My review

I played Halo 2 and Halo 3 professionally for tens of thousands of hours. Halo 2 Anniversary has far superior aiming. I also wish you guys could recommend which monitor resolution to use on PC based on various NVIDIA whatever.

Pros:
BR
zoom in machine gun whatever it’s called
Sniper
SMG
pistol
LT to zoom in

Cons:
Sniper takes too long between shots
punching with right stick click instead of B with tired gamer hands
Plasma pistol doesn’t disable vehicles
Knowing how to use unlockable items is annoying. I can’t tell if i’m buying it or unlocking it Battle Pass is confusing.
The emblem editing is confusing to find. I confuse my rank with my emblem.
The armor equipping is confusing to find
Gravity Hammer is weak
I did not get to use the Covenant Carbine
Not enough water or sand

> zoom in machine gun whatever it’s called

The Commando Rifle.

> if i’m buying it or unlocking it Battle Pass is confusing.

The Battle Pass is horrible in it’s current state, I hoping this is an area where 343i will hear some of the feedback.

Having players go into the BP and ‘pay’ for their level, seems like it was designed on paper by someone that has never played a videogame. If there’s no choice to be made, “Why do I have to pay to unlock the level?”

> The emblem editing is confusing to find. I confuse my rank with my emblem.

Sounds like this is being handled by an App, 343i/Microsoft’s history with apps has been pretty bad so this really needs to be moved to the game UI. Might be a feature that hasn’t been added to the BETA yet.

> punching with right stick click instead of B with tired gamer hands

‘Out of box’ controls are really weird. They seemed to ignore OG Halo controls and tried to emulate CODs. Since everyone has been playing COD for so long (at least I have), you’re best bet with the controls is to just set them to custom and build your own scheme.

I ended up with a weird blend between Reach and Warzone controls which I loved after about a half hour of toying around. TOTALLY WORTH IT for the next flight.