Topic: Halo 2 Now Official (Read 1033 times)

RoninX7 · « **Reply #30 on:** November 11, 2004, 11:31:00 PM »

Call me crazy, but I loved the Arbiter.

One of the things that bothered me most about HALO 1 was that we had no idea who the Covenant really were. "See they're these guys. Yeah, these guys, from another planet. They all look different from each other, for some reason. They've got crazy weapons and purple ships. And, um, they want to take over Earth. We really don't know why. Oh, and they have a religion of some sort."

I'm told they explain more in the books, but, well, I never read them.

Thanks to the role of the Arbiter in HALO 2, we now have a much better understanding of the Covenant, the way their society works, their religious practices, and the significance of Halo and Earth. Actually being able to play as an Elite does so much more for the game as a whole. Now the Covenant are not just these generic aliens, now they seem like actual characters, with real depth and dimension. We have a reason to hate them or even empathize with them (I found myself seriously rooting for the Elites over the Brutes, which is very strange considering the number of times I've yelled "FUCKING ELITE!" at my TV during my HALO career).

And besides, optic camoflauge at the push of a button? Cool. Hunters and sword-wielding Elites as your allies? Very cool.

So that's just my two cents. I'm surprised that the Covenant levels are taking so much heat, they went over really well with our crowd.

Al_Ghazi · « **Reply #31 on:** November 12, 2004, 03:55:00 AM »

fezzman · « **Reply #32 on:** November 12, 2004, 05:49:00 AM »

After trying it out on XBC I finally decided to go back and give Live a second chance. I am so glad that I did too. Party invites are easy enough to do and I now have enough friends in my list because of the party invites that I can easily fill a room.

Sometimes I still like to stick to the playlists though. I didn't care much about ranking at first because it's never interested me with other games. Being that they geared this game around ranking I'm going to start taking them up on their offer.

The ranking goes all the way up to 50 and I've already made it to a huge whopping 6

I'm just glad that I didn't dismiss the game so quickly. It has grown on me quicker than Halo 1 did.

chris1712 · « **Reply #33 on:** November 12, 2004, 06:09:00 AM »

anyone wanna put a quick run through of the story, just completed it on normal but my mum started talking to me during the bastard mc/arbiter gravedigger scene!!!!!!!!!m So i dunno wtf was happening and why i was here and there etc.

also wtf with people saying this was easy!? Jeezus some of the battles are huge and you tae so much fire its very hard to stay alive. It must be incredibly difficult on legendary. Also, there better be a friggin halo 3.

lifeforce4 · « **Reply #34 on:** November 12, 2004, 07:46:00 AM »

bluedeath · « **Reply #35 on:** November 12, 2004, 09:24:00 AM »

esc1 · « **Reply #36 on:** November 12, 2004, 09:55:00 AM »

TacoBalls · « **Reply #37 on:** November 12, 2004, 10:20:00 AM »

Phizzy · « **Reply #38 on:** November 12, 2004, 10:50:00 AM »

Questions...

Where is the real-time lighting and shadows as seen in the videos (ie. E3)?

Where is the story and long gameplay in single player? H2 was supposed to be at least 50% longer than H1.

Where are the Warthogs? Bungie showed five, but only gave us two.

Where is the ATV?

I could go on and on...

esc1 · « **Reply #39 on:** November 12, 2004, 11:39:00 AM »

gcskate27 · « **Reply #40 on:** November 12, 2004, 12:09:00 PM »

Sentient · « **Reply #41 on:** November 12, 2004, 12:24:00 PM »

with that out of the way, here we go with your 2 important questions Phizzy.

Bungie never claimed ONCE that anything shown at E3 was a finished product or would be seen in the final release. There are some pretty sweet Dynamic lighting affects that got included into the final version of halo, take some time to look at objects and how the light plays off of them in relation to where it is at, and what is in the way, ect.

as for the story and gameplay, easy to answer. Halo 1 has 10 missions, halo 2 has 15. I trust you can do the math. As for the actual time it takes in hours to complete the game... since you are super l337 and have been playing games since the dawn of time, it probably takes you no more than 10 hrs to beat the game... but that is subjective. Bungie can't predict the length of time that it takes you to to complete their game... and if you want it to take longer try legendary next time.

Instead of complaining about the horrible flaws (which ones again?) and the things bungie didn't do, try actually playing the game with an open mind that this is actually a video game, not divine enlightenment. Seriously though... take a look around some of the single player levels. Realize that ALL of the cutscenes are run on the games engine, something that very few developers have the balls, or the ability, to do.

gcskate27 · « **Reply #42 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:15:00 PM »

/spoilers

i think (read: hope) that the e3 level will be a downloadable single player mission on live...

it makes sense as it could tie up the story a bit more as its on earth where mc is about to land at the end of the game as well as the fact that there are brutes there, which means it was a bit further in the story than the levels in the begining... i hope im right as that level looked really fun, but im not holding my breath...

AnThRaX · « **Reply #43 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:56:00 PM »

honestly guys you guys anticipated it way too much. The game is GREAT. The live is the best of any game. The servers own. There is no way to glitch or cheat online (FOR ONCE) That's why the servers are set up as optimatch so you can't play ranked games and invite friends.

SniperKilla · « **Reply #44 on:** November 12, 2004, 08:21:00 PM »

halo 2 multiplay on live is simple wonderful.. whoever says its not as fun as halo 1 multiplayer are either fucking lying or has just taken a heavy dose of some sort of drug

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