Originally Posted by
Civic2Scooby
and I am not saying it won't be a fun game, but the amount of hype around it just doesn't compute.
Halo 2 grossed 1 billion in sales. That's more than the Matrix Trilogy combined at the box office.
Halo has gone beyond gaming and is a huge factor in the entertainment business as a whole. You have movie studios adjusting their release schedules knowing that their target demographic will be busy with something else. Same goes with the music industry.