SPOILERS AHEAD. I enjoyed the campaign a lot and the open world surprisingly worked out. I know a lot of fans were skeptical about it, but it really did add something to Halo. It always felt like Halo and for that I am grateful. I enjoyed the side missions as well and the overall length of the campaign was decent whereas Halo 4 had a very short campaign with terrible pacing and 5 just straight up sucked. I feel the direction this story takes us in redeems what was lost in the past two games. However, I feel the gap between 5 was really big and it left us with so many unanswered questions regarding what Cortana and the Banished did. Important story developments were left out and I feel the developer just expects us to read up on lore outside of the games themselves just to attempt understanding what's going on. That's super lame and I would rather have seen that in gameplay. I also felt that there should have been more involvement with other Spartans, both old and new. The whole destruction of the Infinity and pretty much all of humanity at the hands of Atriox seems a bit unrealistic given what Cortana demonstrated she can do with the Guardians. Also, I find Cortana's motivation and her ideology changing in the way it did was just too sudden and done with lazy writing. It feels like when the 7th installment does come there will be little room for interesting and redeeming story content.

SPOILERS AHEAD. I enjoyed the campaign a lot and the open world surprisingly worked out. I know a lot of fans were skeptical about it, but it really did add something to Halo. It always felt like Halo and for that I am grateful. I enjoyed the side missions as well and the overall length of the campaign was decent whereas Halo 4 had a very short campaign with terrible pacing and 5 just straight up sucked. I feel the direction this story takes us in redeems what was lost in the past two games. However, I feel the gap between 5 was really big and it left us with so many unanswered questions regarding what Cortana and the Banished did. Important story developments were left out and I feel the developer just expects us to read up on lore outside of the games themselves just to attempt understanding what's going on. That's super lame and I would rather have seen that in gameplay. I also felt that there should have been more involvement with other Spartans, both old and new. The whole destruction of the Infinity and pretty much all of humanity at the hands of Atriox seems a bit unrealistic given what Cortana demonstrated she can do with the Guardians. Also, I find Cortana's motivation and her ideology changing in the way it did was just too sudden and done with lazy writing. It feels like when the 7th installment does come there will be little room for interesting and redeeming story content.