It's Halo 2 Night!

Published 08 November 04 11:08 PM | tristank

No self-respecting Xbox gamer would have missed that tonight's the night!

Aussies - by virtue of our timezone being 17 hours ahead of Redmond - and Kiwis (2 more hours ahead of us) get their first crack at Halo 2 tonight.

Expectations aren't so much high as stratospheric - nay, lunar! Can it live up to the hype?

So far:

So, in just under one short hour, the folk queueing outside EB will be walking away with a little piece of gaming history in their hands.

I'll be firing up the Xbox for a game of Live sometime after midnight, to see how it plays. It had better be good!

Back On The PC - In The Land Of The High Res Monitor, there are also some treats just arrived or coming:

Half-Life 2 is almost here (with a metacritic score only slightly lower than Halo 2 at the moment), Steam subscribers get it the instant the clock ticks over* (don't know how the time zone stuff shakes out though...)
the Joint Operations expansion pack Escalation is due at about the same time (plus going to the store to buy it)
Tribes:Vengeance is already out there (and I'm really tempted to go get it)...

It looks like it's shaking out to be a really good year's end for games!

Happy sigh.

# Uwe Keim said on November 8, 2004 10:18 PM:: *crying* We Germans must wait another month for "The incredibles" and we even have to wait until 11th of november for "Halo 2".

This is SO unfair!
# TristanK said on November 9, 2004 1:10 AM:: I feel your pain. Generally, the release of any given title in Oz lags behind ROW by a week or more. It's improved in recent years though, I must say - it used to be literally months before a game that had been released in the UK would make it over here (unless you paid to have it imported) back in the early 90's...
# Mike said on November 13, 2004 3:09 PM:: I was there at midnight, and I think it generally lived up to the hype. Only a few things make me wonder what the **** took so long:

- Battle Rifle isn't that hot in Multiplayer
- SMGs are abit too inaccurate; but they also reload way too fast.
- Carbine sucks horrible ass (enough said)
- All vehicles but the Warthog seem to move in slow motion (not a big issue, but annoying)
- White button -> talk
- [spoiler (sorta)]
Flood
[/spoiler]
- No CoOp online

For so many additions, it is just ****ing amazing how well it was executed. It's a shame that a few weapons don't seem very useful on Live at all, however.

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