i got to agree to an extent the game has mutated it is more like halo of duty or call of halo. i get how maybe leveling up ones use of powerups could be good but they totally axed the rankings from reach and firefight i mainly play offline at home as is now i cant get any of the nifty lookin armors fr playing against fam cant change my base weapons powerups and all its like a bastardization of halo. hell i can collect all the terminals and it wont do crap for me i get xbox live being good its fun at times but to ditch everything that made halo fun and good for more live entertainment its cutting at least half of the fans off at the knees. all we get really is the campaign pretty fun on normal and not much more difficult so far heroic with 5 skulls on 2 gold 3 silver lol but its an interesting new storyline for some reason greg bear didnt paint the didact as a homicidal megalomaniac in fact he got along well with humans b4 he died and morning stellar rises or whatever the kids name was took his identity over.