Halo 2

[Overburn]

halo 2 = $$

[Jerome Scuggs]

PLAYED IT TODAY

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Holy shdutdsnhsn

OMFG

guns

kill

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[Twerp]

I take it, it's that good. I guess I should have gotten an Xbox instead of a ps2

[Nickname]

by 10 they were all gone from everywhere, i will be waiting a tad longer it seems.

[SpiderMage]

XBox Live Gamertag is Sillent Sonnet

Let's whoop some ass, CTF is godly.

[Ice Weasel]

My Gamer Tag = GunRunna, or Detaind ... I gotta get a new router for my wireless router, and then I'll be online again. :turned:

[banzi fuq]

whats a good map for like sittin around drunk/high with like 4 players? all the maps seem so huge)=

[Nickname]

What a piece of shit - thank god i didn't buy it.

Halo 2 is awful, it's so horribly repetitive it makes me want to hurt fluffy bunnies. Think back to the original Halo, if you were just dinkin' around ony our own and you selected a map which would it be? Maybe the last one, either of the snow ones? truth and rec maybe? I'm sure nobody would ever say Library because it was the biggest most useless level int he game where you did the exact same thing for 45 minutes. WELCOME TO HALO 2 WHERE EVERY OTHER LEVEL IS THE SAME THING! I love all the new weapons, and the new chars and even the storyline is gripping but MAN are there some major problems.

Problem the first -- AMMO

You never, ever have any ammo. (especially if your using the SMG) You run out in litterally 15 seconds, and then you're runnign around picking it off of corpses while you fight, very dumb.

Problem the second -- Repetiviviviviviviviviviviviviv-ness

In original Halo maybe you'd kill 10 ghosts in an entire level (that would be pretty extreme, for sure one of the snow levels) Well in Halo 2 they give you a scorpion tank and you kill at least 50 in one level alone. Not just 50 in the level, but 50 in like 5 minutes. I'll let you decide how fucking boring that is.

I was enjoying playing as the "Arbiter" but he gets all the flood and the flood are brutally boring. They don't stand a chance of killing me (i can stand still and live, always a good shot of superb AI)

They also fucked up the shotgun with a way longer shot time -- thus making it way less useful. They took otu the pistol and put in a magnum, which sucks. The SMG's are fun but they don't let you carry nearly enough ammo for them, same for the Battle Rifle (the first rifle wasn't broke, why change it?) and the new covenant weapons are fun for about 30 seconds, then they're just blah. Same with the sword which sucks on everybody but the flood.

All in all, very disapoiting. I find the graphics in some places to be just brutal (look at the smoke in any dimly lit place, which is easy to find as the whole game is dimly lit) The enemy AI is extremly weak and several of the new weapons though fun, are useless. They fucked with all the vehicles and it's just a pile of shit.


EDIT: i'm sure multiplayer is fine.

[Bob (SRB)]

The problem is that people's expectations are always too high. Overall, Halo 2 is a far better game than Halo is. The AI is far improved (isn't it supposed to be the best AI ever created?), the new weapons are bitchin', duel wielding is the shit, multiplayer levels are a lot better, the sword makes me drool, playing as covenant is sweet, the new abilities are great (jumping on the ghost $), way more ships you can use, the graphics are amazing (the backgrounds are so detailed). I don't know what you are talking about with it being repetitive? The environments are much more diverse than in Halo 1, in the first halo there were tons of places that looked exactly the same as where you just were. Halo 2 is not like that at all, I barely ever reach a new area that is similar to the one I was just in. I used to get lost in Halo because places look the same, not the case in halo 2.

But I do agree with you with the ammo, in halo 1 you could basically stick with 1 gun you liked throughout the whole level, but now that the gun selection is so diverse I guess you get less ammo for each one. My only other complaint about halo 2 is the fact that you no longer have life anymore.. I never know how long I have to live after my shields are gone.

And they turned the pistol into the magnum because the pistol in halo 1 was far too powerful. Halo 2's weapons are way more balanced, and a lot more strategy goes into it especially when deciding how to duel wield. In halo 1 muliplayer, you either used a pistol for close-medium range and you'd always win, and then just use the sniper rifle long range, those were the only weapons you needed (occasionally the shotgun was alright for very close range, and the rocket launcher was good in certain situations).

Take this into perspective, Halo 2 is already better than halo, now compare it to other games, not many come close.

[Ayano]

Nick you halo hater :P its one sided anyway, not a full review like bob's.

EDIT: one thing that bugged me, the arbiter sucks, ffs i have "kill all covie bastarads" as my wallpaper. I also sometimes start killing elites and grunts on instinct, before I know it all my allys are... dead.

[Nickname]

the flood missions all remind me of the library -- thats bad.

[Pandagirl!]

I played Halo 2 at my boyfriend's house (he made me), and I was completely horrible at it. We were playing like two player slayer or something. He would stand right in front of me, so I would try to get the view over there, but the two view stick things just confused the crap out of me. So anyway, I get it on him, and he would jump. So I hit the up button thing, and realize it makes the view go down. So, I move it down. By then he's already on the ground again.
Repeat 10 times.
And in the event if I actually did get it centered on him I would either forget the button to shoot, or hit all the buttons in my fury and end up throwing a grenade and killing both of us.
Go me.

[bloodzombie]

If you liked halo, but you dislike halo 2, it's just because you WANT to hate it. It's fucking fun. Double wielding, as Bob said, is the shit. It's cooler that you run out of ammo so you're constantly scrambling for weapons. If they made it so that you couldn't find replacement weapons, that would suck, but there's always something to pick up.

I played at my friends house for about 8 hours on saturday night and loved it. the only problem I had with it was that it was hard to figure out where we were going sometimes. I'm not sure if that's part of the game, or part of the effects of the alcohol and/or marijuana.

[Nickname]

no, it's hard to find where your going. Some of the levels are insanly dark (and they give you no flashlight, brilliance) and most of the indorsies (my word of the day) are just the same background over and over again. I like dual wielding but don't like the fact i gotta throw one down to change weapons (what, i can't holset two small guns but i can holster a rocket launcher, yeah ok) and the lack of ammo for the smg's is really annoying.

My biggest Plus so far -- The marines are compotent, they don't stand near gernades or shoot be in the face anymore. They also tend to not drop dead if i leave them for 15 seconds, wooh.

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