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Halo 2 vs. Half Life 2
18 years ago
Firstly, thanks for the overwhelmignly positive response to my last journal, really ment alot to me ^v^
Anyway, I'm here today to compare 2 games, Halo 2 and Half Life 2.
I love Halo 2, but I like Half Life 2 better.
Let me explain why:
Graphics:
Halo: Impressive but not up to par IMO. While it was an improvement over Halo, it still has to be worked over a bit more. THe on-the-fly rendering relly bugged me as well.
Half Life 2: *drool* When I first played the game I was shocked, I never realised how amazing they were. Episode 1 improved on it, and I actually started comparing THE REAL WORLD to Half Life 2 Episode 1's graphics, needless to say they were alot alike.
AI:
Halo: Pretty simple. Shoot, die, repeat. Brute's AI was impressive for the melle attacking, but not much. Flood's AI was just annoying.
Half Life 2: The AI continues to amaze me. With each improvement it gets more lifelike. I loved the Combine soldiers could duck and still fire in Episode 1. In the previews for Episode 2 when Freeman threw a grenade at the soldier, he threw it BACK, and I was floored.
Story:
Halo: Weak backstory. THe covenant is in a holy war with the humans but they don't explain why. Their movites are for the most part still mysterious. The great journey? WTF is that, I don't get it. And the civil war makes sense, but untimatly looks like a badly placed plot device.
Half Life 2: Even though it's only told through Freeman's eyes and therefore biased, it's still engaging. You get to really know the characters, mainly Alyx, and it's alot more fun coming into the world without being told whats going on, and having to find out yourself.
If this were Hollywood, I think in the end Half Life 2 would win best picture while Halo 2, as much as it pains me to say this, would just be a big-budget action movie with a story that goes nowhere.
What do y'all think?
Anyway, I'm here today to compare 2 games, Halo 2 and Half Life 2.
I love Halo 2, but I like Half Life 2 better.
Let me explain why:
Graphics:
Halo: Impressive but not up to par IMO. While it was an improvement over Halo, it still has to be worked over a bit more. THe on-the-fly rendering relly bugged me as well.
Half Life 2: *drool* When I first played the game I was shocked, I never realised how amazing they were. Episode 1 improved on it, and I actually started comparing THE REAL WORLD to Half Life 2 Episode 1's graphics, needless to say they were alot alike.
AI:
Halo: Pretty simple. Shoot, die, repeat. Brute's AI was impressive for the melle attacking, but not much. Flood's AI was just annoying.
Half Life 2: The AI continues to amaze me. With each improvement it gets more lifelike. I loved the Combine soldiers could duck and still fire in Episode 1. In the previews for Episode 2 when Freeman threw a grenade at the soldier, he threw it BACK, and I was floored.
Story:
Halo: Weak backstory. THe covenant is in a holy war with the humans but they don't explain why. Their movites are for the most part still mysterious. The great journey? WTF is that, I don't get it. And the civil war makes sense, but untimatly looks like a badly placed plot device.
Half Life 2: Even though it's only told through Freeman's eyes and therefore biased, it's still engaging. You get to really know the characters, mainly Alyx, and it's alot more fun coming into the world without being told whats going on, and having to find out yourself.
If this were Hollywood, I think in the end Half Life 2 would win best picture while Halo 2, as much as it pains me to say this, would just be a big-budget action movie with a story that goes nowhere.
What do y'all think?
I don't know if I helped with the story at all, but that's what I've gotten from watching my friends play it over and over and over again. ^_^
*points to icon*