Lets talk Firefight 343i
“Greg: It originally was a Firefight-type mode, where it wasn’t always about killing all the enemies. Some missions would be get an item (like a bomb) to the bomb spot, kill the leader, capture the item, etc. But it was more arcadey and meant to be replayable. Each map would have the same four or five types of missions. When you played them, it would randomly pick four missions on four different maps, and your party would play through them.”
From your Bulletin on SPOPS, ^^ that right there would have been EPIC. wtf happen.