: We are seeing a work-in-progress to show off the current capabilities of
: their engine and make a statement about their change of direction. I
: suspect that they just didn't have enough new assets to change everything.

: I suppose that they wanted to hit E3 and so concentrated on the most
: important, dare I say ICONIC, assets. ;-) (Yes, I know, the PUMA is also
: very iconic)

: They had what they had and they definitely made their statement given, the
: always present, constraints of time and resources.

: That is the best looking Halo game engine that I've ever seen. It looks
: better than Destiny's engine. Hopefully it will be easier to make content
: for it.

I think anything's easier to make content for than Destiny :P

Personally I doubt they're going to whole-hog switch to everything old and pretend that it was always like that. They'll handwave some lore reasons and many things will probably get a retouch, but I doubt outside of a few things they'll just pretend the last five years didn't happen.

If the BRs were just placeholders, why would they have revised the marines to something that's in the ballpark of Reach and 4/5 but not their gear?