Ian Halo’s remastered adventures proceed on PC in the present day with the discharge of Halo 2: Anniversary within the wee hours. Ian and his attractive pet search engine, Cortana, are persevering with to get into sci-fi hassle with ringworlds, and this time we additionally get to play elements from an alien Arbiter’s perspective too. Halo 2 has been on PC earlier than, with a wonky port again within the day, and now Bungie’s FPS returns fancied up with new fashions and textures, remastered cutscenes, help for greater resolutions, adjustable FoV, and different such trendy technobits.
So that’s a narrative marketing campaign with co-op help, aggressive multiplayer modes, and the Theater replay viewer/editor (additionally now in Halo: Reach). Halo 2’s Forge editor isn’t prepared but, although. If you need ye olde Halo 2’s seems to be, the marketing campaign does allow you to swap between the outdated and new seems to be with the press of a button, thoughts.
Halo 2: Anniversary is out now on Steam and the Microsoft Store. It prices £7/€10/$10 by itself, or it’s a bit cheaper as a part of the £30 Master Chief Collection which can have all of the games as much as Halo 4, as and after they’re performed. It’s additionally playable by Xbox Game Pass For PC, Microsoft’s surprisingly beneficiant £4/month subscription service. Saber Interactive and 343 Industries are behind the revamp, with creators Bungie long-gone to make Destiny.
Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo Four are nonetheless to come back with the Master Chief Collection. Nope, nonetheless no phrase on if we’ll ever see Halo 5 on PC. But Halo: Infinite, the following game, is coming to PC later this 12 months. Expect Microsoft to begin displaying extra of that in July, together with extra of their new games coming alongside the Xbox Series X.
Our Nate performed Halo 2 on Xbox again within the day although what he remembers, ah, is usually the way it was emblematic of a bizarre time in his life.
