Official HALO 2 thread

[Bobs_Hardware]

Gotta say, that it took a while, but I do somewhat enjoy the game now.. in co-op.

From what I can tell, though the game again, is horribly rushed and they simply had to cut out a lot of features, and a few of the levels.

It just feels like an incomplete product which they rushed so that it could still make a major impact this gen.

I\'d expect the game to be finished (read: the second half) on the XBox 2, and hopefully it\'ll include some of the features/vehicles/levels that had to be excluded from this game.

The game was no where near as epic as it was supposed to be.

who plays a game for its story? don\'t you know its all about blowing shit up..?

To quote Ryu from the thread linked above

If Halo didn\'t setup an already great universe with its first game, 2 excellent books which expanded on the origins of the MC and happenings between the first game and the second, and an already hyped up single player game in Halo 2 which was, from what we were told, "a closely guarded secret" by Bungie, none of us would care about the story I suppose. But it\'s there, and we do.

Not yet, that’s why I am saying clam down.

Christ.  It\'s calm, not clam.  The first time when I used it again as a joke it was OK, but now you did it again and it\'s annoying.  Second of all, beat the game and come back to this thread and tell us all who have beaten it what to do.  I doubt you, one of the biggest Xbox naysayers on this entire board, would find it acceptable or worth your time.

who plays a game for its story? don\'t you know its all about blowing shit up..?

My quote that Nu posted sums up pretty much how I feel about this one, but one other point I\'d like to add -- if it was all about the shooting and atmosphere of the game and story didn\'t matter in the slightest, then Doom 3 would be the game of the year.  We all know how that one turned out though...

I just looked at the old 8 minute E3 trailer.

I shouldn\'t have done that.

I remember being SO hyped about playing that level and now I\'m getting pissed that I had to guard a courtyard for 15 minutes instead of participating in the epic battle, for Earth, that I was expecting.

haha.  The E3 trailer, the all new vehicles (they even had completed models of them), the melee combos, the peeking around corners, the abilit to sprint... I think they got so hung up on the multiplayer, they spent all their time on that in the last year and forgot some people actually enjoyed the Halo universe and story...

I can\'t understand why they would take that whole part out of the game. If it was working well enough for an 8-minute trailer why take it out of the game.

Bungie HAD to have known that the ending sucked. There is no way shit like that just slips by someone.

Ryu, all the vehicles shown in the E32k3 Demo are in the final game.

The New Mombasa from E32k3 is still in the game, it\'s just been altered("dumbed down") considerably, which is what I don\'t understand. It was a real level, that had several different ways to accomplish your objective(it wasn\'t just some linear single-path thing. Although the demo did not show it, there were many differen places you go could, action and Marines all over)... It just baffles me. While the new New Mombasa looks a bit more "real", it still doesn\'t look as good as what I saw in the E32k3 Demo, mostly because of it\'s design. It\'s small, short, and all of the neat stuff overhead seen in the E32k3 Demo was taken out. Why?

After seeing the scale of Old Mombasa I\'m certainly not going to buy that it was because of some technical issues brought on by improving the textures of New Mombasa. That just don\'t make sense. Some of the cuts and changes to HALO 2 simply do not make sense.

Nono, I wasn\'t really referring to the Guass hog, but moreso to the various other hogs and the ATV they had already rendered.  I don\'t think it was detrimental to the game, and I don\'t think it would have improved the game overall if they were included, but it is one of the things on the already laundry like list of cuts that were made.

so i went over my friends house again last night

brought the xbox out, and started playing co-op in.....halo 1

explain that

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I can\'t explain it.....








you have friends :shocked:

yeah, i flew to oz to hang out with the abbo\'s

they got tired of playing with sticks in your grass hut

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thats cool, i didn\'t fly to the states, i\'d rather go to a place thats better then australia, not worse..

you guys use painted stones as currency,  how is that better?

[Bobs_Hardware]

While I don\'t approve of the hijacking of the thread..

I do approve of the blatant and racist use of the term "abbo" by an American.