Players use a combination of human and alien weapons and vehicles to progress through the game’s levels. Halo 2 is a shooter game where players experience the gameplay largely from a first-person perspective. The player takes on the role of the human master chief and the alien arbiter in a conflict between the human space command of the United Nations and the Genocidal League in the 26th century. Weapons and vehicles as well as new multiplayer maps added.
The game has a new game engine as well as the Havok physics engine. A Microsoft Windows version of the game was released on and developed by an in-house team at Microsoft Game Studios called Hired Gun. Released for the Xbox video game console on November 9, 2004, the game is the second installment in the Halo franchise and the 2001 sequel to Halo: Combat Evolved. Halo 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie in 2004.
