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Subject: November 8th UK release?!?!?!?
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www.cdwow.com are offering Halo 2 for £32.99 with a november 8th release date, i am hoping the other games sellers follow suit and change the release date to the monday (which is the secondary game release date in the uk) But im not sure that this is authentic, as both amazon.co.uk and play.com, the two other big online retailers are offering november 9th at the same price, with no mention of a SE sale anywhere, which is why i've emailed them and asked them if theyre doing the SE, you never know, i might be getting a halo 2 special edtion a full 29 hours before the very earliest american gets it!

  • 07.04.2004 9:51 AM PDT

No, it's the 9th.

  • 07.04.2004 9:54 AM PDT
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whoohoo! now i can get em for false advertising, but when i get it, itll be november 8th in some parts of the US, im still ordering form them though, just incase it does come on the eighth (which it almost certainly will, because games retailers in the UK get all games at least a week early and like to get rid of them as soon as possible)

  • 07.04.2004 9:58 AM PDT
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I think there's a special deal you can get when you order the game online. I pre-ordered from Gamestop and they're "releasing" it on the 8th. This just means they'll ship the game on that date so the earliest you'll get it is on the actual release date, November 9th.

  • 07.04.2004 9:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: newguy111
I think there's a special deal you can get when you order the game online. I pre-ordered from Gamestop and they're "releasing" it on the 8th. This just means they'll ship the game on that date so the earliest you'll get it is on the actual release date, November 9th.
That is correct!

  • 07.04.2004 10:01 AM PDT
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no, cdwow and play both advertise "Arrive on release date" and if cdwow says the release date is november eighth, itll come on november eighth

  • 07.04.2004 10:06 AM PDT
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Yeah intrestingly enough, CD-WOW are renowned for delivering early if you pre-order. I preordered Return of the King region 2 on DVD and it came a day early. :D this bodes well, even though I've actually preordered with Game cos i got double reward points and it's slightly cheaper. crap! Lol well maybe sum1 should try preordering from CD-WOW and see if it comes a day early. Tbh I think the whole releasing it on a tuesday is dumb, i have to go to college that week and am not gonna have that much time to play until the weekend. :( Why didnt they release it on a friday? Would have made more sense. ah well

  • 07.04.2004 10:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: goweb
No, it's the 9th.


Yep. If you get it at Midnight though on Nov9th, we'll still get it atleast 6hours before the US, muah ha ha!!!

[Edited on 7/4/2004 10:32:47 AM]

  • 07.04.2004 10:31 AM PDT
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In OXM i heard something about a special limited edition halo 2 that has bonus footage etc etc... only avaliable if you pre-order, i posted a topic regarding this but it was a while ago and i can't find it in the list! can someone tell me how to get this special version please
if not then i am gonna pre-order the game of CD-WOW
thx

  • 07.08.2004 3:17 PM PDT
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you just have to ask about it. at the place your pre-ordering.

  • 07.08.2004 3:19 PM PDT
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hello can you tell me if in multiplayers a squad can have both spartans and elites?

  • 07.08.2004 3:23 PM PDT

in the east coast, if you pick it up at midnight, do they release it at 8:00 (or what ever time it is) on the west coast? or do they have to wait until midnight to?

  • 07.08.2004 3:29 PM PDT
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ok i havent read all of this thread, but let me sum it all up for you.


if you pre-order halo 2, it should arrive on the morning of the 8th November, espically if your in the UK, coz all my pre-order games come the day before, and you should get the special edition silver box, with extra dvd.

however if you walk into a shop to buuy halo 2, you will have to wait to the 9th November, and you might not get the special edition silver box.

  • 07.08.2004 3:31 PM PDT
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everybody, pre-order! that way, we'll all get H2 on Nov 8th. in turn, impatient Americans will flock over here to get their copy a day early and our tourism industry will floursih! j/k

i'd say that the GMT/PDT lag thing is redundant, since Amazon UK will obviously be set to GMT instead. therefore, it will arrive in the shops on NOV 9TH, not the 8th. at the time, America will still be in the 8th and will have to wait 6 to 8 hourse to get H2

sorry JAY132. i didn't mean to repeat your point

[Edited on 7/8/2004 4:04:40 PM]

  • 07.08.2004 4:02 PM PDT
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very very simple answer

its released on the 9th, you must have just been looking at "shipping" and its 24 hours to ship.

  • 07.08.2004 4:11 PM PDT