[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Zombine Halo 4's game mechanics are nearly flawless. Movement is remarkably fast, it's actually one of the fastest shooters on consoles right now. Shooting mechanics are fantastic. Each weapon is balanced to each other very well, with every utility weapon achieving a kill-time of 1.6 seconds. The gameplay flows so much faster than previous games (Reach in particular, which was sluggish and boring) and is the fastest in the series. Maps are designed around sprint so you can't just sprint around a corner and escape a firefight if you made a mistake and the enemy is winning. You slow down to 95% walking speed if shot while sprinting, so sprinting away is highly discouraged. Sprint is effectively balanced in this regard. Ordnance drops are balanced and work very well. They're not killstreaks, and actually reward everything you do. They also don't reset after death, meaning that if you get a lot of assists then die, you're not punished for not getting 3, 5 or 7 kills per life. You're a team player and you earn ordnance just the same. Likewise, weapons from drops are not just free kills. You don't get rewarded with excessive kills for setting up the initial chain. It still takes the same amount of effort to keep the rewards as it did to acquire them. You're not guaranteed a kill with the incineration cannon because the enemy still has an equal chance to take you out by outplaying or outwitting you. Powerups have always existed in Halo, and are a part of arena shooters. Damage boost doesn't last long and you can still kill a player using it before they kill you if you're good. You can also outplay someone with overshields, and speed boost isn't much of a gamechanger unless you suck at aiming or leading shots. Going back to Halo CE, it is was an arena shooter - like Unreal Tournament. The Halo series has moved away from arena elements gradually, culminating in Reach not even resembling its roots at all. Halo 4 brings us closer to that style of gameplay than any Halo since CE. Complaining that Halo is too close to Unreal Tournament is silly, since it was originally pretty much the console version of UT and Quake. It's a good thing that Halo is back to that style since it takes a significant amount more skill than an arcade shooter, which is purely twitch shooting. In arena shooters you add in movement to the combat, forcing players to contend with the map layout and the way they move about it as well as other players. Contending with a player's well coordinated jumps takes more skill than seeing them first. Halo 4 is fundamentally a great game, one of the best in the series. It's very, very well balanced on top of that. It's not perfectly balanced though. I would like to see ordnance occur a little less often, but everything you complained about in the OP is either false or a good thing.[/quote] Best post in this thread and I doubt most people in here bothered to even read it. Well said sir.