Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft entered the console market with a hulking black machine, an enormous controller and a game called Halo. What followed changed the industry in ways few could have predicted, and today, the original Xbox is finding an unlikely new home in our pockets.
That was shoehorned into the game last-minute to increase the play time. Lame but they had to get it out by launch.
Yeah if you play it now it seems basic. But that’s like listening to the Beatles now and saying they aren’t very interesting, when everything current is based on what they did.