Phil Spencer, som for kort tid siden ble leder for Microsoft sin Xbox-avdeling, gikk nylig langt i å bekrefte at det kommer en Anniversary-utgave av Halo 2. Stikk i strid med det som vanligvis er policy hos Microsoft uttalte han under intervju, der han ikke ville bekrefte at et Halo 2 Anniversary var i produksjon, hva han ville lagt vekt på om et slikt spill hypotetisk sett skulle bli laget. Her er noen utdrag:
“In this fictitious world where that game existed,” he began, smiling, “it’s an easy answer: it has to be just the multiplayer experience that we all found in that first Halo 2 game. If you think about what happened in the franchise and what were the hallmark moments – when did duel wielding come in, when did another playable character that wasn’t Master Chief come in?
“All the things that you and I know about the evolution of the franchise, if you’re going to say one thing about Halo 2, you’re going to talk about real multiplayer. I think you just have to nail that in just such a fundamentally core way. Frankly [we'd have to do it] probably better than we did with Halo 1 Anniversary. I thought the multiplayer in Halo 1 Anniversary was good, but Halo 1 never had multiplayer in the truest sense, so it always was going to be something different.
“If there were something called Halo 2 Anniversary,” he concluded, “I think the multiplayer would have to be fantastic.”