Its not easy, Im just curious to see who else here has done it.

i didn't borrow it long enough to do so, i think i beat it a few times on easy and normal, i think i was halfway on hard before i gave it back

I've only tinkered on Legendary.

Getting off Cairo is a royal *****. I still haven't managed that.

I can make it through Outskirts, but it takes me a hellova long time, even when employing a LOT of the tricks I've learned for skipping over areas.

I've made it all the way to the end of the bridge in Metropolis. By that, I mean to the end of the tunnels. Progress was impeded by a freaking Jackal Sniper. ONE freaking Jackal Sniper. No one else. I think I managed to alert him ahead of time I was comming since I dragged the tank in there. Anyways, I could never get a clean shot on him without being instantly hit.

I can't get too far past the drawbridge on Delta Halo... but that's mostly due to me being completely fatigued from the fire fight at the very beginning and sniping clean the area around the bridge...

I haven't tried High Charity, but I'm pretty sure that if I didn't stop for major combat, I MIGHT be able to run straight through. It's a pretty short level, and most of the combat is three-way, so distractions are all over the place.

I made it all the way through Uprising. That was due in part to having EIGHT other Elites following me (two swords, three carbines, two snipers, one fuel rod). I had an army, I could pretty much open the door for them, then just hold back and let them do the majority of the fighting for me. Didn't always work though.

And I was able to get through The Great Journey, minus the Banshee Escort job. I rode the Scarab all the way there, then jacked a fresh banshee, which was NOT easy... though I just thought of a new method... I'd have to be quick for that to work though... meh. Anyways, despite having the Banshee, and getting it inside the Control Room, I was never able to gun Tartarus down. I played that over and over for at least 90 minutes before I gave up.

Sooner or later I'll try a full run on Legendary again. Right now, I'm working on hammering out battle plans and strategies on Normal, then I'll run through some of the tougher levels and places on Heroic and hammer that out. I'll have it beat on Legendary before the as of yet unannounced third game comes out.

without dying?

while standing on your head?

underwater?

without shooting?

while having sex?

THEN I AM NOT IMPRESSED!

Ehhh, I played the two New Mombasa levels on Legendary and called it quits... It's damn hard.

only got to outskirts....those snipers made me quit. XD I beat it in all the other difficulties. Heroic was VERY fun I must say.

I was so angry with the game's ending that I've barely played any of it since I beat it the first time.

I never even beat the game. I got up until right before you fight that one guy who's the elder guy's personal guard, and stopped playing. I was too bored with it.

yeah ive beaten it on legendary too, but it took me forever. i think the worst level is probably cairo station or when you fight Regret, because of the damn honor guard. Also, whenever an Ultra attacks you in a banshee and takes ALL of your rockets to kill him. at points i got so frustrated that i quit the game for like 2 weeks.

Take the Rooftops. Seriously. If you take the rooftops, you can avoid the vast majority of the Snipers. You can also get to Hotel Zanzibar FAST that way.



The ending was no where NEAR that bad. It's a cliff hanger. Jeeze... you see them all the time on TV, you see them in movies, you read them in books. I fail to understand why the ending pisses so many people off. They all act like they've never encountered a cliff hanger before in their lives.

I beat the original Halo on ledgendary on PC, is Halo 2 that much harder?

Halo sucks.

Much, much, much harder. As in, if you stick your head out too long around one Elite with a plasma rifle, you can be dead in a few short seconds.

In terms of how the skill levels match up with Halo's... Easy in Halo 2 is Easy, Normal is a combination of Halo's Normal and Heroic, Heroic is alot like Halo's Legendary, and Legendary is... well... OMGWTF.

Some parts of it annoy the HELL out of me... but all the same, I can't WAIT to beat it.


On another note... I discovered a few weeks ago that I simply cannot play Halo PC anymore... The controls feel completely unresponsive, even when I have the sensitivity set ALL the way up... And it's not just my computer. We have Halo PC on some of the Lab computers at Uni... Its the same story for me there too.

How do you take to the rooftops in the city level?

Oh yea its a bit of a dissapointment you dont get a special end cutscene on legendary like in halo.

Give me your email. I think there's at least three good ways to do it, I'll tell you how and provide screens.

I paid full price for a game that ended right at the climax. It felt like a demo to me, one long boring demo. And when the story starts getting good, the game ends. I cried out in pain and disappointment when that happened.

Anyways, that's my opinion and I don't like the idea of them using that cliff hanger to make me have to buy the next Xbox. Because, let's face it, it'd be dumb for them to not have Halo 3 as a launch title, or a very early title for the next Xbox. But its my opinion.

Well, Halo 3 won't be a launch title and almost certainly not an early title either. And, although I thought the ending could have been better (a little longer but still a cliffhanger), I don't see how the ending really "makes" anyone have to buy 3.

Halo 3 comes out as soon as the PS3 comes out.

Haha, who in the hell played Halo for it's storyline? Haha.

When I played Halo and Halo 2 I found that the games were too slow (controlling the character-wise). For example, when I played GoldenEye, the motion was extremely fast. When I played Halo it was like a snail simulator with 3d acceleration. Therefore, I do not like Halo. Also, the graphics (I played it on the Xbox) were not impressive at all. The graphics looked dull. The textures looked like the textures in Perfect Dark for the N64. The framerate was obviously faster and the 3d models more detailed, but it did not seem like a significant improvement otherwise. Jedi Knight (in my opinion) is a much more interesting and fun game. It is also very fast (like GoldenEye). Halos one and two are not fast at all.

That's exactly why I can't play JK anymore. Everything happens WAY to damned fast. You run at 30 miles an hour. Speed doubles that. You walk at 10. Everything feels WAY to fast. Especially after playing newer games. You don't move that fast in UT2k4 for example, or nearly that fast in Half-Life.

I like the pace of Halo. It seems right.

I did. I also played it for its FUN value and the graphics, which really appealed to me. The multiplayer was amazing, playing with my brother's friends.

Personally, I think Halo would have been ruined if it had been faster. The speed is just right to be on a console, and it's fast enough for close firefights to be furious.

I love the games.

Haha, no. The storylines were crap. So were the graphics. It's just a fun game.

I've beaten most if not all levels on legendary on halo 2.... and I've found most of the skulls.... try using the skull you get on the last level - it's fun. It's called the black eye skull... look it up.. I'm not about to spoil anything for anyone. My xbl name is PlushyGoose. Add me.

It's true that Halo 2 sucked, plot wise. It wasn't very true to the books.... and nothing really happened. You see all these ads about protecting Earth but you're hardly ever there... Plus it's dissapointing that Bungie promised a lot of stuff you could do on multiplayer and single-player - like peeking around corners or being right up against a wall - like you can do on Splinter Cell games... speaking of Splinter Cell games.... Chaos Theory will be out soon... online co-op sounds sweet. Like kIRBY said... Halo 2 is fun but the storyline just sucks. It's kind of ironic how you can't have your back to a wall but on Cairo station, on singleplayer, you'll see Elites have their backs to crates for cover - yet you can't do that.

Anyway about Halo 3 - it's very likely it's be a launch title or it'll be out around the time of PS3's launch. I know Perfect Dark Zero will be the launch title of Xbox Next... but Bungie just hired a lot of people and they have about twice the amount of staff they had when they made Halo 2... so Halo 3 could be out as early as September. Xbox Next will most likely be released to the public around Christmas so Halo 3 may just be a launch title. As far as xbox live goes, it is said that you'll be able to have your own online stores, you'll be able to create your own content for games - and can get paid for it (people would have to pay to download it)... anyway I'm getting off-subject. If you want to hear more about this email me at chingpow@gmail.com and or IM me on AIM - my screenname is OwenTer893.

That would be because the books have little to do with the games. The authors are given a rough outline of what they can, and cannot do, and go from there. While some of the things in the books are considered more or less true to the Halo universe, others are not.



That would be due to Microsoft's amazing marketing department. Not necessarily Bungie.



All of which was put into the game, and removed for various reasons. Namely that the features were either, A) not worth implementing because there wasn't a need for them (The ATV), B) Because the sucked after getting put in game, or C) because it didn't "feel" like Halo (Sprinting, Looking around corners, shooting out lights)



Wrong. Halo 3 hasn't even been announced, and Bungie has said that they're going to take a break from Halo for a short time. Probably to toy with another game idea. You're also wrong about the staff hireings. They haven't hired ANYONE else, let alone double their current staff. That was a rumor.



No comment on the Xbox Next stuff... But still... I doubt Halo 3 will be out by then. It's just not likely. And for your Live comments... If some of that pertains to Halo, I REALLY doubt that. It makes zero sense.

I said nothing of Halo 2. Halo in general just has a shifty, crappy, and overly elaboarate plot that all boils down to a horribly cliche plot once you ignore all the almost tedious story quirks they added on. Granted, almost any videogame story is cliche, Halo's has always bothered me at how poorly they masked it's crappiness.

And those who claim halo is some innovative and new experience in gaming are kidding themselves. It's a fun game to play at parties or in lans. That's it. Give up your hopes and dreams of it being the greatest game ever, as it's far from it. It only provides some group entertainment, and maybe a bit of fun if you've got a taste for the SP aspect. Otherwise, it's just a mediocre game with very poorly done graphics, normal and bland concepts, and very tweaked controlls/game balance. What I'D like to see, is a game with halo's gameplay toting some acceptional storytelling, some original and personal characters, and a bit of functionality and variety in it's gameplay. Think the storyline of Deus Ex meets the gameplay in Halo meets the characters and story telling of a metal gear solid game, meets the interactivity and functionality of that interactivity as Theif or even HL2.

JediKirby

Yes, but Kirby, you think every FPS game in existance blows based on most of the same criteria. That makes it hard for me to even listen to your opinion.

The biggest flaw with Halo 1 & 2 is the Flood. They have to be the most annoying enemy in any game I've played - while facing 100 of them was fun to start off, when you've done it for more than 3 hours, it stops becoming interesting and starts becoming really, really annoying and unimaginative.

Halo 1 MP is its best aspect, and the only one I enjoy. The weapons, vehicles and maps are very enjoyable.

Halo 2, however, is crap. Almost no new enemies, excepting the Brutes who are laughably easy to beat, and half of the weapons are useless. The Magnum is crap as far as weapons go - why they got rid of the pistol, I'll never know. Time after time, I'd try to play it with my friends, and every time I would dislike the game a little bit more. None of the concepts in the game were even remotely new - dual weapons, (limited) ragdoll, pilotable vehicles...

Now, mind you, I wasn't expecting some groundbreaking experience that would blow all games out of the water, nor do I think the game has no reedemable qualities. I thoroughly enjoyed the Covenant missions and the opportunity the game gave you to play as an Elite. But everyone kept on marketing Halo 2 as some sort of revolutionary title, when all it did was reuse concepts that had been present in PC games that came before it.

But that was it. Like it was said above, I was expecting a Covenant invasion of Earth and spending more than a few missions defending the planet. It doesn't matter if Microsoft "misrepresented" the game in their advertisements - it's what the game was advertised as, and it's what I was expecting. The ability for rocket launchers to target vehicles has made all vehicles suicide in multiplayer and taken out what skill was needed to kill a vehicle. Furthermore, the blast radius of the rockets is ridiculously small - you almost have to directly hit someone to kill them in one shot.

Also, what's with no falling damage? People keep saying, "It's a big suit of armor." Well, duh, yes. F = ma - a big, thick suit of armor will add to the mass, causing the force exerted by gravity to be even greater, which doesn't explain the fact that, no matter how far you fall, you don't take a bit of damage, yet you can fall to your death in pits.

All in all, I'm simply glad that I got Halo 2 for free, because I almost regret standing in line at 12 midnight to go pick it up, and the only reason I don't regret that is because I got the chance to play poker, War, Go Fish, and Bull**** with a pinochle deck.