The Halo 2 SPOILER Thread

[Professor S]

NOTE: Any posts that have specific information regarding any aspect of the game that is not from the first must be noted with a "***SPOILER WARNING***" at the top. Failing to meet this criteria will end with the post being deleted. Thank you.

[Crash]

i got my copy Saturday, and have been playing for the past two days straight, I will post impressions later on tonight, still too busy playing!!!

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ok, we've been playing crap loads of multiplayer with 4 people. I love all the new arenas. Waterworks is freaking huge. Too huge maybe. The sword is wayyyyy to strong. i literally killed my "equal" 15 times to 0 without dying once. The sword is almost uneven/unfair. you jump higher, you throw grenades shorter distances and your melee attack must be even closer to hit someone. Most melee attacks are weaker from before. The Rifle will be the new pistol. The pistol fires really fast and is good. THE NEEDLER IS WORSE THAN THE FIRST ONE. rate of fire decreased since E3. Needler is without a doubt the worst gun in the game. The lockon rocket launcher is the best against vehicles. Just freaking cool!


Vehicle Hijacking is not easily done. You will get ran over a lot. However, I did manage to jump from my burning banchee onto my enemy's banchee like 1000 feet from the ground kicking him out and having him fall. too bad you cant hurt him by falling though.

I kept saying to myself "this would be cooler with 16 people" for things like assault and the larger levels.

as far as single player mode, the graphics are better, the levels are BIGGER and there are some pop up problems here and there. Mostly textures changing resolution before your eyes... coagulations has a problem with strange black grids near the portals (you've seen this on starfox 64)

everything you saw in the commercial trailer happens within the first 3 levels so dont assume anything. Thats all for now, it's nappy time.

[Stonecutter]

What I decided to do was to make two threads, one with spoilers (this one) one spoiler free. Both are stuck to the top of the fourm and the "everything halo 2" thread has been unstuck.

Play on.

[DarkMaster]

Ok, since this is indeed the spoilers thread, I won't bother to put any warnings...






Anyway, whoa cool, playing as an elite in campaign? That is indeed wicked, I forsee some kind of two perspective story coming on. Good stuff.

[Gamerpsycho]

JESUS CHRIST I JUST GOT HALO 2 DAMN THIS GAME IS HOT AND FREAKIN GOOD MY GOD I CANT STOP PLAYIN I NEED MORE PLAY I WILL BEAT HALO 2 CAMPAIGN YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Dyne]

Beautiful game. This game deserves the scores if you've walked into it with absolutely ZERO hype, like I have.

You know what's gay? There's been two occurances of me and my brother getting stuck on co-op. The one that really pissed me off was when you're flying around in the covenant level - just before we finished, our ships blew up. We were stranded on this damn platform for 10 minutes trying to figure out what to do. We eventually tried jumping as far as we could to other platforms, but no, Bungie made extra sure that is was JUST A LITTLE TOO FAR. My brother died on the very edge of one of the platforms, even. That's damn gay. Anyways, eventually one of the Heretic's ships came over and started shooting at us, so I tried jumping up, shooting, and hijacking. Eventually I got it.

And the pop-in isn't as horrible as people make it out to be. I saw it ONCE in gameplay, and it happens in most of the cutscenes for maybe a fraction of a second. I don't see what's so horrible about it.

P.S. Multiplayer with even just two people is fun.

[Professor S]

Need a little help. Right now I'm stuck trying to liquidate the Covenant Prophet Regret, and I just can't get through the seemingly never ending waves of honor guard. I'm thinking of just picking up a plasma sword and going Conan on them.

Anyone have any advice?