SSBM vs Halo 2

[Smashchu]

Every Time I go look at the scores for games Halo2 has a higher score then SSBM. So I've Decided to my own fair reveiw. I have played both games and will not just say SSBM is better because Im a Nintendo fanboy this is fair.

Single-player Mode
Lets start w/ SSBM. It offers 3 basic modes, event matches and stadium type mini-games. However once beaten they get kind of old. Halo 2 offers only a story and although it is a good length, once beaten, you'll never want to play it aging, unless you want to beat the really hard mode. It dose offer co-op pkay but this is single-player. although close SSBM just offers more
SSBM wins
Multi-player
Lets face it neither of these games focus on single mode. SSBM offers a totle of 25 characters and 29 courses and many playing modes such as Time or stock. Also tounament mode is awsome and it has special games like stanima match and lightning melee. Also you can play w/ CPUs. Halo 2 on the other hand has a annoying multi-player. you can win just buy hiding behind a rock(I kid you not). Also you die to easily and every weapon is cheap, you'll be doing good and then. BOOM. someone gets a rocket launcher. Now although I dont like how the game is set up dosn't make it bad. It offers about 7 modes of play and lets you costimize matches.However only 11 courses are avalible and you can play as the ailian but it offers no difference in game play. Itt has LAN play for up to 16 ppl which is nice but it will get old, very quick
SSBM wins
Graphics
SSMB's graphics are very good for it's time and fit the games theme well. Halo2 aren't incredible unless your watching a cinamatic but overall its good.
Halo 2 wins
Audio
SSBM has many great background music al of which are done with an orcestra. Halo 2 also offers an increible sound track However you'll never hear it. Theres hardly any music in the game. Also there is no music during multi-player mode. Although close SSB has to win because of more audio
SSBM wins
Gameplay
SSBM is a fighting game in which you have to knock your foes of the course. Every thing works smothly and gameplay flows well. Halo 2 is an FPS, nuff said. The duel weapons feature works well and you can change look sensativity. Since there 2 different genres its hard to compare but they both do what they do well.
Tie
Difficulty
SSBM CPUs are ok but once you get good there a joke. The very hard CPUs and Hard ones are good and up to the challange but the vs ones aren't. Event matches can be tricky but in time anyone can beat them. Halo 2 has no bots but the single player ones are good. Which is why ledgendary is hard.
Halo 2 wins
New fetures
Well there both sequels so whats new. SSBM is a quantum leap over SSB. It ofers 20 more courses and 13 new characters. Also it added 2 new single modes the event matches Multi-man,Homerun contest, Tournaments, and Special Melees and you cant make your own name. Also it dose allow you 4 throws insted of 2 plus you can punch opponents in grabs. And a New special moves. Now Im not saying this to bash Halo but Halo2 is more of an expanchen then a sequel. The multi-player maps are different,not any more that were in the first one, about 5 new weapons and the ability to use 2 at the same time. The story is different but still bland.and you can play w/ the alian but no game play differences.It dose have X-box live but thats about it. Although you could say njew story makes it a sequal but then wouldn't the Starcraft expansion, Broodwar be a sequal by those means. Halo 2 dose not push the hardware or development teams limits.
SSBM wins, indefinaly
Overall
SSBM just offers not only a better more addicting experience, it also offers more to a great title. If you have Halo you dont need Halo 2. It offers nothing new worth having. If you want to play the Multi-player rent it. Its just not worth 50$. Me and my friends have played both games and althogh we have played SSBM more we still pull it out and play were as with Halo 2 will last an hour or less and we dont even play it that much. So overall
SSBM wins

There reveiw over. Also on another note Microsoft said that"Halo was the best franchises ever"(and I kid you not) yet they forget that there game only sold 6million opposed to all the Mario, Zelda and Pokemon games that broke 10mil. And theres more then those games. Talk about arrogent and stupid.

[Dances in Undergarments]

And now... ROUND 2: Diet Coke vs. Lexmark 12A1980 Colour Print Cartiridges! Who will win this clash of the titans?

You can't compare the two different games side by side, as they are completely different games - Halo 2 is an FPS designed to be played mostly online, SSBM is a weird-styled 2D Fighter built around the world of Nintendo. Would you compare Super Mario Bros 3. side-by-side against Driv3r? Well, yeah, you probably would. But should you? No.

Your last sentence of the gameplay section sums it up perfectly:
Since there 2 different genres its hard to compare but they both do what they do well.
Thats right. They both do what they do well. They aren't trying to do the same thing, and hence shouldn't be compared. Hell, a game like Mario Power Tennis shouldn't even be compared to Top Spin, but they do anyway. But a 2D-Fighter and an FPS have barely anything in common.

Oh, and Diet Coke wins. Marginally.

[Andronicus]

^ Exactly what DIU said...
;D

[Xeno82]

Well, I think Smashchu's comparing them on the basis that they are the two most popular multiplayer games, each on a competing console. For example, the gaming parties I attend feature primarily these two games. You could go back and forth between them, but most people at the parties pick one and stick with it. I think the comparison is fair on this ground, and I think it's useful to newbies who might not know which type of game they'd like better (though they won't know for sure unless they actually play both of them).

[nocturnal YL]

I haven't played HALO 2 (Well I haven't played most non-Nintendo-published games except I've played some 3rd party games for Super Famicom) so I shouldn't really comment on the review, but why are you comparing a first person shooter with a fighting style action game?

Also, game reviews found on big sites are basically rubbish. Most of them aren't really gamers... they just compare the graphic, audio, game length, all those comparable things. I personally think that they should go reviewing animations and films, not games.

[Fryguy64]

I like a refreshing glass of Lexmark Colour Printer Cartridges from time to time...

[missingno.is back?]

Halo 2 sucks, it's a horrible FPS.
SSBM is actually good.

[Smashchu]

^ ;D

ness8204 said:

Well, I think Smashchu's comparing them on the basis that they are the two most popular multiplayer games, each on a competing console. For example, the gaming parties I attend feature primarily these two games. You could go back and forth between them, but most people at the parties pick one and stick with it. I think the comparison is fair on this ground, and I think it's useful to newbies who might not know which type of game they'd like better (though they won't know for sure unless they actually play both of them).

Thats exactly it, also Im tired of hearing about Halo this and Halo that. Also I was comparing them in terms of what the games have. I was just showing that Halo 2 is not the best thing since slice bread(as most X-Box fan boys think it is).

[missingno.is back?]

Halo 2... people orgasm over it because of multiplayer.
Take note that no one ever mentions its single-player.

As for SSBM... we all know it has the best multiplayer ever, and the singleplayer is amazing too.
Also note how Xbox n00bs only ever mention Halo, they never talk about anything else, why? Xbox doesn't have anything on it.
Halo / Halo 2 aren't even good. Should I crack off some FPS titles that are much better?
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2
Metroid Prime: First Hunt
Doom
Doom 3 (I never played 2... so....)

People act as if it's "sooo amazing" how you can play 16 players in one room with Halo / Halo 2, but keep in mind that you have to have four Xboxes, four TV's, and sixteen Xbox controllers.
It costs hundreds to play some Halo in multiplayer, and it's not even all that good.

SSBM is so much cheaper to play in multiplayer, you don't need to cram 16 people to play some multiplayer, four is enough. Also notice how 90% of Halo fans never played it, I remember a friend of mine back in 9th grade was anticipating Halo 2 (when she never played the first one) and I got loud with her and told her Halo sucked, yes, I have played it.
In fact, I own it.
And I'm so glad I got it for free, because it's not worth money, it's a worthless piece of crap.

[Xeno82]

Metroid Prime is definitely a better game than Halo, but to be fair, it's a first person adventure rather than a first person shooter. I think Halo's popularity is due to the fact most gamers would rather shoot their surroundings than explore them. It's their loss. Anyone can shoot a gun; only Samus can screw attack.

[Smashchu]

intv said:

Halo 2... people orgasm over it because of multiplayer.
Take note that no one ever mentions its single-player.

As for SSBM... we all know it has the best multiplayer ever, and the singleplayer is amazing too.
Also note how Xbox n00bs only ever mention Halo, they never talk about anything else, why? Xbox doesn't have anything on it.
Halo / Halo 2 aren't even good. Should I crack off some FPS titles that are much better?
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2
Metroid Prime: First Hunt
Doom
Doom 3 (I never played 2... so....)

People act as if it's "sooo amazing" how you can play 16 players in one room with Halo / Halo 2, but keep in mind that you have to have four Xboxes, four TV's, and sixteen Xbox controllers.
It costs hundreds to play some Halo in multiplayer, and it's not even all that good.

SSBM is so much cheaper to play in multiplayer, you don't need to cram 16 people to play some multiplayer, four is enough. Also notice how 90% of Halo fans never played it, I remember a friend of mine back in 9th grade was anticipating Halo 2 (when she never played the first one) and I got loud with her and told her Halo sucked, yes, I have played it.
In fact, I own it.
And I'm so glad I got it for free, because it's not worth money, it's a worthless piece of crap.

Right on Brother. In reality Halo is an over hyped fanboy fest. Metroid Prime is a much richer experience(good job etro studios) and although MP2 multiplayer could have been better(more courses, modes,ect) its still better.
Well I just got Meteos and man I did for Puzzle games what SSB:M did for fighting, maybe Masahiro will be hired by an American company and finnaly make FPSs, well.........................GOOD

[Dances in Undergarments]

Metroid Prime and Halo are only similar in the fact they are both presented in the 1st-person view. They are completly different games, and still shouldn't be compared. Also, Metroid is a 1-Player experience, with the multiplayer mode really only being to combat Halo it would seem. Halo is a multiplayer focussed game, with a single player mode which is just designed to be alot like multiplayer mode but with one person.

Metroid Prime Hunters could most probably be fairly compared with Halo, though.

[missingno.is back?]

ness8204 said:

Metroid Prime is definitely a better game than Halo, but to be fair, it's a first person adventure rather than a first person shooter. I think Halo's popularity is due to the fact most gamers would rather shoot their surroundings than explore them. It's their loss. Anyone can shoot a gun; only Samus can screw attack.

True dat.

[Fryguy64]

I'd have said MP2's multiplayer mode was to fill the gaping void of exclusive FPS multiplayer games on Cube left by the absense of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.

[Dances in Undergarments]

True probably - I mean, there will be Giest soon as well, but thats not a traditional FPS either - in fact, it seems to come under the same First Person Adventure genre as the Primes.