You know what? I wouldn't mind excessive scripting if it gave me five minutes where I could be the gunner in a Warthog and not worry about getting stuck on a rock. It could be on rails for all I care, though I do hope they'd find a way to include a little variability.

And something occurred to me. That part where the Brute hijacks the Warthog? That's a part where the Chief should have pulled out a sidearm and emptied the whole magazine into the alien.