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I’ve not really a huge Halo fan. I’m sure that statement will get me an inbox full of hate mail, but it’s true. I won’t deny that it’s a great series. I used to play the original back in the day with my friends, and it was fun for a while but I’ve moved on. Perhaps Halo 3 will hook me again. But the big story today is Halo 2 for Vista. It’s been delayed, and the rumor is that the delay was caused by “partial nudity.”
Now I’ll tell you up front that I’m highly skeptical that this is the reason it was delayed. According to Next-Gen they received an email from Microsoft claiming that an “error” causing partial nudity was discovered and that they have developed a patch to remove it. No offense to Next-Gen, but don’t you think that Microsoft would have sent out similar emails to other big gaming sites like Kotaku and Joystiq? Also, from what I know about character modeling, they aren’t going to render any more details than are absolutely necessary, so I can’t see them taking the time to make characters anatomically correct underneath their armor.
So the rumor may or may not be true. But what’s known is that the game is in fact delayed until May 31st. Some copies have already been sold by retailers such as Circuit City. If anyone out there has snagged an early copy and can show me some proof (screenshots) of the claimed “partial nudity” there will be a piece of swag to the first one to provide it.
Hot Spartan: Halo 2 Vista Contains Sins Of The Flesh [via kotaku]
2 Responses to “Rumor – Partial nudity delays Halo 2 for Vista”
Chris Davies May 25, 2007
I’m sure if there was any nudity it was tasteful and fully necessary to the plot.
+1Spec May 25, 2007
It seems that this website confirms it.
http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/news/?id=16294
And from the discussions over at the fansite halo.bungie.org, this picture is the culprit.
http://carnage.bungie.org/halo.....ead=804902
Sketchfactor(Brian Jarrard) posted this on the same forums:
“It’s worth pointing out that the map editor for Halo 2 Vista is in fact a copy/paste of the original internal tools the Bungie team used to make Halo 2 content in the first place. This error message was only ever meant to be for the internal amusement of Bungie programmers. Somehow neither of the two external groups tasked with porting the map editor seemed to come across this image until after the fact.
It’s all quite silly really. I just hope this doesn’t encourage even more buttocks exposing shenanigans from Chucky, who is already quite liberal with the pants dropping. :)
And I know a bunch of people had a quick heart flutter at the initial prospect of seeing a fully realized Cortana somewhere in the game. You know who you are.”
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