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Halo 2.5 for Xbox 2
Voodoo Extreme is reporting that the Bungie team may work on a project to port Halo 2 to the next generation Xbox, adding in additional content and improving overall gameplay and picture quality. From the article: "Can you imagine Halo 2 running at 1280x720?!!! We also wonder what was meant by 'all the stuff people expected from Halo 2 but didn't make the cut.' With this kind of top-secret info, you don't ask; you simply listen."
This is just one of many reasons that I'm annoyed at the games industry for pushing consoles at the expense of PC gaming lately. There are numerous advantages to playing games on a PC, resolution being one of the big ones.
Sure, consoles have advantages too, but it seems to me that the industry is killing off the PC market, deliberately or otherwise, and then doing thing like this - wowing people with the fancy 1280x720 resolution that they can get just by buying a new console, a new game, and a new TV. And people complain about PC gaming requiring constant upgrading...
You are more than likely trolling, so I'll bite...
Halo 3 must be taking too long, so a panicked Board has Bungie re-doing #2
First off, Halo 2 just came out. Bungie was working Halo 2 probably a week or two before it went gold, implying that it was not finished. To some its not a complete game. So if anything, if they're doing it, Halo 3 just began in development.
I eagerly await Xboxers falling all over themselves to get this while simultaneously bashing Nintendo for the latest re-release of Super Mario Whatever. Irony.
Lets look at it this way...The Xbox, although a microsoft product, has changed console systems in that it was the first to have a hard drive (that I know of). Playstation, Gamecube, Dreamcast all didnt have a hard drive. It also has built in networking. The only thing that got me with playstation is each memory card costed 25 dollars for an 8 mb chip. Xbox came with a 50 gig hard drive with over 45000+ blocks for saving games. All other console systems are finally catching up to the Xbox in these aspects, but in their next generation.
This has got to be an Xbox2 launch title, which Microsoft knows is the only game they've got that stands a chance of selling system.
And yes they need a launch title because why would you buy a system if all the games you want to play are on one system. They have to hook you, thus a little thing we on earth call Marketing.