It's cool playing one of the biggest video games of all time for the first time decades after it came out. It's very clear how many elements of this game were used by others in the FPS genre. There are moments that are absolutely exhilarating - tearing through the self-destructing core on the warthog comes to mind - but other levels are an absolute SLOG. Looking at you, Library. The story was pretty straightforward but painted a nice military sci-fi universe, and while the gunplay suffered from a lack of diverse enemies it was exciting enough to make me interested in the second game.