- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well Halo Trial was full of people who are too cheap enough to spend a few £s (or $s) on a PC game.
All the people there actually were never going to buy Halo PC, but stick with Halo Trial because they said it's fun so why spend more money.
The Halo Trial both made people by Halo PC and not by Halo PC.
I think Bungie saw that, because even today the Halo Trial lobby is still overfilled. Much more than the Halo Custom Edition lobby even.
I doubt Bungie will release another trial version, but then again I could be wrong.
But they know alot of people are looking forward to this, and not just because they dont have an Xbox, but because it's actually a better game than the Xbox version, with better and more polished graphics, completely modable (Custom Edition) and possibility of extra features, like Halo PC had (new maps).
Actually, about the "new maps". They could not appear at all. Because Halo PC only had new multiplayer maps because unlike the Xbox version, it supported 16 player online, which required for larger maps for a better variety.
Halo 2 Xbox already has 16 player online and a large variety of maps, so a new selection of maps for Vista probably won't appear.
My hunch is that an update will appear in a few months with new maps. Anyone remember Bungie announceing new Halo 2 Xbox multiplayer maps? Somewhere in Spring I think they said. Anyway, since we all know Microsoft release most things (especially Halo related) on Xbox much later on PC. So a few months after the Xbox maps are released, I'd say that we'll see the same maps appearing in an update for Halo 2 Vista.