Stupid ass washing machine...
I liked it!
After four years of waiting for Halo 4 since Halo 3 ended, and having mild disappointment with ODST, Wars and Reach, having the Chief - bigger, better and more bad-ass than ever - back on my screen is nothing short of wonderful.
I actually thought the pacing was pretty good. As a teaser for a brand new Halo story (note: Halo Reach wasn't brand new - we had known what had happened for years and as such the trailer was simply realising those thoughts into trailer form) it's job is to surprise the audience, make them think "he's back!", make the story look massive, action-packed, adventurous, bad-ass and exciting. It doesn't need to be as much of a slow, daunting trailer like Reach's was.
Please note: I loved Reach's trailer.
I thought the nerve-system, body thing was very well done, and it eased nicely into the action. It was also cool to see that Chief had such a strong connection to Cortana (as shown by the Cortana Flashes in Halo 3) that he could hear her out of cryo.
Also, I like Cortana's new look. It's smarter and more befitting to her cryptanalysis role as an AI, and is sexier than before, I think.
As for the now (within mere minutes) infamous topic of Chief's armour, I'm not actually in a position to say anything due to how little we've seen. As far as I can tell, Chief's armour is thus:
- New torso
- New, very bulky gauntlets (some sort of black-coloured attachment)
- New knee pads
- New, large shoulder pads
- New torso-back
- Jetpack? Well, actually, I just looked at the back of my Chief action figure and those large "vent" parts on the back of his armour fit very well as thrusters, so I'm guessing it's not an all-new feature.
As for the rest of the trailer...
- New, larger Magnum pistol
- Grenade-launcher-like attachment for the pistol.
- FoD is obviously being destroyed by something/someone or is just falling apart (more likely)
- The mysterious Forerunner planet that we all speculated upon for years is a reality!... and, dangerous, it seems.
That's all I can think of for now. No TL;DR for you, I'm afraid. If you want to know the details, take the time to read them!!