- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I know that me writing this means close to nothing, because there are already a million posts.. I know that there will be a lot of people that buy the maps... But think of it... This is definately crap... charging us for this... No other game i have ever played has charged for new content, unless there were actual upgrades to the game.... Like new modes.. new weapons, or an extra story single player mode, which Halo 2 needs hardcore so people know what the freak happens at the end, cause there was no end to the game...
Tron 2.0 added an entirely new mode of play for the PC, months after release. It was a deathmatch mode that was never in the game when it shipped, and it was completely different from any other part of the game... Sure it kind of sucked... but guys.. these are just maps.. just freakn maps.. not even a new mode or new weapons. In no other first person game ever has a map had a price tag on it...
Even freakn Half Life 1, more legendary than Halo 2 by far, they released team fortress months after the release of the full game, for FREE!!! and it was the absolute best way to play the game until counter strike came out. Completely different mode, with new skins, new way of playing, new stratagey. And guess what, team fortress came with brand new maps too...
The only thing that M$ should use the new maps for is to get more people to buy the game, which is what has always been done in the past. If there were an extended story, ok, no problem... I want to know what happens at the end of this... rather than going going, bout to kill the bad guys, the end...
One more thing... think about this... if they have a whole new playlist for these premium maps.... you will have a whole new rank there... then when they get rid of that playlist and put those maps into the regular playlist, you will completely loose that rank that you worked for... what a waste of time...
As many people as possible should just wait for the maps to become free so hopefully M$ decides to no do this again.. I know that there are enough Halo 2 maniacs out there that don't do anything else with thier time, and have no lives that M$ will probably make even more cash off of it... but really, I don't think its all that worth it to buy them, at least online... maybe wait for the disc cause it does have some extra stuff on it, but other than that, this is pretty stupid...