Fighting the Elites again will be great.  I am also looking forward to not having any Flood levels.  Game should be EPIC.

Very excited to have ZERO flood in the next game!

I concur that the Flood levels were the least fun in all Halo games thusfar.  Fighting the Covenant was much more entertaining and satisfying.

+1 for likely Halo: Reach single player campaign.

Yay for people sharing my distaste for Flood combat. They made for an amazing twist in the first game, but the gameplay associated with them is meh for me. Mainly due to infinite respawns, which I absolutely despise.

yeah, I hated the flood levels. In fact, the level where you are in that flood infested pillar of autumn was the worst part of the game for halo 3.

Pillar of Autumn in Halo 3? Does not compute.

(The Pillar of Autumn was destroyed in Halo: CE)

I did hate the flood in Halo 2/3. I loved them in Halo: CE. Just when you think the game was ending, a new different enemy is introduced... and it changed everything. They didn't have the same... je nais se quios... in Halo 2/3.

I don't know... I thought it was pretty badass when you and the flood are attacking the last prophet in Halo 3. The flood finale with the warthog and the road falling appart was kinda "been there done that" tho.

i disagree halo is going downhill and i think we see an increase is sales for reach from halo 3.ill tell you why.

halo 1 sold over 5 million copies.halo 2 has sold about 8.4 million copies. thats increase of about 3 million copies.take a note that when halo 2 came out there was about 16 million xboxs out.(24 now) then halo 3 came out it has about 10.4 million copies sold.when its alsaid and done it will sell at leas 11.5 million copies. that will be an increase of about 3 million copies. also when it came out there were about 18 million consoles. then theres reach. do you see the steady increase in sales of about 3 million. i see it selling at least 14.5 million copies. but it could sell potentialy alot higher.so when halo 3 came out there were 18 million consoles. when reach comes out there will be more then 40 million xbox 360s. thats more then double.that means it has a potential of selling 20+ million copies.

the numbers dont lie. expect around 15 million copies sold at least.

dont look at odst or halo wars for comparison either(but if u do they should comfirm the popularity of halo). halo wars is a rts and not made by bungie.it still sold really good for a rts though(probably thanks to halo1,2,3)and odst is basically a expansion. its sold more then 3.3 million copies(it will probably end up with more then 5 million copies damn) and it basically a dlc. a shit-load of people are buying it knowing it only has 3 hrs of campain. theyre paying 60 dollars for a game that should be a 19.99 dollar expansion pack.

another thing i forgot to mention is that reach is the best halo story so the sigle player should be the best of the franchise.

anywho i think halo 4(yes sequel to halo 3) will come out when the next xbox is released.Around 2013. makes sense because at least 1/4 of the xbox 360 owners will have owned halo 3 or reach. and it wont be made by bungie so they probably will be leaning to do a safe project.

These kids don't know how good the Reach story is. Dude that called out Garnett about the prequel is dead on. And as far as the graphical style, I used to think that I wanted a more realistic look but I don't feel that way anymore. This is the chosen art style and it fits perfectly. There are enough realistic games with many more on the way. I have to agree with the others about the flood too. In CE it was awesome, after that, annoying. I think Reach is gonna be better than and sell more than Halo 3.

Has there been a specific date announced for the Beta?