I was probably 8 at the time when I played it. Living in Alaska on an Army base, you didn't hear about as many of the new games and everything came out a few months later. It was in 2003, and I was at a friend's house in his messy basement when I first played. I was shocked at the graphics and still have memories of the screaming grunts and electricity looking thing on the elite's armor when you shot them. I remember putting the difficulty on legendary and dying over and over. Those were the days... we would play splitscreen on blood gulch almost every day, we would also play Halo 2 when it came out, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire.