Worldwide Halo 2 Tourney In the Works

Gamespot has word that a Worldwide Halo 2 Tourney is in the works, because fragging the Covenant is something we can share as a species. From the article: "The tournament will be played in the Rumble Pit matchmaking playlist over Xbox Live beginning sometime around May 2. Gamers who register and compete in Rumble Pit optimatch sessions will have their statistics recorded for the duration of the competition. At the end of the tournament, on May 30, a winner will be announced based on the highest ranking."

Standby?

[BlackEyedSceva]

Hopefully the contest will require everyone to d/l the new update. Otherwise you know there are kids who are going to try and pull the standby crapola. Even though Bungie would kick there ass, it would still be a major inconvience to those who play fairly.

Re:Standby?

[personman21]

The update is mandatory if your going to play on live.

Re:Standby?

[Fred Or Alive]

Yeah, one problem with running tournaments like this through Xbox Live is that you can't tell what the other people are doing. Luckily Halo 2 v1.1 is required to play on Live, but I there are still tricks and cheap tactics about that can be exploited.

The Team Preview playlist that they're adding (basically a 4v4 list on the premium maps, with some old ones as well) is supposed to have prizes at the end as well. I bet there are going to be some bastards who'll cheat because of it.

Re:Standby?

[theVP]

If the prize was a million dollars, I'd be upset about it. In this case, I'm going to be possibly rewarded for having a good time. All other problems involved are really not worth the time worrying over.

Re:Standby?

[centauri]

I hope the prospect of prizes draws the cheaters out of the woodwork. Then we can just give them the feedback they deserve and have a much nicer environment after the dust settles.

Foreign Languages

[Meagermanx]

I want to sign up for this, but I'm not quite up to snuff on my foreign languages. Does anyone know how to say "n00b" in Japanese?

Re:Halo 2 is all fine and well, but...

[TJ_Phazerhacki]

So don't buy an xbox. I dont own a mac, don't plan to in the near future, and suffer a gimped version of Photoshop and no Logic because of it. Stop crying, and get over the fact that M$ saved a game from oblivion and obscurity on a platform the vast majority of game dev's ignore.

You really think there would be a Halo 2, let alone a World Wide Tourney, if it had come out as a mac exclusive?

/bangs_head_on_keyboard

Re:Halo 2 is all fine and well, but...

[Konrad9]

Whoa, who crapped on your Wheaties this morning?

Halo 2 was not going to be a Mac Exclusive, it was going to be a Mac/PC release.

However, you are correct, Microsoft (not M$, we're over 12 years old now kids) saved Halo from oblivion... Bungie most likely didn't have the monies to release it. I would like to see how it would have turned out if it had been a PC game back in 2000 or 2001, and THEN an Xbox game.

As for the Tourney, sweet deal. Sign me up, cap'n.

Re:Halo 2 is all fine and well, but...

[theVP]

precisely. I'm signed up already. I don't have a chance in hell, but what is the cost of playing? Oh, what I've been paying already to play online games on my xbox. That'll work for me. And the prize is perfect- Something that's cool, that I'd want, but if I couldn't get it, no big deal. And I get to do something that I already find rewarding in and of itself. How I could possibly bitch about this is beyond me.

Is the youngest pro gamer in the world going?

[doofer]

6 years old and sponsored..
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Hah.

[Joseph Vigneau]

fragging the Covenant is something we can share as a species

But not as friends, apparently. The lack of Co-op play over XBox Live really sucks.