I have been doing the math, and this game is not adding up. I will be honest I would gladly pay for a remastered version of the original game. Better graphics is all good. Hell I don't even need that if I can play this on the 360. However that doesn't seem to be the case. From what I am reading it appears that at least a solid quarter of the original game is missing. Perhaps even an entire half of the game is missing. Where the hell is the original multiplayer, and why the hell aren't we getting the multiplayer from both versions of the original game.
The anniversary edition is touting seven multiplayer maps. Here is where the math comes into play. The original had thirteen maps, and six additional exclusive maps on the computer. The latter being the really good maps that a lot of us have been praying for. Worse yet this is a shadow of what was offered in Reach that had eight multiplayer maps, eight firefight maps, and a map editor. Hell one of those seven they are touting is a firefight map. Which was obviously not present in the original anyway.
It is seeming like we aren't going to get the original maps, and if we do they are going to be the retread remakes. Which frankly I am fed up with having to rebuy with each new offing in the franchise. Since they just remake the same maps over and over. Perhaps the greatest sin is that six multiplayer maps is just simply to little to support varied team structure. You need a good number of maps on both ends for the play to have lasting appeal. I want to point something else out, and that is the the Halo Reach Beta supported four maps. So this is effectively just a little better then that.
I am seriously disillusioned, and it goes so far as to shake my faith in the franchise. I could give less then a damn about a single player with upgraded visuals if the part of the game that gave me hundreds of hours of enjoyment has been neutered off. I really wanted those nineteen maps. I think most everyone here would want those maps. Six maps just isn't acceptable for a old game they are just polishing. We are most certainly entitled at a bare minimum to everything that was made available in the original game. At best this is coming across as a bait and switch, and at worst a full fledged lie.
