Halo 2 is on the way.

[A Black Falcon]

That's ludicrous thinking! A Modest Proposal was very well-written but if Jonathan Swift hadn't meant for it to be a joke would anyone consider it to be anything other than insanity? Good composition skills don't make up for insane points! Hitler also explained his reasoning in a grammatically-correct manner, but that doesn't make the stuff he said any less mad!

But everyone knew 'A Modest Proposal' was humor (and brilliantly done too), so what's your point? That was meant to be humor and was. Hitler meant to persuade people to his views with his speaking and did. And game reviewers try to explain if you should play a game, and Gamespot is one of the most successful at doing that in words. Their opinions are in the pieces as well, but the primary point isn't expressing their opinion. It's giving the reader the information they need to make the decision about how much THEY would like the game. And most definitely not all review places succeed at that.

That sucks. Kasavin loves mindless shooters and gave the first Halo a shining review so I'm not surprised by that, but I am surprised by these comments about the story.

Anyways, I never expected much from the SP. I just want to play it online!

If you didn't notice, Kasavin attacked the story for being awful and the single player mode in general for being not too good (and then says that the multi makes up for it), so where is your problem there with him? That he was right about that? :)