Halo: Combat Evolved

The Good
Halo is a fun fps with some really cool weapons like the shotgun and needler which are cool to use against all sort of enemies. Grenades are really useful and necessary in this game. Halo has some really beautiful graphics for the time and gives a you a really special feeling for example when you are running at open areas in snowy landscapes of two betrayals levels. The game offers good challenge for everyone on higher difficulties and has a descent variation of enemies. The game is not too short and will take for regular players up to 10 hours to finish. The vehicles in the game gives an extra taste and are fun to use.

The Bad
The problem with many weapons are that they can fire so little ammo before forcing you to reload, which is really annoying when you are surrounded by enemies. Grunts as enemies feels bad, even if it's a game it feels sad to shoot these afraid creatures who really do not want to battle and the game could have some more enemies, the variation is not big because zombie monsters use the same weapons as covenants.

Halo has lazy level design at some parts, for example the library level, which is clearly the worst in the game just uses the same textures over and over and that gives me an feeling that they just had to fill in something to make the game longer.

The Bottom Line
Halo is a good game, but after all a bit overrated. Still I recommend everyone who is friend of old fps to play it, because it really has some interesting elements and nice design.