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Ok, here is a compare/contrast I wrote for a friends gaming site about half life 2/halo 2 "Well to start off, I would like to say I already have a biased opinion to when it comes to Halo 2, I simply love the game. I can sit and play the multiplayer for days on end, and then the main game is also fun. So I was skeptical when I was asked to compare these two titles, since I thought "How could anything compare to halo 2?" Well I was severely wrong. Half-Life 2 picks up halos faults, and eats them alive. Don?t get me wrong, Halo 2's faults are minor issues, mainly left after Halo 1 that Bungie didn't have time to fix. But Half-Life 2 has destroyed most of the faults that the first installment to Half-Life had created. Plus the crew at Half-Life 2 worked closely with the mod community when remaking Half-Life, mainly to get there input and help. While the people at Bungie kept there doors shut tighter than a Dolphins butt-hole. Now as for graphics. Now we all know how amazing the Halo 2 graphics are, but at times they become jumpy, and also there are times in the In Game generated scenes, you see it still loading the polygons as the scene starts. While Half-Life 2, other than having un-godly load times on slower PCs, shows simply stunning graphics, with none of the strange slow downs that you experience in Halo2. Not to mention some of the graphical detail in Half-Life 2 far surpasses what they did in Halo2. Now of course we have to talk about the single player games. In this area, Half Life 2 dominates. In single player mode, you experience, ever varying, and ever terrifying scenes and places. The levels and monsters keep you on the edge of your seat for hours. Even after beating it the first time around, you want to play through it again and again. While Halo 2 on the other hand, keeps you busy with the same repetitive level design constantly. Don?t get me wrong, H2 does have some awesome AI in single player, and the AI voices are funny, but after playing through it one time it gets hard to sit through it again. Don?t get me wrong, HL2 has its faults as well in single player. The monsters are quite stupid most of the time, and the battles are easily won. Allot of times it?s either to easy, or too hard, not a delicate mix that propels you to try harder, but also keeps the frustration down. As for sound, Halo 2 pulls out a clear victory. The music in Halo 2 keeps you interested as well as keeps your attention drawn to the game. And also the AI has funny phrase, and is done by familiar voices. The sound effects in H2 are amazing as well. As for Half Life 2, the soundtrack is not bad, but the some of the AI characters are a little bland, and the music is not as awe-inspiring as in H2. But the sound effects in HL2 defiantly beat those in H2. Every little sound of hitting a wall with the crowbar, to the sound of each gun shot, Half Life 2 has very detailed and realistic sounding environmental sounds. Finally, the biggest of all categories, Multiplayer. Both games shine in this category. Halo 2 comes out with Xbox Live support, and the system Bungie has created for online play is simply beautiful and far surpasses the system of the past in any game, once again Bungie has set a new standard, this time in online play. But Half Life 2's Death Match is almost at par in terms of playability with Halo 2's online play. Now don?t get me wrong, HL2 does not have the online system at the level of what Bungie created. I have to say HL2 and H2 both can keep you busy for hours on end playing online with people. Well after hours and hours of playing through both games. I must say I am no longer skeptical that Half Life 2 is on the same level of greatness as Halo 2. I?m still one of the biggest fans of Halo 2, but Half Life 2 has come and stolen the show, with unique level design, and amazing graphics, I must say it is more than difficult picking the greatest FPS of all time with these two blockbuster hits out on the market these days."

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From what i heard(yea i got a few contacts on the inside, im a lucky mofo ) from my friends, they will be fixing what was wrong with the original, mainly the generic level design, making it more fun to play through the single player. Also it will have a new game engine, one 10,000x more powerfull, getting rid of the slow down during in game generated movies. This is slated to be one of the realease titles for Xbox 2 (aka xenon as of right now) just like the orginal Halo. For now thats about all ive heard, and yes i have heard about them doubling the staff. Since this is going to be the big game realesed with Xbox 2, they are trying to get as many people working on it as they can, also they want to get it ready in time for the xenons release. Which hopefully will be at the end of this year, but remeber what happened with Halo 2......when they say end of the year....never trust them

theres no exact date yetxbox 2, codenamed by microsoft Xenon, is very closed to the public. As of yet, Miscrosoft hasnt made public any details about the system, not anything about it having a HDD or not, nothing about its release, and nothing about its full power. Only thing we have seen is a preview of a xenon game in the last issue of Game Informer, which i must say looked friggin amazing, 10,000 tiems better than whats currently out. Find that issue of game infromer to learn more.And oh yea, Microsoft has announced its hoping for a Late 2005 release, but remeber Halo 2.......So dont get your hopes up just yet ;D

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Well, i didn't like HALO 2 as much as HALO so idk. but i will want to get an Xbox 3 wen it comes out. I may be a sony boy but hey. might as well.

Yea i also got 2002 but i got the professional edition. It just has more planes. I want to get FS2004 really bad though. It has a lot more nifty spifty things.

Man, no one ever posts at night lol. Oh well. I got a Mercedes SL 65 909 HP

I like american football. Are you all talkin about soccer? I mean, if you are talkin about football as in Superbowls, NFL, etc. I don't like randy moss

Well, i like golf, football, baseball, and airsoft. Those are the sports that i enjot the most. Anyone play airsoft? post in the AIROSFT AND PAINTBALL part of this forum. Anyways, i like most sports but wat is that walk on a plank sport?

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It appears that function isn't working yet. All we can do is sit tight and wait.

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Is it just me, or, when you get to the top it still says "level 1" on each level?Wait a second, the stupid game isn't even working at all now... well it was fun for a while, can't wait for it to come back up.

Finally I can log in cPanel. Thanks for bringing back vaio-hosting.com. But when I tried to create a database or a database user in the cPanel, I get the creation successful message, but when I click "go back", I found actually there is no DB or user is created. I've been tring that for 2 days, but with no luck still cannt resolve the problem. Is there something to do with the URL I used to login cPanel? I can only login cPanel using http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ here. Any informaion will be appreciated. PS: my account name is nagisa, Domain name is C2.vaio-hosting.com

If there was a FNH$ stock thing people can tryout doing stocks and losing/making FNH$ up to a limit

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Can we see the pretzel?