People say ODST sucked. I thought it was AWESOME. You aren't a bullet sponge, infinite strength robot-man-death-terminator. You are a stealthy, badass soldier who advances on the enemy not from the back, but rather from within. The pistol was friggin awesome because it just looked cool and played cool and the only thing I really hated was the fact that ODSTs didn't have gloves with fingers. That still bothers me.