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Subject: Long Live Halo 2 (updated)
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"If something is easy, broken, cheap or can be abused, majority of the population will support it as a legit and or skilled concept/idea. Whatever people like and or love, they will thrive on it because no matter how broken it maybe, they do not like change."

Since Halo 2's ultimate demise from X Box Live (April 15th 2010), I was doing some Halo searching over the intarwebs and here's some nice stuff that I pulled up.

-The first official release of Halo 2 was in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States on November 9, 2004. Anticipation for the game was high; three weeks before this release, a record 1.5 million copies had already been pre-ordered. Massive lines formed at midnight releases of the game; the event garnered significant media attention.

-The game sold 2.4 million copies and earned up to US$125 million in its first 24 hours on store shelves, thus out-grossing the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as the highest grossing release in entertainment history.

-Halo 2 is the best-selling first-generation Xbox game with 8.46 million copies sold by November 2008.

-"The Province's Paul Chapman listed the game as one of the most important of the decade, writing that games like Modern Warfare 2 would not be as enjoyable to play if not for the ground Halo 2 broke."

-"From the day of its initial release and up until mid-November 2006, Halo 2 was the most popular video game on Xbox Live, even after the release of the Xbox 360; its position was eventually surpassed in 2006 by the 360-exclusive Gears of War. Halo and Halo 2 are still some of the most played games for the Xbox console."

-Television channel G4 listed the release of Halo 2 as one of the game industry's biggest turning points during the 2000s, and helping to define how gamers played for years to come.

-"Bungie's sequel was a shot in the arm for Xbox Live subscriptions and previewed many of the features that would set the standard for Microsoft's online service on the next machine," author Sterling McGarvey wrote.

-The editors of Popular Mechanics listed Halo 2 as one of the top fifteen events of the decade, crediting the game's multiplayer with bringing online multiplayer to the console masses.

[My Opinion?] I think the world of gaming changed when Halo 2 was boldly released. It used to be as one of our fellow halo gamers put it, "Hey let's go to John's house and play card, now it's "Hey let's go to John's house to play Halo." This is why Halo is the game to play. All these other games nowadays wouldn't be the games they are now if not for Halo.

All this was taken from wikipedia. I salute you veteran Halo players, Halo 2 fanatics, gamers of all walks of life that joined in on the multiplayer phenomenon.

Post your best lasting wishes for Halo 2 here

There are those who say this day will never come...

The Making of Halo 2

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[Edited on 10.24.2010 10:26 PM PDT]

  • 10.24.2010 7:22 PM PDT
Subject: Long Live Halo 2

One of top fifteen events of decade? Yeah, I can see that being true.

I do miss it.

  • 10.24.2010 7:56 PM PDT
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From the day this game was announced to the day it was taken from LIVE it was held as gaming royalty. People still loved it as much as they always had and I never got tired of playing it. This truly was one of the greatest games in history.

  • 10.24.2010 8:31 PM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.


Posted by: Dr Syx
From the day this game was announced to the day it was taken from LIVE it was held as gaming royalty. People still loved it as much as they always had and I never got tired of playing it. This truly was one of the greatest games in history.


I agree with you completely. Halo 2 was one of those games that never got boring or tiring. Its the game that got me to like online gaming and it also reignited the inner gamer inside me after n64's time in history was over.

  • 10.24.2010 9:21 PM PDT
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"If something is easy, broken, cheap or can be abused, majority of the population will support it as a legit and or skilled concept/idea. Whatever people like and or love, they will thrive on it because no matter how broken it maybe, they do not like change."


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Posted by: Dr Syx
From the day this game was announced to the day it was taken from LIVE it was held as gaming royalty. People still loved it as much as they always had and I never got tired of playing it. This truly was one of the greatest games in history.


I agree with you completely. Halo 2 was one of those games that never got boring or tiring. Its the game that got me to like online gaming and it also reignited the inner gamer inside me after n64's time in history was over.


In complete honesty, I think Halo 2 was the only Halo game I could not get tired of; I'd have to pass out before lifting my fingers from the controller.

It possessed a certain finesse that Halo 3 or Halo ODST or Halo Reach ever could of held. It was the beginning and it was in many ways "the defining Halo experience" for me. I've played more Halo 2 than Halo 3, ODST, and Reach combined.

  • 10.24.2010 10:21 PM PDT
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Reading that bit from bungie gave me da chills! Good times! It totally gave an eye opener to XBL.

  • 10.24.2010 11:17 PM PDT
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I cite Halo 2 as one of the best games for either Xbox or Xbox 360. The multiplayer component was the best of the Halo series and it had one of the two best single player campaigns of the franchise (with Halo 1 slightly better). I'd be thrilled if they released all its maps and downloadable maps and was glad to see two in Halo Reach.

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"If something is easy, broken, cheap or can be abused, majority of the population will support it as a legit and or skilled concept/idea. Whatever people like and or love, they will thrive on it because no matter how broken it maybe, they do not like change."


Posted by: W3in
I cite Halo 2 as one of the best games for either Xbox or Xbox 360. The multiplayer component was the best of the Halo series and it had one of the two best single player campaigns of the franchise (with Halo 1 slightly better). I'd be thrilled if they released all its maps and downloadable maps and was glad to see two in Halo Reach.


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  • 10.27.2010 12:31 PM PDT