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Halo PC Goes Gold, Producer Quizzed
Scorpion_1169 writes "According to Bungie.org, Microsoft/Gearbox's long-awaited version of Halo for the PC has gone gold, and is scheduled to hit store shelves on September 30th." There's also an interview with Bungie producer Michel Bastien over at Bungie.net, answering questions such as who might have leaked a Beta version of Halo online ("Nah, we don't know who it was. It really sucks because this build was not the most glorious build we've put together"), and the existence of easter eggs ("Like the Xbox game, you want to play through 'The Maw' on Legendary. We've got a couple of well-kept surprises, which, hopefully, we can roll out in the future...")
The PC version of Halo is the equivalent of that little rock that hit Earth 65 million years ago and wiped out 95% of the species. Except this time the fat and dumb dinosaurs of the PC gaming world know it's coming. And they are scared. For the same reasons that 16,000 fans voted (in a single day) Halo 2 as the FPS game they are most looking forward to and for the same reason that Halo earned 48 "best of show" or "game of the year" awards Halo PC is going to reorganize the evolutionary process with a little shock therapy.
The PC version of Halo will offer everything you love about the multiplayer aspect of the game. Plus more new weapons, new vehicles, new maps, and new settings that you can shake a SPNKr at. Not resting on its laurels of being the best multiplayer console game in history the PC version is introducing a few extra multiplayer goodies that will drastically alter the aspect of the game like: a Warthog with a rocket-launcher, the Banshee, a flame thrower, the Fuel Rod Gun, and the Shade Turret among other items.
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Why did Microsoft force Bungie to sit on the PC release for so long? I'm surprised they didn't wait until Halo 2 had been out for a while, just to make this release even more pointless.
It was pretty sad. I watched my PC gamer buddy, who was a huge fan of Marathon back when he had a Mac, follow Halo from the time it was announced. When it looked like it was going to be a Mac game, he thought about getting a new Mac. And when Microsoft did the money thing and made it an X-Box exclusive... guess who shelled out for the console and just one game?
Shame on MS for taking advantage of my poor fanboy friend like that.
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