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Think about the limited amount of time, people! Maybe, they were desperate and ran out of time. Nothing can be perfected (or perfect).
Didn't have enough time to model a single character's face? I highly doubt that. There is probably a more in-depth reason like there was for Master Chief, The Rookie, and NOBLE 6.