Bungie made Halo 2 in 10 months instead of three years. Assault on Burial Mounds. Time limits on every game. 3 round bursts The Grenades. Sniper auto-headshot. Elite's speaking english Dual Wielding Waiting 3 years for Halo 2 No pistol with zoom in option only crappy magnum that isnt worth anything till duel wielded People can fall from 1000 freakin feet and still live to tell someone about it Burial Mounds enough said And crazy king with rumble pit for some reason always at ascension Halo: Assault rifle evolved Fiesta anything...wow talk about trying to get the worst game types. no health bar just shelid difficult user interface warthogs on foundation The sword has longer range than the shotgun. Plasma Pistol follows you [too much] The Grenades "Did You Know?" Camoflauge acts like a bright orange workers vest Halo 2 fanboys who think they're all of a sudden elite Magnetic Bullets The Sword - basically everything about it Flag glitches Missing Vehicles 1v1 Swords only When you hump it looks like you threw your back out. The radar's effective range. The speed at which your shields recharge Battle Rifle's bullet spread Vehicle physics The screen resolution Homing rockets Spawn points on Coag Moon Jumping Ghost boost 3 layered bases on Coag Slow rockets The Hype Bungie removing everything that made halo good Ending the game as the arbiter All 2 of the levels that take place on Earth. Killing a n00b and having almost no health left (SMG vs SMG) The weapon balance. (Who's got the sniper?) The standby glitch. Other glitches. Shotgun consistency The amount of skill it takes to kill. The best weapon wins, not the best man. The sniper-rifle modifications. Earth will never be the same? Really? With all 2 levels you play on it? The only thing keeping H2 alive is Xbox Live. - Oh so true.. Midship. I never know if I'm picking up the toy shotgun or the sniper shotgun Not being able to pick up weapons that you SEE lying there. The invincibility of the vehicles. - but just use a rocket - LMAO ROL The inconsistency in every weapon including gernades. The banshee on Ascension Unfair initial respawns wraith can't shoot turrets mounted on the front banshee can't shoot bombs in multi jackels look like crap no 4p co-op no active camo on beaver creak no "shade" turrets from H1 no dropships from H1 the flood marines stealing my vehicles only one type of each enemy the bug/glitch guy at bungie not doing his job The overpowered Scorpian (no sniping driver, faster shooting, more accurate last resort machine gun) camo people are still easily visible weak rockets horrible lag (rainbow 6 style) when sum1 closes a room on xbc (or when you get kicked), it hangs on the "setting up game" screen and you cannot press B to go back worse glitching than halo 1 - really. how do this happen? size of objects way off - the guns are huge and the outside is small when trying to melee, he charges at the opponent (and throws me off) star wars mode it has made halo 1 (a better game) more obsolete (i hardly see halo 1 games on xbc. - great point. Bungie is working for the government in an attempt to lower the population by causing teens to kill themsleves after witnessing H2 Plasma pistol/battle rifle combo, which takes zero skill The bajillion glitches that allow cheating online Plasma weapons not slowing down opponents’ motions at all. - huge Getting Stand-Byed in a Team Training Game .. no joke it serisouly did happen to me. - LMAO The Plasma rifle turned to crap. The Plasma Pistol good for 1 thing(chargeup)and/or The Plasma Pistol's firing rate. The desecration of Battle Creek Warthog turned into a go-kart. Spawning in an enemy's face in team slayer. No more night vision or slow paced stealth missions in campaign. No option for public custom games list. Can't snipe the other base in Coagulation. Vehicle physics aren't as fun. UNSC tank is far too powerful, and can no longer be sniped. Big team territories on Headlong. Grabbing a flag through a wall. No snowy levels, no ice. campaign just simply not as fun as Halo some of the top 5 players of the bungie.net leaderboards are known cheaters with proof via video. The Mad Dash u make thowards an opponent when u melee them, its an auto hit (no skill anymore? u dont have to time ur melee?). Theres no color Black or Salmon What do u do vs. a good banshee pilot when u dont have a rocket? When u have a rocket, banshee easily dodges all 4 rockets. Meleeing someone's back is not a 1 hit kill if they are in a turret Over. Freaken. Hyped. Overshield makes you look like a burning Christmas tree. sword flying cartoon graphics mastercheif looks like a skinny little kid no double melee no pistol, when you spawn you might aswell slit your own neck. halo 2 has nothing even near as good in sp as the maw you cant heft grenades for miles like you could in halo mp no skill needed to stick plasma nades When you have the camo on coagulation and you get sniped in the head by someone on the other side of the course. The boarding of vehicles is retarded and can hardly ever be pulled of since vehicles have boost (ghost, banshee, and wraith) or can turn on a dime (warthog). the plasma pistol alone Getting killed by a noob just cause they shot you first. Not being able to smack your teammate in the back and kill them (come on you know that was an enjoyable factor in H1 when you were just messing around with some friends) The battle rifle takes absolutely no skill to use...aim and fire...with the pistol you had to time your shots.....with the br you just put te reticle over the guy no matter what the distance. They took out all the neat stuff you could do in H1, such as nading weapons. co-op on legendary Multi-CTF on Colossus Nothing to counter the beam rifle on Colossus Why can't I tell where I'm getting shot at from anymore? Campers and swordwh0res are rewarded. Halo 2 ended where Halo 2 should have begun. Boss battles. No small Maps Like Wizard! Getting booted from a game when you did'nt even mean to kill your teamate. It seems the camera is too zoomed in and the guns are too big, you can barely see whats on the side of the screen. Did earth blow up while we're doing the covenant missions? Two much information on screen. Especially during multi-player games. The sound of the explosions and weapons MC messing around with weapons animations suck in Halo 2. For instance, in Halo 1, MC would get a good look at the sniper rifle then give it a "old faithful" or "good boy" pat on the top. In Halo 2 he just pats his hand to the bottom of the ammo clip. When MC has the battle rifle, he just moves it around the slightest bit. How -blam!- is that? If "the battle rifle is supposed to be the new pistol(-blam!- bungie)", then at least give it a cool animation to compensate for its complete lack of effectiveness. The level design. Bungie saying that glitching is not cheating. Masterchief looks like hes eady to go play paintball not go to war the binoculars on every weapon can see farther than weapons that have only one zoom like the battle rifle, a medium-long range weapon, and the rocket launcher. If I wanted matchmaking I'd join e-dating. Coagulation: Respawn points and Size, nuff said. Just in time for Christmas texturing. 2 rocket launchers on Foundation Head to Head on Ascension (i.e. sniper race) Noobs hiding in a corner with a sword Team Slayer on Coag Bomb arming and not planting Wraiths: they kill you with boost when you try to board them, they can kill everyone at the spawn, cant snipe it, and when you board it the driver gets out and assassinates you. If you are on the Red team: instead of saying "Red team, has the flag! Blue team, Flag Returned! Blue Team has the flag... Blue team Scoooores." it will say "Flag Taken, Flag Returned. Flag Taken, Flag Captured. Guests cant use a communicator No actual people other than military and everyone speaks English and everyone is white except for one person. When radar is turned off there is still the circular radar thing, just has an X in the middle of it. They should have expanded your FOV (field of vision) by making it just not be there, kinda like H1. No scary levels. Library on Legendary at night. Dont lie, you were scared too. The removal of the two best sniping spots that were on bloodgultch in coag Do stickies bounce of the windshield of the hog anymore? I think i will hide in this hallway. Wait there is no hallways in H2. Hummmmmmm how much Health do I have? WHY name them rockets when they are obviously Surface-to-Air Missiles? That Plasma burst cant hit me from there--BR-- 5 , 4, 3, 2, 1. The MC is shorter(in gameplay) but taller in the videos Every newb suddenly got better when Halo2 came out.