I have finally played Halo 5 Guardians thanks to the free play days. My service record doesn’t say so because my friend gave me his old account and I played on his since he has joined the dark side(Playstation) jk. This is not a troll post. You may not agree with me and every sane person should know that because opinions don’t mean facts. Anyways I will list the bad first and then the good to end my review on a high note. I love Halo, this website, and the community. Halo CE is one of my 3 favorite fps ever.
THE BAD:
No splitscreen. While I am impressed with 343 in working very hard in achieving a Halo game with 60 fps and 1080p in both campaign and multiplayer, splitscreen can never be replaced. Splitscreen is very important to me in Halo. Playing offline multiplayer is awesome. I actuall prefer it over online honestly.
The campaign… is a huge facepalm. Brian Reed is the worst writer ever. Not only that the ai is dumb. When I played the first mission, I jumped straight to legendary on my first playthrough and only died three times when I beat it. I am not joking. The first mission is so bad that I actually started to appreciate Halo 4’s campaign a lot. Having a co-op based campaign or ai partners is just stupid. Why? It makes the game easy. When players are playing on legendary, they can make dumb mistakes and not get punished because they can be revived anytime. This is not Gears of War. What the hell were the people involved in the campaign were thinking. I mean the beginning or opening scene was putrid. The elites die way too fast. Prometheans are weaker. I stopped playing the campaign on the second mission. It was that bad. I was almost in tears. Speaking of the second mission, Master Chief even has allies like Locke. Master Chief doesn’t need help from linda Kelly and Fredrick. Master Chief is a lone wolf actually the best lone wolf. I understand that spartan Linda, Kelly, and Fredrick are in the books but they were introduced terribly. I will go as far as to say it breaks canon because aren’t the books and games seperate? I say this because spartan Linda, Kelly, and Fredrick were never mentioned in Halo 1-4 so why put them in Halo 5 Guardians. It makes no damn sense.
The campaign is so bad I rather play a Battlefield campaign.
Warzone assault is boring in my opinion.
The game lacks really badly in terms of offline because you are dealt with a horrible campaign.
THE GOOD:
Improved ui in update.
Infection is back and it is awesome.
Swat is beautiful. I like how all the players have the same weapon. The maps are perfect. Halo 5 Guardians has the best swat. I never thought that Halo 5 Guardians would surpass Halo 2 swat. BTB is great. Stronghold is a nice game type. I love community doubles. As a fan of the first 2 Halo games, Halo 5 Guardians has the best multiplayer since CE and 2. I rank it number 3 in multiplayer. 343 did a damn good job. They are a genious in the way they did the multiplayer. The multiplayer is a lot faster pace. As much as I can’t stand sprint, it works in this game unlike Halo 4 because the maps in Guardians are designed for sprint. If you don’t like sprint, you don’t have to use it. It won’t punish you for not using it. I love the magnum and as a matter of fact I grown to like it more than the Halo CE magnum because it is perfect in a way that it isn’t overpowered in CE nor is it weak like Halo 2’s and 3’s. 343 has redeemed themselves in the multiplayer department. I like how quitters actually get punished. I love how competitive this game is even though there is some bullet magnetism in this game, it isn’t as bad as Halo 4’s bullet magnetism. Although the time to kill is faster than any other Halo game, it fits the fast pace style that this game has beem aiming for. Boosters are nice especially when you jump and aim and have a certain air time to land, I love this feature. 343, you did it, ;( .They really deserved a round of applause. While some of the changes are nice and got some ideas from call of duty like aim down sites and boosting, Halo 5 feels new and fresh unlike what Halo 4 tried to do.
Warzone firefight is a solid feature. It is the only time I will play warzone. Last, I love the sound of your shields when they are down or recharging.
I give this game a 7.5 out of 10. I would love to give 9 but the awful campaign really deducts the games score. It is better than Halo 4 and Reach because of Halo 5 Guardians kick -Yoink- multiplayer.
What are your opinions on the game? Do you love it, hate it. Tell me. I like discussing with other Halo fans alike.
Huh, I was expecting this to go south very very fast. Almost as fast as Barry Allen the fastest man alive. Though I am happy I was proven wrong after reading through it all.
BlameRickey I reccommend getting Halo 5 Guardians if you have Xbox live.
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> I have finally played Halo 5 Guardians thanks to the free play days. My service record doesn’t say so because my friend gave me his old account and I played on his since he has joined the dark side(Playstation) jk. This is not a troll post. You may not agree with me and every sane person should know that because opinions don’t mean facts. Anyways I will list the bad first and then the good to end my review on a high note. I love Halo, this website, and the community. Halo CE is one of my 3 favorite fps ever.
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> Warzone firefight is a solid feature. It is the only time I will play warzone. Last, I love the sound of your shields when they are down or recharging.
> I give this game a 7.5 out of 10. I would love to give 9 but the awful campaign really deducts the games score. It is better than Halo 4 and Reach because of Halo 5 Guardians kick -Yoink- multiplayer.
> What are your opinions on the game? Do you love it, hate it. Tell me. I like discussing with other Halo fans alike.
The campaign is pretty bad and that is a large part of why I’ve bought every halo game. The multiplayer on the other is mechanically pretty sound. It’s missing some core game types and necessary playlists and a few others needs some tweaks, but 343 do seem to be trying to improve the game. It’s only a question of whether there will be a few more updates/episodes to finish it off. At launch I would have given the game 5 or 6 out of ten. Now we are probably at 7.5.
I agree. Warzone can be a bit boring at first, but once you unlock some good reqs it definitely spices things up.