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I saw an advertisement for Halo 2 Vista on the thirty-first page. It depicted a battle playing out reflected on Master Chief's visor, showing some cool artwork that I have never seen before. In the center of his visor is shown:

BECAUSE THE FATE OF ALL MANKIND IS TOO GREAT TO BE DECIDED ON A CONSOLE ALONE (Hellz yeah!)

At the bottom was the standard MSGS logo, Bungielogo, GFW Live brand, and ESRB rating. At the bottom left were three small pictures of Halo 2 Vista, and some pictures of two maps I have never seen before. Above those pictures was shown:

HALO 2

Halo© 2 for the PC is here. Two all-new exclusive maps. 23 in total.
And a Map Editor to create even more. Only on Windows Vistaâ„¢.


That's interesting. Maybe I just haven't seen any other sources confirm this, or they will soon, because I never knew there were going to be new maps for the PC version.

[Edited on 03.30.2007 1:49 PM PDT]

  • 03.28.2007 1:07 PM PDT
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Well the 360 is getting what was it, four new maps (?) soon. I dunno if they're exclusive though.

  • 03.28.2007 1:16 PM PDT
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Got a scan?

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I was considering to do what I did last time I saw a tidbit of Halo 2 Vista in PC Gamer Magazine (take a picture with my camera and upload it to the Internet), but this is the newest issue. Last time I did that, the topic got locked and the image removed. Perhaps you can see for yourself and check out the magazine, or wait and I might post it sometime later once the issue becomes outdated.

EDIT: Now that some time has passed by, I think it's safe to show my image of this. It was from the August issue, a while back, so I think they won't mind now if I show it to people over Bungie.net now.

[Edited on 03.28.2007 1:38 PM PDT]

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If it's an ad then what the hell can they get angry about? It's not like it's special info that available to a select few. If you don't post a picture, then I'm sure there's nothing but a good google search wouldn't do.

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Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
If it's an ad then what the hell can they get angry about? It's not like it's special info that available to a select few. If you don't post a picture, then I'm sure there's nothing but a good google search wouldn't do.
Oh, man, you're right! I totally overlooked the fact that this is an advertisement, not a PC Gamer article, and therefore, it's okay to show the advertisement. Thanks for making me remember.

I'm going to try to get a picture as soon as I can.

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Sounds good, because Googling has yielded no results.

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Two whole new maps? Wow, they've really outdone themselves to spoil us this time!

Give us back Gearbox!

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Posted by: Btcc22
Two whole new maps? Wow, they've really outdone themselves to spoil us this time!

Give us back Gearbox!
Indeed. I was pissed when they said they weren't going to release any new maps, weapons or vehicles (originally)--at least Gearbox had the courtesy of adding in some new content to make up for some of their failure.

Huzzah, I have taken the images! Consume them at will:

The entire image.
Master Chief's visor zoomed in.
Lower-left section of the advertisement zoomed in.

Sorry about the glare from the flash. I tried to take the images without it, but it didn't look as good.

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That bottom-right map definitely looks like the one we saw about a week ago.

Thanks for the post Master Kim! :D

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Isn't it just wonderful that we get 2 WHOLE NEW MAPS in 2 years?

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Well Kimmy, you just uncovered something that Bungie/Hired Gun/Microsoft themselves should have told us. Thanks.

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Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: Btcc22
Two whole new maps? Wow, they've really outdone themselves to spoil us this time!

Give us back Gearbox!
Indeed. I was pissed when they said they weren't going to release any new maps, weapons or vehicles (originally)--at least Gearbox had the courtesy of adding in some new content to make up for some of their failure.

Huzzah, I have taken the images! Consume them at will:

The entire image.
Master Chief's visor zoomed in.
Lower-left section of the advertisement zoomed in.

Sorry about the glare from the flash. I tried to take the images without it, but it didn't look as good.

That map that looks like turf looks new?

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Yeah, we've now seen shots from both the maps I guess. Not very good shots for either, but still.

It'd seem that the first is based on The Great Journey and the second shown in the bottom left is based on New Mombassa, like Turf.

The artwork in the visor could also be a depiction of the second new map, http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8301/mcvisorh2vzg0.jpg.

Thanks for the shots, Master Kim.

[Edited on 03.28.2007 4:49 PM PDT]

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That map that looks like turf looks new?
I guess you don't realize you can't put Scorpion Tanks in Turf. :P

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Sweet, I wish we would get a better pic of the new maps though.

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very nice cant wait to play it.

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Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: brianv
That map that looks like turf looks new?
I guess you don't realize you can't put Scorpion Tanks in Turf. :P
Well I only said it looked like Turf. I didn't even notice the scorpion tank until now. :\

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Subbmitted it to H2vista.net as a news article for ya Kim.

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Subbmitted it to H2vista.net as a news article for ya Kim.
Yay.

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Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Well Kimmy, you just uncovered something that Bungie/Hired Gun/Microsoft themselves should have told us. Thanks.


Unfortunately, that's asking too much I guess :-(

Great find nonetheless :-)

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Huzzah! It's not like we didn't already figure we would get bonus content, but the confirmation is good. But if we have 18 maps as of current, two exclusive for H2v, that should equal twenty! Looks like we will also have the new maps Xbox livers are getting =D.

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Huzzah! It's not like we didn't already figure we would get bonus content, but the confirmation is good. But if we have 18 maps as of current, two exclusive for H2v, that should equal twenty! Looks like we will also have the new maps Xbox livers are getting =D.


Xbox livers, that's new, It looks like liver like the thing in your body.

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What it is.

The bottom left image looks like somewhere in Old Mombasa(same place as turf). At first i thought it was Turf but then i noticed the scorpion. As for the middle, looks like it could just be a MC jumping and the background is of Ascension. And the right image looks sweet and i have no idea what it will be like; maybe it is that map of the image we saw floating around, but to me it looks completely different.

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That's as bad as "Xboxer." :/

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