I usually agree with Joe but I think he bought into the hype here and it lowered his score. I also am not sure this is the kind of game you can grade on what's there on day one. Initially getting to level 20 I thought "OK its a halo clone nothing new here". Then I got 20 and started doing strikes ect and found myself thinking it was kinda cool that a shooter had some replay ability beyond pvp. And now they are adding more stuff fairly regularly giving me even more stuff to do. There are still definite issues like chat, balance, and clan integration I think are needed but bungie is acknowledging that too. I'd say my score went from a 6 to a 7, and now maybe a solid 7.5 or 8.