Posted by: DecepticonCobra
I'm not a developer, but a copy/paste job, even as a basic explanation, probably isn't the solution.
For a huge, more formal title, no. But this is an expansion. What's not the solution is giving a middle finger to an entire section of the second game which this was based around, not only by violating who the enemies were in the city, but by giving us the cheap knock-offs that try to take their place.
Also, there was never any explanation as to why Brutes were randomly showing up everywhere with no Elites in sight. As well as the fact that all of the Elites were somehow all collectively murdered about two minutes by the Brutes even though the Elites are smarter in the head, and take more tactical approaches to battle compared to them.
You can't say it's a retcon, but rather, and fallacy to which Brutes are inexplicably everywhere and all Elites are all dead.
[Edited on 09.02.2011 4:04 PM PDT]