Split screen is a must…
The maps disappointed me the most, they are horrible. The maps all seem similar and lack character. No outside maps, maps lack space and clarity making it almost useless to use the scope on a sniper rifle. Don’t get me wrong, the game is a vast improvement from Call of Halo 5 but the sniper rifle is important in Halo. The maps of Halo multiplayer is the main character of the franchise.
Splitscreen is the second most important character of the franchise because it gave you the opportunity to invite new people to the game, daily. Killing a guest is awesome, it’s great for a players selfesteem
I loved the game overall and just posted a very positive review in another thread… but if I had to pick some nits:
Gameplay (campaign): Hunters and Knights feel awfully OP now… I realize that’s how they should appear canonically and it was done intentionally, but still… Knight taking a direct hit from a Scorpion round, seriously?! LOL Also the Warden fights got a little tiring after a while.
Story (obviously also campaign): The final cutscene before credits felt like a letdown. I was hoping to get hit harder in the feels when the Chief is finally reunited with Halsey, and also with Arby. Thought maybe we’d see the usually stoic Halsey break down in tears and embrace John - “Took you long enough” was a little disappointing.
Other little story nits: did we ever get an explanation why Roland did not join the AI revolution? Also, in the fight scene, why in the world did Locke not throw the armor restraint at the Chief from across the room like he did when he demonstrated it on Buck?? Also find it hard to believe neither fireteam would’ve jumped in to help with the fight.
Oh, and what happened to the composed digi-Didact?? I’m sure he’s not gonna just watch Cortana take over the galaxy without doing anything about it…
Overall though, these were not game breaking for me. I was still very pleased overall with the campaign. (Which is the only part I play.)
I honestly don’t see where a lot of you are coming from. I pretty much hated the beta, but I’m loving the game now. My only real complaints are how cartoony the game looks and the fact that half the arena maps look like user created maps instead of real maps.
OK,so I’m only level 3 but soon as they fixed whatever was wrong 30 min ago I’m now level 1.Unbelievable 343!The game itself is marvelous bit everything else is horrible. Good thing my rank wasn’t too high or it would be curtains for 343.
The radar seems to be a little weak. I’m sure this has been said before but it just seems that it will only detect someone when its too late. The grenades in this game seem a over powered to say the least. Reminiscent of Halo: CE. Other than that I’m have a good time.
In SWAT, I just finished my 10 qualifying games, won 9 of them with a 159 kills and 72 deaths, and got Platinum 1. My friend who I was playing had won 8 out of 10 games in his placement matches, with 130 kills and 98 deaths, and placed in Onyx. Absolutely broken placement system.
Whoever made the decision to destroy the halo ability to dual screen multiplayer and co-op needs to be fired. IDIOT, it was the a core part of Halo. you have ruined the gameplay sir and the now a Halo generation. The company needs add the dual screen capability ASAP or lose you biggest Fan(s)
So far my biggest problem is the story, I know not everyone knows everything from the books, and that it was supposed to be written for everyone this time unlike with Halo 4, but it took me six hours and seven seconds to finish this Campaign that was supposedly going to take me,“15 hours,” to finish. What a lie. Halo 3, and 4, were longer and that is just sad, because up until Halo: 5 they were the shortest Halo games I had ever played. The worst part is we weren’t playing it on easy or normal we were playing on Heroic, and worse yet; we weren’t speed running we were looking for intel and skulls at least half the time. I shudder to think how short it could have been had we been speed running it. Like I said I know that 343i was looking for something for everyone including the games only fans, but come on other than the first 4 missions the story was fairly bland until the very end. And don’t call those stupid walk and talk missions missions. They’re not a mission I thought they were okay but I felt cheated every time it counted those little additions as missions. I thought I was getting 15 missions not 11 or 12. That is a bait and switch tactic that only used car salesmen should resort to, not game developers. And another thing please make character motivations clearer and give them more back story within the game. I have read every single book, and listened to all of HUNTTHETRUTH, and even I think the game needed a lot more back story and explanation of things. For example: the Chief just blindly goes looking for Cortana without so much as a clipped discussion with Blueteam… No at minimum they would have discussed it for at least a minute. And during that minute you could have had the Chief explain his motivation, his feelings, or at least his reasoning for going after Cortana. And Cortana could have also had a much longer more drawn out explanation of her motivation for how she is trying and why she is trying to take over the galaxy. Yes I get that the Chief is a man of few words and that so is Blueteam, but Cortana isn’t and neither is Kelly, nor Fred at least in comparison to Linda and John, and Linda with her Lonewolf nature and Fred with his position as Lieutenant should have at least made Chief explain why he wanted them to go AWOL. Kelly is like a sister to John so I can see her doing it blindly, but only her. In fact the only character that has long drawn explanation of his motivations is The Warden, that explains so much of his every action and motivation and monologues so damn often that my greatest motivation for killing him becomes to shut his stupid robotic shell mouth. Finally, Fireteam Osiris sure Spartan 4’s are less of a morally gray area and clearly you’re trying to make them more compelling so we can transition when 343 inevitably kills of the main character in the series, but there was almost nothing in the entire game that made me care about any of them. I found myself caring about Buck the most because he was the only one that had been in a previous game… Sure there was Halo: Hunter’s in the Dark with Vale and Halo: Nightfall with Locke. Honestly though, if anyone of them had died during the entire campaign the only one I would have even been a little bit sad about was Buck. I know hardly anything about Vales struggles in life who she cares about does she have hopes dreams it would have been awesome if she could have had an aside with, The Arbiter since she is capable of speaking Sanghelli, that might have revealed more about her and made me care. Locke yeah he has that whole Nightfall thing but again we know little to nothing about his current motivation other than capturing the Chief, and he seemed to not want to kill the Chief. And Tanaka I haven’t read the Comics and I know she was in them, but again who is she what does she want in life, what are her hobbies, does she like jokes, what does she do during shore leave? The answer we have no idea and I don’t know why we should care… and that in and of itself is the problem I DON’T CARE… 343i YOU NEED TO MAKE ME CARE ABOUT THEM IF YOU WANT TO WEAN ME OFF THE CHIEF!!! BECAUSE IF YOU GET RID OF THE CHIEF AND DEFINITELY IF YOU GET RID OF BLUETEAM IN ADDITION TO THE CHIEF AND I STILL DON’T CARE ABOUT FIRETEAM, “BUCK, AND THOSE OTHER THREE” I CAN GUARANTEE I WON’T PREORDER ANOTHER HALO GAME, AND I MIGHT NOT EVEN BUY ONE!!! That might not sound like much of a threat but for people who know me and know how passionate I am about this franchise that is a big threat. All of this said the gameplay, graphics, music, and convenience features are very nice. Well done with those, NOW SHOW ME YOU CAN WRITE A STORY, Frank O’Connor and Joseph Staten. I know you’ve done it before and I bet you can do it again. And please bring Martin O’Donnell back if not for the music then at least for the Voice Acting direction.
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