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Halo 2 Expansion?
Gamespot has coverage of the appearance on an official Korean Xbox site of a "Halo 2 X-Pack". The possible expansion is another possible way for Bungie and Microsoft to get the heavily foreshadowed ending to fans of the series. From the article: "Such a Halo 2 expansion could be a twofold boon for Microsoft, adding another incentive for gamers to join its online service and squeezing further dollars from the nearly 7 million gamers who already have Halo 2."
You could believe the blurb, or you could go to Bungie.net and read the latest "What's Update," which deals with this rumor. While not expressly saying so, Frankie (Bungie representative) implies that the rumored disc is the way Bungie/MS will be distributing the next set of downloadable content (bug fixes, cheat fixes, and some new multiplayer levels have all been (expressly) confirmed).
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Eat the Path.
Too late, I realized that I left something out of the last sentence; I should have added "to non-Xbox Live subscribers" before the period. Sorry!
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Eat the Path.
"Next week, we're going to have a major announcement about the details of our new maps. Right now, there are some dates, details and ideas out there that are actually wrong, so please take everything you read between now and then with a grain of salt. We can't talk about how and when the new maps will be released, we'll leave that to the smart folks who actually do all the logistical work for this stuff - marketing and PR, but we can tell you this much - our entire plan is designed to make new content available for everybody, those with Xbox Live and those without Xbox Live. We hope in the end, everyone will be satisfied."
If they do do an expansion, it'll probably throw in a few new weapons (we are missing the flamethrower, after all), a new campaign, some rebalancing, and hopefully the ability to dual wield swords!
Yeah, I know its redundant, since one sword is deadly enough, but TWO ENERGY SWORDS!
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This isn't true, if you watch the Limited Edition DVD and another interview that was released shortly after E3 2002, they started work on halo 2 almost straight after the release of halo 1, which took a little time to work out it was a money train. They said they wanted to tell more of the story. They didn't leave off the end, they couldn't fit it in. They wanted to tell the story as well as possible and to do this, the needed more content than could be created by the release date and could fit on the disk. The expansion isn't really an expansion, it is a way of distributing the downloadable content and game fixes to those who don't have xbox live.