Halo Waypoint is a new part of Xbox Live featuring all sorts of Halo-oriented trailers, videos, and stat tracking. Think of it as Microsoft's publicly displayed love letter to Halo. It also provides the option to earn a full set of Orbital Drop Shock Trooper armor in which to encase your Xbox Live avatar so you no longer have to look at the creepy little guy.

In addition, Halo Waypoint includes an innovative career system that tracks players' accomplishments across multiple "Halo" games and gives them new ways to show off their heroic gameplay feats. By downloading and "enlisting" in Halo Waypoint, players will be rewarded with a variety of Bungie-created "Halo 3: ODST" Avatar Awardables for attaining specific Achievements in the game.

You get a helmet to hide your avatar's face if you complete the campaign in Halo 3: ODST at normal difficulty level. However, to hide away his entire body, you have to get the achievement for not killing any of the engineers. Oops. Looks like I won't be retroactively eligible for that one.