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SO FREAKING FUN!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I went to a freind's house and i wanted to play the game that their little brother played. He was playing this game. So i joined in and we played a multiplayer game of King Of The Hill. I did not care if i lost. I went for the ship. This game was very fun, very creative, & not as bloody as Conker. Just the way i like it.

WOW!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game as soon as it came out, and i played quite often and it took me 3 months to beat it!!.....i have to admit i am not one of those guys who play it for 70 hours straight and beat it(no offense to those of you who are those people), but i did play about everyday...This is a great all around game, i havent enjoyed a video game this much since Mario 64.....I would definetly recomend this game

a rushed cash in

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: January 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this is probally the most overhyped game to date. a rushed cash in. a collosal failure by bungie. and one of the poorest excuses for a first person shooter single player campaign in history. the game starts out with you defending a space station. it looks pretty good with the opening be quite decent. it looks better the next two levels. youll be encountering a desert covered with droves of conevant. than a fast paced war against the conevant on the city streets. the first 3 levels made me feel wow this game is good. unfortanetly the first 3 levels theyre are 15 levels in all comprize an hour of gameplay tops. when theyre over the game begins to fall apart at the seams. youre then expected to play as the conevant. which is the worst idea in video game history. not only is the story then tailored toward the conevant in every way. but it completely takes the focus off of master cheif and the fight for humanity prescence. the game started off with a brilliant premise idea of defending earth. they throw that in the trash for conevant levels? get ready for awful level design as you struggle trough the tiny several inch corridors. the indoor level design seemed a bit annoying in the first halo. in this game though its just plain AWFUL. since the majority of the game is spent indoors. the brownish and tan rooms are not only hideous to behold but confusing like a needle in a haystack. because the horrid level design means that youll freqeuntly get lost and will not be able to tell which way is witch. you wont be able tofind where you have to go often. aside from playing 65 percent of the game in awful corridors playing as an elite. what other bad things can be said bad or not good about the game? well its story which will have to go down as the worst story ever in a first person shooter. and thats really saying something. it ends with a cliffhanger ending. adleast thats what they would like you to belive. but the actaul ending is one of the most shockingly bad endings ive ever seen period. it ends with your elite fighting a brute. shortly after the commander and cortana have a 1 minute talk. master cheif is breifly shown in a ship. what the hell are you doing? cheif is asked. finishing this war he replies. the game ends on that note without any satisfactory conclusion or resolution. it ends on an unsatisfactory note that will make any halo fan scream with disapointment. i myself nearly lost a lung. the story is so reprehensibly bad youll undoubetly feel betryayed by bungie. and after three years theres no reason for such an incomplete ending. that feels as if it were bungies attempt to create an ending before a 2 minute timer buzzed. graphically the game isnt the masterpeice some would have had you belive. there are graphical glitches in the game. the framerate sometimes will have noticeable dips. but the cutscenes are simply horrendus. when characthers are talking on screen you can see very noticeable jagging on textures. the enviorements in the begining of the game look quite nice. but when youre playing as the conevant halo 2 ranks within the ugliest games on xbox. halo 2s story troughout the game also has way too many shortcomings. the action itself is about as solid as it was in halo. but there are no improvements in gameplay. its basically the same intense combat against aleins. shoot melee attack then watch theyre body fly with a grenade. however if youre looking for veichles. halo 2 has some really great veichular seqeunces with lots of explosions. the dual weilding feature is also a nice touch but the only dualweildable weapon i found especially useful was the smg. halo 2 is good in some ways. but it just felt rushed. it lacks the cohesive imiganation enthralling story captavating locations and entertaining seqeunces that made halo 1 such a pheonominal game. this 6 hour poorly designed fps has some entertaining moments and context to it. it also has some great gameplay at times. but throw in the mazes of frustration and a story that will brake your heart after you realized youve only been playing a few measily hours. and youll agree this is a less than satisfying expereince. one youll blaze trough and probally forget about.

extremely overated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: January 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this has to be one of the most overated games ive ever played. everybody has such wonderful things to say about it i dont know why though. my first impression of the game was that it was awesome. for a very very breif amount of time halo 2 has you defending earth itself from room after room of conevant attacks. unfortunately the game then reveals a terrible secret. you have to play most of the rest of the game as the CONEVANT. from there on in not only does the game completely take you away from earths defenses. but also gives you some of the most horrible storyline seqeunces ive ever seen. the game starts off with a wonderfully atmospheric saving earth theme. that felt oringinal and enjoyable at the same time. but bungie decided to throw this idea neck first in the trash for some more crappy level design. from there on in youll find yourself playing an elite called the arbiter. the game completely starts to fall apart at the seams. level design is apsolutely terrible. providing little tiny ugly corridor crawls that lack any sort of graphical appeal. youll start seeing more and more of this as the game goes on. because the whole damm thing is really a crappy corridor crawl. youll also be engaged into some terribly uncomfortable combat particularly against flood members. words cant describe how frustrating it is pounding droves of little flood with 10 grenades and several fuel rod gun shots only to find there still abudantly flowing. speaking of weapons youll be limited only to alein weapons because your playing as the conevant. another stupid thing. when you find human weapons youll go crazy with them. but youll scream with frustration once you find out that you still have hundreds of frustrating flood to bash with merely a plasma pistol or plasma rifle. the best alternative is a needler particularly when dual weilded because it carrys twice the power of halo 1s needler. so those frustrating moments in this tdisapointing game see m a bit less rigid. the cutscenes are also terrible. with noticable fill in and glitches. as the framerate relentlessely jumps from high to low resolutions. the ability to dual weapons is also no big deal because the only weapon that is effective to dualweild is the smg. the rest are plasma pistol rifle and magmum which disapontingly replaces halo 1s zoomable pistol. while the action is intese a lot of the game this cant make up for all the shortcomings in the level design which bash you over the head from early on when you leave earth to the rest of the game. halo 2s ending is probally the worst ending of any xbox game. it ends with a reprehensably bad and unsatisgfying cliffhanger ending that will make halo fans scream in disapointment. shortly after your playing as the elite at the last level. elites and brutes arent getting along. they fight then you see cheif. commander says WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING CHEIF . he says finishing this war. the game ends on that note without any resolution or understanding. the whole thing was poorly wrapped up particularly the ending which was more of an advretisement for halo 3 than anything else. the campaign is also about an embarasingly short 6 hours. so you can see halo 2 is not the perfect game its cracked up to be. the ACTAUL GAMEPLAY ASPECT IS FUN. BUT ITS BURIED UNDER A LOAD OF CRAP. bungie you really screwed up this time. blah blah blah said bungie makers of halo 2. blah blawh if a game dosent entertain us in five minutes we stop playing them said bungie. while i have played games that entertained me in five minutes but this game is not one of them. so go screw yourselfs. people if you want this game rent it before you buy.

Great Game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

...But when does Halo 3 come out!
And people need to stop saying things like 'too easy', try it on a harder diff, if it's too easy. Personally I found it to be just right and much like Halo, I'm already replaying it over again just to explore and mess around (nice to play on easy mode and just trash everyone in your path.)

great fun!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Thankfully they kept the game the same, just changing enough to make it as fun as the first!!!

2 words for you HALO TWO

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok granted the first one was hard to top, bungie kinda came outta nowhere and produced a fabulous game. For all those that played the first one hours on end skepticism is to be expected but this game is outstanding. The best aspect is undoubtedly the multiplayer most would agree with this sentiment. However the single player is awesome, some whine and complain that the SP is worse than the first one which in some aspects is true but you gotta realize that youre comparing two great games and ya maybe some of the positive aspects of the first one were lost in the producing of the second. For example the human weapons are greatly reduced in power and efficency in the second one compared to the first. More specifically the human pistol is reduced to nearly useless (except dual weild) compared to the scope equiped powerhouse it was in the first. Another change thats not to great is the removal of the health bar in the second halo, for all those who snipe you know what i mean, in the first one you got that one tough shot in and took out the guys sheild and some health then later after his sheild recharged you got that second shot and took more health and finally after he comes out of hiding again u finish him off. The second halo isnt like this you need two shots in succesion cuz theres no health bar just a reduced sheild and some measurement of strengh after the sheilds gone????? Finally the real drawback to halo 2 is the story line, while amazing its not as creative as the first, granted the concempts are no longer new and bungie cant string us along with "discovering the aliens and their plot" in the second but still theres gotta be a little more creative power then what was put into the storyline. The whole convenant campaign was kinda cool but what happened to "assualt on the control room" jus you and some marines rolling around in a huge tank taking down the alien scum now thats a level worth playing. The new weapons and enemies are cool but the plot agian was pretty mundane at best. i would've liked to play a level where maybe youre in the middle of a huge city like new york and you have to shot down the covenant before they over run the city, sumthin....i dunno. Neways put down the SP for a rainy day and log into xbox live, now the trick is being able to log off, i couldn't. The best game ever made comes to mind as you wait for the game to load and go nuts w/ 7 other players. I've played all the great games in all categories i mean 007 goldeneye for you old schoolers, diablo 2 for PC, so much C and C (command and conquer) its comin out my ears, splinter cell, prince of persia, half life (all of em), i mean u name it ive played it, but il tell you none of em even compares to halo 2 on live. The level system keeps things pretty even and you can play for hours without the hint of boredom, the levels rotate as do the weapons. Jus buy the game its worth it ten fold and dont forget xbox live. Halo 2 is easily the best game 4 xbox, but w/ live it makes it easily the best game ever made, youll never want another game ever...ezcept for maybe halo 3........

What I think of Halo 2 so far.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played all of the campaign, and I'm playing it on co-op mode with my brother on easy difficulty. It's cool how you play as the Covenant as well as humans. That is unique. The new weapons are cool -- the SMG and Battle Rifle are great, and the Energy sword is good. The maps for the campaign are good, except that its is tricky to find the next area to go to.
Multiplayer has it all. I have only played split-screen, but that's all I need. All the game modes are practical and unique, and I love it how your player model can be an Elite. I haven't got the Halo 2 map pack, but it was a good idea to make one, to give something fresh to the multiplayer players. The only other con I can think of is the ending, though I haven't seen it, I know taht it is terrible, and its only purpose is to set up for Halo 3.
But in all, this game is great!

Take it slowly

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a hard game even at times on easy. Instead of Easy, Normal and Diificult. It should be Normal, Difficult and Damn. I love this game a lot but getting dumped in a room by the flower from Little Shop of Horrors with basicly a pop gun is a bit of a jolt. I still do something I should never do as a shooter fan and take death personally. I always feel like I let Master Chief down when I get him killed and tend to get a loud about it which bugs the bejeezes out of the wife. I kinda got my own personal Cortona. I have always played it on the Xbox but being a multi platformer I'm debating whether or not to purchase the PC version. You folks have any ideas on that one. The aiming accuracy of the mouse would be nice at times.

What else can you say

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game brought a new future of gaming with it. There is nothing to say but its GREAT.

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