Mammoth Gamers takes a look at the fifth installment of the main Halo series titled Halo 5: Guardians. Is the game worth the hype and can it live up to it's predecessors? Find out in this review!
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.
Daily Video Game writes: "GameStop is running a new pre-owned game sale on over 1000 pre-owned games that offers four pre-owned ($9.99 or less) games for $20 across multiple gaming platforms right now, including PS3 and Xbox 360!"
Given the nature of backwards compatibility on new systems, this is a great sale in case you missed out on some gems from last gen.
Most of the games on Xbox are on game pass. The Switch games in this sale are trash c'mon farming simulator that's laughable. The PS4 games should be cheaper. I can't wait for the GameStop going out of business liquidation sale.
These sales, while potentially great, really struggle to be valuable given you can't easily parse what games are in stock. You can't just say "only show what is online & what are in my nearby stores". Probably 60-75% of these games in these massive lists are out of stock for shipping, and out of stock locally. It makes it a chore to find anything you'd want, much less 4 of them, much less enough if you wanted to get to a free shipping tier. It's a bummer.
NoobFeed Editor Joshua Burt writes - There are many games in the famous Halo Franchise that are stellar titles and need to be revered. And some that do not. These games stand out from the crowd and deluge of colossal Halo titles. Games that made Halo great. We do need to iron out what qualifies the game for this list. They have to be in the Halo franchise… Obviously.
Halo 3 at the top is correct the only thing id change is swap infinite and halo ce around.
At the end of the day it is what you make of this game. The people defending it on here are going to get it the people bashing it won't. These reviews are people on the fence.
Multiplayer is always praised so if you are looking for longevity yeah get it. Campaign from what I have read is linear and considering the open ended nature of previous halo games it does sound like a bummer coupled with a flat story but I have no say as I am not that a big a halo fan.
As an outsider to the game I view the experience more of a social game these days so sounds like 100% winner in my books if you want a good looking game with a great online experience
Decent game after all.
"It isn’t the console seller that Microsoft wanted it to be"
holy shit ..how he knows it ..
let's see how xb1 sales will go on this season before man before sayin the game doesn't help xb1 sales
I would like to chime in for everyone, I am the creator of this review. I have played through and completed every Halo on Legendary as my first playthough. Dumped countless hours into multiplayer, and quite honestly the story just isn't there. I don't like the squad based team with poor AI on my side, and I don't connect with Locke at all. Multiplayer kicks f***in ass and is great aside from a few gripes about match matchmaking and map selection. But my review is based off my experience throughout the series.
I play mostly slayer match types, and a really skilled SWAT player. My only real complaint so far is that the game chooses the next match for me. I liked voting, its been around for a while. I played about 20 matches of swat last night and most of them were Swatnums. Meaning it was swat mode but with mags instead of BR. Also the DMR seems to have just vanished from most of the game and from everything except the early campaign. But yea, the players usually get to decide what match they want to play, and I miss that.
Side note, if anyone wants to be carried through legendary or party up my tag is Swift Sh0t86. Keep in mind I Twitch stream when I play. I know that annoys some people.