- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Halo 1 had BY FAR the best single player, before the age of xbox live, single player was the one thing I had to occupy myself with, and multiplayer with my friends was a rare treat. I understand that that statement may lead you to believe that I am a "loner" of sorts, but i was 11-13 at the time and my mummy and daddy wouldn't allow me to have friends round more than once a week :P Anyway! Enough of that.
To the point. As many people have addressed, HaloCE had the "Oom-Ting", that made you actually shout out when you did some totally awesome manovour. I've been on some massive halo rampage recently due to Halo 3being so close *screams*, and have managed to power house through both the halo 1 and 2 single players, and heres my verdict. They are both equal on the difficulties of easy, normal and perhaps herioc if you're good, but any sissy that plays on those difficulties needs to step away from his/her console and rethink his morals. Its just wrong. When you play on legendary, in my experience, you die alot :P but its all part of the fun, as in halo 1 I found it a pleasure to replay it, it was a treat if I died. Sometimes I even died on purpose so I could redo it, to either regain a lost weapon or to simply kick the covenants behind in a more stylish way. Whereas in Halo 2, despite the fact that the legendary is no where near as difficult (I find) you still manage to die a more than reasonable amount of times, and I found that i didn't really want to replay it. There was no epic desire to complete the level, more of a deep rooted loyalty to master chief and his sexy body that sort of guilted me into playing. Halo 2 went way and beyond with its multiplayer, and to this day remains one of the best games around, but the scale of halo2 wasn't so awe-inspiring, and didn't whack me chest, causing my jaw to drop. I had to wait till I got a shotgun to have any fun. Whereas the assault rifle kept me awake and killing for much longer, not to mention sniper kills being 10x as rewarding.
I think Halo 2 was never going to be as good or better, as the hopes were too high and the hype was too much, but the single player remains better than most, and is quite fun on normal or herioc if you simply want to slaughter things and watch the plot unfold once more, which I must say! Halo2 had a totally orgasmic story line, on par with haloCE, but the gameplay didn't have the "smack me silly" impact to go with it. Secondly, the flood with a complete an utter disapointment in Halo2, which was a real upset, as legendary Library with Halo1 was one of the best levels to do with a friend, whereas not the flood are just bloody annoying and they over did the sentinals. And Arbitor!!!? get back! You are no Spartan! Despite what I just said, the Arbitor is cool but he's been put on the same pedestal as Chiefy baby, and it just ain't workin'
Spazbucket Out.