This is for me the definitive vanilla multiplayer Halo game, It wasn't my childhood game (Yes I missed out a lot) I played it on PC when it got ported and it is single handedly responsible for making me spend hours in the Master chief collection, it might not have the mods Halo: CE had back then but the multiplayer was really fun and balanced.

The campaign was the only one thing that didn't surprise me much, it felt rather short and rushed but at least elites were playable again.