A nice departure in some ways from the main-line halo games, but didn't go far enough in my opinion. Impressive for sure given the production timeline. The story felt entirely "go here and do this, because!" for 90% of the game. I wish that we would have known earlier on that we needed to save an engineer, and each of the missions was brining us closer to understanding where that thing was or why it was important. Being 'rookie' and spending the entire game just filling in the gap in time that your character spent hungover in his pod didn't really connect for me. Perhaps it would have been more emotionally connecting if we didn't play a voiceless protagonist. Very repetitive, more so than other Halo games.