Not really, because Halo 3's Covenant had nothing on Halo 2's Covenant. Halo 1 and 3 were the easiest to beat, even on higher difficulties. Halo 2 was just "FFFFFFFUUUUU" the whole way through on Heroic and/or Legendary.
Anywho, after reading through the thread since my last post, I love the way this is turning out. It looks so much better than SPv1, which by relative comparison might as well be considered a technology test bed for SPv2.