Halo Infinite took a long time and worried many gamers when some ugly leaked images came by, but luckily everything turned out okay. At least, most of it. There’s no denying that there are a number of missing features that, in an ideal world, 343 Industries would have liked in the game by now. This includes the ability to play the campaign in co-op, an option to create filters for playlists in multiplayer, and the Forge, the level editor that was included in Halo in the past. Those things are all coming, but it will take many features until the summer before they are actually in Halo Infinite.
The game that is already out there is certainly fun enough on its own. The gameplay feels great and is reminiscent of Halo’s heyday, with 4v4 multiplayer and Big Team Battles offering two different styles. The campaign can compete with the campaigns from previous games and presents players with beautiful moments and images. The more open approach lets players explore Halo Zeta as they see fit. That’s recommended, because if you only play the story missions, you’ll be through Halo Infinite within ten hours, and that’s a shame. In addition, you open nice extras by completing optional missions. That provides additional weapons, vehicles and possibilities in the gameplay. Still, the story missions provide the highlights. By the end of the campaign, you’ll know one thing for sure: Halo hasn’t lost any of its magic, and Microsoft is far from done with Master Chief.
Halo Infinite
It’s been a while, but the latest installment in the Halo franchise is finally out. Master Chief’s new adventure has a slightly different format than previous games in the series. The campaign has some linear missions, but is largely an open-world game that offers a variety of optional missions that allow Master Chief to improve himself and the position of the UNSC. Most of all, it’s fun to explore the game world and go head-to-head with the Banished time and time again, while the story missions and beautiful cutscenes reveal more about what happened to Cortana and what the Banished are up to. The game also plays wonderfully and, thanks to the various gadgets that Master Chief has, also has more freedom in the gameplay than before. The multiplayer, which can be played for free even if you don’t buy Halo Infinite, knows how to bring back the old Halo feeling and certainly offers quite a bit of spectacle in Big Team Battles. We would have liked to have been able to filter in playlists and there are also some other features that 343 Industries will add to the game next year. However, Halo Infinite is also fun enough without those features and an excellent game for PC and Xbox gamers to end the 2021 game year. Halo Infinite does that without an award, by the way; Due to the missing features, especially the lack of playlist filters in multiplayer and the missing co-op in campaign mode, we don’t think the game deserves an Excellent shield. However, it doesn’t matter much.
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