Blitz.. I meant inundated by the Covanent.
Graphics aren't really polished at this point so I can't say a whole lot about them. To be honest, I think MS actually decreased the graphical goodness on the Beta so that people wouldn't be posting screen shots and such.
Controls were total FPS and if I recall, damn near identical to Halo 1. I haven't played H1 in forever, but I jumped right into this without much learning time at all. (I am a huge FPS gamer)
I haven't heard of ilovebees.com, and haven't read any of the posts there.. Let me know what weird shit they mentioned and I can let you know my experiences.