After watching the Halo 2 E3 Demo several times, I noticed some things that I thought were a bit odd. Also, some of these things mihgt have been explained in Halo: FoR, but I haven't read that so keep in in mind.

1) The Battle Rifle the Chief uses ressembles the Assault Rifle except it fires single shots correct? Wrong! I beleive that the Battle Rifle is similar if not identicle to the M6D Pistol. The only difference is the shape of the weapons and hte sounds it makes when the shots are fired, but hey, its still cool.

2) After the Longsword Bombers destroy the Covenant plasma cannon thingy (What's that called BTW?), the Chief and the Marines move out and start moving deeper into the city. Remember when one of the Marines tosses a grenade at the group of Grunts and that one Jackal? When the MC goes in, they are shooken up and rather dazed, not killed by the grenade explosion. My reaction...What the...

3) Okay, that Cruiser the MC was making his way to, Cortana said it took two in the nose and dropped into the atmosphere. My question was "WHY?" It wasn't like the Cruiser crashed, it just landed like the Truth and Reconciliation did on Halo. So what's the deal?

4) People have probably wondered why the Phantoms and the Covenant tanks (the ones in the demo) weren't in Halo 1. Well I offer a possible explanation, maybe the Phantoms and the tanks are used in urban assaults such as one human cities to reek havoc versus open enviorments such as on Halo. Oh and by the way, my theory on how the Covenant got to Halo before the PoA was b/c they were already there and found the Flood and stuff before the humans arrived. Since they made that contreversial "blind jump," they ran into the Covenant at Halo.

5) Suddenly, the Grunts seem to be able to pilot Ghosts!!! Something that they never did in Halo under any cirumstances! Pretty amazing lol. Oh and that Covenant tank thing, the Grunts are on the Shade Gun on top, but the Shade doesn't fire the same kinda lasers it did in Halo 1, but then again the plasma pistols shoot differently anyway.

6) Also, why were no elites or hunters present? They would have been great to attack the very vulnerable human base. The Hunters could have blasted them away while the elites fire the plasma rifles. The Elites suddenly rained down on the city later in an unknown form (were they in cryogenic or what?)

7) Well from the looks of the trailer and demo, Earth looks pretty doomed. So how is it that the game is suppose to include anohter Halo ring, the Flood, and levels on a Covenant homeworld? It may be an interesting plot twist as to what the hell happens, but it doesn't look like the Chief's leaving Earth anytime soon.

That's all for now...