HaloWarsPcFullVersionHalo 2 Wikipedia. This article is about the video game. For the Nine Inch Nails album that uses this pseudonym, see Pretty Hate Machine. Halo 2 is a 2. 00. Bungie Studios. Released for the Xboxvideo game console on November 9, 2. Halo franchise and the sequel to 2. Halo Combat Evolved. HaloWaypoint. com is the official site for the Halo universe, featuring the latest information about Halo games and media, news from 343 Industries and the home of the. MY THOUGHTS ON THE CAMPAIGN SPOILER FREE Halo Wars 2 is somewhat of a miracle to me. The first Halo Wars, while good, wasnt particular successful. If it. A Microsoft Windows version of the game was released on May 3. Microsoft Game Studios known as Hired Gun. The game features a new game engine, as well as using the Havokphysics engine added weapons and vehicles, and new multiplayer maps. The player alternately assumes the roles of the human Master Chief and the alien Arbiter in a 2. United Nations Space Command and genocidal Covenant. After the success of Combat Evolved, a sequel was expected and highly anticipated. Bungie found inspiration in plot points and gameplay elements that had been left out of their first game, including multiplayer over the Internet through Xbox Live. Time constraints forced a series of cutbacks in the size and scope of the game, including a cliffhanger ending to the games campaign mode that left many in the studio dissatisfied. Among Halo 2s marketing efforts was an alternate reality game called I Love Bees that involved players solving real world puzzles. On release, Halo 2 was the most popular video game on Xbox Live,5 holding that rank until the release of Gears of War for the Xbox 3. By June 2. 0, 2. 00. Halo 2 had been played and more than 7. Xbox Live 8 by May 9, 2. Microsoft Crm Installation Step Step. Halo 2 is the best selling first generation Xbox game1. United States alone. The game received critical acclaim, with most publications lauding the strong multiplayer component. The campaign however, was the focus of criticism for its cliffhanger ending. A high definitionremastered version of Halo 2 was released as part of Halo The Master Chief Collection on November 1. Xbox One. 1. 2Gameplay. Halo 2 is a shooter game, with players predominantly experiencing gameplay from a first person perspective. Players use a combination of human and alien weaponry and vehicles to progress through the games levels. The players health bar is not visible, but players are instead equipped with a damage absorbing shield that regenerates when not taking fire. Certain weapons can be dual wielded, allowing the player to trade accuracy, the use of grenades and melee attacks for raw firepower. The player can carry two weapons at a time or three if dual wielding one weapon remains holstered, with each weapon having advantages and disadvantages in different combat situations. For example, most Covenant weapons eschew disposable ammo clips for a contained battery, which cannot be replaced if depleted. However, these weapons can overheat if fired continuously for prolonged periods. Human weapons are less effective at penetrating shields and require reloading, but cannot overheat due to prolonged fire. The player can carry a total of eight grenades four human grenades, four Covenant to dislodge and disrupt enemies. New in Halo 2 is the ability to board enemy vehicles that are near the player and traveling at low speeds. The player or AI latches onto the vehicle and forcibly ejects the other driver from the vehicle. Campaign. In game screenshot of Halo 2 for Xbox the player character aims a shotgun at enemy Covenant. The games Campaign mode offers options for both single player and cooperative multiplayer participation. In campaign mode, the player must complete a series of levels that encompass Halo 2s storyline. These levels alternate between the Master Chief and a Covenant Elite called the Arbiter, who occupy diametrically opposed roles in the storys conflict. Aside from variations in storyline, the Arbiter differs from Master Chief only in that his armor lacks a flashlight instead, it is equipped with a short duration rechargeable form of active camouflage that disappears when the player attacks or takes damage. There are four levels of difficulty in campaign mode Easy, Normal, Heroic, and Legendary. An increase in difficulty will result in an increase in the number, rank, health, damage, and accuracy of enemies a reduction of duration and an increase in recharge time for the Arbiters active camouflage a decrease in the players health and shields and occasional changes in dialog. There is hidden content within the game, including Easter eggs, messages, hidden objects, and weapons. The most well known of the hidden content are the skulls hidden on every level. The skulls, which can be picked up like a weapon, are located in hard to reach places. Many are exclusive to the Legendary mode of difficulty. Once activated, each skull has a specific effect on gameplay. For example, the Sputnik skull found on the Quarantine Zone level alters the mass of objects in the game thus resulting in explosions being able to launch these objects across larger distances. Skull effects can be combined to provide various new levels of difficulty andor novelty. Multiplayer. Like Halo Combat Evolved, the Xbox version of Halo 2 features a multiplayer system that allows players to compete with each other in split screen and system link modes in addition, it adds support for online multiplayer via Xbox Live. Fusion Io Drivers Esxi 6. Halo 2 introduced an entirely new paradigm for matchmaking players together. In earlier games, one person specifies a game type and map and configures other settings, before setting up his or her device as a game server and advertising the game to the world at large. Halo 2 introduced a playlist system that automated this process to keep a steady flow of games available at all times, and layered a skill ranking system on top. The Xbox Live multiplayer and downloadable content features of the Xbox version of Halo 2 were supported until the discontinuation of the service in April 2. The online multiplayer of Halo 2 for Windows Vista uses Games for Windows Live. In January 2. 01. PC multiplayer servers would be taken offline on February 1. On February 1. 2, 2. Halo 2 on PC would remain online until June, while further support options would be investigated. The last original Xbox Live game session in Halo 2 concluded on May 1. Synopsis. Setting. Halo 2 takes place in the 2. Humans, under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command or UNSC, have developed faster than light slipspace travel and colonized numerous worlds. According to the games backstory, the outer colony world of Harvest was decimated by a collective of alien races known as the Covenant in 2. Declaring humanity an affront to their gods, the Forerunners, the Covenant begin to systemically obliterate the humans with their superior numbers and technology. After the human bastion at the planet Reach is destroyed, a single ship, The Pillar of Autumn, follows protocol and initiates a random slipspace jump to lead the Covenant away from Earth. The crew discovers a Forerunner ringworld called Halo, which the Covenant wants to activate because of their religious belief that the activation of the ring will bring about a Great Journey, sweeping loyal Covenant to salvation. Leading a guerilla insurgency on the rings surface, the humans discover that the rings are actually weapons of last resort built to contain a terrifying parasite called the Flood. The human supersoldier Master Chief Petty Officer John 1. AI companion Cortana learn from Halos AI monitor, 3.