Savetehaloz reviews the most overrated game to hit the Xbox console.

User Rating: 8.5 | Halo 2 XBOX
By savetehhaloz | Review Date:
Halo 2 is overrated. I repeat Overrated. Yes I am a Halo Fan; hence my screename Savetehaloz or... Save the Haloz. To start off.. Halo 2 is an awesome game at the start. I actually enjoyed fighting on earth against the covenant. It was awesome, from the huge a** scarab going over you, to the defense of the Cairo space station. However... in the middle of the good stuff, i change to some ugly alien guy called the Arbiter as he embarks on his own little adventure. THIS IS BS!!!. Might as well have called Halo 2; Arby and the Chief. and put a picture of the Arbiter in some combat pose on the front cover. I'm glad Bungie did not continue this in Halo 3 or i would've snapped the game disk in half. Most people were estatic after learning you could play as the Arbiter but no. Its not as epic and heroic as saving Earth.

Another complaint is the ugly cutscenes. Typically, cutscenes are on par with the gameplay itself, but not in Halo 2. When a cutscene begins, you'll see textures coming to an apropriate resolution; like real time rendering. And it usually takes a second instead of instantaneous loading. The cutscenes are also blurry and the edges around the characters are choppy and the textures are also pretty washed out.

Level design (especially on the alien levels) is pretty repetitive with so many closing and opening doors that I get really lost (and bored to).

On a positive note, Halo 2 features a battlerifle to replace the all powerful magnum from Halo Combat Evolved (thank god IDK how people could get away with one shot pistol kills :[ ) and a toned down pistol.

It is recommended to buy Halo 2 as it makes a worthy addition to anyone's Xbox collection and it is probably required if you are following Halo's story.

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