- Sliding Ghost
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Halo has been sabotaged; it had some elements that I consider futuristic then it lost them.
In CE, the hog was king. Ignoring it's invulnerability, you didn't have to worry about crashing into walls because the physics readjusted it. You could splatter just about anything that moved. It was very stable and didn't go flipping like a toy car. You could eject out of it and get on the gunner seat, fire the chain gun while dismounting, and get assassinations while getting out. Passengers and gunners would stay seated most of the time and you could get their attention by firing your gun. We could see the health of our passengers on our hud. And of course, first person passenger seat.
Then there's the Banshee. Had hover and Banshee strafing fights where the fuel rod gun was actually useful (instead of just being a ground bombardment weapon).
Even the CE scorpion, despite having terrible controls and horribly inaccurate cannon and machine gun, felt futuristic to me. Passenger seats could be used in Co-op, we could see the health of our passengers on our hud, and it was good for splattering.
They were downgraded in H2/H3. Some things returned in ODST (hover, Co-op Scorpion passenger seat) and some things returned in Reach (splatter with the scorpion) but never again would we see reliable returning vehicles.