User blog comment:144-Patient Appelant/Halo Reach Multiplayer Trailer/@comment-923138-20100310030910

You're right, Marines are little more than cannon fodder(so much for training them for years!) The Spartans here, however, are given much more elaborate backstories, Marines it's a leap right into the action. But I have noticed that there was a HUGE surge in popularity in writing about ODSTs after the release of Halo 3:ODST. How are ODSTs in terms of gameplay, by the way? I haven't actually played Halo 3 so are they better or equal to Marines in terms of allies? Because some beefing up probably would have to happened to them for Halo 3:ODST, in terms of health and AI.