The only thing thats dissapointing me so far is my firefight doesn't work when i play it with 2+ friends :(

I didn't buy it because the multiplayer isn't any different than the Halo 3 multiplayer so yes... I'm fucking disappointed!

bonus question:  
 
if you said yes, would the game have been a let down at $40?

i rather liked it. i got a little more halo love with a cool new campaign that didn't center around the chief, got a ton of multiplayer maps, and a cool firefight mode to play with some friends from work.

" bonus question:   if you said yes, would the game have been a let down at $40? "

Yip it let me down. it should be £20

Some people seem to be judging this game relative to Halo 3, which is justifiable, but if you're doing that you might just be setting yourself up for disappointment. I think, taken for what it is, ODST is a very good shooter with a more than competent campaign and a fun (if a little derivative) co-op mode. Sure, $60 is a big chunk of dough for most people, but if you compare it to other top tier games out there--say Arkham Asylum--you're getting a similar price-to-content ratio.

Give me ODST's campaign and Firefight, but don't throw in a second disc of something I own already to justify a pricepoint you fucking assholes at Bungie. 

I'm probably going to either rent this game or bum it off my friend.  I simply cannot see it worth a full sixty bucks.

I think it should have had its own multiplayer, or at least a revamped version or Halo 3's multiplayer. And using Halo 3's map pack's to justify the price is lame. 
 
@BulletStorm: Bungie wanted to price it at $30, Microsoft was the one that made it $60.

Only thing about it that bugs me thus far is the escort mission near the end. On legendary solo that shit is rough.

Nope, I've had nothing but fun with it.

" Nope, I've had nothing but fun with it. "

Campaign is good, no complaints, it meets my expectations.  Firefight is a little more boring than I expected, it favors playing very slowly, and games can last hours, so that's a bit slow.  I like having the Halo 3 MP maps I never bought too.  Overall ODST doesn't exceed my expectations but I'm not disappointed either.

" .  Firefight is a little more boring than I expected, it favors playing very slowly, and games can last hours, so that's a bit slow.  "

Notch up the difficulty or turn on some skulls.

" @WilliamRLBaker said:

" Nope, I've had nothing but fun with it. "

dude YES. I was playing firefight with pie and RH and it's simply the best ever. The only way you could possibly say you were let down is if you have no friends... "

Not yet, but I'm really disappointed about the German localization. The so-called German version still comes with English text if your Xbox360 is set to English, but the intro-text is in German as are all the audio samples. With the German edition of Mass Effect at least everything was in German. And whoever had the idea of translating ODST into OAST ...

" @crunchUK said:

Notch up the difficulty or turn on some skulls.

I'm saying at least in solo for optimal scoring you need to keep stuff low, because the only way to really get a good score is by playing a long time.  You get way more points playing on normal and surviving a ton of enemies than you do playing on legendary and dying off after a few waves.  Basically this could have been solved by making the multipliers for the difficulty level much higher. "

" @WilliamRLBaker said:

" Nope, I've had nothing but fun with it. "

dude YES. I was playing firefight with pie and RH and it's simply the best ever. The only way you could possibly say you were let down is if you have no friends... "

No its made me fall in love with my xbox again . None stop fun . But if your a unsociable nerd who doesn't have any friends then i understand how playing the game by yourself can be disappointing

No.
 
The campaign is great, probably the best of any of the Halo games.  Seems Bungie finally got the hint that the Earth levels were always the best, and made a whole game focused around them.  The story being a lot more character driven really worked as well, although I don't really understand the role of the Rookie..  Buck or any of the others could have easily been the main character, I don't see why we needed a faceless lead here.  But mostly, it's just a lot of fun and I'll definitely be playing it again shortly on co-op.
 
Firefight is a lot of fun, and I've never bought any of the Halo 3 map packs, so that alone was great value.  I'm very happy with the game, aside from Arkham Asylum, it's my favourite game so far this year, and I doubt anything will top either of them.  That being said, if I did already own the map packs, I think I probably would have waited for a price drop.

" Give me ODST's campaign and Firefight, but don't throw in a second disc of something I own already to justify a pricepoint you fucking assholes at Bungie.  "

 
 
No, I needed a good campaign.  This is by far the best game I've played all year.  About time a good shooter came along.  Almost all year it's been 3rd persons.    Feels like I can finally stretch my legs out, again.
 

Its the best Halo campaign to date. That says a lot.

" Give me ODST's campaign and Firefight, but don't throw in a second disc of something I own already to justify a pricepoint you fucking assholes at Bungie.  "

" Give me ODST's campaign and Firefight, but don't throw in a second disc of something I own already to justify a pricepoint you fucking assholes at Bungie.  "

Because I'm really tired, I thought it said 'Was ODST a lesbian to you?'
 
You gotta count one of those Yes answers to that poll off.

Having only watched some folks playing it up here at work last night, I can't wait to get my hands on this game.  THIS is the kind of Halo I've been waiting to see come back!!!

Boring like all the other Halo games.

" i rather liked it. i got a little more halo love with a cool new campaign that didn't center around the chief, got a ton of multiplayer maps, and a cool firefight mode to play with some friends from work. "

I will like it more with Master Chief DLC that was planned but then MS will decide to hold it back and make it a full retail game, pretty soon there will be full Halo retail games that last 2-3 hours but will include all previous maps!!

I don't know, the single player is actually not half bad. Also, it's more Halo and at the point I'm at right now I'm not complaining about that. The multiplayer disc is a nice bonus aswell since I never bought the new maps and I've been wanting to play Halo online for a while now. For someone who already played Halo 3 a lot and have the new maps and such the single player length might feel over priced since it's fairly short.

FUCK NO!!!!!!

" Its the best Halo campaign to date. That says a lot. "