Today, just about 5 minutes ago, me and my roommate has defeated the so-called beast, that is Halo 2. My impressions for this game were high, considering I never played the first Halo, only seeing it played about three months ago. So this was my first experience, with this franchise. Halo 2 was not bad, better than I expected in some parts, confusing in others, and sometimes just down right confusing; how did some of the parts of this story pass the guys in charge(The huge plant, what's that about)? Anyways, we didn't play much of the Multiplayer mode; only about two or three rounds, instead we picked up the co-op campaign mode for the challenge of reviewing Halo 2.

The overall story was not that bad as some might believe, it just left out a lot of detail and didn't really fill in the gaps needed for the story to work. The Arbitor missions were a little bland, making it just a basic slug fest with the flood. Master Chief's parts were about the only good stuff. Sometimes the A.I. was cheap and smart; sometimes it was just plain stupid, standing in place, until you attacked it, leaving the A.I. wide-open for double-teams and so-called "sneak" attacks. Not bad with the boss battles through out the game, even with the battle with the main Brute at the end was challenging (man that hammer hurts!!). But after defeating him, the game is all of a sudden over? They didn't tell you that they were saving the ending of Halo 2 for when Halo 3 comes out, did they, no!! Overall the campaign wasn't bad, just average for a FPS.

Overall this game is better than the original, but still needing improvement, in my opinion, to be in elite status; other than that, its still plain jane to me!!

Score: 8/10.