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Well, having played through most of the original Halo, I can finally give my 'professional' opinion on the question that has been plaguing my mind ever since Halo came out. And my answer is this:

Perfect Dark is better than Halo.

Yup, the war is over (in my opinion, at least). Halo, being repetitive, difficult, annoying and quite frankly disappointing, does not stack up against the legend.

Let's compare, shall we?

Perfect Dark has a beautiful array of 33 weapons (41 if you count multi player weapons), ranging from several types of pistols ( heart the Phoenix), machine guns ( heart the Super Dragon), grenade launchers, rocket launchers ( heart the Shredder) and weapons that don't even fit into a category (the Reaper, anyone?).

Halo has two basic sets: normal weapons and plasma weapons. One pistol for each, one automatic for each, a rocket launcher, sniper rifle, shotgun, and some weird-a** needle-gun that is terrible to use, and a pain to be against.

Perfect Dark's levels are intricate, well-thought-out and interesting, using easy-to-recognize, yet challenging to fulfill objectives.

Halo's levels are simply a twisting, main-stream of room after room, with very little discernible difference between each. Long, annoying, and repetitive.

Perfect Dark has Elvis.

Halo has Monitor (granted, the Data-dyne(sp?) computer guy was just as annoying in Perfect Dark).

Perfect Dark's story is well thought-out, complete with a back history (and a comic, if I'm not utterly mistaken) and realistic. It takes you from a future Goldeneye-esque world into an alien world. It also has Co-op.

Halo's story is equally impressive (so far that I've seen) it has me interested and is very in-depth. The idea of Halo (not the game, the station thingie) is pretty neat, too. Halo might rival PD in this category, any may eventually beat it, but not by much.

Perfect Dark's alien race is the Skedder (sp?) who look like smaller, vomit-colored rip-offs of Starship Troopers' aliens. They can possess human beings and cloak. They also have little ankle-biting terrifying babies.

Halo's aliens consist of annoying little cartoon squirrel-voiced aliens, drone-like creatures with pain-in-the-a** shields, and big-assed enemies of many sorts that kill in one hit over, and over, and over again. Then, of course, you get the the OTHER aliens. The parasitic, 'I'm not dead yet, NYAH!' aliens that either to you in a single bound, or explode violently when shot. Oh, and did I mention that they send these enemies in hoards? It would be okay if they were a bit weaker, or if there were a few less, but combine strength, numbers, and powerful one-hit-kill weapons an vehicles, then you have yourself a major pain. (I can't tell you how many times I've had to repeat some of that repetitive crap). Besides being mostly annoying, all of the aliens are fairly cartoonish in appearance (and voice, as the smallest prove).

Perfect Dark's graphics were waaaay ahead of its time. Even WITH the expansion pack, the game was sloppy-looking (as were all 64 games) and sluggish.

Halo's graphics actually made a better impression on me than I would have thought. But, of course, comparing the two games in this category is like comparing Halo to Gears of War. Perfect Dark was doomed to fail this test.

Perfect Dark's multi player mode was the most impressive I've ever seen in a first-person shooter. All 41 weapons were available to choose from, and you could dual-wield any of them (unrealistic, but FUN). Four players and eight sims could go at it it in a wide variety of levels, including three classics from Goldeneye. And the computer players could be set to any of over a dozen fun settings. Can anybody say Meat-sim?

To be honestly fair, I haven't played Halo's multi player, but I seriously doubt that it comes close to Perfect Dark's. Sure, PD didn't have online play, and you couldn't link up the systems (as far as I know) but Halo just can't possible win.

Now, is you were strong enough to read through all that, then I applaud you. You can take quite the ranting, cant you?

Now, perhaps I was a tad hard on Halo. Despite it being a let-down, it is fun. I didn't think it wouldn't be. And perhaps I decided to type this because I got fed up with dying over and over at a single part and am fairly angry at the game, but I still think my analysis is fairly accurate.

So, my final word is this: don't claim that Halo is better than Perfect Dark unless you've actually played Perfect Dark. It was a classic, and a legend. I simply can't wait until it is released for the virtual console on the Wii, if it ever is.

Now, now, don't get me wrong. I'm liking Halo, too. Ignoring the fact that more often than not, it's infuriating me to the point of seeing red. I like it, and after starting the second (which I think the enemy design is MUCH better. Also, the weapon selection has improved GREATLY) the story is very good. I mostly posted that in a fit of rage over dying for the twentieth time on one spot (over and over and over). I needed a break and to let off some steam. And it did the trick. I didn't mean for that to be an attack on Halo (as you have apparently taken it as), in fact, I probably should have posted it in the rant thread... whoops.

And the only reason I compared it so heavily to Perfect Dark was because of frequent arguments I've had about which game is better *cough* James and Josh *cough*.

I still haven't got the chance to play Halo's multi player, and I hope to soon. My point now is that I simply don't see why it has the following that it has. WAAAAY overrated.

Ok, I dont know why you brought up the PD over Halo arguement...how long ago was that last said ^ ^?

Anywhoo, God of War 2 comes out Tuesday. I have beaten God of War again to prep myself to beat the second, and the movie 300 could not have had a better time to release ^ ^. Woo!

Hey Matt, One of these Thrusdays or Fridays we should Co-Op Halo 2 so you get that part of it as well.

I still need to play GoW 1. And them the .Hack games...

Chris told me about the new thign coming out of the PS3, the adapter that you can buy to use the GH guitar controlers on it.

I Thought you can already use them on it, butn ow from what i've heard, it puts the PS3 down on the list of lameness even more.