Yeah, I don't find Halo as the best game ever. I like the multiplayer, but I didn't find much replay value in single player unless playing co-op.
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That site wont load for me. Can you just post all the pics please?
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They're nothing special. The Pistol looks lame and Cliched unlike the one in Halo 1. The Brute Shot is ugly too. New game modes look alright though.
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I cant see the pics! I wish I listened in my French lessons now......
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aw man.... looks like they've pulled all the beta info.... legal problems, most likely.... should've saved the pics...
Ferril- two of the pics included new game modes. One of the modes was Headhunter. You collect the heads of your fallen enemies and return them to your base to score points. The other was Terretories. In Territories, you must control all points on the map at once to score a point. Kinda like "Capture the Tower" in Conker: Live and Reloaded, or that one game mode in Unreal Championship 2. It showed a new map, too. Lockdown. It seemed like a large base stationed in the mountains, and like I said before, on another ringworld. It looked pretty nice. It showed pics of the Magnums, too. Looked pretty crappy if you ask me, but it might just be the beta model. The icon is very similar to the pistol. |
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Very nice find AS. Very nice.....
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no new pics =(
nice info, tho confirmation of drivable Wraith :) instead of jacking tank or wraith, you can jump on the side and shoot the driver, or even chuck a grenade in the cockpit if you wish. I like the new communication method for Live.... adds some realism nice map descriptions too.... nice find. EDIT: aha! I forgot IGN/1UP was releasing their beta test today, also! and theirs includes some new screenies. nothing too important, but new nontheless. 1UP beta preview new screens: Elite shooting Carbine and Spartan shooting Beam Rifle http://www.1up.com/media?id=1191031&type=lg Waterworks (I think) layout http://www.1up.com/media?id=1191034&type=lg Zanzibar layout http://www.1up.com/media?id=1191035&type=lg Concept of Ivory Tower http://www.1up.com/media?id=1191036&type=lg Ivory Tower layout (reminds me of Counter-Strike) http://www.1up.com/media?id=1191037&type=lg The Chief dual wielding Magnums http://www.1up.com/media?id=1191038&type=lg Elite holding Carbine http://www.1up.com/media?id=1191039&type=lg ^_^ |
Someone who works in my warhammer shop has Halo 2 Beta . Should I kill him and steal it? ;) I am looking forward to this . Badly . playing the covenant looks so fun . And I am rambo with the tanks . I kill them easily by jumping on em with a few plasma grenades . I hope you can use banshees in multiplayer or Live >.<
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hey! yet another beta review! this one from one of the lucky few who were chosen for the beta test in Redmond. You may remember his name if you looked at that french site before the info got pulled. mnemisis. Bungie has givin him the ok to post his joyous experience. http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/...pl?read=478843 |
I beat Halo 2. Dear dude, what a cliffhanger at the end. I must say, it was much better than the first one, however...I think the game is being marketed wrong. The commercials were saying "we never thought they'd find us" refering to the covenant finding earth. It made it seem the game would take place on earth a lot more than it was. More emphasis on saving earth was placed in the marketing campaign, when in reality you are only there for about three levels. I mean, the awesome earth-battle demo shown at E3 was not in the game. We got a watered down version of it.
It seems the really huge earth battle is set for Halo 3. Grrrr. Well, I suppose Bungie did their job, because I was left wanting more. -oddguy |
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Aweeeeeeeeeeeeeesome. Compelted it earlier. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Bit annoyed they werent really shocked that the covvies found earth in the first cinematic. I mean, this is earth. Reading the books would tell you how much of a big deal it is the covvies even knowing where earth is. Also, that big covenant city where MC latched onto the forerunner ship near the end... was that on the covvie homeworld? Love Arbiter, and the Brute,Jackal,Drone,(Prophet)/Elite,Grunt,Hunter civil war |
i beat halo 2 aswel (today) :p
it is an great game but on al the advertisments they say things like : earth wil never be the same.... there are only 3 levels on earth!!!!! come on he:) |
I can't wait to play halo 2. From what i've heard it's brilliant but only 3 earth levels? How many levels are there?
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I still havnt got it yet, it sounds like you lot are having alot of fun though!
Please refrain from giving any secrets away untill the end of the month, thankyou. |
I LOVE HALO!!!
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Nice to see ya back :p
Flamethrower, in or not? |
nope, not in :(
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Okay then.
I cant wait to get this game, it should be coming Monday or Tuesday. |
its amazing, you should get xbox live also. Al is in my clan and we are kickin ass bro
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I cant get xbox live at the minute, save a spot in your clan for me :D
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will do bro :)
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Cheers. I usually play in defence, i'm great to have in CTF.
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I played Halo 2 for the first time the other night at Luke's party. I had never even touched an xbox before then. I sucked horribly. Heehee, I got to the point to where I would just shoot anyone I could, including people on my own team. Either way, I would squeal in victory. It didn't take very long for everyone to start asking things like, "Since when did we start killing our own team members?!"..."Since Amber joined."
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Playing through it again on Heroic now. Awesome. So brilliant.
How do I unlock the multiplayer map, 'Foundation'? I saw a video of it and it looks like the best of the bunch, yet I know you need to unlock it somehow. I hope I dont need to complete legendary, I'm not that good. |
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I'm just starting to appreciate how Biblically symbolic Halo 2's story line is. C'mon. The oracle reveals that the ark must be used to escape the flood. It's so blatantly... there. However, I wished they included a few more cut-scenes to create a better understanding of what you were actually doing. Gravemind's interest in the In Autumn Clad (the human ship similar to the Pillar of Autumn) completely baffled me ... I had no idea what was going on. The long cut-scene explaining the Covie religion on the LE DVD was great... I wish they had finished and put it into the game. |
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Bah, and I completed it from easy, skipped normal and am now doing Heroic. Darn.
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Foundation is about the size of Wizard in Halo 1, but with a Warthog to fight over.
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For some reason, she said that MC was only Gravemind's "distraction" and that it was really focused on the In Autumn Clad... or the Covie City... or the particular quadrant of space they were in at the time. That's the point... I really don't know. I got confused. *end spoilers* Gah! What the hell Oddguy?! I beat the game on normal and didn't get shit! Are you sure there wasn't else you are supposed to do to get the level? |
I think this may be of help, SeaRex. Bear in mind, that Bungie ****ed it up, and the level is meant to unlock as soon as you finish the game, but it doesn't, so this is what you have to do:
You start a new profile. Start a co-op game with your old one that has finished the game (Difficulty doesn't matter) and have the new profile be second player. Load up the last level. Play through the level as new profile. Whenever you are asked to do a tutorial thing like 'Press Y to dual weild' do it. Do all of the tutorial things that appear. Finish the level. The new profile has Foundation. Old one sadly does not. I know it sucks. I really don't want to have to give up my old character, but I will at some stage soon. By the way, all of my friends have done it, so I can vouch for this working. And that level is great when you drive the warthog into the airlift. |
I still dont have it, i'm hoping for tomorow!
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I didn't do any of that stuff to get the extra multiplayer map. I just beat the game. My Halo 2 is Limited Edition though, if that makes any difference.
-oddguy Oh, and I went back to Foundation. There are actually two warthogs. Pardon my mis-statement. |
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Bah, I'll do the last level on co-op with my brother. Or I'll just wait for them to patch the game. Whichever comes first. |
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So what do you all think of Halo 2 compared to the original? There are a lot of people bitching about it, but I find it great compared to the first. Sure, there are a couple of things I don't think they should have changed, but not much. And I love the campaigns story! I'm so glad it actually has one, unlike Halo: CE's one with it's tiny amount of plot, with most aspects like the Covenant being strongly religious not even being delved into during the game.
***Spoilers*** And yay for the brutes causing a great divide between the Covenant. I'm goin' for the elites, though. |
I thought H2 was a huge improvement over the original. Even though the repetitive levels weren't eliminated, they were reduced greatly. The in-game graphics also got a well-needed polishing.
On the downside, the cut-scenes still suck and MC's plot still requires several play-throughs before you know where the hell you are and what you're doing. Playing as the Arbiter was my favorite part of H2. Not only was getting into the Covie mentality great, the Arbiter's plot made something vaguely resembling sense. Also, his story arc came to something pretty damn close to a conclusion, which is more than MC can say. |
I've just been playing through, and I can honestly say Delta Halo is the best level. I love it. Especially after the flood-fest of the Arbiter level before it - which makes it almost relaxing.
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