Really, Brute, as a budding writer, you should realise that complaining that backstory is explained in books, and actually stating 'no-one really reads anymore' is ignorant at best and shocking at worst. I know that 343 didn't explain the Storm Covenant's presence in the game very well, but implying that many fans will have no idea what's going on because they're dumb-blam!-s just isn't something you should do. If fans want to discover more, they have an immense wealth of fiction to explore, and blaming 343 for some fans' ignorance or laziness is just ignorant in itself. The rest of the review? Well, I'm 5 minutes and it's pretty meh; as per your last review, you ramble a lot. Yes, Requiem's sky towers are an initially sublime view, but any illusion of free exploration is soon shattered when we're funnelled down Warthog ramps, which is nothing like how we were first allowed to drive in Halo: CE. And the Didact does not have a 'British' accent (there's a huge number of British accents, so kindly specify): listen to him, he rolls his Rs. It's like claiming Andrew Ryan had an English accent because he came from an older period of American history. Oh, and John and Cortana most certainly do not share a love story. Perhaps they love each other in a strictly platonic and functional sense, but it's an enormous mistake to imply any kind of romantic or inter-personal connection between them. What their relationship is is an incredibly powerful bond; two entities who have fought through hell with and for each other, and share an incredible connection because of it. Not traditional love at all.