Yeah the ending was annoying, but realistically it's no worse than the end of Empire Strikes Back. Had I been old enough to see that in the theaters I would have been furious. But luckily, Return of the Jedi was right there sitting next to it ready to be watched. I predict that in time no one will remember how annoying the ending of Halo 2 was and may actually applaud the dark tone of the second act.

dchan01

It's funny that you quote Empire Strikes Back as being similiar to the horrible Halo 2 ending, because most Star Wars fans will tell you that Empire Strikes Back is the best in the series (refer to Clerks for more info)

Ok excuse my dorkiness, there are so many of these "overrated games! zomg" threads.  Halo 2 is a good game, I'll agree, the ending did suck, however this has been and still is one of the biggest titles on the Xbox, and for a good reason.  It rocks, especially the mutli player. 

Oh yeah, and as for the whole issue of Halo 2 being re-released for the computer, yeah it should be pretty much the same score.  The problem is it takes Microsoft so long to port this game to the computer that by the time it comes its really out dated, however I'm sure the computer version is better than the score it got.