Heather Newman, the gaming blogger at the Detroit Free Press, played through Halo 3 on easy. The result? Why, the game is too short!

The story is on the shortish side. To complete this review in time for publication after receiving the game Saturday afternoon, we played through the game on Easy mode (to paraphrase Bungie's sniffing description, "Your enemies flee in terror as the game almost plays itself"), and it took about four hours from intro to the end of the credits.

Looks to me like Bungie's insistence that the press play through the game in one sitting is backfiring.

Also... why does Easy even exist? Normal is Easy. Easy is just redundant.

The Freep also picked a reader, Ryan Lenehan, to do a review of the game, which was quite a bit more even-handed.