I honestly don't think it's anything remarkable graphics wise, but it's hard to tell if the image quality concerns some (and me) have voiced have been addressed before we can see it running in realtime on our respective 360s.

I will say however that something that vidoc reminded me of is just how incredibly superior Halo is to virtually every other first person shooter in terms of core gameplay. Sure you can harp on about how excitingly scripted Modern Warfare is or how immersive the atmosphere on Helghan is, but when all is said and done, when it's about the dynamism of gameplay Halo is the god damn king.

Also, although a lot of people want to somehow discredit ODST because it was a Halo 3 engine game subjected to much berating on behalf of its pricing and somewhat curious definition in the marketplace, that game played exceptionally well. Its city bits had a lot of people trying to blast their way through every encounter (brought on by not turning off the visor thing, ie being spotted all the time) but if you played those parts like they were intended, and chose whether you wanted to engage enemies and if so, HOW you wanted to engage them, that too shone light on the combat mechanics in a brand new way, further emphasising just how dynamic they are. Effortlessly the game changes character based on how you play it.

This was mentioned in the vidoc in a way, their refering to Reach gameplay as essentially "sandboxy". It sounds to me like the city bits and the interjecting, more tightly structured/directing levels of ODST will be seamlessly brought into Reach, which effectively brings BACK the gameplay from the first Halo, which - if you go back and check it out - totally does brush past some non-linear "sandboxy" elements.

Again, ODST takes a lot of surface flak, but if you get into it you can see one, radiant thing. Bungie are getting better and better at making Halo. It took a dip during Halo 2 for sure, with its almost awkwardly tight and stubborn level design (not unlike what you see in essentially EVERY OTHER FPS, but Halo's core gameplay wants to be free!) but the steps taken with Halo 3 and even perhaps more importantly ODST just fills me with the overwhelming realisation that as a game, Reach is likely to be pretty spectacular.

Then you have a ton of perhiperal stuff that will get on people's tits no doubt. I can't even count how many people dismiss ODST outright because you're not playing as Master Chief. To be honest, that's their problem, and loss.

Wow just saw the Vidoc, I'm very impressed by what I saw..

Seriously, almost nothing compares to going through a Halo campaign together with a friend... I really can't wait to go at it in Reach...