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fight me

especially Capcom execs.

love the game , hate the micro transactions, season passes ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but thats the common trend

I Love it.

The best! more people need to play.

This game is awesome, but the lack of maps, objectives, and active player activity declining is what hurts it, extremely underrated.
Overall : 8/10

Aside from the occasional bugs, this game's story was pretty awesome and very entertaining. It was full of back stories too without going too deep. I had fun playing through the story, the customization was awesome too. A few things I would have changed were how weapons were crafted, and other small details like that. fighting mechanics were good all though sometimes it was a bit inconsistent at times. After beating the story most of the side quests were interesting and different however, small gigs were repetitive, making money was definitely a struggle too, because upgrades, vehicles, etc were expensive. I really wished they would have incorporated the brain dance system more in the missions, as I enjoyed the investigative type of missions the most.
TLDR - It is a great game with an entertaining story, if you like open world, plenty to do, RPG mechanics, and are a cyberpunk choom you'll enjoy it.

8.5/10 - Overall

After 140 hours of game play I felt it was time to write a review. Halo is an amazing franchise, I have been a fan for the past 20 years. Over time Halo has begun to lose what made it so great in the past, they are abandoning what set them apart from other FPS games. This game does have the old arena style feel but bad mechanics is what is screwing it up. 6 years they had to listen to the fans and make the changes that plagued halo 4 and halo 5. Yet 343 still chooses to ignore us and do whatever they think is the right direction for this franchise. Get it right or just hang up the gloves before you leave a bad impression for the small group of fans you have left. All this game needed to do was go back to the bread and butter that made this game so good.

Campaign: Really cool, I do like the idea of open world, the artwork is beautiful and there is plenty to do, now expand on that. Legendary however, feels weak, definitely not as hard as previous titles. No Co-op? Seriously? Not even Online Co-op? Also, Armor crates should contain things of value.. like cool armor that's hard to obtain or find. You take the incentive of exploring away when you fill the map with meaningless items. Overall though, cool campaign I like the direction 343 is heading with open world as I said before, expand on that.

Multiplayer: needs a lot of work.. a lot.

Latency: I have 1 gb/s internet so I don't experience much lag in game, I average anything below 20 m/s, and yet I can move behind cover and their shots still land as I am behind cover. Bro how? Servers are really bad. Doesn't make sense when I start shooting someone and once they look at me I am already at a half bar because my game didn't register visually that they shot me, it's just really inconsistent. No network stability and it affects the game play.

Melee: Ever hit someone, doesn't register, and they hit you and kill you? Or when my reticle is red and I go to melee but I don't lunge forward and then sometimes I do. inconsistent. Or trading deaths with a melee..

Radar: What is the point of a radar if by the time I have a blip on it, we are already in a line of sight. You are better off not looking at it. Close range radars are useless unless we are on different planes. Sometimes I have someone walking up behind me and they were never on my radar. Same thing in halo 5.. Another issue I found was that it is really hard to determine where you are getting shot from (someone is shooting you from the side or something), the indicators or something are really bad.

Grenades: Inconsistent, sometimes they are OP and sometimes they do absolutely nothing. I shouldn't have to throw a grenade on someone's lap for it to do damage, its a grenade. But there are times you are completely clear of one and BOOM you have no shields. Other than the frag and plasma, everything else lacks punch..

Weapons: Oh this is going to be a long one... If you don't have an AR, BR, Rockets, Sniper, Sword then you have nothing. The guns in this game are absolute trash, no power, slow firing rate, or inaccurate. There is no balance with weapons in this game. All of the other weapons will just get you killed. No DMR? SMG? Magnum? Cov. Sniper? Carbine? OG Shotty? Why did you take out the weapons that were iconic? Plasma pistol = no EMP?? etc.etc.etc.etc.... 343 changed so much that was not broken, it was nostalgic, it made the game dynamic.

Maps: You have an abundance of maps in the past that were really good, build off of that. The maps in this game are bad, they are either too symmetrical or too asymmetric. Spartans are supposed to be 10ft tall why do the maps look like they were made for giants? The Spartans look tiny. I am disappointed with the map layouts and the lack of variety..

Spawns: Horrible spawns is all I got to say..

Field Abilities: Useless.. Shield does nothing, people mow right through that thing like it wasn't even there, it takes forever to deploy, so by time you do deploy it you are probably one shot.. Repulsor is ok, you got to be creative with it. Sensor is good, and grapple shot is good. Honestly, there should be an ability for offense, defense, and movement. Like in previous games you had the shield drainer, bubble shield, and the grapple shot could be for movement. This could have been done better for sure, Didn't seem like 343 put a lot thought behind it.

Game Modes: Stale, come up with more creative modes, make it fun. Add a survival zombie mode like in COD except it's with the flood. Put infection, add some old game modes from the past titles in there. MAKE SOME NEW ONES. Attrition is a good one, except make the revives faster, and don't let the opposite team see where the downed players are, make it more challenging.

Movement: Spartans move fast in this game, really good for strafing however there is so much aim assist in this game that it is really hard to juke your opponents shots. overall movement is good, I wish there were no sprint, felt it was more challenging to control positions this way but I know those days are over.

In Game Chat/Party Chat/Overlays: Does it even work? It's 2022 why is this still in issue from a AAA game.

Party Stability: Again why is this an issue? It should be seamless to join parties, games, link up with others, I felt like it was easier on the xbox 360.

Menu: I lag the most on menu, everything takes so much time to load, can't even check my challenges until the first game is about to start. I try to see my friends or try to do literally anything in the menu I get frozen screens for a few seconds and then sometimes it works and sometimes my game crashes. I'd love to hear there excuse for that one. Battle Pass is a joke, you don't get anything of value unless you buy it, I don't know how many times I have unlocked the same armor in different titles, so why are you trying to make me pay to use them again? 343 is really going down the dark path of pay to win.

Audio: I think hands down halo 2 anniversary had the best audio in terms of weapon fire, in game play, etc. The guns sound cheap or fake in this game, you changed the sound of the sword?? Why. The audio for movement is really low quality, you can't really here a difference when walking on different terrain, other FPS's are doing really good with audio because most players play with headsets. Halo infinite's audio is just bad..

Overall: The campaign is good, Multiplayer is bad. It is a game that should have been one of the best. Seems like a game that was made by Indie Devs (no offense), coming from 343/Microsoft I expected a lot more. It pains me to say that this game is not recommendable... 343 knows what they need to fix, and it is up to them to fix it. I probably missed other things but this is what stood out the most to me. It is a mediocre game with a legendary name. 343 fix this (insert profane word).

I enjoyed it, unfortunately I wasn't willing to spend money on dlc after I beat the story but it was fun.