{"id":393,"date":"2007-03-14T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2007\/halo-2-release-date-may-8-2007\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:15:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:15:16","slug":"halo-2-release-date-may-8-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/halo-2-release-date-may-8-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo 2 Release Date: May 8, 2007!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just announced two birds with one press bulletin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/halo2\/\" rel=\"follow\">Halo 2<\/a> will be coming to Windows Vista on a PC near you on May 8, 2007 &#8212; at the same time as Games for Windows LIVE goes public!\n<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/news\/press\/2007\/mar07\/03-14G4WandXboxLIVEPR.aspx\" rel=\"follow\">the official press release<\/a> states, Halo 2 for Windows Vista will have <strong>superior graphics<\/strong> compared to the Xbox version, and it&#8217;ll come with a Map Editor too (that we&#8217;ve known for a while now). It&#8217;s good to finally have a concrete date set for one of the most anticipated games in PC history.\n<\/p>\n<p>Halo 2 was the most popular game for the Xbox, taking up where the original Halo for Xbox left off. Halo 2 and Microsoft\/Epic&#8217;s Gears of War currently top the popular list for Xbox 360. Gears of War is another game PC gamers are looking forward to playing on the PC.\n<\/p>\n<p>Following the May 8th release of Halo 2 for PC, another <acronym title=\"First Person Shooter\">FPS<\/acronym> game for Windows Vista will be released come June: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowrun.com\/\" rel=\"follow\">Shadowrun<\/a>. Shadowrun will PCs and Xbox 360s at the same time, making it the first true multi-platform experience on Games for Windows LIVE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just announced two birds with one press bulletin: Halo 2 will be coming to Windows Vista on a PC near you on May 8, 2007 &#8212; at the same time as Games for Windows LIVE goes public! As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/halo-2-release-date-may-8-2007\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[311,313,315,307,308,314,312,309,310],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-games","tag-games-for-windows-live","tag-gaming","tag-halo","tag-halo-2","tag-shadowrun","tag-windows-vista","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-360"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-6l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}