Revolutionary then for the Xbox brand, hard to stomach now

Halo is probably the only reason Xbox took off at all in 2001. A revolutionary first person shooter from bungie at the time. As someone that grew up mostly in Sony, I never really experienced this series along with the Xbox 360 games as well. Eventually as time went on, I did slowly become interested in the series until this point in time where the Master Chief Collection is fully available on PC and I finally managed to get myself a decent computer. The first halo feels pretty flawed from a gameplay design standpoint with extremely long stages that felt like they went on forever.

The shooting and the guns feel good enough here. I've used every weapon and they mostly felt good to use. Sniper shots are fun to hit, shotgun is actually great here too. The vehicles are decent enough here and manages to make it different from other first person shooters at the time.

That said, The philosophy behind the levels are pretty bad here with the most notorious example being The Library. Stages that seem to go on way too long with no payoff or reprieve makes the combat start to feel tedious. Driving all around a map for some of the stages also just feel boring as well too except for one instance in the end that can be pretty unforgiving but still one of the few great moments in the campaign.

It's the first game in the series and for the time, it does play really well. Didn't even touch on the multiplayer here either which is a big part of this game too but I'm not too interested in the suite of multiplayer features right now considering I just wanted to experience the campaigns myself. A revolutionary first person shooter that still plays well but can be tedious to get through.