Bring Out Your Dead
Mat "Shunji" Noguchi responds in his blog to some of Halo and Halo 2's critics by pointing out how Halo 2's game experience is optimized for average, not "hardcore" players.
Rampancy
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Lies, Damned Lies, And Halo 2 Statistics
GameSpy has a two-page feature up called The Numbers Never Lie about the Halo 2 statistics system.
Halo 2 Vs Killzone
Evil Avatar writes that Killzone for the PlayStation 2, widely billed as a Halo-killer but launched to scathing reviews, isn't as bad as it's hype, but that Halo 2 lives up to its:
I played Halo 2 for several hours straight. The game is just awesome, it will be hard for anything to beat it as Game of the Year.
The item isn't much more than a few paragraphs, but if you're worried that Halo 2 cannot live up to the hype, it seems some players believe it has.
Living Up To The Hype
The BBC wonders why Halo 1 has created so much enthusiasm for the sequel; and to find out, they asked HBO's Claude "Louis Wu" Errera:
Bungie got everything right. They were really careful to make sure everything worked the way it was supposed to.
Nothing distracts you when you were playing. There was nothing in Halo that had not been done before but everything in there was as good as it could be.
SFGate.com also did a writeup on fan expectations for the game, and spoke to Miguel "Freewill" Chavez of Bungie Sightings and Brian "Blackstar" Josselyn of Blackstar Productions.
Post Launch News Roundup
Louis Wu at HBO has already done a really good job of collecting up many of the links to articles and reviews that came out after I went to bed yesterday; so rather than repeating or cutting and pasting, I'm just going to link to his roundup. As he mentions, some of those reviews contain spoilers, so consider yourself warned. Most of the articles are variations on coverage of launch events, preorder pickup lines, and sales estimates.
Yahoo: People Stand In Line For Halo 2
News outlets seem continually amazed at the turnout to pick up Halo 2 at midnight launches around the country.
Sector 7 Launch Party Coverage
Over at Sector 7, Fusion is promising coverage from Times Square soon, and Shadow points out his chance to do his bit for Bungie by offering his own personal Xbox as a demo machine to his local Gamestop in Washington state.
Thinking Inside The Box
Several posters in the Bungie.net forums are warning that they received empty boxes with no Halo 2 game inside, especially when purchasing Limited Editions. This is probably because some game stores removed the disc from the case for security purposes. If your box isn't shrinkwrapped when you get it, check before you leave the store to make sure the game is inside!
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