Replayed this when it came out as part of the MCC on PC. With decent contrast and some more years of experience playing videogames, we managed to beat the entire game in 2.5 hours, which is less than a third of what it must have taken me when I was younger. Had an absolute blast in that time though.

A different experience than the mainline games, but not THAT different in the end. The missions can be played in a slightly freechoice order, but the Rookie still handles quite like a Spartan. The game is darker in art and story, andore emotion is allowed into it, which lent itself worse to a coop shooter that we were playing on a small tv with not enough brightness.