Console: | Microsoft Xbox |
TV Standard: | NTSC |
Developer(s): | Bungie |
Publisher(s): | Microsoft Studios |
Release Date: | 2004-11-09 |
Players: | 4 |
Co-op: | Yes |
ESRB: | M - Mature 17+ |
Type: | Fighting |
Halo 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox console. Halo 2 is the second installment in the Halo franchise and the sequel to 2001's critically acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved. The game features new weapons, enemies, and vehicles, and shipped with online multiplayer via Microsoft's Xbox Live service. In Halo 2's story mode, the player assumes the roles of the human Master Chief and the alien Arbiter in a 26th-century conflict between the human United Nations Space Command, the genocidal Covenant, and the parasitic Flood.