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Halo Infinite Campaign 9/10
Halo Infinite Multiplayer 8/10
Halo Infinite overall 8.5/10
Halo Infinite Campaign:
I have really enjoyed the campaign. The way the choose to tell the story was different, but very well done. I enjoyed how everything tied together at the end. I will say it made sense why Atriox threw the Chief into space. Just so he could mess with Cortana. Epic. The open world is great and it nice to find hidden gems. The dialog outside cutscene and story is great and a lot of the time a great laugh and because of the great laughs I had to pause the game. The gameplay and game mechanics both feel new and familiar. When the first I got blown up by a flying suicided Grunt I was like man they can jump, but than I saw a Brute throw a suicided Grunt. I had to pause the game cause I was laughing so much. Love the fact that the Marines will pick up different weapons and will go for power weapons. I enjoy the different ways to attack and free FOBs and Banished bases. I enjoy the fact that when you ae near Audio logs, Spartan Cores, Mjolnir Armor you can hear a beep which gets louder as you get closer. The Propaganda towers can be hoot after you have destroyed a couple. All the Easter eggs they put the game is epic.
The reasons for the 9 is for the following. First currently when driving the Scorpion only one Marine will get on the Scorpion. I really hope this a bug and one that will be fix soon, if not a bug and was design this way I hope it gets changed. Second no ODST and living Spartans I was looking for to team up with Spartans and ODST to fight against the Banished. I hope in coming DLC we will get ODST and Spartans. Third no clear answers on if Lasky, Osiris , Blue Team and Halsey are alive. We can only assume they are, but the reports we have access to are before Chief is found. So from the time of the last report and end of campaign we have no clear answer. Fourth unlocking weapons and vehicles at FOBs take to long. Fifth lack of weapons and vehicles. I feel that there could be more weapons and vehicles. This is a issue in both Campaign and Multiplayer. Sixth no Co-Op. Though it is planned to be added I would have been happy to wait for the game to have Co-Op before being released. Seventh Marine mechanics, rocket Marines will fire point blank killing themselves, fellow Marines and me. Then there is the fact they don’t move away from the landing zone for vehicle drops, which most of the time kills them. Eight around 75% after getting out of the Scorpion and wasp the movement becomes like sliding on ice. This happens between 25% to 45% with other vehicles. Ninth vehicle movement and travel. The warthogs feel too light, but yet are heavy enough not to be launch by grenades. The mongoose feels heavier than the warthog. The Scorpion has too much trouble going over small terrain features such as stumps and small boulders.
Halo Infinite Multiplayer:
First and first most I am not a PvP player. I am campaign and PvE player. So the lack of PvE is very upsetting. However I didn’t let it affect my review. At first I rated it a 7 but since the recent update to challenges and modes it raised it to 8. The gameplay and gunplay is great. The maps are great. The number of maps is great. I feel they have right number of Maps. If they had any more it would feel like the past games that they had a ton of maps, it would take days instead of few matches to play on every map. Cause there are maps in the past games that I really love but due to vast number of maps I hardly get to play on them. I enjoy the modes we currently have. Though I do hope we get more PvE modes and well as some classic modes such a Grifball. My two favorite multiplayer types to play are BTB and Bot bootcamp. I feel that XP earning is now great. The weekly challenges are okay. The weekly ultimate challenge and reward is okay as well, though with my work schedule and the little time I have to play multiplayer I will rarely be able to the weekly rewards due to no being able to grind. That said I do think they are balance and it should be a quick grab. Once the holidays are done I am sure I will get more weekends to do the grinding needed to get the weekly rewards. The weapon placement and how often they recharge is great. The charging bars on the weapon, equipment, vehicle stations are just awesome and a great addition to the game. The bigger vehicles like the Wraith and Scorpion could show up more though.
The major issues I have is the customization. I find it lacking and make me feel like a normal run of the mill Spartan like we had in CE and Halo 2. I have been on the fence with the armor cores, but when it comes to armor coatings, visor colors I find it doesn’t work. If they don’t change the ability to choose what colors we want, then they need to make sure all visor colors and coatings are on all cores. My fix for this issue would be if they want to keep the coatings is have the patterns or metallic look be what we earn and then us players can choose the colors. They can keep the wheel layout so when can select each part of the wheel and choose our color. Than above the wheel it will have the pattern (camo pattern) or look the armor gives(metallic). I just don’t feel like my Spartan is my Spartan. Also the lack of day one armor pieces is sad. As well as what we are able to customize. I really enjoyed the Halo 4 Xbox 360 customization. We got to choose the helmet, shoulders, arms, chest, and legs. I really felt like a one of a kind Spartan. I really home they make some big changes for customization. To get that feeling back.
As stated in the campaign part I feel there is a lack of weapons and vehicles. I enjoyed the amount of weapons we had in Halo 4 and Halo 5. Vehicle wise I have always felt we lack enemy vehicles. I hope one day we will have access to every weapon and vehicle that has been in the Halo games, including Halo Wars. I would love to pilot a Vulture. Which would need to be a multi seat vehicle and in my opinion a massive multi seat vehicle. It would need at the very least a pilot, and four gunners. Though with that type of vehicle we would need maps almost as big as a section that we get in the campaign, which would be epic.
Overall I give this a 8.5/10. It would be 9 once they give us Co-Op and give us more control over customizing our Spartans. 9.5 what was stated before plus more Multiplayer modes including PvE. 10 everything stated before and all weapons and vehicles from all Halo games.