I thought this game was alright. Not every section is that good, for example there's one too many sections where you drive some vehicle and basically every enemy is also in a vehicle. But overall, it played pretty well and struck a really good balance in difficulty, at least for me playing on normal difficulty. 343 basically says "We know we have big shoes to fill, but we hope we can prove our worthiness to make Halo" in the end credits, and for what it's worth, I think they did show that they were able to handle Halo, even if they could never be like Bungie.