It's Halo 2 Night!

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:

• Gamespy liked it a lot.
• Gamespot liked it a lot.
• The Metacritic scores show that most people seem to like it a lot too (as much as "they" can be said to like anything).

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.

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 08, 2004
  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!
• Anonymous
  November 09, 2004
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• Anonymous
  November 13, 2004
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