the epitome of what halo was meant to be in the devs minds after halo 1, with its scope finally matching the product, but it only made me realize i didn't want that. like imagine being a teenager and getting to the part with TWO scarabs!!! and somehow feeling nothing. it might be good to come back to but i genuinely do not remember much about the campaign in this one, compared to the isolated feeling of 1 and that twist in 2 (not to say 2 is all that great but i do at least remember liking the campaign's best moments enough to come back to it). its like too much of a good thing to me.

probably was the game to make me slowly start to realize 7th gen shooters weren't gonna be my thing, and that games on this graphical quality actually kinda hurt my eyes.