Bringing up the points about hardly ever getting to fight as a team, and your ideas of how things should have gone, made me remember another reason why I was severely disappointed. After reading The Fall of Reach (my first Halo novel), and gaining a new level of appreciation for the way Spartans worked together, I was quite let down that we didn't see much of that incredible relationship in the games. This was to be a tragic story, a more human story, and one that would follows a band of Spartans as they fight to stop the inevitable. I was looking forward to an affecting journey, but there was nothing like that. In the novels, they were family, and it was endearing; but in Reach it was so flat. It didn't look like it was given much thought. That was one of my most disappointing aspects. [Edited on 09.17.2012 3:46 PM PDT]