So someone made a poll post the other day about adding additional DLC to Halo 5’s campaign… either to make up for its perceived shortcomings, or else to add to a story you already thoroughly enjoyed (I’m closer to the latter group on that one). And I had a crazy, and I think brilliant at the same time, idea…
What if 343 made DLC for Halo 5, maybe even just three very well designed, thought-out levels… that acted as a prequel to Halo 5?
Think about that for a minute. What are arguably the two BIGGEST complaints people had with Halo 5’s campaign? All together now…
1. NO INTRODUCTION TO BLUE TEAM WHATSOEVER?!!
2. ONLY THREE BLEEPING MISSIONS WHERE I CAN PLAY WITH THE GREATEST TEAM IN THE HALO LORE?!!
So this campaign DLC could be created to rectify both of those problems. You could do some of the “this many missions” that Fred mentioned in the opening Blue Team cinematic, which would be cool, but do you know what would be amazing? Bring us back to Reach. Introduce us to Blue Team as they were originally formed and / or abducted as children, then give us three campaign missions or whatever to play as them trying to defend that planet before ultimately being split up in the events at the end of The Fall of Reach. Linda being mortally wounded, Fred and Kelly absent, Chief en route to the Halo ring following Noble Six’s sacrifice. Maybe you even have a throwback to one of the most popular games in the series to date (Reach) where Blue Team comes into contact with Noble team on a mission or something. How amazing would that DLC be?!!
You could end it with a cinematic fast-forwarding the events of the next four mainline Halo games, showing what became of Blue Team during those events and how they ultimately were reunited prior to Halo 5. So, to recap…
Solves the lack of Blue Team missions? Check.
Gives us some sweet campaign DLC content? Check.
Gives us a proper introduction to Blue Team, and where they all come from? Check.
Anyway, this idea got me pretty excited, and I’d love to hear what others think about it… maybe with enough community support, 343 would listen to this post or similar ones and make it happen!