Out of the 5 Bungie games it was by far the worst one imo.
My two biggest issues with that game are the split story (annoying as -blam!-, also terrible) and the health system (really -blam!-ing terrible). Not to mention they nerfed or removed the good weapons and added subpar replacements.
It's a game that I played once because I had no patience for its bullshit.
Maybe I'm just too caught up in Halo CE nostalgia.
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Now I am by no means bashing Halo 2. In fact I enjoyed it a lot myself and was glad when they said they were giving it a fresh coat of paint for the MCC. But its mostly a case of nostalgia vision. Heck I'm guilty of it myself when I played samurai warriors 2 and then decided to pick up wariors orichi 3 (pretty much samurai warriors) a year ago and thought "but it was so awesome".