I know it's popular to ♥♥♥♥ on this game because it's not exactly conventional Halo. At the time, Microsoft made the incredibly tone deaf decision of releasing this years before even contemplating bringing the rest of the Halo games to PC. And to be fair, the story is a barely-there nothing burger of a story.

Yet I'd be lying if I didn't call the actual gameplay a ton of fun. They finally experiment with the weapon arsenal in fresh ways! Some of the more tired conventions of Halo are tossed aside for new ones, like additional armor abilities that sadly never appeared in the main games, more of the expanded lore vehicles/weapons getting a chance to shine, and some weapon remixes are a ton of fun. The Spartan Laser in particular, as a hold-and-fire weapon is interesting! I vastly prefer this game's upgrade to the Elite Plasma Rifle over the "Storm Rifle" and whatever other nonsense the newer games have been tossing at players.

Ignore the tag line - there is no point to the "Origin of Spartan Ops", but mechanically? This is one of the better twin-stick shooters on the market, hands down!

Burning passion for Halo:
I have always loved Halo even when from they first released the very first one on disk as a demo to see how the public would enjoy it, and I was hooked. This game is what I remember of Halo being to this day. And really enjoy the overhead view that you are able to play at during the game. Going and fighting the covenant and the numerous amount of enemies that come with it, if you don't know what Halo is and want to learn more and play the main games the MCC is a great way to get started now and get these games at a later time or when they go on sale and continue the saga and to finish the fight. This is a really enjoyable game during my time of playing it (ignore the playtime)

In my opinion I loved playing this game and recommend it on a sale only for the fact that the shelf life of this has been out for quiet some time now and have seen it down for a dollar at times.