You read my mind: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=193503&page=1#

Nah, the score is deserving.

Regardless of whether the singleplayer player is enough to atone for the shortfalls of the multiplayer is besides the point.
Halo is advertised as having a multiplayer component, there are people who live and breathe Halo's Multiplayer.

So it's only fair to have to have the score reflect where the game falls short and that's currently the Multi-player. (Especially as they talked-big on the games Multi before release.)
Besides, it's not just the Multi-player where things were buggy, people couldn't download the "app" to access the terminals in single player for days (I was one of them.)
Heck, I couldn't watch Nightfall either.

If these companies aren't/can't be ridiculed for where they fall short in a games release, then they will release their next game with the mindset that they can get away with it in future releases.

Besides, the "Multi-player connectivity" has only improved by 20% according to 343 industries, I still have only been able to get a single match (And that was a 3v4 match so it was unfair to begin with!), 343i have stated they expect the 19th for another patch to be rolled out, putting the game at 8 days with crap match making, it could go longer if the next patch doesn't fix everything.
That's simply unacceptable from a franchise like Halo where you expect a certain degree of quality control, this is a AAA, first party franchise remember.

Reviewers were way too generous last generation so they should also be blamed. 

Welp, Nintendo hasn't goofed up yet with their MK8 launch or SSB3ds launch (apart from peer-to-peer issues that all peer-to-peer games have where the host is using dial up connetion) so other than missing some "social" features, I think it will be fine when it comes to actually being able to play online

Damn that's really low for the franchise that becoming the backbone of Xbox platform.

But if HALO overall experience and core design is for the competitive multiplayer, that's quit reasonable seeing how the online part is broken right now and playing the single player campaign is not that interesting for the veteran or people who have bought the series before.

I hope 343 fix the online component soon.

Metacritic updated Gamespot's score but not polygon's?! that's weird!

It doesn't update the score if a score is changed. 

Did Polygon change their score? How many points were added to the Polygon score thanks to MS million$?

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The changed from 9.5 to 8 but meta still have 9.5

Wow, that's kinda low actually, and screams clickbait. You're gonna dock 4 points for one negative experience that is bound to be fixed soon?