Halo 2: The Official Strategy Guide

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Halo 2: The Official Strategy Guide is the 224-page official strategy guide for the video game Halo 2 published by Piggyback Interactive. It is written in English and is a paperback publication.

[edit] Book Description

Developed on-site at Bungie studios and written over four months by the elite Piggyback team, this guide includes an encyclopedic appraisal of Halo 2's multiplayer mode; a full, highly accessible walkthrough for the epic Campaign mode; and everything on basic play. In it's 224 pages you'll find:

• Detailed annotated maps: outwit multiplayer opponents with your intimate knowledge of level architecture
• Study all features of multiplayer maps, from power-up locations to "secret" areas, attack routes, and more
• Includes and exhaustive rundown of preset and custom game types—design your own multiplayer match and attract the best crowd
• Features hundreds of digital screenshots to illustrate key points
• Packed with tips, tactics, and techniques from the Bungie team
• Learn about every adversary, vehicle, and weapon—their strengths and shortcomings and how you can exploit these
• Confidently negotiate the huge Campaign mode with our exclusive maps and step-by-step walkthrough
• Designed to enhance the Halo 2 experience for newcomers and Halo: Combat Evolved veterans alike

[edit] Trivia

• Before the release of Halo 2, the page for it at Xbox.com was made to look as though it were a series of screens at the helm of a Covenant ship, complete with a Covenant language made of triangular shapes. The Game Guide uses a few of these characters to denote the placement of Covenant vehicles on their maps.
• Instead of showing it as a circular arrow, the reloading signal on page 13 depicts it as three bullets.
• A misprint in the the strategy guide mistakenly called the Enforcer a "Sentinel Major" on page 119. However, it stated that the Covenant called it "Enforcer" on page 118.
• Another misprint in the strategy guide calls a Brute Plasma Rifle a Brute Plasma Pistol on page 46. A third misprint is on p.30, it incorrectly labels the Fuel Rod Gun as the Fuel Rod Cannon.
• The book wrongly prints that there are achievements in Halo 2, they are only in Halo 2 Vista.
• On the Contents page it shows Master Chief about to kill a Brute on Earth, which comes from the Halo 2 E3 Demo trailer.
• On p. 110 there is a Sangheili Honor Guard with blue (Minor Elite) armor.
• On page 7 there is a misprint that say the MJOLNIR Mk VI was upgraded, instead of his armor was upgraded to Mk VI.
• On p. 41 it says that a Grunt Minor's armor is yellow, when in fact it is orange.

[edit] Levels

In the below table:

• (MC) = Playable character, Master Chief
• (A) = Playable character, Arbiter

Levels that are mentioned in the Book
Halo 2 Campaign	The Heretic | The Armory (MC) | Cairo Station (MC) | Outskirts (MC) | Metropolis (MC) | The Arbiter (A) | The Oracle (A) | Delta Halo (MC) | Regret (MC) | Sacred Icon (A) | Quarantine Zone (A) | Gravemind (MC) | Uprising (A) | High Charity (MC) | The Great Journey (A)
Halo 2 Multiplayer	Ascension | Beaver Creek | Burial Mounds | Coagulation | Colossus | Headlong | Ivory Tower | Lockout | Midship | Waterworks | Zanzibar

	Books of Halo
Novels	The Fall of Reach • The Flood • First Strike Ghosts of Onyx • Contact Harvest • The Cole Protocol Forerunner Trilogy
Art Books	The Art of Halo • The Art of Halo 3 • Halo Encyclopedia
Official Guides	Halo: Combat Evolved • Halo 2 • Halo 3 • Halo Wars • Halo 3: ODST