: The Flood are by far the coolest zombies in my opinion. Fighting against them
: in a game, however, is a disservice to their potential. Halo 3 was a
: fantastic step in the right direction with the pure forms' ability to
: morph into whichever form was necessary for the fight at hand.

: Throughout the three games we encountered the Flood, though, the standard
: forms weren't anything special after the first few engagements. They
: quickly lost all ability to creep and scare the living fuck out of you.
: Infection forms weren't worth the bullets, combat forms were just ordinary
: armed infantry with little tentacle-y bits growing out of what used to be
: their cute abs, and carriers were big blobs of meh. I can understand that
: the engine probably couldn't handle whatever Bungie had planned for them,
: but now, I can't imagine any excuse not to make them frightening, vicious
: and overwhelming as fuck.

I feel like a lot got cut from Halo 3, especially flood forms. There's some amazing stuff in the art of Halo 3, let's see some of those creatures. My favorite was the Flood/vehicle (Floodicle?) that walks around the battlefield eating corpses and turning them into infection forms which it spits at you.. if I remember that correctly.