Halo 2 By Stephen Bielby

Halo 2 is one of the finest games I have ever seen! If I had to rate this game on a scale of 1 to 10 I'd have to give it a definite 10. This is because of the story line. If action is your cup of tea then Halo 2 is the game for you.

Unfortunately as far as I know the Limited Collectors Edition of Halo 2 is sold out and will never be available for purchase again, the Limited Collectors Edition has a bonus DVD which has the making of Halo 2 and lots of other features. I thought the Limited Collectors Edition of Halo 2 was well worth the price of £45.00! Halo 2 is available as the normal version on the XBOX for £35.00.

Halo 2 starts where Halo 1 left off. As Master Chief returns to earth he is greeted back to the human race with comfort of a few medals for being a hero. But as things where running smoothly Cortana (an artificial intelligence holographic woman) sees some very large attack ships belonging to none other than The Covenant.

The Covenant come to earth seeking to destroy every living human who gets in their way so they can fulfil the prophecy called The Great Journey.

The Covenant believe that The Great Journey will make them even more powerful than they already are by activating at least 1 of the 8 rings which also activate the rest of them. Then they can be used to destroy every living thing on earth, or so they are told by The Prophets. When in actual fact if any 1 of the Halo's are activated and their main firing mechanisms are activated then so will all the others destroying everything in the galaxy.

There are only two things that stand in The Covenant's way now and that is the human race and the return of the dreaded Flood.

Vehicles There are new vehicles like Shadow (pictured) which is capable of carrying a driver, a man on a turret and 2 passengers holding on the wings that make a pretty strong attack vehicle. Lots more to discover in the game too.

Weapons New weapons like the SMG, Corbine and Energy Sword make the game way better than Halo 1. An improvement to The Needler also works best with the Covenant Plasma Rifle for a large scale killing spree! My Comments Excellent graphics and game play with a new gaming engine that makes Halo 1 look like Roadkill. It's well worth buying. I would recommend this title to any gamer who likes Sci-fi action-adventure games and has an XBOX.

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