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Subject: Ten cool things about Halo 2
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1) The glass has it's own physics your body flying into it will break it, except it doesn't all break as one, it will only break in the spot that you hit.

2) Four player split-screen is still in. You can play 4 people with one Xbox Live name - the 3 others will be guests if they don't have live accounts and all 4 players can have their own headsets.

3) If the host happens to leave over XBL the hosting goes to another client in-game till the game is over (or maybe till that person leaves, that part wasn't clear.)

4) This was confirmed and denied, so take this one with a grain of salt but supposedly Halo 2 supports Widescreen.

5) Sketch showed us in Zanzibar there are windows in the top base and if you shoot out the supports for the wooden over-hangs - they will flap down and cover the window hole. Providing cover, and if you walk into the wood it will push out so you can look out the window, shoot, come back in for cover - then poke out again, if you desire.

6) I thought it was cool that you couldn't carry the flag as a driver of vehicles. You can be driven but you can't drive. It created a much more frantic atmosphere where team work was key, "cover me!" "Help him get the flag!" Were phrases sure to be heard.

7) You can see your legs and parts of your torso. It may not seem cool to read, but it's amazing when you are playing. When you are an elite you can see your knee's when you jump (they have that different kind of jump.) It's pretty sharp.

8) Master Chief HUD is blue, Covenant HUD is a purplish color. I played as both Elite and MC and I didn't notice a difference between them. It seemed balanced to me, others said the Elite jumped higher and in articles online I read that they thought MC jumped higher so I don't know what's right and wrong.

9) The death animations don't seem as predictable. In Halo 1 you have a bunch of animations for different things I died many ways and never did it seem the same. Once, I got hit with a rocket, while in a ghost, while I was next to these explosive barrel-type things and my ghost exploded incredibly violently - my body went twirling into the air, literally as if someone put a peg in his torso and spun them as if on a "Wheel of Fortune" type table. My arms and legs flapped - as realistic as my mind could envision it, there also was no tearing type appearance in the models. It was incredibly clean looking.

10) The sniper scope, the actual scope, is different. It's pretty cool looking, it doesn't do that graphical animation on back. It's nice though, supposedly it's more forgiving. I died wheneer I found it. The shotgun is cool looking too, probably one of my favorite weapons. It looks very similar at the end where the aiming marks are but when you get closer to the stock it's a different design.

This will settle a lot of controversy and questions.
I got this from here.

[Edited on 6/8/2004 1:57:38 PM]

  • 06.08.2004 1:51 PM PDT
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Is that good or bad?

  • 06.08.2004 1:52 PM PDT
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... ok...

  • 06.08.2004 2:09 PM PDT
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I'm still skeptical on #2. If it is true then all my prayers have been answered. I'll wait till I see what Bungie says in a statement.

  • 06.08.2004 2:10 PM PDT
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I personally like #4, #6, and #10.

  • 06.08.2004 2:20 PM PDT
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why is seeing ur self cool?
i like the glass one

  • 06.08.2004 2:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: NeedzABetterSN
why is seeing ur self cool?


Wtf?

  • 06.08.2004 2:25 PM PDT
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I'm almost 99% sure they won't have #2. I just have my reasons. People that feel same as I do know why.

  • 06.08.2004 3:46 PM PDT

SB-117

Im not sure about how 4 players can ALL have headsets because "guests dont have certain priviledges that the gamertag player does. i.e. cannot use communicator"

  • 06.08.2004 3:54 PM PDT
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why woudn't they have #2? that was one of halo 1's strongest points.

  • 06.08.2004 4:01 PM PDT
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#1 is really cool. #5 is cool, but will be annoying if you are trying to kill the guy ducking in and out. #9 is pretty sweet also. I think a 3rd person view of you dying is more fun to watch than your view falling over and seeing yourself lying on the ground.

Can't wait til 11/9!!!!!

  • 06.08.2004 4:02 PM PDT
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Amen to that.

  • 06.08.2004 4:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: Alerus
I'm still skeptical on #2. If it is true then all my prayers have been answered. I'll wait till I see what Bungie says in a statement.


mind u they said 4 xbox live. they didnt say co-op.

  • 06.08.2004 4:32 PM PDT
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Yep. But I think it is a good idea.

  • 06.08.2004 4:48 PM PDT