Halo 2 Review - PC

The original Halo was a total phenomenon on the Xbox and the Halo series is the subject of much discussion and feverish speculation among gamers generally, with its fantastic graphics, engaging plot and many, many guns. Despite this, Halo made a disappointing transition onto the PC, but nonetheless, Halo 2 is now making its way across and PC gamers can get a piece of the sequel action. So, how does this one measure up? Will Halo 2 survive the transition and live up to its potential on the PC? We've played Halo 2 extensively and we have a three page review in this issue: read it now to find out what we think.
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Halo 2 Review - PC
Los Angeles, May 2003, and Xbox FPS sequel Halo 2 is unveiled to the world in an amphitheatre full of games journalists. The crowd goes wild. Grown men scream like teenage Elvis fangirls at sights like the game’s star, Master Chief, dragging enemies off their vehicles and taking the wheel himself, or a giant spider-bot stomping through city streets. Then the Chief’s shown wielding two guns at once, and these same men just lose it. They’re yelling “oh my god, oh my god,” waving hands in the air like they’ve just been cured of blindness, standing up in their seats then immediately collapsing back into them, knees weak, eyes clouded with ecstatic delirium. This, dear reader, was the exact moment Halo died.

Former glories
While the first Halo game defaulted to painful repetition in its twilight hours, its first half was a triumph of fauxopenness, scale, sci-fi imagination and thoughtful reconsideration of how an FPS should work. With such an unhinged response to the sight of dualwielded weapons, it was clear that such things no longer mattered. Only the shooting mattered, the dumbest of action, and Halo 1’s more cerebral achievements were abandoned.

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