Ah yes, Halo. The game that supposivly owns Xbox and every game in it's genre. The godlike title you'd be crazy not to enjoy, the amazing franchise which brought millions into Bungie And then..there was Halo 2. Now, Halo 2 is basically Halo 1 cept reworked for the worse, they took the approach "if it aint broke, dont fix it" and shoved it up their asses. After 4 long years of anticipating this release, I found myself entertained for only 8.5 hours, that was the campaign mind you so I didn't get to try multiplayer right away. Campaign: The campaign for Halo 2 can be summed up into one word, "wow." not a good wow, a wow you would say instead of maybe dejavou. Now I will admit it didn't start off bad, it was going pretty good until they introduced the Arbiter, made it seem they tried to make this movie like to add to the drama of the story. No. It didn't work. The arbiter is maybe one of the most pointless characters in a game. The campaign afterwards became extremely boring and annoying. Eight hours of go threw the door, shoot the aliens, go threw another door, die, respawn, go threw same door, shoot the aliens, repeat 10 times. It's like Doom except not as fun. Now, you may be saying to yourself "h3 iz teh suxz0rz!!1!!" But just keep in mind, all you AOL leet little boys, I was excited to hear of a new Halo after I completely destroyed the first one all those years ago. I've just about read every article and seen every video update on what was going to be the best game of the year. I was more excited about the Multiplayer anyways. Multiplayer: Now this was the day, I finally logged in threw my ex friends Xbox Live Account and played Single CtF on Zanzibar, the most fun I've had online. It was the best, seeing blue and red Master Chiefs and the occasional Elites, running around shooting the piss out of eachother. Dual weilding all sorts of weapons, my personal favorite, SMG and Magum with Energy Sword for the backup. But it got way too boring after awhile. Everything was always the same, all the owners of the server, extremely rude and hardheaded, a bunch of 12yrs screaming "I WANT BATTLECREEK!! ROCKETS ONLY!!! KICK HIM HE DOESN'T LIKE WHAT I LIKE!!" It was always fun to stick a plasma grenade onto one of them as they ran buy and seeing the pretty blue stuff explode as the ragdoll physics kick in and sends them flying 15 feet into the air. All in all, Campaign sucks, Multiplayer is where its at, and once you get completely bored...dont feel bad selling it like I did.
By Madskillz999 | Review Date: Dec 23, 2005 | XBOX
I'm finally ready with the review of this awesome game! First off, this is obviously the sequel to the hugely popular initial Halo game. You are Master Chief, a space marine who is sent out to battle the enemies. You... Read Full Review
Halo 2 is a worthy sequel to Halo. While the story does lack in some parts, overall, the game is still excellent, one of the best games ever. To get the bad points out of the way, i didn't like the single player campaig... Read Full Review
