Halo 3

[Aliantha]

I"m thinking 2 hours can't be possible. Are you sure they didn't use cheats?

[Bullitt]

Two hours is possible if they did the co-op approach and on a somewhat easy setting. I burned through it in 5 hours on the most difficult level (there's four difficulty levels total) with two of my buddies the other night.

Get it if you love online play with your friends, taunting each other, etc., fast paced shooting with a large variety of weapons and some vehicle driving (not as much as I would like but that may change when more maps become available for download in the future). Off the top of my head there are 25ish weapons, 9ish vehicles, and 6ish equipment pieces (things like deployable shields, trip mines, etc.) available.

The match making is what makes the online so good really. It will match you up with other players according to your skill level which the game keeps track of as you play online. So it avoids the annoying getting matched up against someone ten times as good as you and the game being no fun at all.

Great thing about it is that since it is so stinkin popular, and has the backing of Microsoft, it will be around to play for a looooong while. Halo 2 was released end of 2004 and it is still played online by many people. Only thing is you have to pay a $50 yearly fee to use the online play. However if you shop around on Amazon, you can find year subscription cards for around $40. Benefits are that it is very stable online play and it is constantly monitored and updated by Microsoft so as to keep the experience as a whole very satisfying and worth the extra dough.