Halo 2 Review

[cHilli]

Contains Spoilers in Story Secton

One of the most highly anticipated games of the year, Halo 2, the sequel to the XBox' savior was the highest ever presales game in history. Was that justified? Read on to find out.

There is no doubt in anyone mind that this will be a great game, as the origional was. But being hyped up to the last by everyone put huge pressure in its shoulders, in my opinion, Bungie didnt raise the bar like Rockstar with San Andreas and VALVE with Half-Life 2. I was disappointed with this game, after reading alot of PREviews, I was sure the hype will be justified, and it would be a world beater. It wasnt.

GRAPHICS - The graphics, 2 seconds into the scene, are great, but thats the porblem, it takes about a second to load the graphics everytime, which looks amateur and frankly bad, It gives the impression it was rushed in Game Dev.
Otherwise they are great, but this is a big letdown. [7.5/10]

GAMEPLAY - The gameplay is good, but its exactly the same as Halo, thats not a bad thing, but with all the time sorting it out, i think they should have done something better. At times its very frantic because you have a hell of alot of enemies after you, but thats it, they are just coming after you, its like what 10 year old dev's do, make it hard by getting loads of enemies, not little enemies with fantastic AI or coming from different positions or mixing the types, snipers on the roof, flanking etc. ONE massive flaw in my opinion is that the indoor levels, with hallways in buildings appear all to be the same, and are also very dark, possibly an attempt to create suspence, but it just frustrated me alot. You will end up falling down pits often, and going the wrong way. There are also 0 navpoints in the game, which is also annoying.[8/10]

LIFESPAN - If you dont stop playing it after 4 hours like me, it should last you about 8-10 hours, not bad, but unless you have XBox Live you probably wont play it again, apart from on Legendary mode, but most wont. [7/10]

MULTIPLAYER - As far as I can see, there are no multiplayer bots, just 4 player, which is really annoying, if the AI is even OK, there should be bots, its cruel, simple as that. More levels that you may play with friends, a few more game modes that you wont. [5/10]

CONTROLES - Controllers are good, the seperate triggers work well for the Dual weilding of guns [10/10]

[<<SPOILER ALERT>>]STORY - Story is NOT good, the flood in Halo were a big surprise, but this time there arent many of the same, you get to play as an Elite, which is fair enough, but playing as different characters in a Shooter means little. Some twists which I didnt like, but its probably more a matter of opinion. Multiple Halos? meH.. [6/10]

[Nitrous]

Seem to me that Halo2 has not lived upto the hype... a little like Driver3 on the PS2.
A lot of people I talk 2 have not really enjoyed it that much, so what do ya think,
Halo 1 better than Halo 2?

[cHilli]

Without a doubt:)

[RocKer]

I would overall rate this a 6/10... for obvious reasons...

[<~Darkshadow~>]

i agree with chilli. I was so excited when i got the game and it seemed soooooooo perfect at first, but that was just because I wanted it so bad. After awhile, it got kinda old. yet i still finished the game in about 15 hours altogether. I say it's worth the money, but not exactly what most people wanted. I really wish it was better, but meh...

[SaveMySoul]

Not as good as they said it would be then eh?

[<~Darkshadow~>]

that's exactly right.

[SaveMySoul]

Personally i dont have an x-box and i have no reasons to get one but i thought that halo 2 would be a game that people would be jealous of, but obviously not.

[TK 421]

i liked the game but later on it turned into a chore to finish and tahat was only 5 days!! bots wulda been great but no, leave 80% of the xbox commmunity out in the dark dammit

[JoshC]

yeah i also though that it was going to be a great game i have had a little go of it and * i dont know if it was his game or his x-box* but when he shot them kinda rocket launches or any gun the sound would come on way after the impact of the bullet , rocket etc.

[Danzo]

great game tho i was deffinatly disapointed with the ending... makes me sad thinking about it... :(

i thought for sure that grand theft auto san andreas would have been the highest pre sale game in history... oh well. i dont have a xbox so this doesnt concern me.