Don’t get me wrong though; I’m not here to convince you not to play this game, I’m just giving you the lowdown on what to expect so you don’t get too disappointed if you go in for this game which is what we’ll talk about now.
Halo 2 takes place immediately after the events of Halo with Master Chief receiving a Hero’s welcome aboard the Cairo Space Station. Unfortunately his ceremony is cut short by invading Covenant so it’s time for him to kick some ass and chew some gum... once again. At the same time Covenant Priests aren’t too pleased with the Humans destroying their sacred Halo so they persuade one of their elite soldiers called the Arbiter (torture can you do wonderful things) to make up for his incompetence by fighting and dying for their noble cause (since it was his screw up that allowed the Chief to destroy the Halo in the first place). From there on you have a liberal amount of cut scenes taking the story forward and you’ll constantly oscillate between the Arbiter and Master Chief through the relatively short single player campaign. I for one got a bit bored with all the gibberish since I’m not a big Halo buff but if you like all things Halo, you’ll lap up every ounce of blah thrown at you.
The first thing that catches your fancy as soon as you boot the game up is the sparkling new Tray and Play option. This option has been designed to make PC gaming feel a bit like console gaming since you can start playing the game while it installs. It’s a pretty cool mechanic but unless you have a beefy rig you will get a bit of stutter while traying and playing; other than that I hope more games use this since staring at the Installation menu isn’t horribly exciting.
Since you will play the game as both the Arbiter and Master Chief you’ll get to use a variety of Human as well as Covenant weapons all of which can be dual wielded. Master Chief kicks ass courtesy of his wicked, revamped arsenal while the Arbiter has his ultra cool invisible camouflage and his bad ass energy sword and even though the whole dual wielding mechanic may have been a rage back in the day, it’ll probably not impress you terribly now. The game does fare a bit better with the mouse and keyboard but for some reason the Chief’s movements are downright slow and sluggish on the PC.
Stupid Game, Lots of Hype no Show. 
