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Halo 2: Anniversary
Released On: May 12, 2020
71
7.9
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
71
40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
71
40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Halo 2 is Halo 2, period. Now it is playable on PC. So, if you have a PC and didn’t play Halo 2, you know what to do.
Halo 2: Anniversary is an excellent game, bringing fantastic first-person action and a compelling continuation of the story. The characters - Master Chief, Arbiter, Oracle, and more, all bring something to the table in a well-done script. Even those who just come for the shooting will likely be engrossed with what's happening in the plot. Of course, Halo 2's emphasis is still on shooting action, and it delivers that.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 109 User Ratings
7.9
70% Positive
76 Ratings
76 Ratings
23% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
7% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 109 User Ratings
7.9
70% Positive
76 Ratings
76 Ratings
23% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
7% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Took the original's story and universe and turned it up to 11. Expands on everything, has a fantastic story, fantastic multiplayer, insane lore, amazing soundtrack... Perfection. Updated graphics are incredible, but new multiplayer is weakest in the series. Luckily, H2A comes with the original multiplayer as well which was phenomenal.
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Great presentation, there are many cinematics and they fit perfectly into the story and missions. The story shows a lot about the aliens and you play even as an alien.
Music is good as always.
Graphic is on a good level also
Bad?
No subtitles during gameplay, thats embarrassing.
Too much US propaganda
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Halo 2 Anniversary is a blast to play, but like the other games in The Master Chief Collection, it has problems, too. The non-stop action is occasionally sidelined by bugs, so patiently wait for fixes.
The port of Halo 2: Anniversary is good in many ways, but suffers from big issues in others. Overall, it's fine — but "fine" isn't good enough for Halo.
An excellent port of the Xbox game but the original is now so old it’s becoming difficult to enjoy even for veteran fans.
I played this on Xbox, honestly the idea of not only playing as the human race and Master chief but implementing playing as one of the members of the covenant is a really great idea. Improvement from Halo CE but not anything very great i think the "par time" is just so fake or im either stupid and dont know where to go to continue.
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Minha primeira experiencia com esse jogo foi em 2023 então será com base nela a minha analise.
---== Gráficos ==--
Alternando entre os graficos originais e os remasterizados fica evidente novamente o cuidado e ainda sim houve algumas evoluções comparados com o anterior.
A principal evolução fica por conta das cutscenes, os personagens ficaram infinitamente mais bem feitos, houve uma quantidade maior de cutscenes deixando muito mais epico os melhores momentos.
---== História ==--
Melhorou demais a história nessa continuação. Ela ficou muito mais envolvente, interessante e imersiva.
A interação da Cortana com o Masterfhief então nem se fala. Que final senhores.....
Recomendo bastante!
---== Gameplay ==--
Mais um vez a parte que menos gostei no jogo rsrs.
Apesar de haver boas melhorias, o jogo ainda fica cansativo e repetitivo em varios momentos.
Houve uma melhora significativa na variação das areas nas fases, algumas funcionalidades e armas novas, mas ainda sim não me prendeu a jogabilidade.
Joguei e destrinchei o jogo porque a história é muito boa e em coop tudo fica mais divertido.
---== Resumo ==--
Em coop da até pra pegar 100%, mas vale a pena ser jogado ao menos em função da história que é muito boa!
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Halo 2 is a decent game. It improves some things over the first entry in the series, though it's more of a partial improvement rather than actual fix of the issues with the base game design. It does significantly improve in the story department though. However, this remaster ruins some of that with some pretty noticeable technical issues.
Graphically, the game is pretty good looking, as much as it can be without making any notable change to the base design of the levels, etc. to keep in line with the original. It's far from perfect though. There are some mishaps, though - some floating objects, misaligned textures, etc. - some of them so obvious I noticed them even in pretty hectic moments.
Unfortunately, for this one, sound also disappoints - sound mixing specifically. Volume of music, ambience, effects, speech - especially speech - are inconsistent. Sometimes, music is too loud. So you turn it down. Then next track goes too low, so you turn it back up - but the next speech lines are too low volume and now hard to understand, so you turn the music back down to minimum, and so on. It's very intrusive, very annoying, very immersion breaking to have to pause the game every 20 minutes to fiddle with audio settings, to a point, where despite the very good soundtrack, it's just better to turn music off, if you are playing for the first time and want to catch all of the story details, dialogues, etc.
Story wise, the game is much better than Halo CE, it's more fleshed out, there is less stupid and cringy moments, it's a tad more serious, but it still has that B-level action movie thing going on with a couple one liners and tons of "go shoot stuff, soldier". Honestly, I would say this is my favorite Halo story. It's not some super deep stuff, it's got the right amount of interesting tidbits to make you invested in the universe, and the rest is just basically explaining why this thing has to be blown up or that thing captured. Pretty much spot on for this kind of game. The only really downside is the really abrupt ending - this is not a cliffhanger, it's straight up "we ran out of money and time at this specific point and couldn't be bothered to smooth it out so the ending would at least feel as something akin to a closure behind the whole game, see you in the next one" kind of thing.
Now, to the gameplay. Halo is famous for its super fun formula, and it's here for first 60-70% or so of the game. Then it goes to crap, much like Halo CE. There's less small hard to hit enemies, but others have been made into some pretty annoying bullet sponges, the level design is still very hit or miss though it has less re-used assets and layouts, and the last stages are swarming with infinite, or near infinite amounts of enemies, and it's just a slog, and I just skipped most of the combat by running because it turned from fun to a chore. Again, you get into hallway, five minutes fire down the hallway to kill all enemies, move around the corner, rinse and repeat - though to be fair, it's more open than in Halo CE so you can actually just skip it. And I could even understand a couple stages like that, where the odds are simply too stacked against you to fight them, and so you just focus on reaching the objective, but when more than a quarter of your power fantasy shooter is like that? You did something very wrong.
Anyways, this is a bit of a mixed bag. I gave it the same rating as the Halo remaster, but Halo 2 is, in my opinion, a better game. It's just that the remaster is worse than the Halo CE remaster, so what improvements there are between the games are ruined by issues with the remaster itself.
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What a terrible game design keeps on going in this game too. They thought the making aim bot and avoiding from your shots make enemy intelligent. But it's not! In playing Normal difficulty, the enemy AI beats you from every place. It's being really boring after a while later. Just running to checkpoints to avoid enemy will be the only option at next levels. Difficulty impossibly hard even in playing normal. The developers have no idea how to design a correct game play balance.
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Summary Halo 2: Anniversary comes to PC as the next installment in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Now optimized for PC, experience the impeccably remastered edition of the original Halo 2 game. Following the destruction of Halo, humankind experiences a short-lived victory. Eager for revenge, the Covenant launches a surprise attack on Earth, ...
Rated M
for Mature
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: May 12, 2020
Developer:
- 343 Industries
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Genres: