Bungie confirmed on their website that Halo and Halo 2 will both be backwards-compatible with the Xbox 360. In Bungie's own words:
To clarify, the "new" version of Halo or Halo 2 is simply the disk you have already. Pop it into your 360 and it'll load up just like before. You will have to log into Xbox Live to enable Halo 2's online functions, but both games will work immediately.
But here's another bonus--the hardware in the 360 can do a lot of nifty stuff, and specifically in the cases of Halo and Halo 2, it can display the graphics in wide screen, at 720p, with full scene anti-aliasing. And it doesn't look kludgy, artifacty or smeary like an upscanning DVD player. The best way to describe it is that both games look like they're running on a PC at those resolutions.
So the games will even look better on the new hardware? Great news! Go to the link above to see screenshots. And the say they have more announcements Friday so stay tuned.
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