Not the juggernaut like everyone says. I never thought to myself that it was anything more than serviceable. The campaign? Ok. The gameplay? Ok. Mission 7? No. The first and final levels are the best, so the entire middle feels just mediocre. If I played this back in 2001 when it was released I'd probably have some nostalgia for it, but I hadn't been born. The entire world of Halo just feels empty and boring. The interiors look so bland and lifeless. I know they were going for lifeless, but my point still stands. The enemies get unbelievably repetitive and tedious the more you fight them. Also the fact that they know English really confuses me. According to the lore the war had been going on for six years at that point, but it still annoys me. The weapons are designed really well in my opinion. Every earth weapon looks like a sci-fi version of a current day model people use now. The Covenant weapons also work well. They look like something from a completely alien world. The Needler homes in one the target while allowing you to run if you have low health. The Plasma Pistol works for dealing massive damage and destroying shields at the cost of ammo. And the Plasma Rifle isn’t even a rifle and seems like just a reskin of the standard pistol. A massive gripe I have about weapons is the fact that they don’t stay consistent between levels. My favorite weapon is the sniper rifle and I wanted to use it the entire game, so after I got it in mission 3 I never dropped it. In the mission after it just got replaced. It annoyed me every time I entered a new mission, because I knew I wouldn’t have the weapons I had before. That covers most of what I wanted to talk about. If anything now I’m looking forward to Halo 3 more than I was this one. That made the jump to the 360 and I don’t think the OG Xbox was really ready to handle a game this massive.

Overall I enjoyed the game, but shooters have EVOLVED a lot since this came out.