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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.