Well, Wubbles, I've been playing the BETA and so far, most of the rifles are one shots from across the level with little to no recoil...and sub-machine guns do more damage than certain machine guns. Hopefully this will all be fixed before the real game ships...but if not, I might not pick this one up.
I disagree 100% with HalfWinter. I'm a Halo fan. I've beaten all three Halo's single-player campaigns on Legendary; I love campaign mode. It just so happens that I also love, MGS (too bad it's a PS3 exclusive, so that's a poor choose of comparison)and I think this could be fun as well. Blow me, bitch.
And instead of commenting again...it's a standalone game in disc format with no multi-player of its own, but the mythic map pack is included for H3.
Well...I personally commend Bungie for switching up the pace. This looks like it could be real interesting. And on top of that, it keeps us Halo fanboys occupied while they work on Halo 4. I'm behind this project 100%