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"OFFICIAL HALO 2 THREAD"

Sorry but i'm p***ed off at Halo 2 littering the Xbox forum. So i'm making yet another one (sorry) which will be used for everything Halo 2 related such as:

Halo 2 Questions
Any Halo 2 Links
General Halo 2 chat
Your Opinions on the game
You can even set up Xbox Live games with people when the game hits the shelves (whooppee)

And I will post any and all current info on Halo 2

P.S. Please use this as the main HALO 2 TOPIC forum so hundreds of 'halo' thread don't clog up the, erm 'wonderful' Xbox forum

Danke

I shouldn't expect to see Half-Life 2 on Xbox for a while then

True enough - PC gaming is eons ahead of console gaming, and like you, at times I prefer the PC over any console - HL2 being an example, which looks jut utterly astounding.

But.

That doesn't mean you should detract the experiance of Live - it's the first gaming experiance since the hay-day of the N64 to really get me hooked on games again, and Halo 2 looks to blow this all away and expand it even further!

But whether it is console or PC the formula is the same.

I appreciate LIVE because I know it would be excellent if I hadn't killed online gaming time over.

There is only CS: Source that I play these days online and I don't exactly kill it, don't have the time these days.

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> What they are doing with LIVE though is nothing that hasn't been done
> in previous Unreal Tournament games.

But it's on a console - that's the thing. I've played many PC games online and they've been great, but Live, even with smaller amounts of people, is just so much more fun. True, I don't have a headset/mic for the PC, so that's a big drawback, but I've enjoyed playing these games with other likeminded people on Live - of course there are similar people on PC, but on Live it seems so much more fun. It's easier (which unarguably it is) and yes, you don't have all the mods/options, and I'm not saying PC online is bad, because it is quite the opposite, but Live puts you in a sofa on a TV. not in a chair on a PC. If you see what I mean.

>
> Watching the IGN walkthrough of the LIVE play made it look like
> Unreal Tournament only with limitations. Until I play it I have no
> idea of how long it will keep me interested as I have played so many
> games like it in the past that the formula became tedious.

Well, that's your problem. Personally, the Halo 1 multi demo on Blood Gulch on PC had me hooked, and it looked crap, had very limited options and no voice. So imagine what Halo 2 might do for me...

Unreal
> Tournament 2004 is a superb game but that is purely made for online
> so I'm not expecting anything like it.

I loved UT, didn't like 2004 so much. Onslaught was good though.

>
> As I said though, it is all down to how it plays online, games handle
> differently so it is just a case of waiting until Saturday.

True enough - it's down to taste of course - but seeing as I haven't 'exhausted' online play, I'm thinking I'll be hooked.

It is interesting how the single player seems to of taken a backseat to the multi, when Bungie professed the opposite. It also seems a little too early to be saying 'yup, disappointing as I predicted' and 'oh the story MUST be crap, because one person has said so'.

Just been in from GAME to swap my Football Manager 2005 and there is a massive stack of Halo 2 just behind the till, must of got all the geeks drooling.

Icarus, what level you on so far. Just in middle of Level 4 now, some good things to look forward to.

Gah. I hate you SR.

:(

Vehicle Jacking Time!!!

lcarus wrote:
Flashlight only works for a
> short time,


Ah, clever... it auto senses when its dark and leaves it on then. I knew I'd start to get used to it.

Ah, my mistake then :)