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Subject: Rare Halo: Combat Evolved Cover?

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

I noticed that 99.99% of all Halo: Combat Evolved game covers have the words "GAME OF THE YEAR" on a golden sticker towards the left of the box.
I noticed one day that on ebay I found one that didn't have Game of the Year on it. I bought it and it looks like it's one of the ORIGINAL editions.
Can anybody explain?

  • 05.26.2010 8:51 AM PDT

Posted by: Achronos
I blame stosh.


Proud tester of the Halo 3 beta.

You answered your own question, it's one of the original editions, but there's nothing in particular about that.

  • 05.26.2010 1:07 PM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

So it is rare?

  • 05.26.2010 3:49 PM PDT

There's not as many out there no. It's a first edition cover, so in like 50 years it might be worth something. :D

  • 05.27.2010 12:54 PM PDT

An assassin will always carry on, even after death.

I have the same one. Got it the day it came out on computer

  • 05.27.2010 1:55 PM PDT

Thunder Dan is En Fuego!

ya had to be purchased at almost the same time as the original xbox, which is when i got my copy

  • 05.27.2010 6:29 PM PDT

I'm 23, I have a house, dog, girlfriend, job and I have no interest in any fanboyism so if you're thinking about sending me a childish PM, don't be surprised when I don't call back.

I have two original boxes, I must be special.

  • 05.28.2010 3:41 AM PDT

Damn you 353 guilty spark! You killed the greatest stereotypical african american gun toting sergeant ever to tread upon a fictional futuristic setting!

It's basically magic.

  • 05.28.2010 8:37 AM PDT

E4web

Yeah I have one of those, one of the first in the U.K. It also has an error in the manual and has two manufacture locations (Ireland and Germany, one pasted over the other).

GOTY edition is also a patched version, fixing some bugs; so my version is an older version of Halo, although there is little gameplay difference.

  • 05.28.2010 12:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: JacobGRocks
Yeah, Hitboxing = fail. For example, a certan user from the maw who has never played Halo 2 Xbox online links to this halo 2 bash video (its much less exreme in acutial gameplay) which shows hitboxing, but it also exists in halo 3, which also has unbalanced weps and n00b armor (recon).

While we're on this, can anyone tell me why some copies have a holofoil type of cover?

  • 05.29.2010 7:50 AM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

I noticed that. I dunno. I did buy one that was all holofoil but I thought it was like a bootleg. Man I wish a Bungie guy where hear to help us out

I say that if you own the original case then that is the holy grail of Halo

  • 05.30.2010 8:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: TomatoDemon
Hear that?...It's the sound of no one caring.

I haz it,

  • 05.30.2010 9:09 AM PDT

I DO NOT HAVE AD-Oohh...shiny...

...O.o I have it, I think...

  • 05.30.2010 11:10 AM PDT

-Sic transit gloria mundi

Bought my copy June 2002 (six months too late if you ask me.)
It was "Game of the Year" and holofoil.

  • 05.30.2010 9:05 PM PDT

50s in: Slayer, Doubles, Lone Wolves, Objective, Ranked BTB, Swat, Snipers.

I have both. The GOTY cover was just too cool to pass up.

  • 05.31.2010 3:05 PM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

I found a original case on sale on Ebay with Halo 2.

http://cgi.ebay.com/XBOX-LOT-Halo-Combat-Evolved-Halo-2-COMPL ETE-/390185697766?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0& hash=item5ad8e141e6

  • 06.02.2010 8:42 AM PDT