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• Anti-Climax Boss: Aside from not having a 'final boss' to fight, the game's ending Escape Sequence is actually fairly easy as long, assuming you're already well-accustomed to the Warthog's awkward driving physics. Even if you crash a few times, you can still complete the run with minutes to spare, and Legendary only bumps down the timer one minute. Of course, part of the problem with the design is that you can rush past the in-game scripted event of Foehammer being shot down without losing the time you were expected to stay.

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• Best Level Ever: The aptly-named second level, Silent Cartographer, Assault on the Control Room and The Maw are recognize as some of the most iconic levels in the series:
• Breather Level: The first half of 343 Guilty Spark, which focuses more on atmosphere than being challenging. The only enemies faced are small groups of Grunts and Jackals who will even ignore you occasionally. Of course, this all changes once you discover the Flood.
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome:
  • The PC port of Halo: Combat Evolved had a demo that used to housed servers which featured 24/7 max vehicle 16-player CTF matches on Blood Gulch, and nearly nothing else (Blood Gulch is the only map available in the demo, which until the port of The Master Chief Collection was basically the only way to still get the game on PC). Organized 4v4 or 2v2 games were a rarity, if they ever existed at all.

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  • In general, Combat Evolved multiplayer revolved around the original M6D Pistol, which was able to kill players in three headshots. It tended to be the go-to weapon unless you were able to find a specialized weapon like the Shotgun, Sniper Rifle or Rocket Launcher, though the Assault Rifle and Plasma Rifle are able to counter it in close enough quarters.
• Demonic Spiders:
  • Flood armed with Rocket Launchers are an endless source of cheap death.
  • Although Hunters are easy on foot, while driving the Scorpion on 'Assault on the Control Room', they can become a problem. Especially while you're dealing with other stuff such as Wraiths and Ghosts.
  • The remaster actually turns Stealth Elites into this; the graphics make their Active Camouflage a lot more effective, partly due to the brightest of the newer aesthetics.
• Disappointing Last Level: For some, the last three levels were this because of extensive Back Tracking (the final third of the game is essentially the entire first half of it in reverse and with the Flood and Sentinels added). Though many still consider 'Two Betrayals' and 'The Maw' among the best levels.
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  • The fan-named Thirsty Grunt, a grunt encountered near the end of the the final level as the sole survivor among several Flood corpses. He doesn't attack the player and instead comments on how the battle made him work up 'a big, grunty thirst!'
  • Foe Hammer has quite a large fanbase despite her never actually physically appearing onscreen.
• Fanon: The second SPARTAN in campaign co-op is generally believed to be either Noble Six (had he escaped Reach), or Linda-058 (who canonically was in cryo on board the Pillar of Autumn during the game). The latter is probably the most accepted by people who pay attention to the Expanded Universe, particularly after her cameo in the remaster.
• Game-Breaker:
  • The Punch-Packing Pistol, for many people. As mentioned, previously, its perfect-kill ratio is three shots, and it regularly keeps the power weapons (namely the Sniper Rifle) in check. The Pistol got nerfedheavily in the sequels. Halo 2's Pistol(M6C) had a much faster RoF (Rate of Fire), but it took an entire clip and one bullet to kill a player (13, in total). The M6G in Halo 3 added some much needed power into the Pistol, but used half a clip and had the slowest RoF out of them all.
  • The Bandanna skull from Anniversary tears the game to ribbons. While there's the obvious problem with shotguns, sniper rifles and rocket launchers, the real breaker is infinite grenades. In a game filled to the brim with tight spaces and walkways the player can chuck grenades like mad with little need to aim. Add Grunt Funeral for extra power. Most of the achievements are still attainable with it too. In fact, you can use it to make one of the achievements (which requires you to beat a level on Heroic with three skulls on) a cinch.
  • The PC/Mac port made the Banshee available in multiplayer, with its Fuel Rod Gun intact. The latter is what particularly makes it a Game-Breaker, due to its unlimited ammo, being fired from a high vantage point, flipping ground vehicles with ease, and just plain wasting infantry. It does have a somewhat slow rate of fire, but one well-aimed shot is generally all it takes to ruin someone's day.
  • The lack of counter play was the most damning though as the Banshees were originally designed to be controlled by the AI and move in predictable patterns; only tanks were generally very effective against them. Rockets were too slow to properly lead with at anything other than close range, and tended to result in you getting splattered by the empty banshee if you managed to kill the pilot.
• Goddamned Bats:
  • Flood infection forms are almost completely harmless as long as your shields are up, but are hard to hit, and have the annoying tendency to jump in your face as soon as they get close.
  • The Jackals, whose shields block them from easy kills. With the exception of explosives and melee attacks, the best method of taking them down is precise shots to their exposed arms.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Cortana's retort, 'This war has enough dead heroes.' at Keyes gains a lot of gravitas after playing Halo: Reach (or reading the novel it was based on), and even moreso after Cortana's Face–Heel Turn in Halo 5: Guardians.
• Heartwarming Moments: Or Funny, but the ending on Legendary campaign feels like this.
  Johnson: This is it, baby, hold me.
  [he and the Covenant Elite hug each other as Halo explodes]
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Considering just how much the EU expanded, and how far the games went, the final words of the campaign:
    Cortana: Halo. It's finished.
    Master Chief: No, I think we're just getting started.
  • A likely intentional example of Foreshadowing is Sergeant Johnson's speech at the start of the game on Legendary difficulty, where he states that he doesn't care whether or not Halo is either 'God's own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine' or 'a giant hula hoop'. It turns out that the former is pretty much spot on.
• Iron Woobie: Guilty Spark, according to the Terminals. He waited for 100,000 years alone on his ring, refusing to leave despite his loneliness and risk that the Flood might break out or that his ring might fall into disarray. He went crazy.
• It Was His Sled: The Flood appear in the level '343 Guilty Spark', and suddenly the Covenant goes from being 'big time threat' to 'secondary nuisance.' It was a massive twist at the time, but now it's one of the game's more notable moments. And the Flood have such a central role in the lore of Halo that it's hard not to talk about their appearance here.
• Lady Mondegreen: Combat Evolved introduced to us 'Dustin Echoes', after a line where Cortana responds that all that's left is 'just dust and echoes.' Bungie even joked about this on their commentary for the cutscenes!
• Memetic Mutation:
  • 'This cave is not a natural formation'
• Porting Disaster: It's somewhat debated over how much The windows port averts this; graphics, textures and level geometry were downgraded, particularly in bumpmapping, which was extensively used to give surfaces detail, being broken in the port (so that it only actually shows up if you shine your flashlight on it), the Plasma weapons weren't capable of stun-locking players as effectively, and there's no co-op function, but it was the first version of the game to include online multiplayer, including a demo that people are still playing nearly two decades on, and the later release of a 'Custom Edition' added proper mod support. The Mac OS X port, however, had far worse performance, was extremely crash-prone and had horrible network code.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: While still a largely despised character, 343 Guilty Spark could be perceived as something of a tragic character, thanks to the Terminals of Anniversary. His eventual redemption in Halo: Renegades cements this even further.
• The Scrappy: 343 Guilty Spark. Many people were glad that you got to kill him at the end of Halo 3.
• Scrappy Weapon:
  • The Assault Rifle, partly based on the fact that its name implies an entirely different method of operation than what it actually gets. While it does have its upsides - generous ammo capacity (60 rounds per mag, 600 in total) with an extremely fast rate of fire letting it shred through shields despite bullet-firing weapons' poor performance against them, having a really fast Quick Melee animation, and the fact that switching to it lets players in MP with invisibility become fully invisible instantly (compared to the several seconds to fade out when using scoped or other heavy weapons) - much of these positives are left unrecognized, as most players still hate it because of its incredibly wide spread and anemic power per bullet.
  • The Needler in the multiplayer. Think of it as the Gauntlet in Quake III: Arena. While the Needler in the Campaign is a whole different weapon, since while despite its slow projectiles are still able to connect with an Elite's body, emptying an entire magazine at a player who makes a minimal effort to strafe will result in none of the needles hitting their target.
• Shocking Swerve: The game goes from a fairly standard first-person shooter where it's one super soldier fighting a ton of aliens...then the Flood show up and the game turns into a partial survival horror title.
• Spiritual Adaptation: The best adaptation of Aliens ever made. There's a reason that Halopedia has a whole page just for listing Alien references, and that almost all of these references show up in the first game.
• Tear Jerker: The death of Foehammer. Anniversary adds the terminal on 'Keyes'.
• That One Achievement: Anniversary adds several difficult Achievements, but the worst would have to be 'Speed Reader'. It involves completing The Library on Legendary in 30 minutes or less. Victory, thy name is Bandanna.
• That One Level:
  • The Library is long, repetitive, full of Flood, dark and you can lose your way easily. And you have to deal with the expository ramblings of Guilty Spark for the whole level. This is practically lampshaded in the novelization.
  • The indoor segments of 'Assault on the Control Room' have you go through several long identical looking hallways. On harder difficulties, conserving ammo can be a problem. This is somewhat remedied by Sequence Breaking (via jumping on the windows on the bridges which connect to said indoor segments).
  • The indoor segments in AotCR make a return in 'Two Betrayals', with the Flood this time. While you can be fine if you know how to read the floor arrows, what takes the cake in 'Two Betrayals' is Pulse Generator #2. Up to four rocket-wielding combat forms can be among the twenty or more that jump you just as you're making the required shield overload. The nearest health pack is all the way at the bottom of the canyon outside, so have fun reverting if you've anything less than full health. The level also features a particularly nasty battle near the end, where the game almost literally throws everything it has at you. Rocket Flood, Stealth Elites, Turret Grunts, and two Wraiths are the main nuisances, and that doesn't even take into account the veritable army of lesser enemies duking it out. Letting the two factions wear each other out won't help much, as the Covenant will curb-stomp the Flood before an entire miniature army comes at you.
  • The last section of 'The Maw' requires you to drive a Warthog along an obstacle course against the clock. If you find the Warthog hard to control, this is rather annoying. And when you finally reach the target, the pickup transport for which you have been waiting crashes, and you have to reach another target, within the original time limit, which may result in having to start all over again. Which is also rather annoying. That said, it can be made a lot easier when you realize that the clock stops while the shuttle takes its dive, but you're not obligated to stand still, so you can get a few free seconds of extra driving time if you don't stop to watch.
  • Multiplayer has Chiron TL-34. The sheer number of teleporters (which would be phased out by Halo 3 due to camping concerns) led to a super-confusing map that has virtually no gameplay flow. Bungie acknowledged this and teased a 'Chiron TL-35' during Halo 3 as a joke.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?:
  • A lot of people saw the premise of Scary Dogmatic Aliens starting a war against heroic Eaglelandish marines as typical Turn of the Millennium propaganda about The War on Terror. Bungie countered this by pointing out that the overwhelming majority of the game's development occurredbefore 9/11. However, note that no references to the Covenant being religious zealots actually show up aside from lines in the manual and a couple offhand lines that in-game that easily could've been added late in the development process. Also note that Halo: The Fall of Reach, which is responsible for much of the universe's backstory, and was written in around seven weeks (reported as Eric Nylund's shortest deadline). That's from a full week after 9/11, to the day the novel was released. Halo 2 muddies this even further, as it dives deeper into the Covenant viewpoint and amalgamates them into more of a hybrid Catholic/extremist Islam style theocracy.
  • After the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the new multi-racial government set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights abuses under the old regime. In Halo, the multi-racial Covenant have a ship called the Truth And Reconciliation. Draw your own conclusions.

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