Well, it's more like what bungie envisioned...
What bungie wanted originally was a fun singleplayer game, but then also an awesome MMORPG battlefield in which wars would be waged between foottroopers, vehicles, and in the air.
Also, the entire ring was gonna be mapped out, but that didn't happen either...
And they brought back the flamethrower... originally one of the demo weapons, it was dropped for the Xbox release... And now it's back... fawk year