HALO CE is by far the best out of all the other halos, the campaign was epic and kept you wanting to play more, i know that halo 1 was not on xbox live but you could still play it online using gamespy or xbconnect, if most of you people experienced its online play through the xbox and not PC i'm sure you would vote it as the best halo multiplayer experience as well, the levels were all very unique and different from one another and actually felt like you were playing on a foreign alien world, they were also so different from one to the next and didn't need added cover like they do in the newer halo games, they were simple but it worked out great, i mean comon blood glutch, hang em high, chill out, damnation, battle creek, derelict, prisoner, rat race, sidewinder, you don't get better multiplayer maps than that, they also all had a very clean feeling to them too, i find they add to much cover in the newer games that promote camping, with CE it was either kill or be killed within seconds of your re spawn not to mention all the guns were so strong and more realistic, and unique the plasma rifle stunned, the rocket luanhcer flew through the air very fast and tremendous splash damage, the shotgun had amazing power and range(now its treated like a power weapon one or two on the map and doesnt respawn til its dropped..), even the assault rifle was a beast with you being able to kill someone with 6 shots from it and a running melee, he threw grenades like a beast from one side of the map to the other, and every time you got into a pistol battle with someone it was always very intense right til the end, and no it was over powered it was bang on, that made the gameplay as fast as it was, and everyone had one so the true skilled person would usually win,i hate people who say 3 shot kills were easy they were very hard to do considering you had to lead your shot, unlike in halo 2 with the auto aim so strong, its practically impossible to not get a 4 shot kill with the BR
for the remake i hope they don't change a thing besides adding 4 player co-op campaign, theater, forge and firefight, and of course matchmaking or at elast online multiplayer through XBL