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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Velenne" data-source="post: 1870193" data-attributes="member: 1856">Hey that's me!  Heh.  Ok here's my 2c, having played a great deal of Halo2 on single and multi-player, and beaten HL2.~~~Halo 2Good - Halo 1 was great and interesting and everything, but I never got the craze.  Co-op just can't be beat!  Dual-weilding and vehicle-jacking make me all warm inside.   Some of the scenes are very gorgeous.  Voice acting is decent (love Sarge!).  Multiplayer has a lot of really great modes that vary up the gameplay and can keep a lot of people entertained for a long time.Bad - More of the same to me, and coming from someone who wasn't too excited about Halo1, that's a big deal.  The game is too dark!!  Even playing split-screen on a mammoth TV, it's difficult to see my peripheries.  I hate playing FPS's on consoles because you just can't get the same level of precise accuracy with a game controller that you can with a mouse+keyboard.  (Though I digress- that's more of a negative with the genre though, not the title.)  Yet ultimately, the gameplay is repetitive and confusing.  ~~~Half-Life 2Good - Where do I begin?  Every scene is a photo-realistic postcard.  The "scary" level was scarier than all of Doom 3.  The gameplay has enough variety, action, and creative puzzles to keep me interested in every minute.  The weapons are phenomenal.  The baddies are smart and/or scary.  Every level I thought surely the game couldn't get any better.  But it did.  This game is without peer.  Voice acting: great.  Story: great (but see below).  Plus it's already being modded.  Seeing the changes to Counter-strike, I'm already salivating at the possibilities.Bad - As far as plot, Valve chooses to keep you mostly in the dark.  You get a lot of tidbits, a lot of clues and misinformation that keep you wanting more.  There's a lot more going on than you realize but you have to pay very close attention to it.  <a href="http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=177559&perpage=15&pagenumber=7" target="_blank">Consipiracy Theories Abound.(Spoilers here!)</a>  Steam sucks.  Hard.  I have a particular dislike for it, bordering on hatred.  (It ruined my former favorite game: TFC)  ~~~Lowdown: HL2 wins out in nearly every category.  Graphics, sounds, gameplay, controls, story, overall.  The only place it's currently lacking is multiplayer but this can and will be fixed by the modding community.  Can't wait!</blockquote>

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