Where did you get the idea of MMOFPS from? From the second this game was announced it was decscribed as an RTS.

Fooluaintblack:It doesnt really matter that the this game is being built specifically for the 360, what does matter is that the controller has short comings that it cant possibly make up for. The keyboard has more buttons, the mouse is more sensitive, accurate, speed, and overall ease of use. Most people have been using a mouse and keyboard ...

I don't think people are giving enough weight to the fact that his being built for the 360 from the ground up, and isn't a port of a windows game (others have made this point, I'm just reiterating it).  Also, remember that before Halo introduced the dual-thumbstick control scheme, FPS games weren't considered well suited for ...

I don't think *anyone* is really informed at this point in the story, since contact is only just being made.

The official answer is "stay tuned" but I think it would be a mistake (and would disappoint a LOT of people) if they weren't.

peter117: Which department do you work in? Sales and marketing, perchance?  Right, because only sales and marketing people say good things about their company

haha.

I don't think we can/should draw too many conclusions about the state the battle rifle just because it wasn't in Halo 1. Obviously they fleshed out the universe after the first game was a success and you have to give them some flexibility to do so. There could be any number of reasons why the PoA didn't have them. We'll just have ...

I seem to recall something in the Halo 2 story about the grunts being a recent addition to the covenant alliance, and how the elites don't trust them. But I don't know if "recent" means years, decades, or millenia.  I'm sure someone with more indepth knowledge of the lore will correct me, though...

Honestly, the trailer doesn't really tell us anything about the game. All we know from it is that there will be UNSC on one side and covenant on the other. We don't know what the in-game engine will look like, we don't know how the camera will be positioned, we don't know the interface, we don't know how many units we'll ...