I know it's been done, not complaining, not fanboy-ing, just stating!
The Wins:
-Chief is back, and looks visually appealing.
-Campaign as well looks visually appealing.
-Multiplayer is back, visually appealing as well.
-New gun sounds make you feel like you're not shooting a toy!
-New guns.
-Old guns.
-Vehicles. The mantis is a great addition and substitute for the tank!
-Armor lock is a thing of the past.
-With that, the class mods (with the exception of AC) fit the game well.
-Lots of customization options to make your spartan look like the dog's pants!
-Decent soundtrack in heated battles all across the game, gives a sense urgency and action during play.
-Spartan specializations, so you don't have to aimlessly play multiplayer and have something to level up.
-Forge is all like, I can build!
-Digging the maps, Impact is a new Halo fav'!
-In said Halo the 4th, you have that feel of making custom games and wanting to actually play them again.
-Limited Edish.
-Legendary Edish.
-As much as everyone is saying Spartan Ops sucks they use the same maps over and over, I personally like it am thankful Firefight is no more! I find them fun and engaging!
-Possibly more maps with more DLC!
The Fails:
-*SPOILER*Campaign itself blows! Noone wants to chase huge Predator/Darth Vader around in the giant ball from The Incredibles!
-*SPOILER*I scour the bowels of the Halo 4 universe, spend hours soloing the campaign on legendary, and all I get to see is the Chief somehow escape the impenetrable clutches of the didact and deep throat him with a grenade!
-*SPOILER*The story line blows! Silly Chief, you can't bang Cortana she's an A.I.!
-I get nothing for soloing the campaign on legendary!
-Prometheans are a bad joke!
-Their weapons must be the punch line!
-Pulse grenades.
-They may have added new guns, but boy, do they suck! If you're going to continue to reskin all the guns from previous games, why not reskin good ones! (Can I get a whatwhat for some Maulers in here!)
-Only 8 classifications? That's lame!
-Only 2 Classifications if you didn't play after the 20th even though you paid the full price like everyone else? Lame!
-Only 130 ranks? Hope you add more!
-Watch this, I'll be smarter than everyone in 343 with this next statement: In order to make the game 50% better, all that had to be done was bring Halo 3's ranking system back, add a few more levels, and combine it with the current system. Skill + EXP, with actual ranks, not numbers! Good try though!
-This is very opinionated, but come on, the fact we can spawn with DMR's on larger maps just encourages you to stay back and camp. At least bring a game mode where we must spawn with assault rifles and engage in some close up death matches!
-Some specializations, plainly speaking, are worthless!
-Yo bro check my file share!
-Love the BR, so happy it's once again in the Halo arse- killed by DMR in 3 seconds across the map!
-You know my adversary that just killed me with a 5 shot DMR with cross map capabilities? Yeah he spawned with that!
-Loadouts, don't use them, Halo of Duty!
-What happened to fighting over weapons that spawn on the map? Sure we fight over ordinance, but why bother? You get more kills picking off people with a DMR as they attempt to get it than actually getting the power weapon itself.
-Ordinance is terrible, why can't you at least give us the option to play a map where the weapons spawn the same every time! It's funner, it's Halo!
-Oh I died from a DMR across the map. The guy who killed me must have found it and definitely didn't spawn with a long range weapon, hm, ok. Well let me just run back to my sniper that I died with which is the power weapon my team is relying on to control the Ragnarok mid-map. D'oh, what am I thinking! If you drop a power weapon it will just despawn in 7 seconds, that's a huge plus!
-"Dude you're an idiot, if it despawns now the other team can't get it." That's true raging forum reader, very true indeed, but some players, good players I should say, rely on just that. You see, when a player kills another player who is holding the sniper, it usually draws them out in the field to go get it, in which case more close range, interesting battles can insure. Now that it despawns so fast, they will just sit there and remain camping with that DMR! How fun is that!
-And it's okay Jeff Steitzer I get it, I understand my team lost the ball, I killed someone while they were running, or I assisted in killing the king. You don't have to announce every single thing I do in multiplayer because it's getting ******* creepy!
-I've tried playing a game where I didn't earn any medals, it's impossible! Noob friendly!
-What an awesome game of CTF, I just went 24 and 2, can't wait to see myself in the MVP title and slot after the game is over!
-Hmm, at least the Killing Frenzy I got will be in top medals! (WTF?)
-Crimson DLC is out, spolier: The maps suck!
-Let's play assault!
-Haha, I have you now, I'm just going to get this last BR shot on you, headshot then I'll grab your flag and - Wait what?! I didn't click any button to pick up the flag?! Oh cool.. I died!
-I have rockets, an awesome power weapon to advance my team up the map and protect my flag carrier! Oh my flag carrier died and I didn't see in the heat of battle. I backed into it and I now have the flag, but my rockets are more useful to my team, I'll just drop the flag and guard with rockets.... I'll just drop the flag and guard with rockets.... I said, I'll drop the flag, with my OWN FREE WILL and use my rockets that are more useful! OH I can't drop the flag! Died! Rockets rendered useless!
-People can spawn with stickys.
-People can spawn with plasma pistols. Do the math for vehicles!
-Finally, I got my ordinance, since there's no weapons on the maps, I can get a power weapon to help my team out - Pulse grenades. Speed boost. SAW. Cool!
-Okay I have the SAW, good thing an assault rifle can kill a player faster!
-Let's play One Flag CTF!
-Where's arbiter?
Agree, disagree. Debate me!
*edit* - Feel free to state your own Wins and Fails opinions on this game! I'd love to hear some feedback from the community!