User blog comment:VaughanTES/The Second Great War?!/@comment-3202167-20121012095403/@comment-3492791-20121014030442

343 studios is a sub-division of Microsoft made for the express purpose of making Halo games after the Bungie contract expired. There are former members of Bungie in 343, but they are not even close to the same studio.

343 rewrote a large section of the canon. That's strike one.

343, being a sub-division, takes their orders directly from microsoft. That's strike two.

From what's i've seen of the game, it reeks of the "modern FPS formula", which is to say CODesqe.

I don't question that people will like it (Sheep!), but I will not be among them. Th serise has been altered to such a degree I no longer consider the Bungie Halo and the 343 Halo to be the same entity. Especially since the fucking canon is different!