Yesterday, I watched a Halo 2 CTF video, which looked in my opinion alright. I'm a die hard Halo fan and like most couldn't wait for Halo 2's release, but after watching the video, I'm not that impressed.

IMO, without there being a pistol, the game isn't the game anymore. You won't be hearing the usual 'ooo, i three shot you from across the map'. The maps are also not 'Halo-styled' aka open areas for the most part. There's tight tunnels and corners, more like a UT2K3/4 style. The commentators voice change from the 1 minutes countdown to the 10 seconds remaining voice. Also they added dialog text stating what's going on in game. If you melee someone it says Player A beat down Player B. If you get ran over it says Player A smooshed Player B.

I don't know... After this long of a wait, I'm just not as pleased with it as I thought I would be.

As long as they put Blood Gulch and a few other maps on Halo 2 I'll be happy

It's going to be a tall order for Halo 2 to beat Halo even if Halo 2 is the "better" game. No, it doens't have to make sense, but some people should understand.

If they put BG in Halo 2 I will sodomize myself with a stop sign.

Where is the video at, I found some small clips of ctf but nothing with anouncers or dialog text, just said ______ was killed by _____ everytime someone was killed.

Hopefully they will add lots of settings we can adjust on our own.

dcElite, have you read up at all on what new guns are going to be like?
From my understanding, the new battle rifle will take the place of the pistol...except it won't be quite as powerful allowing the game to be a little more realistic and evening the odds to those people without a battle rifle. You'll have a 3 shot burst with bare sites, and single shots while zoomed. True it's not the good'ol pistol, but it's close. Have you not seen dual weilding? That's impressive, and fun.

If the shield and health damage are similar to Halo, then holding an alien weapon and human weapon at the same time will be deadly. Have you seen the boost feature on the ghost, or the ability to knock an opponent off of the ghost? The frag grenades detonate quicker, that's more tactical.

And yes I did notice that the game wasn't quite the same...but it could be for the better, you appear to run quicker, jump higher, it makes the game more interesting...you have to aim quicker, and be able to adjust to your opponent moving and jumping quicker.

I think the video is sweet and I can't wait for the Halo 2.

Here are the links.

Halo2.filefront.com
http://halo2.filefront.com/file/First_H ... 5#Download

Torrent Link
http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/~xbox/xbox-sc ... ov.torrent[/url]

I also have a 10 min Halo 2 multiplayer video from E3 shared on my comp as well.

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Yeah I've read up on Halo 2 just as much as the next addict. It might be for the better, I guess only time will tell...

Looked really nice, I like how fast the needler shoots now, not sure if no pistol is a good idea though. Only thing that bothers me is the missing health bar, so everyone seems to be dieing a whole lot faster. That or they can change that in the game settings hopefully.

they are making it more in depth, but the simplicity of Halo pretty much made it. anyone can pretty much pick up a controller and figure it out. Now with duelwielding, energyswords and what not it may get some getting used to.

If they take out the pistol then it's just going to make people concentrate on using the sniper more or whatever new weapon can kill with the most accuracy. One thing that made Halo so good was how exact the pistol and sniper hit things when you were aiming at them unlike "realistic" games where you can pump a full clip into someone and end up just hitting them 2 or 3 times.

damn voyager and you damn freshmen

i'm glad they got rid of the pistol. that got real old real fast. getting sniped across a giant canyon WITH A PISTOL. then i try to mix things up and use the assault rifle, and i get killed by a guy WITH A PISTOL. i like to be able to use other guns every once in a while and not be at a disadvantage

The pistol will be back. It will be less powerful and dual wieldable. It won't have a scope and the clip is reduced to 10. The battle rifle pretty much takes the old pistol's place though. That gun rapes.

The pistol will be back?

Where'd you here that? From what I understood, the pistol now has 120 rounds per clip, is extremely inaccurate, and yes...has no zoom. The battle rifle will shoot 3 shot bursts unzoomed, and single shot pretty accurate zoomed, and will be more powerful than the old assault rifle...similar to the power of the old pistol.

well from the videos ive seen...the ones hosted by mlg...the battle rifle seems to be a key weapon, and more powerful than the assault rifle...and it seems to work good while zoomed in...the sniper rifle looked to have more of a coil over on the shot, and maybe even more delay, but im not sure...im not gonna lie though, the needler will be a key gun