- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Um, no, that's wrong. Whether or not this information is reliable, I'm refusing to believe it until an official, clear announcement is made. Plus, they made it extremely clear that cross-platform gaming won't be available for Halo 2 in the past.
Hell, Kotaku just contradicted themselves by saying it. In an article stating the release of Geometry Wars and Uno on Windows Vista, they said that it wouldn't happen.
Halo 2 may not be playable between the Xbox 360 and Vista, despite what a Microsoft press release lead us all to believe, but at least PC gamers will be getting some hot Uno PC versus 360 action on.
It looks like they also might be bringing Geometry Wars to Vista. About 45 minutes in to Microsoft's CES keynote the game pops up in the Vista gaming montage. This shouldn't come as a surprise. Microsoft recently shot down the Geometry Wars clone for the PC, GridWars, and it's a pretty easy port.
And remember, Live Anywhere does not necessarily mean cross-platform gaming.
Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Please, don't scare us like that. It's bad enough that no new features are being added as well as the supreme lack of any mentions of updates with the game. If it will be 360 compatible, which I highly doubt, given that Bungie has fully denied it well enough times, then that will mean not only having the same crappy messed up game, but also that we'll be facing off all of those 8-year-old kids whose balls haven't dropped. I'd like to play with people who actually have something called logic.
As a matter of fact, the ordeal of the compatibility is easily dismissed. H2V has been confirmed with its own map editor and support of custom maps, so if they were to be compatible then that would mean the Xbox version of Halo 2 would be allowed to play these user-made maps (which they won't allow).
Indeed.
[Edited on 1/8/2007]