They all look great!

Yet another hit that the talking heads who think HALO is the greatest thing to hit gaming since the Joystick will ignore.

Will we be able to play as the non-human races?

In designing the game, I wanted to ensure that gamers maintained the co-op spirit with which it was created. So any gamer going off and doing his own thing, is going to have a very frustrating gameplay experience in both single and multiplayer.

e.g. Just last night I was running a test scenario in which I had picked up and equipped a PCU (Portable Cloaking Unit) and a PSU (Portable Shield Unit). After running around being shot at in non-debug mode, I decided to test the PCU in the middle of a firefight. After arming it and being completely cloaked, neither the hostile marines nor my team (of three) could see me on radar or with the naked eye (in this case line of site for AI). So I went around capping everybody. It wasn’t until a bullet tore through my armor and killed me instantly, that I realized that I had run out of energy shells for the PCU and thus was no longer cloaked. Since my team mates were other wise engaged and hadn’t “seen” me when I decloaked, they couldn’t help. I didn’t even get the chance to arm the PSU. And even if I did, it wouldn’t have helped since I didn’t have any energy cells to power it anyway.

When I restarted, I play the same scenario but this time, once the PCU ran out, I ran out of range to a supply station and tried to build a vehicle since it would be quicker than me running around looking for one without getting killed. It so happens that I didn’t have enough Experience Points to build the darn thing. And since NPC units have vastly advanced pathfinding (we completely re-wrote it for this game) skills, they found me in short order. I was dead. Again. My team mates were too far from me to help.

So, its kinda like that.

Interior spaces should be fun. Though if the building is still destructible as usual (great feature) that might make a firefight inside a building a very delicate situation?