Just got done watching the ViDoc and I must say I am -Yoink!- impressed with what 343 has done. This is also recreating my thread that got locked, and yes I know I should’ve slapped a better title on it. Warzone alone convinced me to come back to Halo and this has convinced me even more.
I put in my title A “Good” Different Feel because this is exactly what Halo 5 is. It’s different from it’s predecessors but it’s a good different feel. 343 is stretching Halo beyond it’s limits and that’s a good thing. Halo has the chance to be seen in a different view and 343 is taking that chance and I will say that I am behind them 110% this time, as I for one have wanted this. To see Halo in a new and different view then what it has been, and if that view can wash the stain off this franchise then I will be behind that. Some people might say that the new AI co-op in Campaign is too much like Mass Effect,or even it’s just a Halofied SW Republic Commando, when yet it’s more of an improved version of Halo 3’s 4 player co-op in general. Some may dislike one of the leads on the Campaign worked on Republic Commando, but so what, if it can make Halo have a more exciting Campaign then I’m all for it. Plus the new Spartan Abilities can show off just how much of a force to be reckoned with a Spartan is. Yeah the AA’s in Reach and Halo 4, aren’t even in comparison to the Spartan Abilites in Halo 5. Who knew a Spartan could charge through a broken wall with just a simple charge? Or how Locke smashed through a building in that Gamestop commercial let alone? 343 is literally showing us that this is what you could do as a Spartan before, but heres what you can actually do as a Spartan.
Then theres the multiplayer, of course Warzone’s been the focus of E3 and SDCC. But this mode is what possibly every BTB and Firefight’s fan dream was. With Warzone, you don’t only have the other team to worry about, you have the Covenant and Prometheans themselves to worry about. If theres Ranked Warzone, I think a lot will be on top of that and that can get very competitive. Yeah REQ cards like Titanfall but those might surely be tailored to that mode as will likely be the different weapon sights. It’s a new, interesting and different take on Halo’s multiplayer. Yeah they may be trying to compete with Battlefield, but Warzone takes vehicular warfare and Firefight and basically hits a home run. Then least of everyones worries the microtransactions, but in the end, all that money is going towards the HCS prize pool if HCS will be in Halo 5 and what doesn’t add more excitement then a bigger prize pool? In ending, it goes toward a good cause.
So all in all, yeah I’ll be buying Halo 5, and a new Xbox One to replace my trade in. I’ll be buying it because it’s a different take on Halo I can stand behind because I believe it can be successful. Yeah the Campaign Demo at E3 wasn’t good as it could have been, but showing off Warzone then the ViDoc, really made up for all that. It shows that 343 is willing to prove, they can not only pull Halo into a new different kind of light, but also prove they can do it right. Can it be enough to defib the Halo franchise? That’s soon to be judged, because we’ve still seen so little. But if it can, then let the might banhammer break down the doors of it’s rightful throne room.
This Spartan, is returning to the battlefield.
Cannot wait to see more 343.