Halo 2

[Rinnhart]

Halo is overrated.  It's as simple as that.  I've played the entire campaign (via my roomie's Xbox and copy), and Half-Life 2 blows it away in every aspect, including voice acting.  And have you SEEN the voice-syncing in HL2!?  It was hard enough to get over it in the trailers, but it's even freakier seeing it in real-time :)

As for multiplay, the Unreal Tournament series is better in every way - I'll take a good ole Flak Cannon over some stupid little dual-wielding feature (the only worthwhile combo is the Plasma Pistol and SMG, anyway - everyone knows a Shotgun or good Swordsman will dominate) any day, and I just have a near irrepressable urge to reach out and smack every single OMG LAN PARTIES!!!!111 Halo 2 fanatic with a big stick of "BEEN THERE DONE THAT!"  Yes, I know that was lame, but I am tired and I am cranky.
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Lmao, I was good with a single pistol in Halo, now I can have two in 2. Everyone scoffed at my little guns at the twelve man party I hit up a couple days after release.

Then I won a FFA match with a 30 point lead (it was to 50).

Shotguns and swords are fun, but a hail of magnum rounds humbles even the mightiest Joe-with-a-Boomstick.

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I don't like how they balanced the two-weapon bit, though. All the weapons that can be dual-wielded are now pretty crappy on their own.