I have a feeling that halo 5 will be open world similar to ODST. First look at the concept art we got. Why did 343 choose exactly that picture? What does it tell us? It tells me that the game will be dark and it will have some open world elements. Remember Jeff Stietzer, the guy who does the announcer voice said that the game is going to be much more interactive. What does interactive mean? I dont know but I hope open world.
Edit: What does the concept art tells you?
Well obviously concept art tells us what the game will probably look like but I think you can get a little deeper and start looking at some of the underlying attitudes and perhaps ambitions of the dev team directing the concept art. What we have in the piece shown is the iconic UNSC infinity at a location where it doesn’t have anything obviously to do in its usual routine of “blow aliens up.” And this is the first thing 343 has shown us that can be directly tied into Halo 5’s development.
Unless the colony is nothing more than a set piece for a cinematic, more “interactive” certainly seems likely.
I’m going to be honest. As the first piece of concept art, perhaps we should just take it at face value. Not everything has some secret meaning to it right? Maybe its just a random city drawn in a style that we’ll probably see in the game.
We all remember how people started to over analyze Chief’s cape in the teaser, and then Frank told us all that he was hiding. Destroying tons of random cape related theories. It wasn’t some super cape or a sand protector.
I think that we can take away from this specific image is some general atmosphere. Open world game play seems like a bit much to gleam from this image and the general statement of “More interactive”.
Either way, it’s a pretty cool image.
It tells me there is an attention to urban detail that we didn’t get in ODST or Reach. It reminds me most of 2’s urban campaign. At the very least it means we should get a fair bit of human-based scenery.
I agree it shows a lot of potential for open world. But beyond that, it’s all just guesswork. As far as concept art goes, it’s pretty tame. No spartans, no action. Just scenery. But that’s okay. We’re only going to get more from here on out.
Between this pic of Infinity and 343i wanting to hire somebody with episodic experience, seems Infinity and SpOps are back 
> Between this pic of Infinity and 343i wanting to hire somebody with episodic experience, seems Infinity and SpOps are back
Less Palmer and less rehashed levels and then I’m all in for that.
> Between this pic of Infinity and 343i wanting to hire somebody with episodic experience, seems Infinity and SpOps are back
Frank said Season 2 won’t happen. I think this is either a cinematic in the campaign, or just a place that you visit.