The Controller Online writes:
"My biggest complaint about Halo 4 is with the maps and how few there are for each playlist. Infinity Slayer, which is what we play the most, only has five maps available, which is the least amount of maps for regular Team Slayer in any Halo game yet. To help correct this, 343 Industries have released the Crimson Map Pack, the first of three maps packs to be released between now and April, but are the maps any good and is it worth the $10 price tag? Let’s take a look."
In Halo 4, 5, and Infinite, Master Chief became a more nuanced, human character.
In spite of the Halo series’ struggles, 343 deserves praise for adding nuance and characterisation to the ever-beating heart of Halo - The Master Chief. Playing through Infinite, it's abundantly clear that the events of the current and previous trilogies have irrevocably changed the iconic hero. He’s no longer the ‘blank slate’ that was previously presented by Bungie. He’s a fatigued, damaged and fallible protagonist, and one who is meandering through currents of grief, while reveling in his newfound agency. Giving the Chief a compelling and meaningful voice was no small feat, and 343 should be proud of that victory.
This article completely misses part of the appeal of the original iteration of character in the original game trilogy. It was the Chief and Cortana vs an entire alien collective. The blank slate Bungie displayed in their games was genius, he was an mysterious hero a wide audience could identify with because he wasn't as clearly defined as most characters.
The books added a lot of lore and backstory but most Halo players just want a fun game with exposition that doesn't get in the way of gameplay, it's why the Cortana level in Halo 3 was derided.
Not every character has to be a damaged soyboy, a soldier has to suck it up and do his duty.
The 343i Master Chief has is based on the books. However, in Halo 4-Infinite, the Master Chief overtime become. gradually becomes more willing to show some emotion.
It’s a law of nature that eventually, every long-running game franchise will have a particular entry that gets dinged for straying too far from what made it so fun in the first place. Your Super Mario Sunshine, your Dragon Age II, Assassin’s Creed III, and so on. Whether or not that opinion changes more favorably over time, the initial specter of negativity will forever hover it. Microsoft’s Halo is no exception, except that negative specter hasn’t hovered over one particular game, but one whole studio.
Halo 4 released 10 years ago today, and its disappointing reception was just an omen of things to come with 343 Industries at the helm.
Halo 4 and infinite have a 87 on metacritic and five a 84🤣. 343i need contents and everything else will play it self out.
Halo 4-6 are like the Star Wars sequel trilogy
They all just seem like a brand new games with small connections to the last one but no solid arc connecting them, you’re just told stuff that happened off screen in between the games and nothing makes sense
It’s like they didn’t plan a new trilogy out
I'm getting a good gaming laptop soon and i'm finally going to play through the Halo franchise again plus Infinite but i never played Halo 4 before .. can anyone tell me how's the campaign in comparison to the games before it and compared to Halo 5 ?
maps a month after release is a bit silly imo, i agree i thought there wasnt enough on the disc so these should have been free or released with then game.
i got the ltd edition anyway but still dont agree with paid dlc maps so soon after release, makes me think they were ready at launch but they want the extra cash
they're even better when you got them for free!!!
Wreckage isn't that great, but the other two are solid maps.
$10 for 1 regular slayer map ?
I like Shatter the most because Harvest and Wreckage are like cousins of each other. Different color schemes and pallets but just seem so alike it's ridiculous.
And I agree...Why not have more Slayer maps?
I was really hoping that 343 would kick it up a notch and give us some amazing levels for Halo 4. At this point based off of this DLC pack I'd much rather see a bunch of Halo 3 levels re-imagined than what they have planned.