[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wilis_kid [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Mark V guy [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Sliding Ghost Halo 2 gives you many opportunities to come up with strategies. As much as i like Halo 3, admittedly that game was a bit linear, but Halo 2 presented many open situations where you could basically do what you wanted to clear the area[/quote]The guy has a point. Other than Elites and Grunts, the others just aren't interesting: Brutes and Jackals (Uprising), Flood and Sentinels (Oracle), Heretics (The Arbiter). They are not at all fun to fight, although Heretics do have potential. Anyways, H2 does give opportunities to come up with strategies, but that's only when you think in an unorthodox manner, think outside the Xbox, work that creative noggin. Most people don't do that, which is why on higher difficulties, other than the noob combo, other strategies are mostly nonextant. Skulls are probably the best thing to strategy in H2 because they alter the gameplay and don't give enemies extreme advantages: Mythic doesn't affect their stumbling animation. Ghost may neutralize that but it doesn't stop you from assassinating Elites. It only removes opportunity to assassinate enemies like Grunts and Jackals. Sputnik, Envy, and Black Eye give major advantages to the player, as well as Catch. The only extreme advantage for enemies has to be Armory. Assassins is kinda bad, but that's because allies can't see them. As a result, the friendly AI don't benefit from their enhanced health and intelligence. One of the reasons I like H2 LASO has to because it allows me to ascertain enemy spawns even more so I'm prepared most of the time. Oracle, CS, GJ. With skulls, these levels become much more pleasant (except Uprising, that's still dull, and Metropolis, that's still a pain in the ass).[/quote] Why dont you like Uprising? Or Metropolis? I like those levels[/quote] Legendary, I can vouch for Metropolis being a pain. Jackal Snipers as you come out of the tunnel don't stop spawning...it forces you to move up so they don't. At least, I think that's what Sliding Ghost was getting at.[/quote] To be honest, the only thing you need to do to beat Halo 2 legendary is to memorize the levels and where enemies spawn. Halo 1 requires you to actually use some sort of tactics in a place where those tactics don't seem very obvious. Some of these would include: using a grenade to make the zealot evade off of the bridge on AOTCR, precise grenade jumping to get to a higher elevation to pick of enemies (works great on Halo (level) with the sniper rifle, forcing an elite to take cover with continuous AR fire while you or your marines flank around to take him out, using the hog as a weapon (rarely applicable in Halo 2), using two plasma grenade to launch one of the grenades over a massive distance, ect. ect. To beat Halo 2 on legendary all I did was go through each level, memorize (and write down) where each hostile was, and roboticaly eliminate them with the massive amount of aim assist and bullet magnetism that the game gives you. It was rather pathetic. The AI in Halo 1 is too random and erratic to do this with. You can remember the general areas where they spawn, but they move around so much that you can't rely on memory. Also, the elites tend to charge you when cornered in Halo 1 far more often than Halo 2. The brutes are also easy as hell (rapid fire carbine to head). [Edited on 01.07.2012 11:31 AM PST]