Anyway, the game is very schematic with some truly awful acting
Patrol - identical on every planet or the Moon:
- scan a specific environment element / area
- kill X number of enemies
- kill specific enemies for X amount of loot
- kill an elite / named mob
Missions:
- drop off
- get to waypoint A
- kill all enemies
- get to waypoint B
- kill all enemies (sometimes as 3 waves)
- get to waypoint C
- kill 3 waves and/or boss
Enemies:
- one crit spot
- grunts, snipers, with shield (immune to damage)
- regular (red HP) or with rechargeable shield
- elite (yellow HP) or with rechargeable shield
- bosses
Apart from that Sword of Crota mission, which was just a bit different in terms of how you go through the above, there is zero variation... Even the bosses don't need anything special... Just shoot them in the face, like the rest of the enemies...
As for weapons, each has 3 types that differ in rate of fire, impact and mag size.
4 different primary weapons, 3 different secondary weapons, 2 different heavy weapons.
Some special effects you unlock via weapon experience.
No weapon trees like in the demo
Environments are dead static. There is ZERO interaction. It's painful to run through and just observe the nice views, which you can't interact with at all. I was shocked on Venus, where on the Fallen ship, the doors are auto opening... It was the only semi-interactive thing in the game so far! There are also the colorful blocks which explode for some reason after being shot... And I'm on Mars.
Acting is so bad D: I mean, it's terrible. Ghost's dialogue is so retarded a lot of times (he has no idea about the world around). Then there's the surprise in the dialogue when visiting places - "I thought it was lost in the collapse". "It was just a legend", etc. And all it took was getting into a ship (plenty of which are available) and flying there! Also there's some archive the Ghost is tapping when providing information on the mission... And half of the times he is surprised too. Don't people there have a network? Something like Google? Together with bad performance from Dinklage, this all comes together really bad and sometimes the wrong kind of cheese... And that Awoken guy on the Reef... REALLY BUNGIE?
Your sparrow and ship are just eye candy... The pike was the only cool thing, but it's only available on missions and you can't spawn it. Why can't we have something like it?
Aaaaaaaand that's it... That's the whole game. And it took 5 years to make... I'm very disappointed so far