Halo: Reach may have received financial success and critical acclaim, but Reach showed the age of the franchise and how it's not the console power-house it was a few years ago. With Call of Duty rising above and beyond Halo's success, I wouldn't be surprised if the next Halo instalment attempts to reinvent itself by straying drastically from its roots. If Halo: Reach taught me anything about the state of the franchise, it's that Halo is getting predictable and boring. Yes, I'm aware Call of Duty is extremely predictable year after year as well, but its rise to power was only recently, its game design more modern, whereas Halo has been dominating -and mostly unchanged- for almost a decade.
