F**king A I was disappointed. Here my gripes -
- NO NAV POINTS on your HUD (why the HELL did they do this?? It just means you get lost all the time! Maybe they did it because the levels are so short - they left them out on purpose so you'd take longer to finish the game)
- No warthog variants
- "Cliffhanger" (read: pr1cktease) ending (so, so cheap...feels like they just couldn't be bothered finishing and left it thinking anything they did would be good enough)
- Confusing, badly written and incoherent plot - first you're on earth, then you're in space and there's another halo, then you're a covenant elite on an assassination mission, then you're the MC again and you're down on the halo, then there's some rebellion and the covenant are attacking each other, so you're killing covenant regardless of if you're the MC or the Elite, then the flood show up again so everyone starts killing them too, the covenant leaders betray each other, the humans' commander is kidnapped, then you're the MC again and you're freeing marines from a covenant prison, then the elite teams up with the sarge, you kill some big dude who is apparently your arch-enemy and all of a sudden you're flying a ship back into earth's orbit and nobody explained anything and what the hell is that big venus flytrap thing with the tentacles? And why is it talking to Cortana at the end? Anyone? ANYONE??
- Only one level actually set on earth, when the whole focus of everything was supposed to be the battle for earth...not to be inexplicably teleported into outer space and onto ANOTHER FRIGGIN HALO with ANOTHER FRIGGIN LIBRARY
- Repetitive level design (AGAIN)
- Too easy, too quick to finish (<> 10hrs on Heroic and I'm not even that good)
- Cortana (the most annoying cliched sassy-grrl sidekick ever...although she *was* slightly more bearable than in Halo 1)
All up, probably the biggest disappointment of the year for me. It makes me sick to read the nauseating reviews all over the net (9.9, 5/5, 10/10, perfect, OMG, blah blah blah). There is no way this half-baked piece of crud deserves that kind of @ss-kissage.
My 2c. I am now preparing to be flamed.
RustAngel