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  • Poll [27 votes]: How will Bungie make LAN Play?
Subject: What type of LAN will Halo 2 Support?
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Poll: How will Bungie make LAN Play?  [closed]
Keep it like Halo 1!! (4 boxes, 16 ppl):  11%
(3 Votes)
16 Boxes, 1 box per person:  7%
(2 Votes)
Allow Up to 16 Boxes, while keeping SplitScreen:  81%
(22 Votes)
Total Votes: 27

I dunno, but im just curious what people think that halo 2 will end up suporting for LAN play

i keep freaking out because i am still not sure whether they will keep it like halo 1, or screw it up like so many other games (Counter-Strike for instance)

[Edited on 6/6/2004 7:07:18 PM]

  • 06.05.2004 1:32 PM PDT
Subject: LAN Play
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i think that split sceen will still be possible in halo 2!
it would be real mistake from bungie if they didnt

DO YOU HEAR THAT BUNGIE, KEEP SPLIT SCREEN IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just found it so ugly that you could only do 1 player per xbox with lan with games like rainbowsix 3 (it would be real good for lan) and pandora tomorrow

  • 06.05.2004 1:37 PM PDT
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yeah that made me mad with pandora, its tom clancys stupid move to get ppl to buy the game more, i just hope ppl think it has Split-Screen LAN so i feel better about it, im still frekaing out lol, but yeah thnx

  • 06.05.2004 1:40 PM PDT
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well pandora fixes it a little with xbox live!
but it must really suck if you don't got live and you need 4 xbox's and 4 times pandora tomorrow to play a full game!

  • 06.05.2004 1:47 PM PDT
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do 'em all.

  • 06.05.2004 1:50 PM PDT

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well pandora fixes it a little with xbox live!
but it must really suck if you don't got live and you need 4 xbox's and 4 times pandora tomorrow to play a full game!


WTF? Ubi SOft made it like this so you cant peer over at the other guys screen

imagine it:
Splitscreen 2 player splinter cell.
Merc looks at SPy's screen and knows exactly where he is! That is the reason Pandora Tomorrow has no split-screen.

edit: Oh, and stealth is needed in rainbow six 3 aswell! Not as much but if there was no stealth then it would just be a random frag fest

[Edited on 6/5/2004 1:56:11 PM]

  • 06.05.2004 1:54 PM PDT
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Somone said that a recent mag said that you could have 16 on Live and 32 system link with up to four per xbox, and a max of 16 xboxes. I hope so.

  • 06.05.2004 2:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: ash55
well pandora fixes it a little with xbox live!
but it must really suck if you don't got live and you need 4 xbox's and 4 times pandora tomorrow to play a full game!


WTF? Ubi SOft made it like this so you cant peer over at the other guys screen

imagine it:
Splitscreen 2 player splinter cell.
Merc looks at SPy's screen and knows exactly where he is! That is the reason Pandora Tomorrow has no split-screen.

edit: Oh, and stealth is needed in rainbow six 3 aswell! Not as much but if there was no stealth then it would just be a random frag fest


Well think dude, you just put 2 spys on 1 screen and 2 mercies on the other!
then you don't have that problem!

Its the same with halo! keep the teams on diffrent screens!


[Edited on 6/5/2004 2:13:50 PM]

  • 06.05.2004 2:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: jharbst
Somone said that a recent mag said that you could have 16 on Live and 32 system link with up to four per xbox, and a max of 16 xboxes. I hope so.


i hope so too :)

  • 06.05.2004 2:26 PM PDT
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I hope, at least, it has the same set up as system link like Halo 1. My friends and I just got done playing for a couple of hours, I forgot how bad ass playing with 16 people was. We all agreed if Halo 2's multiplayer isn't like Halo 1's, we'll play still play Halo 1. None of us like Xbox live, there's just something about talking smack and seeing everyone's reaction. My friend, Erick got the other team pretty good. We started building a lead and he told them, "Its like I'm draining your will to fight. There's still hope Frodo." They all got pissed and started playing worse.

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  • 06.05.2004 10:13 PM PDT
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I think these complaints about Pandora Tomorrow not having split screen for multiplayer are pretty amusing, considering THE WHOLE POINT OF THE GAME IS STEALTH AND STRATEGY. Kinda tough to sneak around when your buddy can see right where you are, and having a 50% reduction in vision would make spy-hunting in dark spaces even harder than it already is. Personal rants aside, not only do I think Bungie will keep the split screen for LAN play, I think they'll undoubtedly go with that option even it means keeping 16 people crammed on 4 Xboxes and 4 TV's. I think the option of being able to do a mix of split screen and full screen would be beyond great, but if I had to go with one or the other, I'd have to say a million times "yea" for split screen over full screen.

  • 06.05.2004 11:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: Snarl P
I think these complaints about Pandora Tomorrow not having split screen for multiplayer are pretty amusing, considering THE WHOLE POINT OF THE GAME IS STEALTH AND STRATEGY. Kinda tough to sneak around when your buddy can see right where you are, and having a 50% reduction in vision would make spy-hunting in dark spaces even harder than it already is. Personal rants aside, not only do I think Bungie will keep the split screen for LAN play, I think they'll undoubtedly go with that option even it means keeping 16 people crammed on 4 Xboxes and 4 TV's. I think the option of being able to do a mix of split screen and full screen would be beyond great, but if I had to go with one or the other, I'd have to say a million times "yea" for split screen over full screen.


AGAIN TO MAKE IT CLEAR 1 TEAM ON 1 SCREEN THE OTHER THEAM ON THE OTHER SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO YOU GET IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 06.06.2004 1:31 AM PDT
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what does everyone else think ?
i want to here more opinions on this

  • 06.06.2004 6:58 PM PDT