I know this is old old old news to most of you, but tonight I had a chance to carefully watch all the Halo 2 footage I could find. mainly the stuff on gametrailers. I can believe how good the cut scenes look.... I was wondering if some of it was prerendered but then I remembered Halo 1's cut scenes were all realtime. in Halo 2, when the drop ship comes in for a landing, as it swings around, then the next shot is closer-up, that was just amazing. as are the scenes of Master Chief in the ship getting ready to 'go down town' to earth.... damn, they must be pushing Xbox close to the limit. I'm more impressed with Halo 2 than Xbox Doom3...... the gameplay looks like a great deal of fun. concider me hyped for Halo 2.