- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The Halo 1 pistol was the great equalizer in multiplayer. Unlike in Halo 2, when you spawn in Halo 1, you actually get a decent gun, and stand a chance against other opponents who have Rockets and Snipers. In Halo 2, when you spawn, you are screwed with the SMG, and even the BR isn't too powerful.
If you ever played Halo 1's multiplayer and if you were good at it, you would have loved the pistol, it provided some of the most intense firefights ever seen, it took a lot of skill to master (pistol is actually kinda weak if you aren't good with it), and it provided you with a chance to get a kill right when you spawn, instead of having to go and find a weapon.
So I don't know what you are whining about, plus Halo is unrealistic. If you want Halo 3's multiplayer to take no skill, have massive auto-aim, unbalanced weapons, and weak starting weapons, why bother playing Halo 3? Halo 2 already gives you those things.
Hopefully Halo 3 will be as different from Halo 2 as Halo 2 was from Halo 1.
[Edited on 5/9/2006]