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Halo 2 Early Impressions by Arogan

I was at Walmart last night at midnight. Got some free stuff and some nice glow pens. Bungie has hired a 3rd party to help promote the game. So there was a Halo 2 guy there handing out free stuff. Walmart was very unorganized and had NOT a CLUE on what was going on. It took them 40 minutes to find the damn game. Half the people left because the manager assured us they didn't get them in.

I hung around since they were calling other Walmarts. About 5 minutes later another employee came by and said he found them. We even pulled the Halo 2 colored notice post card taped in front of the register informing them of the midnight release when they kept acting like they were clueless. Real quality people work the graveyard shift at Walmart.

Very early impressions Single player:
- Dual wield is incredible and really adds a lot to the combat. I really like how you can pretty much mix and match any two single handed weapons but you also lose the ability to throw grenades. It's a great balance.
- Controls are about as perfect a gamepad can get for a fps.
- Wasn't able to test the 5.1 sound since it's kind of late.
- Graphics look a bit better, frame-rates are solid.
- Story is excellent so far. You get a lot more from the Convenant perspective this time.

Multiplayer:
- Played several 8 player matches and things were very smooth. There are several new team play variations but I still really enjoy good old CTF.
- 16 player games showed some lag and warping.


Bonus DVD:
- Standard video dvd.
- 4 features including a few making of's - SPOILERS. DO NOT WATCH until after you finish the game. I only watched a few minutes.

Yeah I'll finish this in 1 week before half life 2....just watch....it's that good.
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