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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, another player character, and shipped with online multiplayer via Microsoft's Xbox Live service.
Halo has been featured at both Major League Gaming and the World Cyber Games. [115] [116] The game's sequel, Halo 2, made US$125 million with unit sales of 2.38 million on the first day of its release, [117] earning it the distinction of the fastest-selling United States media product in history. [118]
Halo Infinite was intended to have split-screen campaign co-op in response to the backlash of its removal in Halo 5: Guardians, [40] but the feature was delayed several times and was ultimately cancelled by September 2022. [41] The game supports both cross-platform play and cross-platform save progression between Xbox and Windows versions. [42]
Halo 5: Guardians was the eleventh bestselling retail game during its first week of release in Japan, with 7,455 physical copies. being sold. [110] In the United Kingdom, Halo 5 debuted on the top of the sales charts as measured by Chart-Track, besting the week's other new release, Assassin's Creed Syndicate.
A special edition of the soundtrack was released on October 28, 2003, featuring a DVD with a trailer, demo movie, and high quality music for Halo 2. Laced Records is producing a vinyl edition of the soundtrack across two LPs on its own, or as part of a boxed set with the soundtracks to Halo 2 and 3, to be released in 2025. [7]
The ice crystals responsible for halos are typically suspended in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds in the upper troposphere (5–10 km (3.1–6.2 mi)), but in cold weather they can also float near the ground, in which case they are referred to as diamond dust. The particular shape and orientation of the crystals are responsible for the type of ...
A MAssive Compact Halo Object (MACHO) is a kind of astronomical body that might explain the apparent presence of dark matter in galactic halos. A MACHO is a body that emits little or no radiation and drifts through interstellar space unassociated with any planetary system (and may or may not be composed of normal baryonic matter). Since MACHOs ...
Haloacetic acids have a general chemical formula X 1 X 2 X 3 C−CO 2 H, where X is hydrogen or halogen, and at least one X is a halogen. The inductive effect caused by the electronegative halogens often results in the higher acidity of these compounds by stabilising the negative charge of the conjugate base .