My only concern with the whole halo going rts style is that, when playing an rts the emotional attachment to the characters is almost nill, i could care less, when i was playing warcraft, if a bunch of my troops died. The thing that makes the halo fps franchise so great is the emotional attachments that people created with the main characters, these attachments are the essence of good game play. I just feel that with the lack of game time with a select one or two characters is going to destroy any chance for those emotional bonds to be formed ultimately any chance of a halo rts being anywhere as great as previous halos. Before i get flamed with sophomoric garbage, I'm simply expressing my opinion, not trying to bash a game no one has played yet. I will however note that the trailer kicked severe amounts of -blam!-.