Go beyond the single player campaign. Apply real-world military maneuvers to Halo 2 and sharpen your battle performance! Explore strategies and tactics for single or multiplayer play, get practical advice from expert players, master advanced combat and team strategy, and learn how to apply real-world military tactics to your game and multiplayer map layouts.
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Immediately Useful,
By Michael Bowen "cobb_at_mdcbowen_dot_org" (Redondo Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques (Premier Press Game Development) (Paperback)
This guide was immediately useful to me. I'm a fairly average shooter with a really inconsistent track record. I play no more than 8 or 10 hours a week, although sometimes I go on a binge. So it takes me a little time to get back into the swing of things. But even when I play all night, I get very frustrated at times.As I started to use the tips in this guide, it showed me a new way of thinking about the game as well as new things to look for during battle. I read it all in a day and couldn't wait to get back online. The difference was subtle at first, and then it really started working well. It was like when Neo suddenly started fighting Agent Smith with one hand. I could begin to see how other players were making errors, and as soon as I saw it, I could capitalize. The two biggest things I learned about weapons also made a big difference. So I have become a great deal more effective with the Battle Rifle and with grenades. Also, exploding the myths about headshots was a great revelation.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bravo!,
By Golfer X (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques (Premier Press Game Development) (Paperback)
Kudos to Stephen Cawood for finally producing decent strategy guide worthy of the Halo name. I agree with other reviewers who note that the UH2BG is a complement to the other "authorized" guides and FAQs out there in that it is dedicated exclusively to the multiplayer game. I don't have the time to spend hours getting good at Halo and the UH2BG is perfect for helping me tackle the steep learning curve so I at least have fun online where newbies are often crucified mercilessly.PROS: 1) Cawood is a technical writer and it shows. The book is well organized with chapters on Basic Combat, Weapons, Vehicles, Advanced Combat, Solo Strategy, Team Strategy, Multiplayer Maps, Level Ranking System and even Etiquette (something sorely missing on XBL). The text is clear and illustrated with screenshots and diagrams. 2) Cawood put the UH2BG together by drawing on many varied resources, including: members of Crew 116, a veteran clan originally comprised of Microsoft beta testers for Halo 1; MrJukes, a veteran player with mad skills; and military books including Sun Tzu's Art of War. The result is a cornucopia of useful tips and information. 3) The strategies and tactics presented run the gamut from the very basic to the more advanced. I suspect that almost every level of gamer will find something useful in the guide. 4) Included are maps and strategies for every multiplayer map (except Foundation which was probably not available at the time of writing). CONS: The reason I gave the UH2BG 4* instead of 5* is because I felt it could have been better in certain areas. 1) For the most part topics were well covered. But sometimes I felt the information presented was just common sense or too vague and general to be applied. Examples of this include: Ambushes; Cawood devotes a mere 2 paragraphs to ambushes. I wanted more information on how and where to set up ambushes; Cawood uses the military term "enfilade" but never explains what it means and why it is important. If he is going to go the trouble of using military maneuvers and quote military doctrine, I want more detailed tactics I can actually use instead of general axioms. 2) Sometimes the strategies or tactics presented are just a list of tips. Examples of this were in the strategy sections for the various team gametypes e.g. CTF, assault, team slayer While the tips were valuable, I think a less disjointed and more cogent strategy would have been preferable. 3) The multiplayer map strategies are underdeveloped. They provide a useful diagram of the site and a list of all the important areas e.g. weapon locations, but missing is any overall plan of attack or defense. Cawood provides most of the pieces but the reader has to sit down and put together a team plan. To me a strategy is a web of maneuvers with options depending on how the opponent counters, like when playing chess. I don't want to give the impression that the UH2BG is poor, it's not and I highly recommend it. But I hope Cawood will produce a second book entitled "The Still Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Even More Advanced Combat Techniques".
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best Halo 2 guide there is...,
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This review is from: The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques (Premier Press Game Development) (Paperback)
With just a few months since Halo 2 was released I'm impressed that Stephen Cawood (with the help of Crew 116) managed to produce and publish such an excellent Halo 2 battle guide this soon. The guide is timely for us new comers to Halo 2, since many dedicated players are already well advanced in their skills making game play rather frustrating without knowledge of good battle techniques. I really needed to go beyond the basics, learn team strategy and start thinking like a real player. The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide is helping me by giving me concise, meaty tips and pointers with plenty of full color Halo 2 game play screen shots to help visualize the technique being discussed.But, I'm finding it difficult to immediately translate Cawood's battle tips to actual game combat. It's one thing to describe battle techniques in a actionless situation - it's another to perform those techniques with an opponent blazing his guns at you or teammates that have their own strategy ideas. So, this guide will not give you an immediate edge just by reading it once. What I'm doing is referring to the guide after each game to glean from my mistakes in the actual game. It's a matter of internalizing the techniques - just reading them alone will not do it. Before I discovered this guide I was looking all over the Net for such tips, which came in a haphazard way mostly in Halo 2 forums sandwiched between distracting trash-talk. A few websites have attempted such a guide, but they fall way short of the content sequence, organization and highly focused pointers that are presented in Cawood's guide. When I start a Halo 2 clan, this guide will be required reading. This Halo 2 battle guide is a timely, well written, full color, highly focused battle strategy guide that exceeded my expectations. As such it gives me the incentive to stick with the game long enough to get past the frustration curve that comes with seemingly everyone else knowing Halo 2 battle techniques better than I. This battle guide is as important to me as my Xbox controller. Well done Stephen and Crew 116. I will purchase your next guide without hesitation.
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