Bungie: We Screwed Up Halo 2

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1. Jim2k

   January 24th, 2007 at 1:42 am

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   Halo2 did only well because of the hype, it didn’t deserve the credit it got because MS forced a release for the holiday season. Hopefully they won’t do the same to Halo 3 this holiday season.

2. Anuban

   January 24th, 2007 at 1:46 am

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   I am even more confident that Halo 3 will be an awesome game and experience after reading this article. No Halo 2 was not great but it was and still is a pretty fun game. I don’t think it will be a forced or rushed release. They still have plenty of time to optimize the game and make it better plus the open beta is coming out and they’ll take feedback from that and use it to make the game better. After UT2K7 this is my most anticipated game for this year.

3. Quartecks

   January 24th, 2007 at 2:29 am

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   Yes, but Halo 3 is the ed of the series. As Halo Wars shows, there isn’t much tolerance among the halo junkies for anything other than a series specific game.

4. The Wickerman

   January 24th, 2007 at 7:45 am

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   its bs, hes trying to make u think o! he knows hl2 was messed up? boring? not good as the first? o wait?! If he admits it,that 3 will be better more ppl are gonna buy it. Dont believe him, maybe or maybe not but they sold their name on that game for the 2nd release hopefully 3 wont suck

5. Monarky

   January 24th, 2007 at 8:59 am

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   The Perfect Halo was already made! Bungie, a nothing company stumbled into making their first game on Xbox with the perfect combination of story, humor, tactics, weapons and tremendous characters. The online of Halo is what made Xbox Live a success then. They scored a 10 just walking through the door with that game. Pretty tough to score that 10 again.

   Then came Halo 2, hyped beyond belief, was just too much for Halo 2 to live up to, with Microsoft screaming demands for the Holliday release. The results were less than mediocre. Glitches a truck could drive through. Absolutely no real story and the ending was anything less than spectacular or even good. It sold the most copies of any “B” game out. Halo fans still claimed to love Halo with puke dripping down their face. It was in reality from the outside looking in. A complete disaster!

   Now comes the great redeemer, the lord of all that is Xbox, the king of Xbox shooters, for a third time. What can we expect? Well for one, anything will be better than Halo 2. Do nothing, and it would be better!

   Will it best the best of the original Halo? Well like I said on a scale of 1 to 10 it was a 10 the first time, so NO! Bungie should have done something different to score another 10! So maybe an 8 or 9, but with so much competition now, it can never be a 10 again!

   Because it will always be missing the magic of that moment. Too big of britches to fill!