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Halo 2 Deluxe Limited Edition available for pre-order News
Xbox News by Kristan Reed
The long-awaited Halo 2 is now available for pre order and has the following features (drum roll)...
- Special Content DVD Disc + Game (2 Discs)
- Behind the Scenes: The Making of Halo 2
- Making the Game: Six Video Featurettes
- Visualizing the Story (Concept Art, Early Level Design, From Script to Game, Narrated Storyboards and Character Tests.
- Bonus Material (Trailers from Halo 1&2, Cut scenes, Commentaries, Inside Bungie, A Bungie history, Before Halo, The Making of Halo 1, Gameographies)
- Comes in special collectable 'Tin' box
Naturally, if reserve yours now, you'll "have it shipped to you as soon as we receive our stock" according to our chums at SimplyGames. Go on, you know you want to...
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Tiger_Walts
13/07/04 @ 10:29
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"Play game / store biscuits"
Heathen! No biscuits allowed. Use Jaffa cakes instead.
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Yeah, a bone would be nice.
Or a half eaten leg of Zebra. ANYTHING. Well, they have in a way. So far we know: 1: There is another Halo involved. 2: With Flood (Call it a hunch, but I think they'll be on Halo ONLY) 3: The fight is taken to the covenants homeworld Given that in the books the original plan of the Spartans was to capture the leaders of the Covenant... Leads to some nice thoughts. Also, MC isn't the only surviving Spartan. IIRC there's at least 3 others... |
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>I don't mind them not spoiling the plot, but can't they at least throw us a frickin' bone?
Read the last Halo book and you know more or less how the game will start and what is going to happen (in the first half) Basically MC (and some other Spartans. YES!) arrives on Earth just as the Covenant are laying siege to the planet. Of course there is a lot of mystery as well. What about the Halos? What about the Forerunners? Guilty Spark? We also know of course there will be fighting on other planets in the solar system (Mars/Moon...)
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martyngates
13/07/04 @ 10:49
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and look if the case isnt flat you could use it to make yourself a halo 2 cake, with the cool 2 logo on it
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Tiger_Walts
13/07/04 @ 11:16
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"and look if the case isnt flat you could use it to make yourself a halo 2 cake, with the cool 2 logo on it"
It'd have to have an orange filling and be topped with chocolate though. |
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Sorry, it wasn't really details of the plot that i was looking for. HALO was known for its fresh look at the single player FPS and clever streamlining of the genre, 2 weapons, rechargable energy bar, simple but effective stealth etc.
I want to know what gamplay innovations the single-player version of Halo 2 will have, if any. |
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meepster2312
13/07/04 @ 11:54
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Another shameless promotion for your retail partner, masquerading as a news story. C'mon guys, have you *no* shame? This is the kind of brazen cross -promotional huckstery (is that a word?) that goes on all the time in the Murdoch press.
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Tiger_Walts
13/07/04 @ 11:56
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There might be some stealth involved in it as well. But with so many titles doing it, it wouldn't bother me if they dropped the idea.
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Tiger_Walts
13/07/04 @ 12:03
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"...making my shelf look stupid."
Either you're Sean Connery or I read that wrong. |
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meepster2312
13/07/04 @ 12:08
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Nope, my headgear is definitely on this morning and very shiny it is too.
I just have a problem with an article in the 'news' section that is an obvious plug for a specific retailer. If this is a message from a sponsor, label it such. After all, other sites have been taking pre-orders for ages. As someone who works in that there interweb retail business, I think this is bad practise, but maybe I'm just an over serious arse. |
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hoathenfold
13/07/04 @ 12:20
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There is NO WAY I am pre-ordering this!!
IM GOING TO BUY IT ON LAUNCH DAY AT FULL PRICE!!! The post service is so shit where I live there is no way Im listening to you lot raving about it all day while I watch the letter box for nothing to arrive! This is the only way I'm guaranteed to get it on the day!! |
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Tiger_Walts
13/07/04 @ 12:25
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Well, come the 9th, I'm stopping my web access. Not going to read a single review. No spoilers for me, nosiree.
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As someone who works in that there interweb retail business, I think this is bad practise, but maybe I'm just an over serious arse.
As far as I'm concerned, this website (that I enjoy a great deal) is free. If I can help it to stay that way by using their retail partner to buy games when I can, then that's fine by me ;-) Enough of that, back to the Halo 2 goodness. |
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Tiger_Walts
13/07/04 @ 12:32
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"If there was a competition for the worlds' biggest loser, you'd come second..."
LOL, writes down for future use. |
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meepster2312
13/07/04 @ 12:35
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But, surely, if I came 2nd in a competition for the world's biggest loser,
then I wouldn't be the biggest loser, which is a good thing? Oh, and you can keep the tin, though I'd quite like the game (and maybe even the extra content as there's nothing quite as exciting as a bunch of developers discussing their diet coke and pizza intake) |
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meepster2312
13/07/04 @ 12:43
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'You seem to have missed the point... '
Very probably. It wouldn't be the 1st time..... |
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meepster2312
13/07/04 @ 12:51
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Sorry, didn't read all Mr Lamma's early posts and understand the gentle ironic undertones.
BTW, unless I'm really being obtuse, there's no extra gameplay involved in the ltd edition so my advice is buy the regular, and wait for all the extra content to appear on cover discs a few months later. No tin of course, but you can always make your own. |
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Well, not bad advice. However:
I never purchase mags. Why pay £6 for stuff that's free on the net? Halo, + £6 for that mag is only £4 short of the LE version... and I doubt the whole of the LE version will be available on cover-mounted disks as it'd ruin the whole reason behind the LE version, which I don't think Bungie will do... Besides... IT'S THE LE VERSION!!! :D And you can resell on eBay. :) |
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meepster2312
13/07/04 @ 13:09
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Lutz,
You're right -if you must have the extra content it only makes sense to wait if you'd buy the mag anyway. Re Limited Edition status, in my experience this either means:- a) 'we are going to limit it to the number of orders we get' hence no collectable value b) ' we are going to make it so limited, any retailer who isn't Game will get exactly two copies' so I'd place orders across all retailers to ensure a copy. |
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