Official Halo 2 Thread

everyone download the ign video review. looks fucking amazing, just by viewing that video i know im in for one if the most amazing rides of my life (as a gamer). I loved everything about it, the way the covenent react when getting shot (very important for me, selling pain) the level design, knowing about the extra layer of strategy dual weilding brings, some truly epic moments of struggle, AI was brilliant (Elite jumping on the create :o) Chief getting harrased by the thise flying bugs and the music, holy shit, just when the video review ends and you see that huge fuck off spider walking over you, that piece of music is beautiful.

good god, i might have my copy monday morning, fingers crossed.

GOTY, see you all on Live, hopefully a week after i get the game. Just going to dedicate all my tome on single player
 
SyNapSe said:
wtf everyone here can't have got Meijers copies. There must be a ton of hackers.. it amazes me.
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Yup - Border is a known pirate, he even posted impressions of Halo 2 a few weeks ago on oa.
 
Shit only 9 hours and I will be hitting xbox live. aww yeah!
 
I'm enjoying it quite a bit, even more so than the original I think. I am not sure I appreciated the original enough when I first played through it- playing 2 has made me realize how good it was.
 
So is it possible for you to make a party with a bunch of random ppl, wait till it is full, then start it up?

or do they have to be on someone's friend list?
 
So I'm surprised that people aren't freakin out that IGN gave GTA a better score than Halo2.
I was expecting some major freakin out. :lol
 
How long has it taken anyone to complete on heroic? I have a day of on Thursday and i'm hoping i can give the game one good play through. :)
 
PanopticBlue said:
Yup - Border is a known pirate, he even posted impressions of Halo 2 a few weeks ago on oa.
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Yup. I love how he posts a two thousand word review on Halo 2 and then has the fucking nerve to get on that modded Xbox thread and lecture fools about piracy.
 
ok, I posted that right as I finished the game (I got my copy about noon today - gotta love small game shops) - and then I saw the real cliffhanger at the end. A thought:

It seems to imply, with Cortana talking to the big Alien thing - that maybe she is going to go off the deep end. I wouldn't be surprised considering Bungie has definitely done the crazy AI thing before
 
deadlifter said:
How long did it take you?
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got the game at about noon, so 13 hours (not in one sitting, a few breaks). I was playing it on Normal because I wanted to tear through it though :)
 
I just watched the MTV thing from a few days ago and a Bungie guy said the game is 20 hours. They always overestimate these things though.
 
Deku Tree said:
I just watched the MTV thing from a few days ago and a Bungie guy said the game is 20 hours. They always overestimate these things though.
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If you're a big Halo fan (played through tunneling software) and play a lot, you'll be good enough to tear through it pretty quickly. I mean, 10 hours is a reasonable amount if you're playing on normal and are good at FPS. I think that's why they also said "real players will want to play on heroic!"
 
Nerevar said:
got the game at about noon, so 13 hours (not in one sitting, a few breaks). I was playing it on Normal because I wanted to tear through it though :)
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Thanks, i'm not that great at it, so i might not be able to get through it in one sitting. Maybe i'll just play a day of multi instead :D
 
I just want some multi-player goodness. Is Halo 2 more or less balanced overall than Halo 1? And are there levels in the vein of BG (other than the BG remake), ie. mid-sized levels with two bases at each end, and caves on the sides of sneaking/snipering...cause snipering in Halo rocks (due to the trails, which make it balanced for offence and defence against it...and snipering foes out of vehicles was awesome, tank bareling down on ya? pull out a sniper and aim for the head :)), small levels = no sipering = no fun for me :(

I remember having some INTENSE cat and mouse type sniper battles on BG in the first game, I hope there's more levels that encourage this kind of battling. In Halo 1, I played BG exclusively cause no other level was had the right design or size for this.
 
halo2 multiplayer is different. the mechanics are the same (except for jumping higher/longer and no fall damage) but you will play a little different. halo2 multiplayer is FAR superior to halo1 multiplayer (ive played hundreds of hours halo1 MP and love it). every single map is VERY playable and more than a few are absolute all-time classics.
 
Joe said:
halo2 multiplayer is different. the mechanics are the same (except for jumping higher/longer and no fall damage) but you will play a little different. halo2 multiplayer is FAR superior to halo1 multiplayer (ive played hundreds of hours halo1 MP and love it). every single map is VERY playable and more than a few are absolute all-time classics.
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If they managed to improve the multi that much then WOW. I could play Halo multiplayer all day, i just can't wait to trash talk, snipe, blast the hell out of people with the shotgun, etc. over LAN again. The experience is one of the best in all video games.
 
Joe said:
the multiplayer is the absolute definition of balance.
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Seriously. No pistol bitches. Finally.
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Awesome. Oh and I was a pistol bitch, but more out of necessity rather than choice...if you weren't a pistol bitch, you'd get owned hard on XBL. Devs don't realize that all out balls to the walls action isn't what makes multi-player fun in the long run, its sweet sweet balance. Fuck, I might not even bother with 1player mode when I get H2, might justy hop online and join the GAF clan and duke it out for a week or so before playing the 1p mode.
 
From the vids I've seen, Halo 2 seems to have a lot more authenticity to it...looks less generic than Halo 1, a lot more like a futuristic war-torn world. Very nice.
 
I did not play Halo PC online very much because it was a total piece of shit.....but it seemed to me that they had weakened the pistol a good deal You could fire half a clip into someone and they wouldn't go down. But maybe it just seems like that because I was missing shots due to the unavoidable lag. Does anyone know for sure if they toned down the damage or not?
 
yes the damage is very toned down. with 1 pistol its gonna take at least 6 or 7 head shots to kill someone while in halo1 it was 3. plus there is no scope. 2 pistols is pretty deadly. if you have good aim you can really own with it but only close range.
 
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More animals...
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Yeah, I know this has nothing to do with Halo 2, specifically, but waiting for midnight here in the US is getting me in a violent, animal-themed mood right now...
 
border said:
I did not play Halo PC online very much because it was a total piece of shit.....but it seemed to me that they had weakened the pistol a good deal You could fire half a clip into someone and they wouldn't go down. But maybe it just seems like that because I was missing shots due to the unavoidable lag. Does anyone know for sure if they toned down the damage or not?
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It was the lag, PC Halo sucked balls in that respect. In the Xbox version, 3 shots to the head = dead
 
Anyone who's completed it, take a look back at the E3 real-time demo.

me am cry :( I would have loved to have seen that in the final release.
 
jonhuz said:
Anyone who's completed it, take a look back at the E3 real-time demo.

me am cry :( I would have loved to have seen that in the final release.
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Don't really care about that specific map so much as I am disappointed that the technology took such a hit. The final game engine just isn't on par with what was shown previously (particularly in the realm of shadows). Was that demo truly running on XBOX?
 
I'm not caught in the hype yet. I'm going to wait a week or 2 before getting it. Make sure you're on xbox live around 1am est and see how many people are on.
 
In the IGN Video Review they mention the game has 10 new multiplayer maps along with 2 old returning ones,I thought Blood Gulch was the only one?
 
Battle Creek?WTF that was one of the worst maps in any FPS ever -_- Especially with 16 people running around in it,it was like 2 inches big :P
 
lol at that Red Vs Blue episode 39. (I know it might be old news to the people of GAF and I didn't know any other thread to post it in. Since G4Techtv is using Red vs Blue to promote Halo2 day I guess this is a good thread to at least laugh about it in *the episode*).

http://www.redvsblue.com/archive/
 
Ramirez said:
Battle Creek?WTF that was one of the worst maps in any FPS ever -_- Especially with 16 people running around in it,it was like 2 inches big :P
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That wouldn't be so bad for 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 matches.
 
Everyone. This game is something else, its everything i hoped it would be and more x1 billion

Seriously, it blows Halo right out the sky. Its fucking incredible.

About the graphics, wow, a significant jump compared to halo, the physics? hell yeah, you will notice it as soon as you drop a elite or any other covenent soldier. When they hit the groud their bodies rock slightly depending on what side they collapsed on. Theres like a dramatic, over the top dive grunts pull off when hey die. Adds to the overall satisfaction of the kill. Theres just so much more thats refined i really cant go into it (about the physis), the way the blood bursts out of bodies is also real cool

but its not only that man, theres ust so much happening you will be completly overwhelmed. The scope is huge, very, very epic. And I noticed some superb AI when battling in the warthog.

omg
 
Prine said:
Everyone. This game is something else, its everything i hoped it would be and more x1 billion

Seriously, it blows Halo right out the sky. Its fucking incredible.

About the graphics, wow, a significant jump compared to halo, the physics? hell yeah, you will notice it as soon as you drop a elite or any other covenent soldier. When they hit the groud their bodies rock slightly depending on what side they collapsed on. Theres like a dramatic, over the top dive grunts pull off when hey die. Adds to the overall satisfaction of the kill. Theres just so much more thats refined i really cant go into it (about the physis), the way the blood bursts out of bodies is also real cool

but its not only that man, theres ust so much happening you will be completly overwhelmed. The scope is huge, very, very epic. And I noticed some superb AI when battling in the warthog.

omg
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Glad you like it Prine.
The AI driving the hog does have some problems driving around things in a level called
Metropolis. Covenant junk and overturned shit gets in the way and they get confused. One hog just gave up and wouldn't follow any further. Fucking quitters.
 
Prine said:
Everyone. This game is something else, its everything i hoped it would be and more x1 billion

Seriously, it blows Halo right out the sky. Its fucking incredible.

About the graphics, wow, a significant jump compared to halo, the physics? hell yeah, you will notice it as soon as you drop a elite or any other covenent soldier. When they hit the groud their bodies rock slightly depending on what side they collapsed on. Theres like a dramatic, over the top dive grunts pull off when hey die. Adds to the overall satisfaction of the kill. Theres just so much more thats refined i really cant go into it (about the physis), the way the blood bursts out of bodies is also real cool

but its not only that man, theres ust so much happening you will be completly overwhelmed. The scope is huge, very, very epic. And I noticed some superb AI when battling in the warthog.

omg
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THATS UNPOSSIBLE GAMESPOT 9.4

Seriously, it's gonna be a long nother 7 hours... :D
 
cool. I look out for it.

The moment that basically filled my heart with joy and excitment is when an elite knocked me out with a melee from behind. It was out of nowhere, im slowly making my way through a corridor then bam. im out.

The AI has truly evolved. And my companions are awesome, some of the lines and routines they display were great.

Oh, and the explosions, i took out a banshee with 2 of my soldiers launching rockets at teh same target, caused a huge explosion of blue, orange, yellow and red. Love it, the poor elite inside the banshee was lanched in to the air. Next stop the moon :lol
 
DJ Demon J said:
Wow, some HUGE spoilers in the CNBC "Closing Bell" segment on Halo 2. :O
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Ugh they're really not spoilers. Why are people making such a big deal out of this? The only reason they are "spoilers" and not being advertised as a feature in the game is because Bungie wants to keep it a secret for some unknown reasons. Otherwise most other companies would probably trumpet something like this out as a cool feature in the game. There was another big company who did the same exact as this with a big game and it left many people disapointed though I'm sure Halo 2 actually has gameplay to back it up.
 
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