: That opening scene with the hologram inside the Pelican? None of it looked
: like it was designed by the UNSC. And Halo has got to quit this terrible
: habit of briefing characters right before deploying them into combat,
: while there's a battle raging outside. There's got to be a better way of
: informing the audience of what's going on five seconds before the action
: starts.

: As for the combat? Fifteen seconds would have been enough. Past that point,
: this Monty Oum crap gets stale. I predict that there's going to be a
: jarring disconnect between what the characters can do in cutscenes and
: what you can do in gameplay.

I'm a big stickler for perceiving that disconnect. I do think they make a point of covering things you actually CAN do.

Can:

• Boost through things, they've shown how you can boost through walls before, and I guess we can boost through some rocks...


• Pound the ground, covered extensively in MP


• Sprint a bunch


• Crazy sword elite hand to hand battles appear to be a part of gameplay in some scripted/yet streamlined fashion

Don't know if you can or will happen

• Board a crashing phantom and wreak havoc on it's passengers, while it tumbles


• Kick one ghost and manhandle another ghost mid-sprint

I will say, Halo does have a history of you boarding various covenant vehicles, big and small. In 4 we even board the lich during Reclaimer. I wouldn't be surprised if 343 provide us the opportunity to jump on one and wreak havoc. I also wouldn't be equally surprised if they didn't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I do wonder how this would work as an opening cinematic though, we've been trapped in what amounts to a casket for 3 games so far, and otherwise have
a) casually been briefed about our new armor
b) got used to controls while investigating a distress beacon as some elite sneaks away with a datapad
c) experienced a vitals check after landing like a meteor on earth

What would happen after this? Trapped slightly underneath the wreckage of that covenant ship that crashed while osiris does a vitals check? Definitely would kill the momentum in a ToTS way.

Anyways, I appreciated what I got from the trailer, Teams of 4 spartans tearing it up