I decided to take a full week to play halo 5 and try out everything the game had to offer before I decide to rate this game. Im going to put everything under spoiler tab so its not one huge text wall that stretches the whole page and for those who just want to look at one grouping of my opinion on that aspect. I will not include split-screen or forge sense one of those is remove and the other will come in December.
Campaign: Story
By far the biggest disappointment of this game, the story was very bland and to “black and white”. There was not enough depth and the morals of the characters didn’t really shine nor was it anything like the hunt the truth trailers for the game I was hoping it would be. Now that’s not to say I didn’t like the story, on paper it’s pretty good but executed very poorly and little to no character development. I knew the characters pretty well sense I read the books and follow the media with the expended lore, but I feel that I shouldn’t have to know the extended lore to know these characters very well. There were plenty of miss opportunity for all the characters to be develop properly especially for Osiris sense they have way more missions then blue team. Warden Eternal is very over use and its annoying.Campaign: level design, team ratio, graphics, voice acting
The level design is were the campaign shines, the levels are amazing and well made, I love the secrets and alternative ways of traversing the map, along with the gameplay make the campaign missions fantastic. The graphics are beautiful and the battles are cool looking. The voice acting is top notch and very good. (Love how Cortana implies buck is old lol) Now the team ratio is pretty bad sense I want to play chief more, that could have been justified if Osiris got great character development but as I said above, the answer is pretty clear for that.General gameplay:
The general gameplay is top notch, the gameplay is super fluid and almost perfect. The spartan abilities are really balance (besides noob charge) and the weapon sandbox is really good. Every gun has a advantage and disadvantage while all having a good use for them depending on the skill of the player that gets it. I know a lot of people complain about the aiming, but I actually have no problems with it. The low aim assist and bullet magnetism on a lot of guns makes the game more skillful and a challenge which I like, though some weapons like the sniper needs some tweaking with the BM. Halo for me was always about skill and able to beat your opponent by having better aim and knowing about to dodge his bullets at the same time. But that doesn’t mean casual should be let out of the game.Arena,maps and warzone :
Arena is by far the best mode in halo 5 next to warzone, the arena portion stays true to it’s classic roots with equal starts,descope,weapons on the map and map control but it also takes advantage of the spartan abilities to improve upon the general gameplay while still feeling like halo, which they did a very good job. However I want to see social playlist like infection, action sack and social slayer while also having a team objective playlist, and with the return of btb have muti-team comeback I miss that.
Warzone is pretty cool and runs pretty smoothly, the weapons and vehicles that are exclusive to warzone are pretty unique and cool and spice up the gameplay. However warzone is lacking maps and warzone assault is just plain lazy, also there is no second round for the teams to switch.
There’s several good map that I like but there’s to many remix maps and adding the forge maps to the overall map count is again lazy, those free dlc maps better not be forge maps! I want more unique maps added in but some old ones brought back. (orian is the worse)
Reqs and customization:
I don’t mind the reqs, I actually am completely fine with it. You don’t have to spend a single cent on reqs to win warzone matches and I can just earn req points by just playing the game and having fun then buying silver and gold packs to get cool stuff.
Customization is eh for the armor but stupid for the emblems, I like the variety of armors that are available and I like a good portion of them but the req pack things make it annoying to get the armor I would like but because of the system, it defiantly is going to be keeping me busy which is fine. The emblem customization is the worse in the series, yes there’s cool ones and funny ones but you only have a set color pallets which is stupid and I can’t mix and match which is also stupid.
Assassination animation are awesome and brutal and some weapons skin look pretty alright, stances are pretty good as well.
Customs and theater:
Not much to say here, custom game options are pretty basic with the gamemodes available and theater doesn’t seem to have much problems and it’s just meh for me.Overall: I give this game a 8/10 despite the disappointment with the story, when the game is iron out and forge comes,the dlc packs drop and more add on this game will be a 9/10. But that can change depending on how well the changes are manage and given out. This is my Third favorite halo game of the series with halo 3 and CE being my First and Second.