>>6 I used to play a lot of Halo CE online and loved the fact that your starting pistol was stupid strong. Yeah, other guns were situational and useful, but everyone had a gun that could tear someone up right out the gate.
mind you, everyone also started with another gun that was complete trash -- situational enough since it tore through shields, but you would be very lucky to actually get a kill off of it in time, and pretty much every other gun you could pick up was more useful overall
you're describing counter strike