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Halo 2 is essential reading. It took the base of CE and expanded it to ridiculous levels. It is perhaps also, the single most cinematic game I've ever played bar none.
Halo as it is today would simply not exist, and you would be hard pressed to understand either Reach or Halo 3 or any of it without knowing Halo 2.
Whereas CE is a little more selfcontained and smaller in scope, it is still something I'd recommend, but not to the same degree at all. Halo 2 is the lynchpin of the whole universe.
[Edited on 10.06.2010 10:58 PM PDT]