This games is one of the single most popular games of its time and after playing, I now understand why.
Now on to actually reviewing the game, I love it, no arguments about it. 9.5 / 10, four and a half stars. I enjoy the online play the most so I will go on to that first. Even though the game is a few years old, it still has many people who enjoy going online on it. I love the many differing game modes such as: Social Skirmish, Team slayer, Lone Wolves, Team SWAT and many others. These games are all suited to different strategies and all of these are truly brilliant, I could go on any one of them and I go on certain ones depending on my mood. Yet another thing I enjoy about online play is the way you and your team-mates can work together to beat the enemies, using such things as warthogs, wraiths and so on. Even the mongoose with a passenger on requires team-work. And my final point on the online play is the customising of armour. I know this is such a small thing on the halo game but I love the way you unlock new armour to wear in battle and that you can keep changing it as often as you want to.
Now onto the other features of halo. I shall go on to campaign mode. Sure there are only ten levels, but they are so long i thing you can get a good 5-6 hours game play and that is just on easy! Also the way i put long makes it sound as if it drags on, which it doesn't, not at all. I enjoy the longer levels, it allows bungie to put in more things to make the people go WOW that is truly amazing. And the levels on legendary are some of the most hard things I've tried to do in my gaming life, I mean that in a good way. I know very few people who can do the whole of campaign mode by themselves. And the skulls (difficulty multipliers) do exactly what they are meant to, make it a lot harder. Me and all my mates find it really tough with all the skulls on to complete a level, even if there is four of us! The next aspect of halo is the forge side of it. This I love even more than online mode, just to be able to make maps to this great standard, it is brilliant. I have seen maps that make my heart skip a beat they are so good. I am not the greatest map-maker in the world, but I have a go and have a lot of fun trying. The final aspect of this game i would like to point out is the theatre mode, yet another accomplishment for bungie. This lets you record and watch your skilled grenade sticks or your best Spartan laser kill or even some cool skids in a mongoose. This theatre mode has led to some great machinimas. I have seen many cool halo videos, some are laugh out loud funny, some add so much tension I can't even bare to wait, and some have some action scenes that puts me on the edge of my seat.
All in all I think that halo is one of the best games of its time and I don't care if people say its old and lame, I still love it and will probably until somebody bring out another game better than this and I don't think that will happen for a long time from now...