That would be pretty cool, but there's a minor flaw: the Covenant want all of the humans dead. So why would there be need to launch a ground attack if all you have to do is bomb it? But Bungie has stated that you will be fighitng on Earth, the moon, etc., but why would hte Covenant want to land and "learn" more about the humans if they are to be destroyed? Maybe there's another reason for the Covenant to be landing....like....like....well I can't really think of a reason off the top of my head, but there must be a good one. However the level/scene you're talking about sounds like it'd be fun :-)

The Covies just don't seem to like us. Screw that, they hate us beyond anyting. Therefore, in their eyes, just glassing the human homeworld would be too easy. Once they destroyed earth, the war would be pretty much over. Might as well have some fun before finishing up the job.

First of all, most humans live in colonies in space during halo and halo 2, and even if there were billians of civillians on earth the maringes would have led the battles to fields not in a big city.

Samati wrote on Wednesday, 02/19/2003 - 8:17 pm:

: As we've all seen in the Halo 2 trailer, Earth has
: suffered a fatal blow and the Covenant have brought
: Armageddon upon the planet. Personally, I think about all of
: those people down on the planet who are dying with every
: explosion.
: Anyway, if the MC eventually gets on the Earth's surface,
: how is bungie going incorparate AI's for billions of
: retreating civillians, Marines struggling to fight for their
: planet, and attacking Covenant? I can't even comprehend how
: that's gonna look! It's total chaos! The MC firing at
: Covenant bombers while buildings around him are collapsing
: and millions of people are fleeing for their lives! Not only
: will that be unbelieveably disturbing, but also very
: difficult to focus while people are running around.
: Looking forward to your comments Ryan.

If ya ask me I dislike the idea of fighting alongside hopeless humans, I think the MC does his best alone, mayb wif a few SMART or SMARTER marines, but bsides that, he'd do better with noone around, or just dead ppl around, i dont kno, it all depends, I guess.

Well I play halo on a hub with a few friends and it a hell of a lot more fun than single or cooperative versions. So here are my few suggestions for improvements.
1. More Maps
2. Possibility to play in more teams than two
3. Possibility to connect more than 4 X-boxes for the game

Hope some of these are taken seriously
Blue Skies

Samati wrote on Thursday, 02/20/2003 - 8:06 pm:

: I've made theories about Halo and its mysterious past, but
: I decided to change that and create my wishes for what in
: going to be in Halo 2. It might be a long list, but read it
: if you want:
: 1) In Halo, you could only fly banshees even though there
: were other aircraft you could pilot (i.e. Lifepod, Longsword
: fighter, Pelican dropship, or Covenant dropship).
: 2) We need more vehicles!!! The Scorpian, Warthog, etc.
: were great but we need some changes. I know Bungie reveled
: their plans for the variants of the warthog, but it would be
: cool to drive a Wraith, Shadow, some other Covenant ground
: units.
: 3) Bungie has surprised us with so much sutff like 343GS,
: the Flood, the infection of Keyes, the destruction of Echo
: 419 *sigh*, how about something that none of us can expect
: such as a Brute revolt. (see my brute speculations) Since
: the Brutes are brand new to the Halo storyline, there are
: several possibilities for them a) The Brutes are a completly
: new race that will aid the humans b) Be forcefully joiend
: with the Covenant, but rebel causing a Covenant civil war.
: c) They could be the forerunners ;-)
: 4) Did anyone else notice how damn stupid the Marines were
: in Halo 1? They need better AI's. When the drove the Ghost,
: they kept running me over. They need better combat skills
: and should be allowed to drive the warthog, and other
: vehicles.
: 5) New weapons would be cool besides the SMG and Battle
: Rifle. FOr example the Fuel Rod Gun used by the Covenant
: Grunts in "Two Betrayls" and after. The MC would be cool if
: he could use TWO pistol at once. A homing missile launcher
: would be good too.
: 6) There should be cutscenes with the Covenant surperiors
: giving orders with little subtitles. I don't know why, but I
: have this image sutck in my head of a Covenant Elite
: connected giving strategic orders to the ground/air
: forces.
: 7) Did anyone notice that the humans' faces in Halo 1 were
: the same as the rest of them? It would be like an Ops guy
: would have the same face of a Marine a few minutes later. We
: need more faces for Marines.
: 8) The blood from the Grunts and Hunters doesn't really
: splatter like the Jackals and Elites. When you beat the
: Grunts and Hunters with your melee attack, the blood just
: kinda appers while the blood from the Elites and Jackals
: kinda splatters around. I'm a violent person >:-)
: 9) A new translator for the MC's suit would be cool so you
: can undetstand the other Covenant talk.
: 10) The ability to control the Marines w/ commands like
: "Retreat," "Cover me," Hold your fire, Move in, etc.
: These are the ones that I can think of off the top of my
: head. Looking forward to ur comments.

I hope for more models to play with in multiplayer! marines and elites! and the banshee in multiplayer! mmmmmm!
more marines in the levels, and they should follow you til they die or til the level ends, not just for 5-15 minutes! that's annoying!
much bigger battles with hunreds of marines and covenants and warthogs and tanks!

I would love to see these additions in Halo 2 that were not in Halo, they are:

1. Statistics
a. Much like the stats that are in the game of Perfect Dark for N64. I think that it would bring a lot of depth to the game and also another very cool feature.
b. Not only will it be cool, it would give players a chance to perfect their skills in one area or another.
c. I.E - If you are a better defensive or offensive person. Better w/ the pistol or the sniper rifle.
d. Also it would be great if you could have unlockables. Like if you kill 50 covenant w/ a melee or during slayer only die 5 times. It would unlock a new map, weapon, characteristic, or vehicle. Not only would this apply in single and multiplayer, it would also give people something else to shoot for.

2. Player v. Player Scores
a. I believe that this is a vital area to put into the game. Kind of like an EA Sports game. Where you put your name in, when you compete against someone else, it will tell your win loss record. And even maybe match you with your best partner so the teams would be fair.

3. Replays
a. Another very cool feature that would greatly be appreciated by the gamers would be to replay a certain part in your game, whether it be in campaign mode or multiplayer.
b. Make sure that when you review the replay that you have plenty of viewing options and what not.

4. More Weapons and Vehicles
a. I know that you are already coming out with more weapons and vehicles for multiplayer, but I don't think that you should overdue it. For instance, put to many weapons in the game that have no use, or totally blow everyone away.

5. Different Modes
a. I really like the aspect that you can have different modes in Goldeneye. One shot kill, paintball, big head, small people, and so on and so forth. This would bring another degreee of fun to the game.

I have a few idios for halo 2.I thank that the brutes and the other new enemys should not speck english.I thought it was a stupid idio in the first place.

And i understand that in the fall of reach the covenant
studied our spech but they don't seem that smart exspecialy the grunts.I thank that the new enemys should sound more like the elites or somthing.