- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
10 cool things about Halo 2
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.