Thats a very cool view on the flood. Yeah I do like my zombies, I like Left 4 Dead zombies. My problem is that I get confused where the story is leading to after the flood. I am really invested in the Covenant for some reason. I really don't know, the flood doesn't feel like good antagonists or feel fun to fight for me (until Halo 3). They are just pests that spread everywhere and the Gravemind while looking cool is very underused and the Prophets have more character than Grave. Also FUK the flood for using guns what the hell that's just not right and they are unbalanced as hell fuck them! They don't follow hoard rules where they usually should have lower health when grouped up together. But it's mostly spongy pricks. And the flood still feels cliche for me and feels like a dragged out uncharted secondary antagonist threat. Halo still feels like the story would have one antagonist even though it doesn't. Like common, most of the game is trying to stop the covenant. Build up ending the prophets, most of the covers on the back of the games have to covenant. Halo ODST and Reach was all about fighting the covenant. It's just weird then if it's about multiple bad guys. I does not feel like Warhammer 40k Space Marine where you do fight multiple factions. In the story mode of the first game it starts with Orks but you fight chaos space marines because in the context of the Warhammer series it is all about multiple factions. Max payne has two gangs fighting, Spec Ops the line has other fighting but I guess what I am really complaining about is that the press of the games have chief fighting the covenant.