: It WASN'T ready for production... at least not in the way 343 wanted it to
: be. Halo 4 plays a lot more fast and loose than its older cousins when it
: comes to fleshing out the world outside the player's grasp - and Theater
: Mode would have made this abundantly clear. I don't have any inside
: information, but it seems pretty clear that it was cut because the
: 'behind-the-scenes' part of the game world was far more incomplete than
: it's been in any other Halo title, and they really didn't need this being
: broadcast with every campaign vid.

: It clearly works , though.

Do you think that really would have been a big deal, though?

I want to believe that the vast majority of people would be happy that it's there period, regardless of if they get to see how (I don't know the word to use here) things look behind the scenes with loading/rendering etc.

Then again, people can be real jerks. Perhaps another example of damned if you do damned if you don't?