Bungie learned the lessons of 1 and 2 with Halo 2. Halo 3 was for the most part, a glitch/mod free affair. Halo 2 was plagued with it.

As for #3, Halo will beyond a shadow of a doubt, not have offensive content.

Thanks CGI! A very good read indeed. The writer is a little curse-happy, but that only increases his "halo-cred" in my opinion.

Halo 3 is my favorite online MP, and I still love it. If Reach is somehow the same but better, I'll be in heaven.

Halo 3 wasn't all that glitchy, so I'm not worried about Halo: Reach being glitchy whatsoever.

Correct, if anything, MW2 should have learned lessons from Halo 3.

While I enjoy Modern Warfare 2 online, it's rare that I play a game these days without terrible spawns and hosting issues. I have high hopes for Reach.

Erm, when/where has this happened because Ive never noticed it.

And the only thing that really bugs me with Halo is that I cant play firefight through matchmaking (which Im hoping is included in Reach but currently not even sure if theyre putting firefight in it) and the odd times you stick people online and the grenade disappears

There was concern that there were some people with modded 360s who were giving people negative match bonus experience when they beat them in MW2.  It hasn't happened to me, but there was a video floating around. 

I agree about the matchmaking for Firefight.  I would really like that.  Maybe they will extend that to Campaign as well.

The unlocking of guns and abilities on MW2 is one of the biggest draws (IMO); I'm not sure how that could be implemented in the Halo universe.

That being said, I'm really looking forward to Reach...in Bungie I trust.

While it might still be in Reach, one of the Bungie Reach devs commented about how he did not like the unlocking of guns and abilities that affects gameplay.  I can agree, especially in regards to Halo.  New players would be at a definite disadvantage.

Guess I'm on the other side of the fence here. I really dislike being locked out from everything before I can start having fun.

It forces me to play on friends' accounts to get the most fun out of the game, because I don't enjoy playing gimped. I want a shooter, not an RPG.