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Halo 2 - Review
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Halo 2


Game Information
Release Date : November 9, 2004
Developed By: Bungie Studios
Genre: FPS
Platform: Xbox
Age Restriction: 17+ (M)

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Synopsis (Wikipedia)

Halo 2 takes place in the 26th century. Humans, under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command or UNSC, have developed faster-than-light slipspace travel and colonized numerous worlds. According to the game's backstory, the outer colony world of Harvest was decimated by a collective of alien races known as the Covenant in 2525. Declaring humanity an affront to their gods, the Forerunners, the Covenant begin to systemically obliterate the humans with their superior numbers and technology. After the human bastion at the planet Reach is destroyed, a single ship, The Pillar of Autumn, follows protocol and initiates a random slipspace jump to lead the Covenant away from Earth. The crew discovers a Forerunner ringworld called Halo, which the Covenant wants to activate because of their religious belief that the activation of the ring will bring about a "Great Journey", sweeping loyal Covenant to salvation.Leading a guerilla insurgency on the ring's surface, the humans discover that the rings are actually weapons of last resort built to contain a terrifying parasite called the Flood. The human supersoldier Master Chief and his AI companion Cortana learn from Halo's AI monitor, 343 Guilty Spark, that activation of the Halos will prevent the spread of the Flood by destroying all sentient life the parasite can subsist on in the galaxy. Instead of activating the ring, however, the Master Chief evades Guilty Spark and his robots and detonates the Pillar of Autumn's engines, destroying the installation and preventing the escape of the Flood. The Master Chief and Cortana race back to Earth to warn of an impending invasion by Covenant forces.

Campaign

The Halo 2 Campaign was very fun and take place right after Halo 2. You get to play as Master Chief and the Arbiter. It's a very fun campaign and is a really fun/hard campaign if you are playing on Legendary. I enjoyed the Campaign very much when I played it since it made more sense to me once I completed it since I first played Halo 3, then went to Halo 2. I understood more once I finished it and why Master Chief came from the ship type of thing. I never really completed the campaign on Legendary Difficulty but I completed it on Normal; I liked it though.

Multiplayer

I only got to play a few matches of the actual Online Halo 2 Multiplayer since I really had no chance after they shut down the servers on April 15th, 2010. You could still actually play Halo 2 with other people like your friends still using a Program Called "Xbox Connect" as well as many other Xbox Original games. It's a free and useful service and Halo 2 or Halo CE is the main game people use to play on there.
It's not actual Matchmaking though, it's System Link, even though you could be playing in California while the people you are playing with, could be from France or United Kingdom. Even on XBC the games were fun, even though I wasn't used to it that much since they are different.
Since it is in System Link you can not earn a Rank either, your basically playing for fun. Think of it as Custom Games on LIVE. Now you could probably understand it much more better!

Custom Games

The Halo 2 Custom Games were pretty good, you could play some competitive matches and now if you'd play Custom Games, you would be playing with yourself and whoever is at your house since it's only Split Screen so not much you could play unless you have a giant TV and 3 other friends over and you enjoy playing a really classic.

You could still play some of the best maps though like Midship (Heritic) or Blackout (which is like, cold something, it's something similar to what I've said)..

Awards


Just like many other Halo Games, they all receive many awards... Here are some of Halo 2's Awards! ;)

#1 Best-Selling Xbox Game of All Time
GameRankings - 95%/100
Metacritic - 95%/100
IGN - 9.8/10 | Best-Xbox Game of All Time | #2 Top 25 Xbox Games of All Time [Halo CE is #1]
Edge - 9/10
Game Informer - 10/10
Game Spot - 9.4/10 | Editors Choice
Game Spy - 5/5
Metacritic - 95%/100
GameRankings - 95%/100
2004 Game Critics Awards: Best Console Game
2005 Game Developers Choice Awards: Excellence in Audio
2005 Interactive Achievement Awards: Console Game of the Year, Sound Design
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Rating

10/10
If you played Halo 2, I'm pretty sure you'd agree with me on giving this Game a 10/10.
It set the standards for a lot of Xbox Games and ones that came afterwards, even though Halo CE did really great as well. When Halo 2 was first released, it got more people online just on the first day, then more people that have ever been online at once!
You might think it's over for Halo 2 and it's dead but not really.. Right now, I checked on Xbox Connect and there are 12 Hosts!
Yeah it seems like a little but the Game is 7 Years Old!
For other games right now there are "0" Servers.. It's extremely easy to join a Game as well.

The following 2 users thanked Halo for this useful post:

Kneesocks (11-27-2011), Dimebag (11-22-2011)
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Good review... but its missing a little something... CATS!!!
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i miss the good old days were i could do all the glitches and we could play online and play on the xbox
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well done this must of taken some time!!
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XDK wrote
Good review... but its missing a little something... CATS!!!
Oh Yeah, Forgot about that also.. Haha. =)
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