Halo 2.

[weightgain]

Finished the single player before xmas on heoric. Enjoyed it but didn't love it. Play live as much as possible. Fun but......well it's not halo 1 is it ?

[NeilMcRae]

halo 2 is the king - all hail the king

[Neon Ignition]

Personally Halo 2 is a better game than Halo 1 if slightly reminiscent of being a remake rather than a full blown sequel. Halo 1 to me was a deeply average game and Halo 2 fell into the 'good' catagory. The 9 and 10's were undeserving as the single player is a massive minus. True it has a great multiplayer on and off but if you're gonna offer a complete package then it has to scored as one and it has a massive failing right there. I dunno, I enjoyed it and the factor of having little or no story didn't bother me as unless you've fleshed the universe out via the books there isn't really much to the overall plot anyways.

Halo 2 just wasted too many opportunities, its Doom repackaged. An assault on a city? Curious city if its one long corridor long and enemies still arrive in waves of 4-6. Never the less I'll no doubt be there to play Halo 3...I just hope the terrible Flood don't appear and ruin things again.

[Concept]

Tha attack on New Mombasa in the trailer looked spectacular, so I do feel that Bungie lead everyone on something of a merry dance in the way pre-release hyped focused on the 'battle for Earth' etc.

My disappoint was quashed for sci-fi urban-based first-person action with Half-Life 2 just a few days later but still...

I haven't played the multiplayer component, so I can't comment, it's just the problem with Halo 2 is that, like others have pointed out, the enemies don't quite engage you in the same way as in the original. You can usually avoid many encounters by storming through on-foot or by vechile. The pacing of the game was far too erratic too...

Halo had form and consistent geography. In comparison, the sequel's asthetic identity seems to be all over the shop, almost as if it can't quite decide what it wants to be.

[crazylegs]

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[iloveannie]

check this out

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/halo2.html

kinda long but funny

Ok, I take it back. Halo 2 is da filthy. And it gives me a big erection.

[Kerraig UK]

Well i've just played the campaign through for the third time and I love it more now than ever. I play online probably every other day. No game gets more play for me.

[anephric]

I haven't touched Halo 2 since I finished it a few days after release. Tried it in co-op and (despite running far better in splitscreen than the first) it had about a quarter of the magic...

Shame. I really don't feel any compulsion to wade through it again. Can't be bothered with Legendary.

[Madbury]

Played it co-op a couple of weeks ago. The begining really is rather good. It starts to lose it about halfway through the first time you play as the arbitor and quickly falls into the trap of dull levels and seen it all before gameplay held together by a couple of stupid difficulty spikes.

[Jushin-Thunder-Liger]

3 weeks on the shelf for me, i MUST give it a few hours come weekend

[Uli]

got stuck somewhere in the last levels on legendary but Halo 2's campaign - while not quite on par with Halo in terms of atmosphere - is still a blast to play, especially if you play it co-op with a friend!

Halo 2's online gaming got old rather quick for me and i still prefer playing co-op stuff like Ghost Recon 2 and Raibow Six.

where's the fabulous downloadable online content Bungie spoke of? still no new maps or weapons, single player additions, let alone online co-op modes! disappointing!

[Beelzebot]

I got bored of it about a week after launch. It just seemed to lack the spark that the original had. Quite disappointing to be honest.

[November Tango]

I played multiplayer last week. Beat the single player campaign twice on Heroic and once on Legendary. Long time Bungie fans will know what I mean when I say it suffers from 'Myth 2 syndrome'. IE superior on a technical and multiplayer level, but an inferior single player experience.

H2 seemed a lot more confined and scripted compared to the grand, open-ended nature of the original. I can not think of a single level in Halo 2 that can compare to Assault on the Control Room or Silent Cartographer. Both of which I have played through atleast a couple dozen times on Legendary alone.

[Pikman]

I've not played Halo 2 in ages either, not since completing it on Heroic a couple of months ago. Though to be honest I've not played the Xbox once in that time and would sell it in an instance were it not for the flirty Half-Life 2 rumours and speculation.

[Yoshimax]

I doubt many people are still playing this offline - It wasn't a patch on H1 in terms of the battlegrounds or the battles themselves - As Nov. Tango says there is no level that can touch the likes of Silent Cartographer (for my money possibly one of the greatest levels ever.)

If you've got live and you've been right in about it then it's great - the cheating is threatening to ruin it but as long as Bungie do what they say and address the problem effectively then long may it continue - I'd rather play that with my mates & headset than sit playing CS:S on my PC anyday !