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Forget the Tango advert; forget everything else because 'I've been 'Halo'ed'! Still wondering what I am talking about? My results should speak for themselves:
Single Player:
5 Times on Easy
5 Times on Normal
1 Time on Heroic
1 Time on Legendary
Co-Op:
1 Time on Normal
1 Time on Legendary
My completion stats are above and that's not mentioning the Multi-Player mayhem I have had with friends and family, but what kept me coming back for more? Overall I have clocked around 300 hours playing Halo yet after playing 'Timespliters 2' for 10 minutes I couldn't wait to put the pad down and walk away. Bridging the gap between superb graphics and superb gameplay is a very rare thing in the gaming industry, yet a small company known as Bungie and a very small company known as Microsoft managed to do something which you don't see every day or for that matter, every year!
I still feel hungry to go back and take out a hoard of Covenant grunts or wipe out an entourage of the Flood! Is it the Surround Sound? The graphics or the gameplay? Or is just the sheer thrill factor I get from blasting my way through the Library mission whilst my ears dance to some of the most ambient and creative music ever programmed into a video-game.
The Xbox is hailed as a system without 'The appeal' that the Playstation 2 console has yet however many times you play GTA3 the same things happen over and over, but strangely enough every time I play Halo I see something new or I play the game in a completely different way.
By far the biggest challenge I have gotten out of my Xbox system or any other for that matter was playing through the main game on legendary difficulty. Some enemies regenerate their power, they attack in groups and the intelligence displayed from the covenant as you try to get the 'Master Chief' out of the action is something of a whole new level. Earlier on this year I completed the game on legendary difficulty whilst playing through with brother, but nothing could compare me for the single player action! 'Halo' isn't short game so don't get that impression from my completion stats, in fact it has taken me 3 months to complete the game on Legendary whilst juggling between 'coursework' for my GCSE's and trying to fight may way through to rescue 'Captain Keys' from the Brigg.
The question on the minds of those who don't own an Xbox, YES it is worth getting an Xbox just to play this game! With that one over I will get back to discussing what else lies between the depths of Earth, The Moon and Halo!
For those who are lucky enough to own a Home Cinema system will probably agree with me in saying that Halo contains the best Sound Effects and Music yet seen on any console. The music rotates around the room in full 360 degree delight as bullets travel from speaker to speaker as you fight your way through each mission. As ships fly over you the Subwoofer grows like an angry dog and the floor shakes like a naked man in the snow (Don't look any further into that ;)! Reloading your weapon in giant structures creates an echo feeling around the room where as out-doors it sounds flat as if the sound waves are struggling to find anything to refract off. At stages in the game I felt as though I was on Halo and that 'Cortana' was only a few feet away from me, to understand what I am saying would require you to play the game in Dolby Digital 5.1!
Anticipating Halo 2 isn't going to be that easy as near the release of that there will be 3 other first person shooters released for the Xbox going by the names:
Perfect Dark 2
Doom 3
Quake 4
Microsoft and Bungie have promised that Halo 2 will be twice as good as the first Halo; the question on my mind is how can they manage that? Better graphics, better sounds and better gameplay, yet I would be very happy with more of the same.
Some say that Halo is just an addition to the First Person Shooter family, I think otherwise, I believe that Halo has revolutionised the First Person shooter genre in more ways than one and in ways that you have to experience to understand. I had my doubts early on as to whether it was better than Deus EX, Half Life or Unreal but 300 gameplay hours on from that I can safely say that Halo is my favourite first person shooter of all time and in my opinion the greatest. As we speak Master-Chief is orbiting earth in the ship he escaped from Halo with (he is in the Bungie programming office anyway), but where will his journey take him?
After watching the Halo 2 trailer around 20 times I have been looking at which planet or structure lies beneath him as he throws himself out of the ship?! Is it earth? Will he land on the ship passing by underneath him only to find that a new breed of alien has taken over it and he is just going to have to travel wherever it takes him? Will he miss the ship and land in the middle of the war going on below? All these questions are going through my mind as I try to figure out what Halo 2 is going to feature and what the game is going to be about.
I think that on behalf of all Xbox owners I can safely say that Halo 2 is going to be bigger than the release of the first Halo as we now know what to expect in terms of style, controls and usage of the Xbox hardware. Halo didn't push the Xbox system to the point of crashing, but from what I have seen and read of Halo 2 so far it looks like it is going to take these foundations and create a game which will surpass all others in its genre and become possibly the greatest game ever made.
One question you can ask yourselves in the mean time is, "Have you been 'Halo'ed?" If you haven't then isn't it time you were?!
Halo UK 'March 14th 2002'!
Thankyou for Reading
~Alastair~
Single Player:
5 Times on Easy
5 Times on Normal
1 Time on Heroic
1 Time on Legendary
Co-Op:
1 Time on Normal
1 Time on Legendary
My completion stats are above and that's not mentioning the Multi-Player mayhem I have had with friends and family, but what kept me coming back for more? Overall I have clocked around 300 hours playing Halo yet after playing 'Timespliters 2' for 10 minutes I couldn't wait to put the pad down and walk away. Bridging the gap between superb graphics and superb gameplay is a very rare thing in the gaming industry, yet a small company known as Bungie and a very small company known as Microsoft managed to do something which you don't see every day or for that matter, every year!
I still feel hungry to go back and take out a hoard of Covenant grunts or wipe out an entourage of the Flood! Is it the Surround Sound? The graphics or the gameplay? Or is just the sheer thrill factor I get from blasting my way through the Library mission whilst my ears dance to some of the most ambient and creative music ever programmed into a video-game.
The Xbox is hailed as a system without 'The appeal' that the Playstation 2 console has yet however many times you play GTA3 the same things happen over and over, but strangely enough every time I play Halo I see something new or I play the game in a completely different way.
By far the biggest challenge I have gotten out of my Xbox system or any other for that matter was playing through the main game on legendary difficulty. Some enemies regenerate their power, they attack in groups and the intelligence displayed from the covenant as you try to get the 'Master Chief' out of the action is something of a whole new level. Earlier on this year I completed the game on legendary difficulty whilst playing through with brother, but nothing could compare me for the single player action! 'Halo' isn't short game so don't get that impression from my completion stats, in fact it has taken me 3 months to complete the game on Legendary whilst juggling between 'coursework' for my GCSE's and trying to fight may way through to rescue 'Captain Keys' from the Brigg.
The question on the minds of those who don't own an Xbox, YES it is worth getting an Xbox just to play this game! With that one over I will get back to discussing what else lies between the depths of Earth, The Moon and Halo!
For those who are lucky enough to own a Home Cinema system will probably agree with me in saying that Halo contains the best Sound Effects and Music yet seen on any console. The music rotates around the room in full 360 degree delight as bullets travel from speaker to speaker as you fight your way through each mission. As ships fly over you the Subwoofer grows like an angry dog and the floor shakes like a naked man in the snow (Don't look any further into that ;)! Reloading your weapon in giant structures creates an echo feeling around the room where as out-doors it sounds flat as if the sound waves are struggling to find anything to refract off. At stages in the game I felt as though I was on Halo and that 'Cortana' was only a few feet away from me, to understand what I am saying would require you to play the game in Dolby Digital 5.1!
Anticipating Halo 2 isn't going to be that easy as near the release of that there will be 3 other first person shooters released for the Xbox going by the names:
Perfect Dark 2
Doom 3
Quake 4
Microsoft and Bungie have promised that Halo 2 will be twice as good as the first Halo; the question on my mind is how can they manage that? Better graphics, better sounds and better gameplay, yet I would be very happy with more of the same.
Some say that Halo is just an addition to the First Person Shooter family, I think otherwise, I believe that Halo has revolutionised the First Person shooter genre in more ways than one and in ways that you have to experience to understand. I had my doubts early on as to whether it was better than Deus EX, Half Life or Unreal but 300 gameplay hours on from that I can safely say that Halo is my favourite first person shooter of all time and in my opinion the greatest. As we speak Master-Chief is orbiting earth in the ship he escaped from Halo with (he is in the Bungie programming office anyway), but where will his journey take him?
After watching the Halo 2 trailer around 20 times I have been looking at which planet or structure lies beneath him as he throws himself out of the ship?! Is it earth? Will he land on the ship passing by underneath him only to find that a new breed of alien has taken over it and he is just going to have to travel wherever it takes him? Will he miss the ship and land in the middle of the war going on below? All these questions are going through my mind as I try to figure out what Halo 2 is going to feature and what the game is going to be about.
I think that on behalf of all Xbox owners I can safely say that Halo 2 is going to be bigger than the release of the first Halo as we now know what to expect in terms of style, controls and usage of the Xbox hardware. Halo didn't push the Xbox system to the point of crashing, but from what I have seen and read of Halo 2 so far it looks like it is going to take these foundations and create a game which will surpass all others in its genre and become possibly the greatest game ever made.
One question you can ask yourselves in the mean time is, "Have you been 'Halo'ed?" If you haven't then isn't it time you were?!
Halo UK 'March 14th 2002'!
Thankyou for Reading
~Alastair~
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Thats all well and good Mav but most of them are Multi-Format I was meaning exclusives. I have just got my GameCube today along with Rouge Leader 2 and so far I love it. However until Prime is released the GameCube won't see a great FPS exclusive (I will see what Die Hard is like when I rent it tomorrow). That reminds me, I must Pre-Order Prime ASAP as March will be around before I know it :)
Maverick42 wrote:
> ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> That isn't a pop because PRIME will be great but at the moment there
> aren't any strong competitors on the GameCube.
>
> Well, there's:
>
> James Bond 007: Nightfire
> James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
> Die Hard: Vendetta
> Medal Of Honour: Frontline
> Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II*
> The Clone Wars*
> Star Wars: Jedi Outcast
> Timesplitters 2
> Turok Evolution
>
> *Not dedicated FPS, but they can be played from that perspective.
Exactly, and they're just the ones that are out, i think, there's still a good line up soon to come.
Also Metroid Prime, hopefully will match Halo.
Do you know anything about Fable? It sounds good, though Animal Crossing or Doshin also sounds similar.
> ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> That isn't a pop because PRIME will be great but at the moment there
> aren't any strong competitors on the GameCube.
>
> Well, there's:
>
> James Bond 007: Nightfire
> James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
> Die Hard: Vendetta
> Medal Of Honour: Frontline
> Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II*
> The Clone Wars*
> Star Wars: Jedi Outcast
> Timesplitters 2
> Turok Evolution
>
> *Not dedicated FPS, but they can be played from that perspective.
Exactly, and they're just the ones that are out, i think, there's still a good line up soon to come.
Also Metroid Prime, hopefully will match Halo.
Do you know anything about Fable? It sounds good, though Animal Crossing or Doshin also sounds similar.
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> That isn't a pop because PRIME will be great but at the moment there
> aren't any strong competitors on the GameCube.
Well, there's:
James Bond 007: Nightfire
James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
Die Hard: Vendetta
Medal Of Honour: Frontline
Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II*
The Clone Wars*
Star Wars: Jedi Outcast
Timesplitters 2
Turok Evolution
*Not dedicated FPS, but they can be played from that perspective.
> That isn't a pop because PRIME will be great but at the moment there
> aren't any strong competitors on the GameCube.
Well, there's:
James Bond 007: Nightfire
James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
Die Hard: Vendetta
Medal Of Honour: Frontline
Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II*
The Clone Wars*
Star Wars: Jedi Outcast
Timesplitters 2
Turok Evolution
*Not dedicated FPS, but they can be played from that perspective.
Mantis wrote:
> Maverick, how wrong have you got it all.
Really?
> Timesplitters 2 looks smooth enough but everythings angular and bland.
> Halos torch effect looks lovlier than anything in TS 2. Textures are
> crap in TS2- but annimations are excelent. Halo has style, beautiful
> textures, bump maping and lovely lighting effects. Halo looks Alot
> better, trust me.
I gave Halo another go today round a friends house. Halo does look a lot better actually, but TimeSplitters 2 is quite restricted due to the certain cartoonish style it has. Nevertheless, I'll eat my hat, and admit that Halo wins visually.
> TS2 better in single player? Ahem, it takes longer to complete
> Assault on the Control room on Legendary than the entrie TS2 story
> mode on easy(if your quick mind). Halos much better, interms of
> cinematics, set pieces, enjoyment and variety. And enjoyment.
I recall stating that Halo's got a nicer single player. What's your point? I don't think Halo's a lot better when it comes to one person, but it's a lot deeper and so is therefore best in that area.
> TS2 has alot of multiplayer options, and bots, which is something Halo
> misses. Halo has a wealth of Multiplaer option too mind.
Yeah, but lets accept that TimeSplitters 2 is mainly a multiplayer game and even though Halo has a nice setup, you can't beat a dedicated title.
> Now, I have 4 pads, and my friends and I play multiplayer- alot. But
> theres something which TS2 lacks that Halos got. The "X
> factor" if you excuse the pun. The same X factor which Goldeneye
> had- something you couldnt pin, but it was there, and made it great.
> TS2 just lacks that something in multiplayer for my friends and I and
> we get bored despite the options. My friend got an Xbox for
> Christmas, and last night we indulged in our very first link up game
> with 2 xboxes on Halo- and it was amazing. Seven player Blood Gulch
> with Tanks and warthogs beats TS2 in my- and my friends opinion.
'The X Factor'? Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? I could say that about anything. I'm sorry, but that's just not good enough. I had a couple of friends round last night, and we were playing the virus mode for two hours, without guns. Then we incorporated some weapons, messed around with some modes, and realised we'd been blasting each other for a good four or so hours. Halo's quite over-rated in my, and my friends opinion.
> TS2 is good- after all I bought it and i only buy good games. :P
> However it won't stand the test of time. Halo has- 9 months since I
> got it and we're still enjoying the multiplayer. In years to come,
> TS2 won't be regarded as a milestone in FPS gaming. Halo will.
No doubt Halo will be remembered, but I definitely think that one of the Timesplitters games will be down there too, for being the first true successor to Goldeneye, and having top notch multiplayer.
> Maverick, how wrong have you got it all.
Really?
> Timesplitters 2 looks smooth enough but everythings angular and bland.
> Halos torch effect looks lovlier than anything in TS 2. Textures are
> crap in TS2- but annimations are excelent. Halo has style, beautiful
> textures, bump maping and lovely lighting effects. Halo looks Alot
> better, trust me.
I gave Halo another go today round a friends house. Halo does look a lot better actually, but TimeSplitters 2 is quite restricted due to the certain cartoonish style it has. Nevertheless, I'll eat my hat, and admit that Halo wins visually.
> TS2 better in single player? Ahem, it takes longer to complete
> Assault on the Control room on Legendary than the entrie TS2 story
> mode on easy(if your quick mind). Halos much better, interms of
> cinematics, set pieces, enjoyment and variety. And enjoyment.
I recall stating that Halo's got a nicer single player. What's your point? I don't think Halo's a lot better when it comes to one person, but it's a lot deeper and so is therefore best in that area.
> TS2 has alot of multiplayer options, and bots, which is something Halo
> misses. Halo has a wealth of Multiplaer option too mind.
Yeah, but lets accept that TimeSplitters 2 is mainly a multiplayer game and even though Halo has a nice setup, you can't beat a dedicated title.
> Now, I have 4 pads, and my friends and I play multiplayer- alot. But
> theres something which TS2 lacks that Halos got. The "X
> factor" if you excuse the pun. The same X factor which Goldeneye
> had- something you couldnt pin, but it was there, and made it great.
> TS2 just lacks that something in multiplayer for my friends and I and
> we get bored despite the options. My friend got an Xbox for
> Christmas, and last night we indulged in our very first link up game
> with 2 xboxes on Halo- and it was amazing. Seven player Blood Gulch
> with Tanks and warthogs beats TS2 in my- and my friends opinion.
'The X Factor'? Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? I could say that about anything. I'm sorry, but that's just not good enough. I had a couple of friends round last night, and we were playing the virus mode for two hours, without guns. Then we incorporated some weapons, messed around with some modes, and realised we'd been blasting each other for a good four or so hours. Halo's quite over-rated in my, and my friends opinion.
> TS2 is good- after all I bought it and i only buy good games. :P
> However it won't stand the test of time. Halo has- 9 months since I
> got it and we're still enjoying the multiplayer. In years to come,
> TS2 won't be regarded as a milestone in FPS gaming. Halo will.
No doubt Halo will be remembered, but I definitely think that one of the Timesplitters games will be down there too, for being the first true successor to Goldeneye, and having top notch multiplayer.
Ha! Good observation but you know what I mean :) I really was disappointed with the TS2 single player, I thought it was one of the worst on the Xbox. However on the Cube there aren't any other FPS games to compare to. That isn't a pop because PRIME will be great but at the moment there aren't any strong competitors on the GameCube.
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
Think of TimeSplitters 2 as Trish
> Stratus and Nightfire as The Rock (in WWE terms), you have a good
> comparison there :)
Trish Stratus has nice boobs and would play very well, the Rock's >c**k sure gimp.
Think of TimeSplitters 2 as Trish
> Stratus and Nightfire as The Rock (in WWE terms), you have a good
> comparison there :)
Trish Stratus has nice boobs and would play very well, the Rock's >c**k sure gimp.
Hello there OnePlusOne i got my xbox with halo on christmas day i'm now on the last level i think.
anyway i'm not very good at explaning where to go in games unless i'm actually showing the person and since that level is one of the biggest the best way for you to get through is to follow one of the guides in the links below
http://www.bungie.net/perlbin/blam.pl?file=/site/1
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox/file/halo.txt
hope you get past it :)
l8ers
anyway i'm not very good at explaning where to go in games unless i'm actually showing the person and since that level is one of the biggest the best way for you to get through is to follow one of the guides in the links below
http://www.bungie.net/perlbin/blam.pl?file=/site/1
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox/file/halo.txt
hope you get past it :)
l8ers
Hi, we have just got Halo and have got as far as 'Attack on the control room'.....problem is we keep going round in circles, over bridges (internal and outside) through tunnels and we keep ending up back in the control room!!!!! How do we complete this section, it's driving us NUTS!!!!
Thanks
Thanks
Timesplitters 2 is good in multiplayer, But does'nt even come close to the superior nature of Halo. I'll probably get it on my Gamecube (when I get round to actually purchasing one)
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