@psx_warrior The camera was originally planned to be included and this is when they were promoting it. Once they decided to remove it, they stopped promoting it.
Their agenda is simply to be cheaper than the Xbox.
@LoganWesker Actually you can spawn with plasma pistol and plasma grenades in every gametype now (apart from in specialty playlists such as SWAT, Grifball, etc)
@vaillant085 They aren't using "sandbox" in the sense that it means "open world" though, they are using it in the sense that it has been used in every Halo game in the past in that it offers many different tools to allow different playstyles to complete a mission in different ways ("ways" in the sense that sitting back and picking people off is a way, and running in with your guns blazing and spamming nades is another way, or perhaps you could speed-run it, or use a jetpack to bypass a whole section of enemies, etc.; not different outcomes).This would mean that games such as Splinter Cell: Blacklist (set up to be completable in different ways by each of the "Action", "Panther" and "Ghost" playstyles) are also "sandbox" games in this sense whereas heavily scripted games such as CoD are much less so (though I remember seeing that you could choose to provide covering sniper fire or to personally escort the president in the E3 demo, so perhaps it will be more "sandbox" in Black Ops 2).
@DarthLod How is it any more Multiplayer focused than Reach? They took out firefight, sure, but they replaced it with Spartan Ops which is basically a second campaign
A note about the elite, MC did not actually kill it, it was a scripted event where it was vaporized by an orange beam from something we couldn't see (and then when MC looks at where it came from, we see the same teleport animation that the "insectoid bossman" uses later)
Looks FANTASTIC though!! Definitely makes up for any doubts I was having about the multiplayer!! Also, was that Promethean Vision at the end? Looks pretty good :)
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