Ive been playing halo one for such a long time with my friends, almost everyday, me and my mates loved the multiplayer action in the game. So when Halo 2 came out it was a must play game, though it lived up to some expectations there are still things that i disagreed with.
First and most importantly is now grenades really suck, i cud get people with grenades from miles in halo1, took a lot of skill and it felt great when you did it. The ways you used them could be so more tactical than now, you cant divert someones movements from one grenade to land on another now, as the time they take to explode is way too short, and they dont bounce far. The plasma's go off just as quick as frags, that was the beauty of plasma's they were great to be used in combination with frags, as you could position them so the blast from one of them would be inevitable. The damage is decreased also, which was another big mistake, as if someone is rushing you with dual yeild you can garentee that your time to plant the perfect grenade shot and shoot them is almost impossible.
The dual wields were a great addition, though one combination is completely over powered, which is a plasma pistol and assault rifle, you charge that homing green ball that wipes out their shield and shoot 5/10 bullets with your assault rifle and the enemy has no chance. Other combinations are also good but that combination in particular is better than any other weapon set in the game.
The sword, is over powered on small maps, especially with corridors or paths, hard to dodge, and its one hit kill if u get close enough, defense against it is either shotgun, or to snipe the bastard down.
Again with the over powerage, on tanks >_> you cannot scratch a scorpion unless you manage to sneak up on one and break its hull. The machine gun turret munches up health in no time, and well the shells shoot fast with more power than rocket launcher.
The taking away of health does mean that wen you fight someone they get away, all your hard work and ammo is really waisted, in one way good because it can make fights last longer, but in other ways bad as your enemy can almost die and then be fully recharged within seconds, and the tables can turn. Even though im use to it now, i still prefer the health bar.
Well apart from all those things i love everything about halo 2, but it is way more whorable now. I like many things, I love the jump now, i like the added features to team games, etc, its more customisable, and there are many other things i like about it, but im sure you can figure that out, in a way i think its an awesome game, but at the same time i still loved the original more, maybe because i was more use to it, or it could be that the fights lasted longer, the tactics were less about choosing your weapon, and more about going about getting your kill, it was much more tactical in that aspect. I also was disapointed they didnt include more of the old levels, if they had prisoner, longest, and hang em high i would have been happier.
the original halo gets a 9/10 from me, halo 2 gets 8.5/10, because it didnt live up to the originality and the tactics i loved in halo 1, although i havent played it as long, from what ive experienced i got the grasp of the main tactics in the game these days.
