oh man, its better than i thoguht it was going to be! i love everything about it. it has a different feel than the others halo 1 felt like the struggle for the intrepid explorers to survive something they do not understand. this tells us about the halos, the flood, the human's story, and a little bit aboutt the covenant. it sets a "vocabulary" upon which we draw for the other stories halo 2 seemed to be about betrayal and an interruption in what the normal has been. it tells us the story of the covenant, more aboutt eh flood (gravemind) and more about the halos. it sets a mood and a backdrop for the rest to make sense halo 3 seems like its gonna be a desparate struggle to stop the universe from ending, and the univers is split. everyone is trying to figure out what is happening. it seems very religious in nature, more so than the others. also, it seems liek the other games were set ups to show us what we needed to see, tell us what we needed to know, to tell the story that is unfolding now. this one tells the real story