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One of the best titles ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you are a vetran of the first Halo game, this game will consume every waking hour of your time for at least a week. For true Halo fans, the flaws are few and not very major: The music is not as good, the levels have become more repetitive, and everyone's favorite- the assault rifle- is gone. But the pros outweigh the cons by far. The ability to pilot the awe-inspiring Wraith tank from Halo is great. The Scorpion's main cannon reload time is much shorter, although the tank itself is slower. The addition of Xbox Live is a definite advantage. And everyone who played the first game learned to fear the energy sword. Well, now you can wield it, complete with a one-hit-kill ability. If you are new to the genre, I HIGHLY suggest playing the first Halo before you play this one, in order to better understand the story and be familiar with the enemies, controls, etc. If you pass this game up, you'll be reminded of it constantly, as most everyone with an Xbox is playing it now. Don't miss out, this is a great game.

Not Just for Guys

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! It's the sole reason I bought my X-Box. Being a girl, I've had many guys on X-box Live say this is a game just for guys, that is definetly not true. Being an avid gamer (and yes I do have a life other than video games), I can easily say that this game beats all first person shooters I've played. It's graphics are awesome, it's got secrets galore, the story line is great, and the X-box Live feature just makes it even better. I recomend this game or anyone who hasn't played it, or is having second thoughts.

Lives up to the hype-Top notch FPS experience.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Halo 2 is a top-notch FPS experience. It is not the "Best game ever made", but if you ar an Xbox owner, you have to buy it. If you like FPSs, buy Halo 2. IF you don't, then you probably won't like it.

Halo - Sequel? Or game on it's own?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, this game simply lives up to the name of it's predecessor. The story is great, not exactly original though. The music is great, and the Xbox Live is the best part! (I'm SkeletonPack) I'm trying to beat it on Legendary. Well, enjoy the game. (And if you play on easy, you're a noob)

One of the best FPS's for XBox

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is just flat out excellent. The story line's great. The playability is great. The graphics are great. The amount of stuff you can do is great. Don't even get me started how great multiplayer is for this game. If you don't own this game, and you have an XBox or an XBox 360, and you love First Person Shooters, then buy this game.

Heavenly Halo2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A superb multiplayer experience. I have pre-ordered Halo3 and am waiting in great anticipation!

Tremoundous

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely amazing. The graphics and everything are the best. Now there are a couple of things that do need to be addressed.

When the creatures talk, sometimes you can understand them, sometimes you cant. I think i found the option for subtitles, and if i did then that is awesome.

THEY NEED A CUSTOMABLE MAP. They need a map builder. Hopefully they will give one as a content download. Hopefully.

Xbox live can sometimes be fast, or sometimes be slow. It's taken me, the longest of 5 min to get into a match on live. Gamers dont want to sit back for 5 min, they want to play NOW. They definitly should have fixed that.

The ending, I dont know if it was because i beat it on easy and there's more if i go harder, or what, but it kinda let me down. Not much play on earth and NO NEW HUMAN VEHICLES. That let me down so much. We were promised, at least 2 years ago, for human aircraft AT LEAST, and they failed to deliver that. Maybe, maybe not they will add that as a content download, we can only hope but that definitly let me down hardcore.

There was some more that probably needs to go in here but i can't think of it now. Even though those things need to be addressed, THIS GAME IS AWESOME. I can't tell you how awesome this game actually is. It is definitly worth your money.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

We owned and loved the first Halo, so we def. had to go out and get the second one. I can say it is well worth the money. You have more weapons, more vehicles you can use.The only down part I have seen thus far is the tank they offer goes so slow. Seem to take you forever to get anywhere. Other then that it's even better then the first one so far...

Riveting, Sexy, Amazing, Pushed the Xbox to its limits.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
I don't know why everyone doesn't like the ending; I guess it's just the stupid American way to rush through everything. I thought the ending set the Halo 3 up perfectly. And even though the campaign is short there is plenty of replay value, try finding the skulls or beating it on legendary, both very rewarding.
They made all the right adjustments to the old weapons balancing them out, and kept the new weapons within the ballpark. That was one of the very few problems with Halo the pistol made it to easy to kill people in multiplayer.
The new physics are a very cool addition not to the engine not to mention the stunning graphics. No kidding these graphics are some of the best graphics ever to touch the shooter realm, and they managed to keep the frame rates good for the nearly all the time you spend playing the game.
The sound is so incredible, and I loved the new music. With my surround sound speakers it really placed me directly in the game.
All the changes they made to the vehicles we perfect, right on the money. Now anyone on foot can take out any vehicle.
The multiplayer combined with Live extends the replay value to almost never ending. With the games new game-types and awesome levels how could anyone resist the addiction?
The cinematic scenes are very cool. If only some of them were pre-rendered.
I am pretty sure I covered most of the game awesome features, now for the cons.

Cons:
This is hardly a con but the game in the beginning took a little getting used to, they view had a different look to it, after a couple hours of playing the game, the problem was fixed.
There are some animation glitches when someone exits a vehicle right when being boarded, Hardly a problem.
You can fly/drive all of the vehicles, just like the wraith in halo you can there are some vehicles you should be able to pilot.
They didn't add the ATV, oh well. Maybe in Halo 3 there will be an ATV
Can't think of any other problems so I guess that's it the cons.

Lots of fun, but no big bang at the end.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just finished HALO 2. It was a blast to play. It kept my attention the whole game. Unfortunately HALO 2 did not have a climactic ending as HALO did. There is a lot to be said about all hell braking loose on you while you are trying to drive from one end of the ship to the other before the clock runs out. In HALO 2, the last battle was just another level. I give HALO 2 a thumbs up, but it lacks the big bang ending.

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