I think they're overselling the depth of the Halo universe a tad. It was in its element when looking at the small scale. While MC saves the universe, the best bits were the small unit action. Despite being a cyborg messiah, his first job was a marine - that is to say, a rifleman. Little suggested details, like passing references to military hardware like it had a development and deployment history that existed without exposition, that's good stuff. Sgt. Johnson listening to (technically centuries-old) rock music and the grunts hating it is equal parts funny and badass.

Versus the utterly unconvincing alien half-jaw guy segments and the new canon about how humans were allied with the aliens thousands of years ago to fight different aliens and nobody cares 343 studios.

Hokey alien religions and ancient weapons are no match for a .50 caliber pistol at your side, kid.

From the just about zero details of the IGN piece, it sounds like destiny will have both, again. :/