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Multiplayer Halo 2 is nearly UNPLAYABLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 21
Date: November 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The weapons are too big and the screen Field Of View (FOV) is too small in this version of the game.

Having played many Halo Nights with friends where we connect 4 Xboxes via Ethernet to play 16 player Halo, I am REALLY DISAPOINTED with the game play in Halo 2. It is nearly UNPLAYABLE in the tiny 1/4 screen.

Sure the graphics a better but the game play SUCKS if one CAN'T SEE. I'd rather have reduced polygon characters and less textures and have a fun, PLAYABLE game.

The map selection screen also got rid of the map size information. This is also disappointing.

I'll be honest - I think this game SUCKS.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 21
Date: February 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Maybe I just don't enjoy FPS's like I used to. Maybe I expected too much. Perhaps games of yesterday that I grew up on (Diablo 2, MGS, and Rainbow Six even) spoiled me. Or perhaps I'm the only brave soul to offer a counterpoint to the masses' blinded eyes.

I really dislike Halo 2.

Come on, admit it. If there was no media hype, no one to talk with it about, and you played it by yourself with an open mind, you would wonder after an hour what you're doing too. If you played good games like the old ones I mentioned or Burnout 3, MK Deception, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein even (reinventing an old school classic, feller) maybe you'd see the light. Halo is nothing more than another Quake 2, another Half-Life 1. Games that supposedly reinvented Doom 1's formula, and made games mass market items. HA. I laugh at all you for wasting your money on these games, and ask you to pity me wasting fifty bucks on what was supposed to be "the best game ever". Never will I succumb to blinded critics again. Never! You all probably watched Titanic ten times too, and drool over Desperate Housewives and Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Not me, buddy. I judge things how I see em, not how the mass voice of media does.

So for all you like me, straight seers, I recommend rethinking what games you buy. I realize this review will be assaulted by Halo lovers, but I only wish to offer a different view. My view.

Peace out.

Want an HONEST review for a change?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 26
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge fan of the first Halo which I bought over a year ago for my computer and I STILL play online on a weekly basis. Sure, the story and structure of the campaign itself are lifted from the original Half Life, but as Picasso once said, "Good artists borrow, great artists steal." And while Halo's Campaign was great, the Multiplayer was even better.

So when Halo 2 came out, I willingly fell into Microsoft's monopoly trap and bought an Xbox figuring the year it would take for it to come out on my computer would be unbearable. Boy what a disappointment. Here's why...

REASON #1: THE CURSE OF THE VAPID SEQUEL

Halo 2 campaign offers nothing new in terms of plot. Just a rehash of the same battles with the Covenant Aliens and some Flood zombies who seem a bit superfluous to the convoluted story-line. Sure you can now hold two weapons instead of just one, and you spend half the game as a covenant alien. But these are really superficial gimmicks. There was nothing substantially different or new to this game.

REASON # 2: MICRO$HAFT

First off, I had no idea Microsoft would actually have the nerve to charge me 10 dollars a month in order to play online. There isn't one PC game that charges me to play online. Why? Because I already pay my cable company for that! So why would Microsoft charge me for a service they don't even provide? Have you read the papers? That's what Microsoft is best at. Charging you for whatever they want because if you don't like it, and want to go somewhere else, you can't. Because they have so much capitol from previous monopolies, they can buy out an entire company for just one single game and only release that game for their own consoles. Which leads to my third disappointment with Halo 2...

Reason #3: MICROSOFT MEDIOCRITY

Bungie designed the interface of the first Halo and it's simple and intuitive. Wanna play online? Hit MULTIPLAYER and then hit SEARCH. Boom! A list of games going on all over the world appear on your screen, listed by server name, game map, game type (capture the flag, slayer, etc), number of players allowed, number of player slots available and server ping speed.

In Halo 2, designed by the counter-intuitive geniuses at Microsoft this time rather than Bungie, you can't choose your map, you can't choose your server, or even your specific game type. They choose for you. Sound familiar?

And the final reason I am disappointed by Halo 2, it's trite, but I'm passionate about it. Whether I have a head set or not, I am forced to listen to all the stupid, racist, sexist, childish, moronic comments the rest of the world decides to blurt from their ADD-inflicted mouths through my speaker system.

At least in Halo 1, all the neo-nazi crap came in the form of text messaging which was easy to ignore as it was fast flying in the corner of your screen. But you can't block out voices without losing all your sound.

Sorry guys, some of you might love this new version of Halo, but I'm going back to play Half Life 2 again, a sequel equal to the original. Let's just hope Microsoft doesn't buy out Sierra anytime soon.

I just died from Boredom Syndrome

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 36
Date: February 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played this game once and wanted to throw myself out the window to get more entertainment. This is the lamest game that has ever surfaced since Halo. Halo 2 just plain SUCKS. It should be called Gaylo.

It's not the hype about the game that makes me not want to play it, it's just the fact that is sucks. It's a horrible game. Glitchy, grainy, and just plain stupid. I'm sure I offended all the Halo nerds out there when I said it sucked and it's a horrible game. Well, I'm being truthful. Here are some reasons why it is the worst game ever next to Extreme Paintbrawl:

-The guy walks with his legs bent 100% of the time. No one I see walks like their crouching.
-The guns are horrible for that time period. LETS SEE SOME LASER ACTION. Geez, it's 2500+AD, wouldn't you think they'd ditch the bullets?
-Both games start out the same. The aliens ambush the humans off guard and kill them all and it's up to the (lamest name ever) Master Chief to d3s7r0y them all!
-The graphics make your eyes bleed
-It's on the X-Box (Worst console next to the Virtual Boy)
-It's endorced by Microsoft
-Enemy/Ally AI are horrible
-It's all everyone talks about which makes it more stupid
-You WILL get diagnosed with Boredom Syndrome.
-Story is laughable
-The mere fact that one person in a clown suit saves the world time and time again is laughable
-The same enemies over and over again (Not like the godly Contra 3 game where they had over 30 types of enemies)
-Physics are horrible
-The fact they made books out of this game is laughable and just another ploy to get more money
-The fact that they're making a movie out of the three games is the stupidest idea ever created
-The only thing that comes out of his mouth is (I need a weapon). I mean, how lame is that? Be a real hero and don't say anything (ie: Mario, the Doom Guy, The Contra warriors, etc)
-Half-Life 2 surpasses this game by leaps and bounds.
-The fact that people will repeatedly send me hate-mail about my awesome review
-The ability to jump 10 miles from a Worthog with your sword = LAME
-It's still priced $45+

Get the picture people? Get a lighter, burn the game and X-Box until it's unplayable. Then buy a Gamecube with Resident Evil 4. You'll truely have MORE fun with that than a X-Box and Gaylo 2.

My child saved for a piece of junk...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 38
Date: November 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This toy sucked because when i got it it burst into flames and they wouldn't give my money back so i ran around their store crushing stuff so this toy is bad so don't buy it until it is cheaper.

Horrid- Overhyped Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 29
Date: April 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This GAme SUCKS- what an Overhyped piece of Crap -playing online is a JOKE- just tons of ten year olds that wouldnt know a good game if it hit them in thier pre-pubecent regions. DOES NOT COME CLOSE TO 1ST ONE. [...]

I can find better stuff in the trash dump

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 73
Date: November 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What a load of crap, I waited for a few years for this to come out, as it was supposed to be better than the first. But this was junk. I already returned it to the vendor. This was like watching the Kansas City Royals play Tampa Bay... Otherwise known as a waste of time. DOnt buy it!!!!!!!!!!! or , return it if u did!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halo Sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 47
Date: November 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Halo 2 is even worse than Halo 1. Halo 2 is more unrealistic than the first. The vehicles are mainly the same and the guns are a little different. If you didnt like the firt Halo dont buy this because it is even stupider. They should have changed the name because it sounds like a game for girls. The grafics havent gotten better. If you like realistic shooting games get Conflict Veitnam. It is very realistic and theres 14 missions and over 40 weapons.

Worst Game EVER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 42
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the worst game ever. I will only beat it 5 more times ... Tonight. It is short, so short i beat it in an hour and a half. I have 3 preordered copies: 1 for my game collection, 1 to play, and 1 to set on fire. If i knew that this was such a heaping pile of [crap], I would have only bought two. (...)

WORST GAME EVER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 41
Date: November 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst game I have ever, EVER, played in 15 years. This is just the biggest pile of steaming crape that i have ever seen. I would rathe rip my tounge out and eat it then play this mind numbing trash.

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