I have brought it home and played it for a few minutes.
I dont like it.
OK, maybe that's being a little harsh, but these guys are like the Matrix directors. They cannot seem to recapture the greatness of the original with part 2 and 3.
Why the hell do the covenant have to speak english now? That was one of the coolest little tidbits of Halo 1. The fact they talked a lot of smack you couldn't quite understand. It's just lame. Lame as shit.
Their sayings are dumb.
Bungie are hacks.
The game looks pretty decent, I suppose.
So far I'm shooting far away enemies the size of pinpricks a lot. You have to do that to stand a chance. It sucks. It's not fun.
I feel like other games like Gears of War have passed this by. Games now dont have a health bar. That's a relic. And basically, you duck behind rocks in this game..it's like cover in Gears, only crappier and less precise. A relic, again.
Oh and the touted music, is overly melodramatic. The first level already has music that feels like it should fit the last level. Just like the cutscene, Bungie is way too full of themselves on this game and storyline now. Hey, newsflash guys, it's not that big a deal. It's a friggen game.
Having said all this negative stuff, I am sure I will comeback with more positive stuff later.