Loving it!

Heroic is definitely tougher than 3 but no where near as hard as waiting for the game to install.

Great job Bungie and thanks.

I need to replay the first three missions because I was accidentally on a different profile. Woops.

I tried some forge stuff this morning too. I was a little disappointed by the quality of what was online this morning, but I know there will be much better content down the line. Every Lockout remake that I've tried is OKAY, but not quite. The Beaver Creak knockoff I grabbed was horrible. The best forge map I've seen thus far is a big ramp. Yup. Most well constructed custom map is just a ramp. :P

Despite all the talk, legendary is still pretty easy to rush through on co-op. I guess there's really not much they can do about that.

Every one of them :)

I don't consider myself to be a good player mind, I'm just determined.

Could be a dirty laser lens?

Might be worth trying to give it a clean with a cotton bud and some alcohol on it.
Or you could just leave Reach in it and not switch the thing off.

Would you believe it, Shop.to failed to get the game to me early and then last night my broadband went down because some tit went through the cables! Still I managed to get through mission six of the campaign, must have taken 5 hours or so all told on Heroic.

Thoughts, it looks great and I really enjoyed the last mission I played the one in space. Other than that, I'm a little bit unsure. I've not had my "The Ark" moment from Halo 3 yet. The characters don't really resonate with me. Jorge especially I find annoying. It was so obvious someone would have to stay on the Corvette that I didn't care and I especially didn't care it was him. I'm not completely sure I agree with this "Halo 1 feel" either, it's a lot like Halo 3 in places. That's not bad, as I enjoyed the middle levels of Halo 3 immensely.

What I was disappointed in however was the intro to Tip of the Spear. The cutscene where the armies are rushing each other got me pretty pumped, but it's a complete cocktease. The night mission too, isn't a patch on Truth and Reconciliation.

In short, I'm not sure what to make of the campaign yet so I might be coming across overly negative. One thing I will say though is that fighting Elites rock. I didn't hate the Brutes as much as most but they are more fun for sure.

Fortunately my broadband was fixed so I had a go on MP this morning and had a blast. Haemorrhage was great fun and I'm glad to see there is a BTB playlist. I actually quite enjoyed Spire too, which I was concerned about.

There's definitely a distinct lack of epicness when it comes to the scale of encounters in the Reach campaign. I still enjoyed it enough though. I was pretty disappointed that they threw in some big teases, like the scarab that just wound up being decorations. There's nothing especially.. er.. special to me about this Halo campaign compared to any other Halo campaign, but it's pretty good. I do love the scenery! Some of the cut scenes are really enhanced by how awesome the damaged cities of Reach look :)

Now that to me is a bit disappointing seeing as they were going on about having bigger environments and more AI on screen and their LOD system so to me that should translate into, well, epicness. I can't describe it accurately but I'm sure we're talking about the same thing. I'll try to reserve judgement until I've finished it and replayed the first few levels, could still be jetlagged for all I know. The GAF thread didn't offer up anything to reinforce my initial impressions it must be said and I'm unsure of them as it is.