Bungie has announced that Halo 2 has gone gold today.
They said it couldn’t be done! Actually, they didn’t say that, but if they had, we’d have proved them all (the fake people who didn’t say anything) wrong! Halo 2 has gone gold. We finished every line of code, every pixel of art, every frame of animation, every phoneme of dialog and every note of music. We finished it when we said we would (when it was done) and shipped that baby right on time to make its November launch date. And we’re kinda proud of it. We think it’s “fun.” “Gone Gold” is a somewhat archaic expression, since the “gold discs” are actually digital tapes and eventually silver discs. But it certainly feels golden. This basically means that the game has been shipped to retail manufacture. Somewhere in the world, a gigantic DVD pressing factory has started making Xbox game discs with the utterly complete version of Halo 2. Maybe there IS a gold disc somewhere. Perhaps it’s time for an epic quest!
Source: VE3D