2, and a few lucky bastards got

to play each othet for 30 minutes each

 

The game is going to have all the stuff you'd expect. It'll support voice communication, you can even leave voice messages when you're trying to set up a game. You can form clans - your can customize emblems - custom colors - a blue metal suit, with yellow secondary colors. Being able to customize your player is kind of awesome. Naturally, Covenant Elites can do the same thing.

 

The players also figured out the new tracking rocket system. A locked on rocket can follow a speeding vehicle in a vicious arc, It's pretty depressing when you think you're safely out of range and you hear that "WHOOOOOSH!"

 

But boarding was a hoot. It makes those close up vehicle skirmishes all the more frightening. If you try to smash another player against a rock wall, there's always a danger he could jump up, board you and kill you with your own ride. We also watched a new phenomenon - the Rocket Hog parasite. Since you can board any part of a vehicle, a red player can board the rocket turret of a Blue-driven Hog. The blue player's only recourse is to abandon the hog, or drive the enemy rocket jerk somewhere he can do less damage - then of course they have to square off against each other. Results can be hilarious.

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Originally posted by GnomeToys

Those pictures won't look as good when they're on a television at 60hz interlaced running at less than half the resolution they're posted at here.

 

Well, you know we hear loads of noise about how our screens are fake, or pre-renders or Photoshop, well as E3 probably demonstrated they're not. They're taken from gameplay, in the game engine, using a couple of tools, some developed specifically by and for Bungie. This 3D screenshot is taken using one of those tools.

 

 

The only real trickery we use in screenshots is our ability to take them at very high resolution – this doesn't actually affect the polygon counts or effects, just the actual screen resolution. We can and occasionally do take them at native 480p, but then they won't look cool as wallpapers, and magazines appreciate the sharper res for print purposes.

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Originally posted by Im Broke

FUCK YEA!!! i want it for my pc. b/c i dont have xbox live:( who knows how to hook that shit up? i got a DSL modem and shit... i can do it i just cant hook it up.

 

Halo for the PC would be cool...custom levels, banshees,

energy swords, plasma rocket gun...but no controller, I

hate playing with a mouse and keyboard.

 

If you have an ethernet hub, just connect your xbox

(and your internet) to the hub and download xboxconnect.

 

If you, or anyone else, ever wants to play just

hit up this thread and we'll work out the rest from

there.

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What a great thread...like all of you i too can not wait any longer for this game...well actully i can..since i have already been forced into waiting after delay after delay by bungie

 

I know its all for the best...they said they wnat oto leave nothing out and make sure it 100% complete before release...and that cool with me...im positive it will be worth the wait.

 

what is amazing about this game is how i still play the first one with my guys as much as we did when it came out..it never gets old!

 

NOVEMBER 9th THERE WILL BE A DEFINITE PARTY IN MY PANTS!!

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Originally posted by Jackson

Yea looks pretty fun, not much of a nut for fps single player thangs but looks cool.

Don't have an xbox either.

 

Shit I played Halo for a good year before I ever

played single player mode...not that's its bad,

its just that Halo is so dynamic that multiplayer

is just on some next level shit.

 

*new screenshot*

http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/screenshots/H2_e304_dualneedlers.jpg'>

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The official site

This link should load both the flash and

the html site.

 

 

If you interested in the game, definately

go check this site out. It's got a lot of

good info in it, a bunch of

screenshots, and all of the videos that

I've mentioned earlier:

 

(Halo 2 Trailer, Halo 2 Documentary,

and the Halo 2 E3 2003 Trailer.)

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