There are plenty of things to dislike about Halo 2 in comparison with 1, and I agree -- it did always provke a kind of 'euwl' feeling. Somehow...gritty, dirty, unpleasant, as if the newly bump-mapped graphics were grating on the eye.
Still, worth plowing through to get you into Halo 3, and it has its moments.
My thoughts exactly! I could never quite figure it out but I always felt like that!!!
The original Halo was a gem, the second Halo was okay still but hardly worthy of the first and the third is an improvement over the second by far, just not quite as good as the first.
In all seriousness, they're well made games by a very good company, their worst game (Halo 2) was actually developed almost entirely in the last year so that shows something! Unfortunately, legions of screaming fanbois give the series a bad name and hype it up to be like Jesus in video game form. Then, there are the black sheep who instinctively hate it because it's popular and rag on it and call it **** without even playing it.
Really, there's too much controversy and way too many retarded standards (high and low) held up to it, that stop people from appreciating what it is. It's not the gaming messiah, it's not something that will change the way we play forever, it is a remarkably fun, well thought out, highly polished and incredibly re playable shooter that was lucky enough to have a $3,000,000 hype train plow into it.
Really people, it's just a game
