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Halo and Halo 2 are the most over-rated games I've ever known. The marketing guys at Microsoft did a fantastic job, but all the developers did was create two very medicore first-person-shooters. The Halo games might be alright compared to other XBox games, but seriously, lots of PC FPS games which game out over 5 years ago are superiour!
Any professional reviewers who voted Halo 2 as game of the year ought to be fired. But, as somebody else pointed out, those reviewers were probably bribed. I hope they weren't stupid enough to honestly vote that game "game of the year".
Hey, if you give up on the idea of reloading during a fight you could even use that third arm to triple-wield! Yes, an incredible new innovation, and you read it first here on slashdot!
And there are rumours that Halo 3 will also feature the possibility to dual-drive! That means you get to drive not one, but two vehicles at the same time (and different vehicles too!). So you can be parking your warthog while simultaneously using your scorpion to lay down suppressing fire!
Live does a great job of matching you with people of your own skill so you never feel overpowered in any single game, which means you're having fun playing and not dying 10 seconds after respawning.
On the other hand, you'll never 0wnx0r a game since everybody in the level is as good as you are. That's Microsoft alright: mediocrity rules.
What else can I say? If you don't like it, try taking out your Halo 2 disc and cross out the 'Microsoft' logo with a marker. See if you'll like it better then ;).
Ahh, people don't like Halo because it is from Microsoft! Surely it had nothing to do with the fact that it is essentially a four-hour game stretched to ten, by repeating levels again and again and again and again...