Half-Life 2 is better, in every way.

Whoa. R u kidding? Half Life 2 beats Halo 2 by a long shot. I'm a Halo fan too though...but I think Half Life 2 was amazing and so much fun! I loved how they put it on Xbox (mainly because my PC sucks). I really wish Half Life 2 on Xbox/Xbox 360 was given a multiplayer like it has on PC. If it did have XBL I think it'd be even more amazing..playing Deathmatch or Team Deathmatch ohhh man

NEVER PLayed Half life really and HALO is overated!

Half-Life 2 is way better. Period.

Halo, while not exactly a "bad" game, is really really over-rated. But there is a reason for this.

Overall I believe that the computer games are generally better than games you can find on consoles. There are obvious exceptions but overall computer games have always topped consoles in terms of gameplay or graphics.

Halo is a new generation game and it definitely plays like one. The core of the game really isnt bad. Its fun but a bit repetative.

The real difference Halo has is that it appeals to a WAY bigger audience. I think more people want to buy a console and not worry about whether a game will run or not on their computer. Chances are more people that have never even really played any computer games will play a console game...and like it.

Halo was a ground-breaking game for console first person shooters. It just wasnt that good of a game...mainly because it was that "first" ground breaking console fps.

I just think it got so big because people with no knowledge on what a good game really is liked it so much. There are plenty of computer games that were better than halo. And still are.

Halo 2 is a little better in my opinion. It has a haunting story, slick gameplay and totally mindblowing multiplayer.

Half Life 2 is also an incredible game but I just like the Halo 2 better. Halo Life 2 has a better single player campaign than Halo 2.

Both games are must have games for FPS-fan.

Half Life 2 is just such an institution. The implementation of the gravity gun, that's just such a great gun, I don't know if it's innovation can ever be beaten

Both awesome games but Halo doesn't have anything on Half Life.

So Half Life 2.

half life 2 is much better because it implements better level and gameplay variety...halo 2 just uses the same tried and true blast everything in sight formula

First of all, I wanted to say that Half-Life 2 is better than Halo 2. In fact, if you look at it in terms of technical innovation, the gravity gun alone puts Half-Life 2 on par with Halo 3, offset only by the Halo trilogy's inclusion of sticky grenades.

Edit: Everything after this is a bit off topic, so skip it if you just want the main stuff.

Yet I have to disagree with littlec. He says that games are better on the pc because they have had more time to develop their gameplay and the graphics can be far greater than those on the consoles, which is true.

I remember when Crysis came out. I'm not a big computer gamer, but I remember that the graphics on that game were far ahead of it's time. So far ahead that people were not able to play it at it's highest graphics setting, because the specs it needed were far too expensive. Since then, the demands placed upon pc gamers have been getting higher and higher. At least for console games, we pay one price for a box that will let us play a game with great graphics. Sure, they'll put out a new box every now and then, but we don't have to constantly buy parts to make sure we can run the games.

Also, what about the controls? For many pc fps, the controls are very simple, half-life included. But for a bunch of the rts and rpgs, the controls are a bit more complicated. You have your keyboards, but controllers are far easier to use. Plug in controllers only go so far when the game developers design a game to be used with the keyboard. Thus, for me at least, the console has reliable graphics at a reasonable price, and is able to simplify gameplay without compromising it's innovation.
No doubt consoles have learned a lot from pcs, and still have more to learn. However, are pc games still better than the consoles? No. And they never will be again.

Half-Life 2 by a long shot, although I probably spent 10x more time playing Halo 2, just because of the multiplayer.

Half Life 2 is the greatest shooter of all time period. Halo 1 had a great campaign but 2 and 3 were complete rehashes of the 1st ones ideas.

Half Life 2 is a better game then Halo 2 in EVERYWAY!

If you have had said the orginal Halo I would have struggled with an answer .. but Halo 2 sucked balls.

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Originally posted by g|-|0$t:
Sure, have fun with your halo/halo2 but in time you'll realize those consoles are really only good for madden, mvp baseball, and fifa. Sorry halo.

it people like this that bug me, people who say a game sucks just b/c they dont like that genre or some such or just generalize, or say a game sucks cus THEY dont like it etc

half life 2. no doubt about it. it has superior single player and is one of the best games ever created. halo 1 was great, but that was the only halo i liked

Half-Life 2 is where it's at.

I feel guilty shooting the strangely child-like aliens in Halo 2.