Stromprophet on 08 March 2007
staticneuron said:
I have met a "few" people who loved Halo 1 but hated halo 2. What makes halo 2 so bad in your eyes? Story, gameplay, balance or all the above?
The story line was so terrible I couldn't play it. The constant switching between the 2 main characters. It's fine to have 2 campaigns, but make it like COD2 where you play one campaign at a time. They totally cut the story up.
Then they made the game out to be you resisting the invasion of the covenant, that's what it was always advertised. 2 levels! 2 levels on earth and that was it, and they were the funnest levels...which made the rest of the game really hard to play.
Online was really good, but they didn't have any levels like Sidewinder, or Blood Gulch, Prisoner, the Multiplayer levels just weren't as good.
The weapons balance was bad. I don't know what the devs were thinking with some of the weapons. The assualt rifle was nice with the zoom feature, though it was a woefully underpowered weapon, very hard to bring down elites shields using the zoom feature and capping them in the head.
I used to kill on Legendary on Halo 1 playing by myself, they made some parts of Halo 2 so hard you almost couldn't beat it on Legendary.
Then they removed the zoom from the pistol and I was like WTF. That was one of the best weapons for multiplayer because it made almost everyone competitive. Then they changed the human sniper rifle to carry less ammo and reload slower and fire slower. Also a big negative in my view.
Nothing like playing blood gulch and capping someone with a sniper rifle from across the board 3 times in succession while their in the air. Hilarious.
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