What is so good about Halo?

[SoMiss2000]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

LOL FF, do you realize you post "This is the best game I've ever played" often? Not knocking ya, just poking some fun. I might pick this game up. I'm still debating it, since I'm busy playing WE8, Live, NBA/NFL 2k5, Raw vs. SD!, GTA:SA, King of Fighters 2003, MKeception, and Godzilla: STE. And good lord, Need for Speed Underground 2 is coming out next week.

There's no way possible you're playing all those games. adding halo 2 to the mix sure won't hurt.

[SoMiss2000]

Quote:

If it's the characters, the level rendering, the storyline, the controls, the weapons, the vehicles, etc., you can just say that, and I'd understand...

it's all that. it's the total package.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoMiss2000

There's no way possible you're playing all those games. adding halo 2 to the mix sure won't hurt.

I actually am; Have to make a damn little schedule.

No! Don't tempt me!

[pk500]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

I'm just rephrasing what the first guy is asking... like, which gameplay element separates this FPM from the others in single player?

A few reasons:

1. The AI is superb. Can't tell you how many times I thought I nailed one of the stronger enemies and he ended up flanking me and shooting me up the rear, for example.

2. Graphics are exceptional. Feels like you're playing a movie, not a game. They're that good.

3. Great story.

4. Superb sound effects and music.

Halo and Halo 2 are simply the most complete packages ever for a console first-person shooter. Halo 2 is extraordinarily well polished and done. So complete.

Take care,
PK

[JayBee74]

To me it's the best video game ever made. I was a fan of Return To Castle Wolfenstein, the first First Person Shooter that got my interest, but Halo 2 blows it away like most of my Halo2 online opponents do to me. Once you learn the controls you want stop playing it-and remember this is from a guy who has been getting his butt kicked on a regular basis.

[Vince]

It's all about online play..Get it..at least the 2 months free...You'll end up keeping xbl permanently...

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by pk500

A few reasons: 1. The AI is superb. Can't tell you how many times I thought I nailed one of the stronger enemies and he ended up flanking me and shooting me up the rear, for example. 2. Graphics are exceptional. Feels like you're playing a movie, not a game. They're that good. 3. Great story. 4. Superb sound effects and music. Halo and Halo 2 are simply the most complete packages ever for a console first-person shooter. Halo 2 is extraordinarily well polished and done. So complete. Take care, PK

This is the the definitive short answer. I'm not really into shooters, don't care about playing this game online, and still I would put the Halo games on the short list of all-time great series'. The polish/A.I./story combo especially for a FPS puts it over the top as a single player experience. and as for multiplayer -just keep reading the Halo threads

[pk500]

Quick follow-up:

I don't like science fiction, and I'm not that much into twitch shooters, as I prefer tactical shooters like Ghost Recon.

Still, I LOVED Halo, and the online and offline play of Halo 2 so far is exceptional even though I'm getting my rump kicked online.

So that's the mark of a great game. It's based in a genre I don't care about, and I'm getting mauled online, yet I still would want to play this game about every waking hour today if I could.

Oh, and I'm 39 years old. So this Halo 2 phenomenon isn't just for teens and early 20s.

Take care,
PK