: Ah right, got it. That gives me a much better sense of what things are going
: to be like. Basically it's using the more 'modern' sort of covies (H4?)
: and other stuff, but with the maps echoing the old ones in terms of
: overall features, and with some of the old voice audio used, or in the
: case of Cortana, re-recording her old lines or variations thereof (she
: still sounds great).

: I heard some old Grunt voice audio in there, but I think most of it was more
: modern. Heard Stacker in the hog, but couldn't recognize him. Did the
: Marines all have dark visors? Actually the Marines tended to look almost
: shrouded in darkness. 2:38 was particularly bad, in the vicinity of the
: newly dropped hog. The hog seemed unnaturally dark too.

: But anyway, I won't get into serious analysis, a lot of which would likely
: just echo things I said about H4 or whatever.

: One thing I will quickly mention though: I do think it's terrible how you
: get weapon-swap prompts in the middle of the screen. Very ugly and
: distracting. I was immediately struck by that. Now that I check back to
: my old H4 opinion piece, I see that it's something which came in with H4.
: Maybe it never went away after that, I don't know (I've lost track since
: then).

I'm looking forward to playing the game and seeing what the new skulls will unlock.