[the lone highschooler]

I'm not one who is into the whole "video games" craze, (and it's not allowed in my house either) but I remember when Halo "1" first came out, and the obsessiveness about it... Halo 2 now shows up and has taken over the popularity charts with it's not-so-new alien fighting, and player-against-player fighting. And, indeed, the graphics have since improved.

Now, I may not really be "all knowing" about such games as this (cause I find it not really exciting) but isn't it really the same thing with any other battle-one-another and fight-against-aliens game? what makes Halo 2 such a grand hit?

[Bogey78O]

Probably an improved engine. Every year the coders try and take the level of gameplay up a notch, Half Life2 is not that great from a mission standpoint but the level of realism placed in the characters and surroundings make up for it.

[KwasiOwusu]

Way I see it, America invented the video game industry, and yet before Microsoft came along, the industry was dominated by the Japanese who had completely taken it over.
Since we are spending something like $12 Billion every year on video games in this country, its got to be a very good thing that an American company is busy kicking butt in this business and taking a big and fast increasing slice of the action