- Grave Mind 789
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HALO 2 VRS HALO 3
State your opinion about halo 2 and halo 3 here.
This is my rant about how I think halo 3 is a better game, in my opinion
Although; I will NOT…
-call you are a noob
-call you are a little kid
-call you are a dumb @$$
-say you don’t like halo 3 because it takes too much skill 4 u…
and so on if you disagree with me. For my pet pev about bungie.net is when people make topics about how “halo 3 sucks”, how “COD4 sucks, how “Halo sucks in general” and they say any of those thing I listed above about u if u disagree with them. I just want to tellport into their computer room and beat the living sh1t out of them with a metal pipe when they do that.
and so anyways I hope you do the same
And also I don’t care if I spell anything wrong or if I have bad grammar. It’s the freaking internet you don’t need to talk proper. I mean really come on you don’t even talk proper when your talking to your real friends outside of games, do you?
So anyways…. ( I tried make it easy to read by making it organized and no walls of txt)
Also note: in order particular order
FEATURES
First I’m going to talk about features. Since halo 3 is a newer game it has more features, just like any other game sequel. Here is the list of new features that makes halo 3 awesome : (not in any order)
-Equipment (bubbles shields and power drainers add new tactics to halo. New tactics are always good)
-New/more Weapons (gotta like the Spartan laser)
-New/more Vehicles (The chopper is awesome, and the prowler is sooooooo much better than the Specter, it’s easier to splatter with and having the turret in front is better)
-Theater!!! (An amazing feature, how could u not like it?)
-Forge!!! (the only map making feature in halo 2 was to choose the weapons on the map, which was pretty much not a map maker at all)
-People can’t hide swords and shotguns up their butt cracks anymore because the weapons are on people’s back in halo 3
-Customizable armor
-More custom game features
-A ranking system (although it may cause frustration, its better than halo 2’s)
-4 player co-op
-New flood forms
-Can change your game type settings in the lobby
-Veto system
-Party up system
-Better graphics of course
-And much more
However; there are three thing where halo 2 wins:
-Clans
-Can load a profile’s character onto a Xbox live guest so you don’t have to make your guest’s armor every time they sign in
-The ability to rip off turrets in halo 3 and carry them around is stupid. It’s a turrent, ITS NOT SUPPOSE TO MOVE!
(however, those are pretty small features compared to h3’s new features.)
MISSIONS, CO-OP & STORYLINE
I also believe the halo 3 campaign was better
A.I.
In halo 2 the scarab was like an elevator. It didn’t interact with its environment AT ALL. It did the same thing every time you played the game.
But in halo 3, the scarab will actually look at you, shoot at you, walk around, and so on just like a normal AI. For something that HUGE to shoot at you and change what it does because of you is FRIGGIN AWSOME!
In halo 2 the little flood guys (infection form) tried to dodge bullets. WTF? You’re a fricking little balloon! Why are you trying to dodge bullets? The only way you can kill me is by running straight at me and touching me and you’ll die in one bullet of anything anyway! It was better in halo ce when the infection form would run straight at your in large groups as you dodge and jump and try to kill everyone b4 u have to reload. In h2 it was a joke. In halo 3 it’s back to how it’s suppose to be even though there are less of those little infection forms guys.
Over all the flood is a lot better in halo 3. Along with the fact that there are new forms the flood will charge in huge hordes all at once giving you that close call excitement.
Also marines don’t suck at driving so much, I remember parts in halo 2 where I had to get out of the hog turret and drive myself. (they still suck though, lolz)
However I do miss the brutes going berserk like they did in halo 2.
Storyline
In halo 2 they where just like “o yeah, fyi, there is more than one halo.” They introduced more halos in such a stupid causal manor that it seemed like nothing.
And the end of halo 2 was like “WTF???????????”
While in halo 3, I got that “if I die everything in the universe dies” feeling again like I did in halo ce. How they brought back the halo you destroyed in halo 1 was very dramatic, along with the part when you actually get to fight side by side will the flood. And a great good conclusion to the series that made you shocked if u didn’t watch after the legendary credits.
co-op
Halo 3 now has 4 player co-op
And can be played over Xbox live!
Which is obliviously better than halo 2’s spilt screen only 2 player co-op.
And now they have campaign scoring and skulls that you can turn off and on, and along with achievements that make it feel more rewarding doing the campaign.
other…
The flash light in halo 2 ANNOYED THE -blam!- OUT OF ME! It seriously only lasted 5 seconds before it went out, and then it could be turned back on right after. Now in halo 3 there is no more invis, but hey that was only for the arbiter anyways.
THE MAPS!
This is one part about halo 3 haters I do not understand. “the halo 3 maps suck, the halo 2 maps were so much better!”…
Umm…
WHAT? I disagree so strongly, I mean really, the maps? THE MAPS? The halo 3 maps are all great designs that had a lot of thought put into them. And I mean really? How can you hate a game because it has bad maps? And besides Halo 3 maps are so much better than halo 2 or halo ce’s maps. I just don’t understand what people are thinking when they say halo 2 has better maps:…
Valhalla vrs. Blood Gulch (or co.ckulation)
blood gulch is a really crappy map. I use to be a big fan of it, but valhalla is so much better.
-the bases in blood gulch (older version of the map) are the worst bases every in any video game ever made: there are only two ways out of the bases, and all vehicles (tanks, warthogs, ghost) and snipers will camp those two exits from the outside until someone comes out, making those inside trapped with no hope, for there isn’t even weapons inside that can do anything to vehicles and snipers. And you have to go outside to get to the roof, which is one of the stupidest things ever, for the roof is open for attackers to use but no defenders. And, if your trapped inside they can just jump down into the middle of your base, but you cant get back up to the roof. And the roof has cover in all directions, and the better weapons, and the freaking telliporters for crying out loud. And in the inside it’s boring by the way. There are no good walls to bouncing grenades off of and defenders inside have to worry about 5 entrances and their all plan old hallways.
-In halo 2 they added a basement with a banshee. Yes that’s nice, it doesn’t help with the entire roof and boring inside problems. The bases still suck. Not to mention the attackers now have a 6th way into the base now. And even worse they made the path to getting on top of the roof from inside the base even longer.
-while the bases in valhalla are a beautiful piece of work, with the main part (and objectives) of base being on top, a easy way to get to the top to bottom and bottom to top, cover from the front of the base but NOT the back is awesome (unlike blood glutch), many ways out, and how vehicles can go on the top makes these bases very fun. The whole halo beam theme as the bases is very cool too. And having the objectives right next to a man cannon actually gives the objective carrier a choice to walk it or have a team mate drive you, which adds funnier game play, epically since there are caves and hills to keep them safe from snipers.
-While in blood gulch if you have the flag/bomb, walking it is not a good option, at all. There isn’t a man cannon next to the objective and players have to go outside and on the roof to access the teleporter which takes too much time. So really you in blood gulch/coagulation your only choice is to have a team mate pick you up. Stupid stupid stupid.
-In blood gulch there is pretty much no cover what so ever from snipers and warthogs. Means that if your anything else but those two you -blam!- and will die. Blood gulch is too big to be fun for anything but snipers.
-This is fixed in valhalla with rocks and a big hill in the middle. Players on the hill will have a great shot with Spartan laser and sniper, but players can take cover in the caves or charge up the hill cuasing many intense fights. And since the map isn’t just a huge freaking boring plan of small hills being in a warthog becomes fun and a challenge. And since the map is smaller there is always more going on.
-Man cannons are a lot more fun than teleporters, for they have snipers have a chance to kill and vis versa and they can’t be camped and can be used by anything
-And blood gulch is just a big boring old valley. Anybody can make a map that simple and boring and stupid, anybody. How can anybody like this map?
(note: yes I know I copied and pasted from an older forum.)
[Edited on 09.10.2008 6:40 PM PDT]