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Subject: Halo 2 has got to be the best Halo out there.

"Through the fog the army moves on. Pushing through borders. Knocking over obstacles. Killing all enemies. Victory is secured, brothers, march on until the flag rises over the landscape."
The Holy Council

I mean everything about it is awesome! Even in the first level it's amazing. It shows covenant backstory and how the elite became the arbiter. It isn't just kill aliens and go here anymore.

One of the first things I think of is the graphics. Look at a normal marine. He has camouflage and shoulder armor that looks awesome! They're smart and their speeches are funny.

Johnson kicks ass in this game. Especially on Outskirts, man I love that level too, he has a sniper rifle (Which I always took on legendary) and he takes out elites all over. Not because he has infinite life, it's because he kicks so much ass. In Halo 3 he sucks! He keeps getting captured and fails on all levels. And DIES. Wow...

Back to Halo 2. The series is now diamonds! Well Halo CE was a real blast too! I still play it to this day on my PC. Silent Cartographer. One of the best game levels ever. In Halo 2 it's just as good and better! There are two storylines, amazing graphics TO THIS DAY, and the first cliffhanger I experienced. I killed Tartarus about 500 times still wondering what would happen next.

The best part of this game that I think is the campaign. The campaign is amazing. It's a masterpiece. If anyone hates this campaign please tell me why because I can't find anything wrong with it.

  • 08.25.2011 2:00 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

MP overshadowed campaign for me, but the campaign was very well done and I find myself playing it on and off now and then. I think haters on the campaign sometimes over focus on the poor ending the game compared to ce, if they would look at the whole campaign it's the best in the series.

  • 08.25.2011 2:08 PM PDT

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Fada beo Halo 2!


Posted by: totallymassive
MP overshadowed campaign for me, but the campaign was very well done and I find myself playing it on and off now and then. I think haters on the campaign sometimes over focus on the poor ending the game compared to ce, if they would look at the whole campaign it's the best in the series.


The story was a cliff-hanger, it continued in Halo 3 quite well if you ask me, Halo is just awesome....all of it.

  • 08.25.2011 4:33 PM PDT

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I disagree, but I really don't want to bash what people like anymore. Each halo is different. I like halo 2 the least, but the one positive is that it did do different things. There is a halo for every type of gamer. Even if they are (almost) all shooters.

  • 08.25.2011 5:08 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sepratist Unggoy
IMO it's the worst fps ever even black ops is better and that sucked hell am I gonna get my 5 quid back somehow or another

Halo 3, halo ODST and halo reach are MUCH MUCH MUCH better this game just drags the whole franchise down shame on the people who designed this crappy game shame on you


well black ops is the best call of duty so i agree. i liked cod 4 for multiplayer. waw and mw2 were a disapointment. the reason i like black ops is the zombies mode. i especially like solo coz it feels like i'm playing 3d packman.

  • 08.25.2011 5:10 PM PDT

Posted by: bayareaboss510
One game I'm not joking a little like 7 year old said and I quote " tell me what your dick looks like so I can imagine it in my head and beat off to it"


Posted by: TheColdWolf
If Team Swat became ranked, would there still be no shields?


Amazing!

I hate the current gaming community. Black Ops? Halo 3?

Such average shooters.

  • 08.25.2011 5:30 PM PDT

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Posted by: Striker029
I hate the current gaming community. Black Ops? Halo 3?

Such average shooters.


Lol no. I prefer CE > H3 > Black Ops > Cod 4 > Halo Reach > ODST > WaW > MW2 > Halo 2. Everyone has their preferences. Halo 3 and Black Ops are not average. The only thing average is the graphics to an extent. But Black Ops art style is a lot grittier and that's one aspect I like about it. Organized art style > Graphics anyday imo. Gameplay wise H3 and Black Ops are pretty balanced. Black Ops has zombies which has pretty much perfected arcade gameplay in a modern shooter. They have a lot of customization and allow the gamer to create his own experience. That's a blessing and a curse because many people will not take the time to try and find what works for them in a game that has so many features. If they was not much to halo 3 you think you'd have a 50 by now. Black Ops has barebones which is a lot better than MW2s pure modes. Black Ops has about 25 different playlists or more. I've tried playing other shooters and the controls just feel wrong on most of them. I don't see what shooters you can compare them too. Average to me is like Bioshock or Borderlands. I mean how many shooters can you possibly put above black ops and halo 3 to call them average?

[Edited on 08.25.2011 5:59 PM PDT]

  • 08.25.2011 5:50 PM PDT

Posted by: bayareaboss510
One game I'm not joking a little like 7 year old said and I quote " tell me what your dick looks like so I can imagine it in my head and beat off to it"


Posted by: TheColdWolf
If Team Swat became ranked, would there still be no shields?


Amazing!

I don't give one turd about Black Ops. All CoD's to me are trash.

Halo 3 is average. It has slow base speed, terrible maps that stream across both 4v4 and 8v8. A Battle Rifle that isn't reliable because of its spread, a starting weapon called the Assault Rifle that is complete trash and isn't dependable vs. a BR user, Spartan Laser which broke any reasonable vehicle balance, gametypes that decreased any skill or teamwork (Assault's instant arming, CTF long respawns, VIP), and equipment which half of them were glitchy or exploitative. Others slowed down the gameplay (regen, bubble shield).

Yeah, that improved the series.

  • 08.25.2011 7:28 PM PDT

"Through the fog the army moves on. Pushing through borders. Knocking over obstacles. Killing all enemies. Victory is secured, brothers, march on until the flag rises over the landscape."
The Holy Council

Halo 2 elites and marines look a lot better in Halo 2 than in Halo 3.

Halo 2 has the best soundtrack, EVEN THE TITLE SCREEN. Just go ahead. Amazing!

And the Honor Guards. Awesome.

  • 08.26.2011 3:59 PM PDT
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haha, i predicted something similar will happen. as soon as someone mentions CoD then everyone immediately expresses their dislike of CoD games and why they think HALO is better. what else would you expect to hear from a HALO forum but CoD4 was a fantastic game, more so during its glory days from late 2007 - late 2009, some will deny it but the release of CoD4 was the downfall of HALO's legacy.

HALO 3 is a good game but i found the campagin ultimately disappointing (only good thing about it IMO was the song farthest outpost the cutescene where arby gets his revenge, multiplayer could have been better but it was still fun.

besides the DMR, reach wasn't an interesting game. its multiplayer COULD have fun if it actually had decent maps IMO *thinking of boardwalk or reflection sends an unnerving chill don my spine* at least it will be better once HALO C.E.A is released with 7 new remakes of favourite maps from HALO C.E excluding BLOOD GULCH *disappointed* and maybe one from HALO 2.

though the gameplay remained simalar to mw2, balck ops was still more fun then reach. ballistic knifes, attack dogs, rc...

it would be interesting if killstreaks were added to HALO 4 (phantom comes in to assault hostile/helicopter counterpart or an engineer comes to make you and your alleys near you temporarily invulnerable)

anyways back to the topic, HALO 2 is the best because it had the best story, boss battles, best soundtrack, best locations in both campaign and mp, best spartan and elite armour texture(i miss that glassy look), best elite designs (honour gaurd, councilor = badass!), the ONLY game in the series to date with good brutes (fact that they shaved their fur of in 3 and after doesnt match their aggressive behaviour + they're not as crazy as they were in HALO 2, you could actually melee them a couple of times before dying in HALO 3 and after whereas in 2 if you get near one, you'll get sliced. countless other reasons why its the best. even till this day, not a bad game to play when compared to modern games and their many flaws

  • 08.26.2011 5:04 PM PDT

This is a Reach account that I created the day they announced his name in a bnet weekly update. Any stats regarding ODST or Halo 3 are irrelevant. Also, Halo CE master race. Halo 1 > other halo games > other games.

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boss battles? that's one of the most annoying things about the campaign storyline. i mean i thought combat evolved eliminated boss battles from shooters, but then halo 2 had to put the gimmics back in. honestly in war games boss battles are the lamest parts. and there is no real escape mission in halo 2 which is much more realistic in a war about survival.

adding killstreaks to halo would be terrible. that's the last thing i like about cod. mw2 probably had the most overpowered killstreaks and it made the game become all about camping. at least in black ops you don't gain total control of the map. not to mention halo spawns are predictable which would only create more problems. i mean mw2 had such horrible spawns and we saw what that caused. halo spawning seems to even be simpler and i don't see how killstreaks would create skill.

I hate the Cod > Halo and Halo > Cod trolling because it's just not fair. Each halo game is its own and each cod game is its own. I loved Halo CE more than any shooter in my life, but I would put Cod 4 or Black Ops up there. Halo 3 was my second favorite halo game because of how the BR worked. I liked the hit detection and the spread. In LAN it was perfect. For me it was perfect online too because I am usually in games with everyone Green Bar. Anyways, halo 2 is the most overrated shooter in the bunch along with Modern Warfare 2.

Halo Reach is far superior to Halo 2 in my opinion and it has similar properties of button glitches and a large hitbox. At least it increased the skill by making the DMR a 5 shot. The Halo 2 weapon sandbox was the worst and least fun for me. That's why I don't like the game. The gameplay was just stale. And the campaign was just extremely disappointing. It may have had the most levels, but they were so short and linear. You could skip 75% of the fighting anyways and just trot through the levels. Legendary may be hard (only did Heroic), but not if you just took the time to memorize the enemy AI. Which was quite predictable imo. I just didn't like halo 2 one bit and I don't think all halo games or all cod games should be lumped together.

*YES I KNOW ABOUT ALL THE TERRIBLE GRAMMAR AND SUCH* BUSY RIGHT NOW SO I WON'T BE RESPONDING FOR A WHILE.

[Edited on 08.26.2011 7:21 PM PDT]

  • 08.26.2011 7:12 PM PDT

I hope you realize Halo 1 and 2 are what brought the Halo Franchise into the public and made it as popular as it is now. You're very, very, VERY ignorant.

  • 08.27.2011 4:08 PM PDT

"Through the fog the army moves on. Pushing through borders. Knocking over obstacles. Killing all enemies. Victory is secured, brothers, march on until the flag rises over the landscape."
The Holy Council

Posted by: Infect3dKill
I hope you realize Halo 1 and 2 are what brought the Halo Franchise into the public and made it as popular as it is now. You're very, very, VERY ignorant.

What the hell are you talking about? You just agreed to my post and then called me ignorant.

Brilliant.

  • 08.28.2011 2:28 AM PDT

Halo 2 first level good? You mean the one that played almost exactly like the first level of Halo:CE, where you are getting boarded by Covenant?

  • 08.28.2011 6:19 AM PDT

The story and the way it was told was incredible, the arbiter missions were great, the weapons and vehicles were fun to use, the multiplayer was fun and the maps were great. The campaign is my favorite part. Halo 2's campaign is just fantastic.Halo combat evolved may have started it all but halo 2 is what halo is all about. I love both games but halo 2 is just a little better. I spend most of my gaming time playing reach but i still go back every now and then to enjoy either one of those games.

  • 08.28.2011 9:37 AM PDT

"Through the fog the army moves on. Pushing through borders. Knocking over obstacles. Killing all enemies. Victory is secured, brothers, march on until the flag rises over the landscape."
The Holy Council

Posted by: King Bronn
Halo 2 first level good? You mean the one that played almost exactly like the first level of Halo:CE, where you are getting boarded by Covenant?

That, and the Outskirts level. Outskirts is amazing.

  • 08.28.2011 12:56 PM PDT

This is a Reach account that I created the day they announced his name in a bnet weekly update. Any stats regarding ODST or Halo 3 are irrelevant. Also, Halo CE master race. Halo 1 > other halo games > other games.

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So pretty much you like the first two levels the best. LoL

  • 08.28.2011 2:19 PM PDT


Posted by: NOBLE SlX
So pretty much you like the first two levels the best. LoL
He didn't say that at all, you're trying too hard to fault others and reading things that aren't there. Like you said, it's up to the individual player to choose which Halo is best.

  • 08.28.2011 3:46 PM PDT

I mostly game on the Computer nowadays...

i agree.

  • 08.28.2011 8:04 PM PDT