- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Heyyo,
Unless they do a massive overhaul to Halo2? I probably wont' get it for PC. I played Halo2 on $box... n'... BLAM! BLAM!BLAM!BLAM!BLAM!BLAM!BLAM! BLAM!!!11!!!111!! (for those who don't know, BLAM! is how bungie sensors swearing..)
Here's a review I posted at another forum....
Posted Originally by: ThE_MarD
I just played Halo2 yesterday.... and I nearly cried. OMG, that game has been -blam!- over since the first one.
It's true, the pistol's useless now. It takes a full clip to take down an elite, and in mp can't kill an enemy with 1 clip, you can't zoom shoot it anymore.. YET you can zoom in with a shotty and shoot that? wtf?. UGH, this game annoys me now. -blam!- over my fav gun... just right here for me Halo2 is worse than Halo1...
Dual wielding's nice, but it annoys me how meleeing drops your 2nd gun, so then during the firefight you have to scavenge the ground to try and find the darn gun so you can dual wield again....
Boarding vehicles is nice, I couldn't really get a hang of it cause of how hard it is to board moving vehicles when you can't aim at it cause you have to move your thumb to hold the X key... I ain't got teh console micro, cause I don't bother with it anymore.
Sure, they got rid of the fuelrod guns in multiplayer, and they're better in H2 anywho cause they don't hold rediculous amounts of ammo anymore, but now in multiplayer there's that brute cannon... it's like the fuelrod, a bit less powerful, so at least the weapon balance for heavy weapons was kept in mind, so that's 1 plus side to Halo2.
Another thing interesting to see is an elite without his armor... if you havn't played H2? at least play it to see what kindof race they really are.
One part that made singleplayer easier is that important characters can't die... so the need to help them in combat and save their asses from death is no longer needed. On Halo1, when you had to rescue capitan Keyes, you had to like, protect him, cause if he died the mission fails and you need to restart from the last checkpoint. On this? you can melee them until they fall off ledges and still nothing...
Another lame fact is the lack of fall damage. Now that's n00bish. Sure, fall damage was annoying before, but at least it helped keep some of the semi-realisim that was Halo1... so levels like Halo1's death island would be like, too easy to storm a base, cause you could leap off the top knowing you won't die. Sure, you could on Halo1 but it was pretty hard not only to figure out how to fall safely, but to actually do it.
The graphics were really nice, easily the best looking game I've seen on $box... but out of all the games out there, especially on pc? no.
As for the Far Cry textures? yeah, they were really sharp, but I liked them like that. Cause they looked uber-detailed compared to someother games where they just looked bad... Halo1 for PC did have some nice textures, but lots were low quality since most were just the $box textures... Some level textures were redone, so some of the really nice metallic surfaces looked great... what I never understood is why diddn't they redo MasterChief's textures? he's the most viewed texture of them all since he's always in the game...
Another GHEY thing, was how rediculously accurate the tank is now, it's accuracy is now like 100% instead of like 75%-80% of the tank on Halo1. PLUS, in MP the driver's not exposed, so us skilled players who usually shoot at the driver's are stuck shooting the actual tank like a n00b...
Being an elite was kickass though, the ability to cloak for a while was nice.
the only reason i'm gonna play it again is for the storyline, that's it. Cause from what I've played? the storyline's great... Plus I wanna know how the storyline continues.
So yeah, most of the new changes were lame, but there's a few new parts that helped make Halo2 better... but I think I'll stick with Halo1 for PC though... that and Project Torlan: a HaloUT mod in the makings. With all these n00bish changes, yeah, sry to say but... Halo2 = Double n00b, Triple n00b... N00BTACULAR!
[Edited on 1/5/2005 11:20:55 AM]