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Subject: What was your favorite parts about each map?

R.I.P. Halo 2 11/9/04-4/15/10
If you havn't played Halo 2 online than you are missing so much. Plus if you have played a good amount of Halo 2 online, I might have a better chance of listening to anything you say.

Looking back at how Halo 2 has the best maps in the series, I just want to see what your favorite parts about them were.

Here's mine

Lockout:
1. destroying the fusion cores when people try to get the sniper
2. Epic matches of oddball in Team Hardcore

Ascension:
1. Tower of Power
2. Super bouncing on top of the giant tower

Midship:
1. Epic matches of CTF BR starts

Ivory Tower:
1. The elevator
2. Getting stuck at the top of the air lift on the OS side of the map

Zanzibar:
1. Awesome BTB 1 Flag games.
2. The scream at top of lungs gate pannel
3. The super bounces

Headlong:
1. Epic BTB matches of any game type
2. Epic Team Sniper matches
3. The awesome super jumps
4. Trying to get on top of all the buildings trying to see if the golden warthog rumor was real

Burial Mounds:
1. Epic BTB matches of any game type.
2. Epic Team Sniper matches
3. The funny call outs.
4. The "giant bodies in the sky" glitch

Colossus:
1. Messing around in the grav lift with swords in custom games

Coagulation:
1. The Custom games like Cat n Mouse and Tremors

Beaver Creek:
1. It's the only map that you can kill people with the Needler because of Dual Needlers and the maps sight lines.

Waterworks:
1. Flag Wars!!!
2. The destructable pillars hanging from the ceiling
3. BTB Snipers

Foundation:
1. Zombies

Containment:
1. Gulch Wars
2. Assault

Warlock:
1. Oddball and Koth on Team Hardcore

Turf:
1. KoTH Tactics
2. Getting out of the map

Sanctuary:
1. CTF
2. Team Snipers

Terminal:
1. Camping in the garage in Team Snipers even though in many other cases I'm not a fan of camping
2. Getting killed by the train
3. Epic 1 Flag and 1 Bomb matches
4. The Wraith

Gemini:
1. Good map design and scenery
2. Covy weapons
3. Team Duals when it was still in Team Slayer

Relic:
1. Epic BTB 1 Flag matches
2. Awesome Team Sniper matches

Backwash:
1. monitor floating around
2. Sentinel Beams

Elongation:
1. The brute shot

Tombstone:
1. The scenery

Desolation:
1. Sentinel Beams


[Edited on 01.29.2011 2:56 PM PST]

  • 01.28.2011 3:57 PM PDT
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Lockout:
1. SWAT
2. Snipers matches (Going to say this a lot)
3. Huge BR start matches
4. The jumps
5. The layout
6. The Super jumps

Ascension:
1. The Super Jumps
2. SWAT

Midship:
1. SWAT
2. Capture the Flag

Ivory Tower:
1. SWAT

Zanzibar:
1. Super Jump to get to the top of the wheel
2. The wheel its self
3. Assault

Headlong:
1. All the glitches to get on top of the buildings
2. Snipers matches

Burial Mounds:
1. Snipers matches
2. Giant dead body glitch

Colossus:
1. The feeling I got when I sniped people going up the Gravity Lift.

Coagulation:
-1. I was so tired of Blood Gulch being over played in Halo PC and my friends constantly wanting to play CTF on this map made me want to throw the Xbox out of a window.

Beaver Creek:
1. Shotguns no Shields (ShWATguns or w/e it's called in the Xbox LIVE world)

Waterworks:
1. Destructible pillars... About the only thing I like this map for

Foundation:
1. Team Snipers
2. 4 Team CTF
3. Sniper CTF
4. Zombies
5. SWAT
6. One of only two maps to be remade that were 100% better than the original (Thunderdome from Marathon 2: Durandal)

Containment:
1. Snipers
2. Opening the gate just to hear the noises

Warlock:
1. FFA Slayer

Turf:
1. SWAT
2. Territories

Sanctuary:
1. SWAT
2. Team Slayer

Terminal:
1. Addition of the train for an active map feel.
2. Snipers matches

Gemini:
1. One of only two completely over-hauled remake map that turned out 100% better than the original (Duality from Marathon Infinity)

Relic:
1. The Asymmetry that worked out perfectly
2. Objective Gametypes

Backwash:
1. Zombies or Invisible SWAT

Elongation:
1. Shotguns and swords (Just like on Longest)

(Didn't add the Blastacular Map Pack because I only played one match on each of the maps. Can't just judge them by their original forms.)

[Edited on 01.28.2011 5:40 PM PST]

  • 01.28.2011 5:36 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

Any halo 2 map and 18 players = fun if we had 100 players midship and all other maps would have been alot more fun lol.

  • 01.29.2011 12:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: totallymassive
Any halo 2 map and 18 players = fun if we had 100 players midship and all other maps would have been alot more fun lol.

18 Players? 100!? What?

  • 02.06.2011 2:01 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

Yeah 16 without mods... lol
wish we could mod 100 in or they create the game able to handle that.
Posted by: Dr Syx

Posted by: totallymassive
Any halo 2 map and 18 players = fun if we had 100 players midship and all other maps would have been alot more fun lol.

18 Players? 100!? What?

  • 02.06.2011 2:17 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.


Posted by: Dr Syx

Posted by: totallymassive
Any halo 2 map and 18 players = fun if we had 100 players midship and all other maps would have been alot more fun lol.

18 Players? 100!? What?

That would be bad like in cod4pc. Look at midship, it sucks with 16 players spamming.

  • 02.06.2011 4:10 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

Tombstone - "The Green Room."

Desolation - The shotgun tunnels.

Warlock - The teleporters.

Turf - Everything.

Terminal - The train.

Sanctuary - The turrets.

Relic - The Covenant sniper tower.

Gemini - The Beam Rifle, The doors & the Forerunner Dreadnought.

Elongation - The conveyor belts and Brute Shot.

Containment - The bases.

Backwash - The setting.

Zanzibar - The beach.

Waterworks - Phantom Plasma Pistols.

Midship - On top of Pink 3.

Lockout - The constant battle over the control of Snipe Tower.

Ivory Tower - Getting on top of the Palm Trees with Snipes.

Headlong - The Double Super Bounce to Crane.

Foundation - Repeatedly taking out people on the turrets with rockets.

Colossus - The Beam Rifle, huge Gravity Lift and Overshield spawn.

Coagulation - CTF.

Burial Mounds - "The Ribs."

Beaver Creek - Everything. I love you little Beaver Creek.

Ascension - Going for Rockets and deciding wether to take the lift or to go through the Teleporter.


Woo, there you go.




  • 02.06.2011 8:43 PM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.

Any location that spawned the Battle Riffle.

  • 02.06.2011 9:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: Super PolarBear

Ascension - Going for Rockets and deciding wether to take the lift or to go through the Teleporter.
Teleporter. Gotta get the Sniper Rifle.

  • 02.07.2011 8:25 AM PDT