Halo 3 Recon is nothing else but a great ambitious project from Bungie, where its main Target is to experiement how they do away a bit from The Halo Universe, and at the same time a safer risk as they input the name of the Franchise to target the huge hyped fan core they have already.

Now, I think this game won't be superb, but it will definitely will be something interesting, as they will throw at you certain tactic dynamics never present on Halo games before, but I think it will be alike to the the Hit series GRAW.

You will be a Soldier Platoon Member stranded in the middle of The future New Mombasa, on Earth.
Then you have to plan your way of escape from there as the place is currently flooded with Covenant Hordes, including Their new Allies, the Brutes (this is a prequel which time line is somewhere between Halo 2 and Halo 3 period)
Now, your options to survive will be Minimun if you don't keep it stealthy and smart, as you won't have the protection or kinda super Soldier Status you're use to have as Master Chief, and I believe your shielding options and Weaponry will be that of a lower size and weight, Though as a Human it will be asuumable that you will be able to operate some Vehicles or racked Machine Guns to cause Extra Damage, as you will be heavily Outpowered and Outnumbered both the same.

Gameplay can be expected to be similar, but as this is a new Risk Horizon Vert for Bungie, they might add a few tweaked mechanics and CONTROLS as well,

Regarding this, I don't like to speculate, but you can expect Bungie to learn from the masters Ubi and Infinity W. So you can expect a contrast on this between excellent Halo Combat Evolved Mechanics and other Developers already succesful technics, but Of course Bungie has always been revolutionary, and this game I will like it to expect to meet this standard.

Melee Combat will be added as well?, I guess you will be limited to this one, as this ain't 7 footed Master Chief, and I will like to think that they will delete this from the Formula and come out with a substitute, that might be something energetic and Powerful enought to drop a Brute on his knees, I'm Calculating something similar to a Riot Enhanced device to Paralize or something like that, which will be cool.

Overall, the Best thing we can do as Halo Fans is follow up closely the developement of this game, and the previews, just Avoid the Hype, as this proved to be wrong before, as I think Halo 3 though a great game, was a bit Over the top to be honest.

Glad for Bungie

C.