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Subject: Pick it, the BEST Halo.......campaign

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Poll: Pick it, the BEST Halo.......campaign  [closed]
Halo Combat Evolved:  44%
(11 Votes)
Halo 2:  36%
(9 Votes)
Halo 3:  0%
(0 Votes)
Halo Wars:  0%
(0 Votes)
Halo 3: ODST:  8%
(2 Votes)
Halo: Reach:  12%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 25

So which one?

  • 05.13.2011 11:13 PM PDT

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Halo CE may have lousy graphic due to old tech. But what if it is just improve graphic and everything else remain untouch. it would be awesome storyline.

  • 05.13.2011 11:17 PM PDT
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Funny, this guy posts like, four or five threads in bungie universe forums... nonetheless I shall do my duty- reply the threads.

Yes, Halo: CE is best campaign ever, despite old tech. That is how Halo was set and gave birth of halo franchise that lasted ten years.

Otherwise, it'd be more better if it was only improved in sense of graphics and kept the core mechanics that made true Halo game. Let's wait and see.

  • 05.13.2011 11:20 PM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

Halo: CE did have a good storyline. It went away from your standard alien shoot em up. Nice Flood twist. But in the end I would have to say Halo 2 has the best campaign. It did something that either no video game did, or very few did: show the aliens perspective. I know that some people hated this, but this was a brilliant idea that they should have kept in Halo 3.
Halo 2 also had, without a doubt, the best soundtrack.
For the longest time I hated Halo 3's campaign but it wasn't until after Reach came out that I liked it (not saying Reach is a bad game, just the campaign lacked what H3 did.)

  • 05.13.2011 11:20 PM PDT
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Halo CE of course. It has pretty nice storyline despite we play with a faceless character. It had the best mood I have ever seen in a video game.

  • 05.13.2011 11:29 PM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

also I felt like Halo: CE seemed a bit too obvious. of course the Chief is gonna live, and of course he's gonna save the day.

Halo 2 is almost uncertain cause he nearly dies, also SO MUCH -blam!- HAPPENS IN IT.

  • 05.13.2011 11:33 PM PDT

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Posted by: raganok99
Funny, this guy posts like, four or five threads in bungie universe forums... nonetheless I shall do my duty- reply the threads.

Yes, Halo: CE is best campaign ever, despite old tech. That is how Halo was set and gave birth of halo franchise that lasted ten years.

Otherwise, it'd be more better if it was only improved in sense of graphics and kept the core mechanics that made true Halo game. Let's wait and see.

  • 05.13.2011 11:39 PM PDT

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I loved Halo 2

  • 05.14.2011 12:30 AM PDT

My favourite is Halo 2. I didn't get it until 2009 when I got my Xbox 360 though. I went out and bought Halo 1 and 2 straight away, but 2 was my favourite. I was amazed at how much the AI had improved, when I climbed out of my Warthog only to see my teammate marines clamber onboard and drive off by themselves.

  • 05.14.2011 12:59 AM PDT

Halo 2.

Comes very close with CE, which had superior level design. But in the end, its the story, the inclusion of Arbiter and the taking it home to Earth (even for a brief moment, but it did make a lot of impact) what makes it stand out as the best in the series (for me at least, not to forget it easily had the best multiplayer too).

CE set up the universe and was absolutely brilliant, nothing short of almost perfection. But H2 brought depth to the galaxy, fleshed it out and had most impact on the rest of the series, AND on the community. H2 set up all the crazy theories etc that would go on and on in the Forums for 3 years straight about how the series would end....unfortunatly in a lackluster way.

Some props must also go to ODST and Reach however. ODST for taking a risk that paid off (for me at least), and Reach for every level paying homage to the classic levels from the rest of the series.

  • 05.14.2011 1:16 AM PDT

I picked Halo 2, for the same reasons as DonVinzone2.

And also: LOL at Halo Wars even being an option.

  • 05.14.2011 1:34 AM PDT


Posted by: Kalawaki
I picked Halo 2, for the same reasons as DonVinzone2.

And also: LOL at Halo Wars even being an option.


Its 1 actually ;) not DonVinzone 2...

But Wars is great. I would normally not put it in a list with the shooter Halos, as that would be like saying a pear is one of your favorite apples...

But Wars is above H3 and on par with ODST in my list of overall favorite Halos. But I must say I do have a bit of a bias: I really like Ensemble Studio's games (Age of Empires/Mythologies are the best!) and the story in the game was like those from the books...something different from what we've seen in the shooters and I liked that a lot.

  • 05.14.2011 1:37 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Halo 2 and ODST are the best.

Let's talk about what they did right.

1) Halo 2:
The story is flawlessly structured together from two different perspectives. We see the battle through John's eyes and the Covenant through Thel's eyes. Hey, Bungie, you did good with this decision - no longer are we fighting mindless and characterless aliens on a screen. We're seeing deep into their religion and ultimates, as the story develops, how fragile the Covenant is because we never kill a single human (only Flood and Heretics).

We also have a very large variety of locations ranging from:
- Space

- Earth (cities, motorways, districts, courtyards and boulevards)

- Threshold Gas Mine

- Installation 05 (swamps, mountain ranges, flying gondolas, temples, underwater structures, the Library, the Control Room, open spaces filled with the Flood and Covenant going at it).

- High Charity (gardens, temples, shrines, alien corridors, prison blocks, massive gravity lifts, colossal cathedrals etc).

The point is is that there's much more variety in this game than the others, I'd like to also point out that the Halo series has a very distinct colour pallet compares to other FPS/TPS games. It's colourful, it has character and a backstory behind it instead of just flying dust particles, huge walls and the like. What is there in front of you is there for a reason, like those massive ship things on Quarantine Zone which have seemingly crashed and have become those arched bones in the desert.

The soundtrack is the most varied in any Halo game because each track is suited for a particular area. Whether it be Orbit of Glass for being high up in some alien space station, In Amber Clad for an all out battle or even Breaking Benjamin during that fight where all the Covenant are fighting each other and you just have to kill them all.

It's one of the best things to do right in a video game and Halo 2 pulls it off beautifully.

2) ODST

ODST has the best campaign overall and I'll tell you why.

Firstly, it's a character driven story. This is new ground for Bungie and they pulled this of very well by having Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk and Adam Baldwin do voice acting for it. This immediately establishes chemistry between the actors and gives their relationships more depth.

Bungie's inspirations for the game were fantastic too. The old-timey noir atmosphere and the structure of Dante's Inferno were very well warranted and it came off as a well thought up story which had time for players to emotionally invest in the characters whilst also enjoying blowing stuff up.

The city was alive, that's not something you can say about a lot of games. We wake up in an abandoned and shattered city trying to find our squad, over the course of the game you see different areas which are now destroyed but also how they got that way in the flashbacks. It almost makes the city a character itself and was a unique way to show the destruction of New Mombasa.

Then there's Sadie's story. This is one of the best things to ever happen to Halo, all I need to say is this: Everything was perfect. The story, the sound effects, the art and voice acting was absolutely perfect. It even had an influence on the game where you see the Olifant in the city and the NMPD trooper underground. You'll recall me saying that in Halo 2 everything is there for a reason, this couldn't be more true with ODST.

I'll conclude on the music. Ah, such a delight to have a fresh new soundtrack which wasn't simply recycling old tracks. There were a few throwbacks but walking around the city with tracks like Neon Night and No Stone Unturned playing is divine. Marty's sublime soundtrack is what makes Halo unique and ODST only reinforces how brilliant that man is.

  • 05.14.2011 1:57 AM PDT
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Halo 2 isn't dead jorge...... its just missing in action.
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Prob CE.

  • 05.14.2011 2:30 AM PDT

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Halo 2 had the best campaign in regards to playing it, and storyline. Halo 3 was the most dramatic campaign and had a good storyline so they are both right up there at the top.

  • 05.14.2011 4:34 AM PDT