- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I leave the shields on, and the powerups, all of my friends are worse than me (admitting i'm the best in my area, but not best in the world) so i leave the powerups on, but walk by them, completely dont use tham, and encourage my friends not to too. (2 toos.. :S).
But if my rather, cheaper friends who think theyre good collect em, i go all out ignore everyone else and go killing spree on their a$$es. It's good, they get p'd off, and complain because i am only killing them, screwing over their game plan, i just tell em you collected it, it was your fault.
So even though it may even up the playing field, i have seen players who would be crapper than me beat me because even though the game may be even, or i may be losing, power ups are CHEAP! It is not in my playing field to use them, i win with skill and honour... no dishounorable looking in screen crap for me, or using the powerups, i even avoid therocket launcher if my friends dont use it on me and die, if they die, i pillage their corpse for it. (hell i have to give them an advantage because i dont enforce usage of overshields)
One more thing, straight from IGN's most recent review... ooh, its gonna take me ages to find this, i saved it on my computer, but it got wiped since, off i go to find it.... FOUND IT! ha ha, it took about 5 mins, because i went reading through the whole thing again =)
And, oddly enough, there are no power-ups in Zanzabar. That doesn't mean they don't exist, but to be honest, I really hope they are gone. Yeah, it was very fun to go camo in Halo, but the experience of Zanzabar was truly about as good as I could possibly have expected and part of that is because those power-ups sort of cheapen the tactics in some ways. Okay, yes, it can be strategic to know where an overshield power-up is and find a shortcut to it, but the hour we played getting our nuts handed to us by Bungie was made all the better because it was based on pure skill. And that meant that when I smoked one of them, it was me and him, even grounds and no-holds-barred with nothing but our skill determining who won out. That's how it should be.
There ya have it, from a professional game reviewer at IGN, power ups are cheap.... if they do have them in Halo 2, i hope theres an option in halo 2 to turn them off, after all there are too many times when i hear "if theyre in the game we can use them, theyre there to be used" so i want them NOT IN THE GAME, or turn offable.... =)