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Halo 2
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Gameplanet
And what a story it is. Bungie has been pretty tight-lipped over the single-player campaign in Halo 2 since the game was announced with a teaser trailer a few years ago, and then last year at E3 with an eight-minute rolling demo shown of the Covenant
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DarkStation
This game goes where no Xbox Live enabled game has gone before.
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USA Today
Earth Marines fight to save our world from the Covenant, an imperialistic/religious alien army
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Electronic Gaming Monthly
From the huge gameplay twist early on, to taking down a giant walking tank, to way late in the game when you team up with certain...teammates, all the way to an end that'll leave you with the same breathless feeling you had when you first watched "The
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Cyber Gaming Net
With the wild success of the first Halo, a sequel was inevitable.
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Science Fiction Weekly
Three years ago Bungie developed a game that was worthy enough to go out and buy an Xbox. Halo: Combat Evolved, to give it its full title, took the first person shooter genre to another astonishing level. With a jaw-dropping graphics engine and a near
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The Video Game Critic
Like the original Halo, this sequel offers extremely polished and highly immersive first-person shooting action. Surprisingly, Halo 2's graphics look pretty much the same, causing many to wonder why this game took three years to produce. The first stage
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GameShark
The combination of a great campaign mode along with a goldmine of multiplayer options makes for an unbeatable gaming experience.
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Times Online
Microsoft first launched its bid to take on Sony and Nintendo in the lucrative gaming console market, the original Halo was its AAA game made exclusively for its new Xbox format. While three years ago Halo was an entirely competent blockbuster, it was als
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UnderGroundOnline
Bungie took the world by storm with the release of their hugely successful first person shooter, Halo. A majority of Xbox owners have the game, and many have gone through it a sickening number of times, never tiring of the action. What made Halo so good?
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Boomtown
Halo 2 online is not total perfection, but it's miles better than anything out there right now, by a long long way... It's a genuine milestone in online console gaming.
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ThumbBandits
Warning, this is probably going to be long, it’s probably going to rant.. rave and in general waffle. Why? BECAUSE WE WAITED THREE YEARS for this game and we’re SO GLAD it’s now here! In addition I have to add that this is the hardest review I have
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Extreme Gamer
From the deep stat tracking to the games ability to match you up with people your own ability,the clan and party support, and huge number of game modes, Halo 2's multiplayer is definitely a revolution for console multiplayer games.
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GameCell UK
Halo 2 starts by showing the differing fates of two of the combatants in the battle on Halo.
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GamerDad
I'm not going to go all organ-grinder's monkey about the sound and graphics. You knew they were going to be gorgeous, and they are. The score is tied to the original, but with some great progression and it doesn't get in the way. The familiar voices are
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RewiredMind
The new "Dual Wielding" option allows you to pick up two guns at once and use them together, which provides a feeling that again, other shooters just don't come anywhere near.
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Games are Fun
It really is hard to pin down any one thing that makes Halo 2 so much fun. Enemies with keen A.I., organic well-designed levels, an array of finely balanced weapons, an engrossing story, exceptionally high production values--a lot of games have these
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Xbox-Evolved
Halo was the game that put Xbox on the map and let's face it, every game in between Halo and the inevitable release of Halo 2 was filler. Not that any of these titles you played were bad - it is just that Halo was so damn good it was in its own class.
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The Laser
After a seemingly endless wait, the highly anticipated Halo 2 has finally arrived on the Xbox. As the sequel to what many consider the best console FPS of all time, Halo 2 has a lot to live up to. Fortunately, the developers at Bungie have proven
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Games First!
First of all, the Campaign mode is a vast improvement upon that of Halo with dramatically changing landscapes and a myriad of thrills to satisfy even an extreme sport junkie. Halo 2 picks up right where the first left off, with the destruction of Halo
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Maxim Online
Game XC
Christmas 2001 – We’re getting an Xbox for Christmas and my brother and I have agreed to buy each other games as gifts. We walk into EB and look at all the extravagant games lined up along all the walls and we proceed to the game section marked
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Xbox Evolved
Yahoo! Games
1UP
Unlike October's blockbuster "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," Halo's masses of content have been tossed in a strainer and all serve to make the main game better, rather than simply providing more for the player to do.
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Game Revolution
Despite a genuinely better plot this time around, the short, linear campaign and unresolved ending will certainly aggravate those hoping for a more evolved single-player game. But make no mistake – what Halo 2 lacks in its single-player it more than
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GMR Magazine
all of the different game modes (fiesta, juggernaut, and swords are some of the best) will keep people playing until the next game comes out. Halo 2 offers the best selection of multiplayer options in a console shooter since Perfect Dark. Of course, on a
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Gaming Age
The problem is that the ending feels more like a mission briefing than a conclusion. Secrets are revealed, the final battle is set, the music swells and then bam, credits.
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GameSpy
It's here. The long wait is finally over, as Xbox owners will be able to stroll into their local game shop on Tuesday to pick up what might be the most highly anticipated game of all time. For the last three years, speculation and rumors have been
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GamePro
Halo 2's a winner, but it's also a set-up for Halo 3. Compelling online gameplay may well be its ultimate legacy.
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Xbox Nation Magazine
More weapons and vehicles are added to the pile. It's possible to hold two guns at once and fire them at the same time to great, and greatly destructive, effect. New maneuvers allow vehicles to be hijacked while in motion, and certain craft possess the ab
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Thunderbolt
Halo 2's Campaign mode is a luminous experience and testament of Bungie's rare talent for mixing gorgeous cinematics with captivating and fun gameplay segments, but it also serves as the concrete foundation for the game’s multiplayer, making simple
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Yahoo! Games
Sydney Morning Herald
have many memorable scenes, including a Covenant assault on Earth. Vehicles play a bigger role and hijacking alien transport is a crucial tactic. Driving a Warthog through a chaotic battle is spine-tingling. Many weapon combinations are possible thanks to
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Stuff
Advanced weapons, such as the one-hit-kill Plasma Sword, make slaying aliens more fun than new nipple clamps. And the sleek, sprawling designs of the year 2552 will sizzle your retinas—that is, when the newly destructible environments aren't crumblin
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XboxAddict
even remotely as popular as it did. People spent lots of money to buy new Xboxes, TV\'s, and copies of Halo so they could get people together and have Halo parties. This phenomenon grew into tournaments where contestants have won up to $50,000. Halo has d
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Detroit Free Press
Adrenaline Vault
I can say with complete honesty that no other first-person shooter can touch Bungie's epic in terms of level design, gunplay, sheer action or multiplayer entertainment.
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VGPub
Enemies will change what they say based on what’s happening too, so if you go in guns blazing they may scream like a little girl, but if you duck behind an object they will taunt you for being a coward. All of this adds to the total immersion that you
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Talk Xbox
Halo 2 has delivered and conquered every front it set out to take. No other game is as cinematic. No other game sounds like Halo 2 does and no other game plays as fantastic as Halo 2 plays. You will not find a better multiplayer game on any platform.
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XGP Gaming
While feature-packed, Halo 2's Live interface will take a little getting used to. It's not that it's laid out poorly or anything like that. It's just that the sheer number of options you have available to you for Live play are staggering.
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Da GameBoyz
Each level is of a perfect length as the player finishes just as he or she feels they are getting bored yet has an addictive quality to them which makes you want to play it again and again.
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