Well like a lot of other people I picked up a copy of Halo 2 and have been playing it.
For the most part it is a great game, but I just really wasn’t enjoying it that much playing on my own. Games like this really need to be played CO-OP and thankfully Zuhli came up this weekend and we did just that.
We played from like 8:00 last night till abou 4:00 this morning and had a blast. We were both up at about 9:30 this morning and actually finished the game.
Man what a let down. After all the stuff that Bungie went through to make this really awesome engine and story and everything, they just leave it hanging. Actually, it pissed me off pretty good. I mean at least in the first one they had the decency to sort of make a good ending to it. Yeah they left a few loose ends, but for the most part it finished up nicely. Don’t expect that from this one at all. And of course they don’t plan to make another one for Xbox (it instead is supposed to be an Xbox2 title) and it is really a kick in the nuts. Plus last I heard Bungie is working on a different title right now, so it will be a while before Halo 3 even gets started. At least with the LoTR stuff everything was already done so you knew the rest of the story would come out (for those that didn’t read the books.)
If course everyone is raving about the multiplayer parts of the game, but I guess I am one of the few people left that expects to get a game to enjoy for the aspects of the game and not because it is a really great multiplayer platform.
It makes me wish that they would have put out a Halo 1.5 with just the new multiplayer stuff and then released Halo 2 with longer story and more info in it.