I start off by saying I’m not entirely up on the details of Halo 4, but at the end of the day, it’s all nearly irrelevant.
Halo is, well, it’s Halo, and there is nothing like it.
You can have your cool weapons, badass Spartans, vehicles, game mods, but to me, Halo is and always (I hope) be about that one time I tried to hit the fleeing warthog half way across the map with the rocket launcher, and although I missed, the explosion launched the hog into the sky and it landed on a sniper 20 meters away. Or that time I missed my plasma throw completely, but it made its way into a grav lift and launched into the air sticking some guy in the banshee. That is Halo in my book.
I know Halo 4 is changing, (and since Halo 2, things like tracking rockets and lasers, had worked in the opposite direction of what I believe to be Halo) and we have to accept that, and appreciate that we haven’t been playing the same exact game for the past decade. But if Halo 4 doesn’t have those crazy moments, then (it may succeed as a game) it will fail as a Halo game.
Point is, I hope Halo 4 turns out to be a proper Halo game, because even though I haven’t been playing Halo lately, I still miss it, and have yet to play a game like it.
To Halo!
/Cheers