thehalogod

The first time I read this on various gaming sites I thought it was a joke, but Microsoft did confirm; however, that there was in fact partial nudity in the game:

“An unfortunate, obscure content error which includes partial nudity was included in our initial production of Halo 2 for Windows Vista.”

I found this story particularly suprising given that I worked on Halo 2 Vista as a game tester since late september of last year and never saw the partial nudity because if I had, I would have notified the appropriate members of the development team about it. Apparently, the error can occur while running into an “.ass” assertion error while using the map editor which then displays a picture of some guy showing off his backside. Our test team was never given the opportunity to use the map editor as this was being handled by other testers.

I’m sorry this will cost Halo PC fans several more days on an already delayed game. Sorry guys and gals, it looks like you won’t be able to play Halo 2 Vista until May 31st. Microsoft has already issued a patch for the game to remove the content, but not before they had to slap a partial nudity sticker on every single retail box.

I’ve finally found a reason to turn my Xbox on for more than one hour. Obviously if you’ve come to this website you’re at least familiar with the Halo series if not a rabid fan of it. In any case, I am extremely impressed with the Beta (having tested it at Microsoft back in Decemeber of 06 it was nice to see the progression). I won’t go into any details as to what was or wasn’t changed from when I played it, but I will say that - especially after playing the beta – Halo 3 will be better than Halo 2 and Halo 1 combined.

Now, what I say may be considered heresy to some old school Halo fans that say Halo 1 > all other Halo’s, but once you’ve spent some time with the beta you can already tell they’re going to fix the mistakes that Halo 2 had and throw in new features we didn’t even know we wanted (theater anyone?)

I will be converting this site to a wordpress blog as soon as I’m able to tear myself away from my Xbox 360; however, I don’t know when that might happen. I’m going to try my best to convert the site this weekend but we’ll see.

If you were contemplating wether it is worth the $60 to buy Crackdown just for the Halo 3 beta, don’t even think about it anymore. Buy the game so you can play the beta.