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-''The Oracle's Review for Crackdown<sup>®</sup>, Xbox 360''
+''The Oracle's Review for Halo 2<sup>®</sup>, Xbox''
-In the new tactical first-person shooter, you're Logan Keller. Who said so? The game did, so shut up and listen! =D Logan Keller is a former [[wikipedia:Delta Force|U.S. Army Delta Force]] commando, but was recently transferred to the counterterrorism unit RAINBOW, a special operations force with almost unlimited jurisdiction. When the very bad and unkewl international terrorist and leather girl Irena Morales attacks Las Vegas, you and your three-man team are dispatched to a bewildering number of ''real life'' locations - Calypso Casino, Vertigo Spire, Dante's Casino, Las Vegas University, etc...to take out the bad guys and restore justice to, ironically, ''Sin'' City. =D
+''Halo 2'' is a science-fiction first person-shooter...blah blah blah...if you don't know that you play as [[SPARTAN-117]] and the [[Arbiter]], you can dual-wield, whateverI'msupposedtosayheretofillupspace, etc...you deserve to be shot and banned from Halopedia! =D Now, onto our review...
-*'''Gameplay''': 10 - Sweet! You kidding? The entire game screams corybantically at you - '''TACTICAL''' and '''REALISTIC'''! Add to that the 40+ weapons you can wield...
+*'''Gameplay''': 10 - ''Halo 2'' is a jack 'o all trades. It has nothing that is particularily outstanding...but everything just seems to...fit together, you know? Seamless playing quality.
-*'''Graphics''': 9.5 - Excellent. Beautiful lights, character textures...
+*'''Graphics''': 9.5 - Satisfactory...although not ''Xbox 360''-quality. =D This is offset by the fact that ''Halo 2'' was Xbox-era...but...gahh! =D
-*'''Campaign''': 10 - Exceptional. Multiple hostage situations, rapelling, suppressors ''do'' things, multiple avenues of attack, infrared imaging, flash-bang grenades...and the high you get when you rescue a family of three from a host of terrorists. =D
+*'''Campaign''': 10 - Hell yeah! The detail that Bungie invested into making the campaign is tremendous! Using mods, when ''Cairo Station'' shudders in the level ''Cairo Station'', you can see the actinic flash of the Super MAC cannon...you can also see the UNSC Frigate ''In Amber Clad'' docked on ''Cairo Station'' as well...when you get to New Mombasa, you can see the flood walls that still exist from 2007 Mombasa...the realism is unnerving. Exacting detail to realism and exacting detail to gameplay equals a well deserved 10/10 in this category.
-*'''Multiplayer''': 9.0 - Meh, it's ''okay'', with a severe disinclination against newer players. It gets kinda old after awhile, too.
+*'''Multiplayer''': 10 - Truely exceptional. When you get onto XBOX LIVE, an all-new ''Halo 2'' experience permeates you! The multiplayer maps are wonderfully balanced, and there is nonstop action. Except when n00bs begin to mod and hack. But that's a different story. =D
-*'''OVERALL''': '''9.6''' - An excellent modern tactical shooter, in the vein of Tom Clancy.
+*'''OVERALL''': '''9.9''' - A beautifully put-together video game that's considered a benchmark ''par excellence'' for all other "beautiful" video games. (Of course, if I didn't rate this something like a 9.9, I have a feeling that you Halopedians will run after us with pitchforks...=D)
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