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Also, the hilarious old remarks have seemingly all been deleted, and the new remarks are nothing like as funny, nor as frequent and varied I think, nor as clearly audible. The voices are different, and overall much inferior to the old style. But their character too has been weakened, and we seem to've lost many of the old cute animations and the clip-clopping of footsteps. Of course, the Grunts always had a bit of pidgin English and I think most of us loved it. At least they could have made the English stylized with forms of alien distortion but instead it just sounds like a bunch of extremely hammy stage actors going way over the top. I'd rather have seen subtitles to odd alien speech in cutscenes, if Bungie had really wanted us to follow an involved plot (not that I want an involved plot). The non-grunty uses of English by aliens has really brought things down, and is a major obstacle to my enjoyment of the game, particularly in regard to the Elites as it radically changes their old character.
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Didn't Bungie know that we loved things like that? Use of English And hey, have I even heard "Wort Wort Wort!" once? Can't recall it. But these guys? They're just too darned human. That's the way I thought Elites were going to go deep into scary territory, enhancing the menace of the original character. You remember when Master Chief got surrounded by Elites at the end of the E3 2003 movie? Now those Elites were menacing and animalistic, and never did "Wort Wort Wort!" send a bigger shiver down the spine. Sorry but there's no other way to say it! Also, in place of their original bounding stride, Elites now mince along like a bunch of pansies. With their new full-blown English speech and pompous actory voices, they now come across something like Shakespearean human actors wearing Elite costumes, complete with corny lines (reminiscent of what we had to suffer in Brute Force). ElitesĮlites have had a personality transplant, and aren't scary anymore. But with Halo 2, character has changed and animation seems inferior. For me, the enemy character and animation in Halo was one of the big things that set it apart from other games. This has to be my biggest grievance overall. Cutscenes which happen at unexpected and unwelcome times, and sometimes leave you in positions of extreme danger.The weakness of the driving AI, which on higher difficulties makes it far too risky to let an ally drive you into battle.
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The excessive vehicle combat, particularly in regard to enemy Ghosts.The severity of enemy snipers, which reduces the pleasure of fighting too much.It's short, it's broken up by all the Arbiter gameplay which I'm just not interested in, and the ending makes you want to snap the game disc in two! The way the needler and plasma pistol have been ruined.The highly unsatisfactory new melee attacking.The awful illusion-breaking ragdoll death animations, which really take the fun out of administering crispy alien death.Elites are just not scary and animalistic any more. The altered nature of the Elites, Grunts and Jackals and particularly the Elites' use of English delivered in ultra-hammy Shakespearean actor style.If you just want something short, here's a brief list of probably the ten biggest obstacles to my enjoyment, in approximate order of importance: In a review there would be plenty of positive stuff, and I'd score the game's single-player campaign quite highly compared to other shooters (though some way below that of Halo).
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I'm just trying to figure out why I'm so disappointed hence all the negativity that follows, which implicitly is just my own opinion. Please keep in mind that this is not a review. This article tries to identify such aspects along with some other annoyances, in regard to the single-player campaign. But for me it's still been a terrible disappointment, chiefly due to the way Bungie has changed or lost so many of the aspects that made the original so special, as if they felt a need to re-invent everything. Well now it's arrived and there are certainly some aspects I appreciate, like the battle rifle and some tremendous scenery. Like any other Halo fan, I was hugely looking forward to the arrival of Halo 2.