Discuss: Black Vs Halo 2

I was reading gamespot's review on Black, excited about picking a copy up tomorrow.

I read this interesting part:

"The eight levels in Black don't take long to complete. Experienced first-person shooter players will be able to blow through the game in six or seven hours the first time. The harder difficulty settings are, as you might expect, more difficult, though the primary difference is that you can't carry any health kits with you on these settings, so you won't be able to heal on command if things get rough. While you'll unlock black ops mode for beating the game on hard, as well as silver versions of the weapons, which have unlimited ammunition for use in any setting you beat the game on, there aren't any additional modes or multiplayer, and there isn't any serious replay value here. After playing through the game once on normal, it's tough to get excited about a second run-through on hard, let alone a third on black ops"

Sounds like my experience with Halo 2's storymode, short and sweet. The difference is that Halo 2 didn't give any reason to play over and over, and a least Black gives some reason (silver weapons, black ops), no matter how small.

The thing is, I still played Halo 2's story mode a million times through. I'm just curious, why give Black such a lower score? Because Halo has online play?

I'm still getting Black, looks awesome. Just wondering what your thought are on this, and why Black's campaign mode is so much worse than Halo's.

Edit: Changed title.

Wel, I guess Black is fun for a while and I really want to get it sometimes because I'm a curious person (and because I like to shoot stuff :)). But it is not on paar with Halo 2's singleplayer campaign, which is admittedly far above average although it wasn't quite as well crafted as Halo 1's campaign..
Pvt_Murphy

Halo 2's gameplay is much tighter than that of Black.  Plus you'll probably finish the single-player mode in around 6-hours.  With no multiplayer whatsoever, I think there is only so many times you can go through the single-player mode.  Especially when you're continually put up against the AI, which isn't very bright.  It has great graphics and gun-selection though.Foolio1

[QUOTE="Pvt_Murphy"]Wel, I guess Black is fun for a while and I really want to get it sometimes because I'm a curious person (and because I like to shoot stuff :)). But it is not on paar with Halo 2's singleplayer campaign, which is admittedly far above average although it wasn't quite as well crafted as Halo 1's campaign..
onenine

I tried playing it and gave up after a few minutes. I found it terribly boring and the Aiming recticle moved waaaaaaay too slowly for my liking.matthewmw64

Black was one of those games I thought was really cool when I heard about it, but once I started playing the game and got past the destructable environments and cool looking graphics I got bored with the game. I just didn't find anything in the game that kept me hooked at all.

In the end it was a real good looking game with mediocre gameplay to me.

Black is cool with the destructible enviroments and the graphics but really, I must say I'm disappointed. I gets really boring after a few levels, there's no strategy to it.

Halo on the other hand, has a lot of replay value and there's a kind of unique touch to it that makes it great.