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Halo 5: Guardians review - Xbox Enthusiast

Steve C. reviews the latest instalment in the Halo franchise

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corroios3481d ago

payed review. Go read angry review and get an honest review..

The bad:
short game, no splitscreen, crappy story, wrong marketing, there isnt the fight that everybody waited, less multiplayer modes, average graphics.

The good 60 frames, amazing cinematics, new multiplayer mode and the multiplayer works,

its really almost perfect...

Elit3Nick3481d ago

I've always disliked Angry Joe, he brings up a negative point and then latches on to it for the rest of the review, bringing down the score while ignoring some of the best points, also from his stream of multiplayer he's absolutely awful at the game.

hello123481d ago (Edited 3481d ago )

I watched the angry joe review in full.

cons for joe.
Short campaign on normal 3 to 4 hours, 7 hours on higher difficulties.
Too many cut scenes.
Microtransactions (takes too long to unlock the customisations and doesn't like it people can pay 3 dollars to unlock a gold pack
Splitscreen
needed more variety of boss battles and enemies
feels similar to Halo 4
Some of the maps online look the same or play the same.

Positives
He was actually impressed with the graphics and it held 60fps
He liked the amazing cutscenes visually.
Said it was better than Destiny
He liked the multiplayer ( only complaint it had no forge at launch) but he said that would be added later.
He admitted in his his review the game would have been rated higher than 6 perhaps 8 if there was more maps and modes added at launch and few tweaks fixed certain elements of the game.

Overall 6/10 was his review for the current state of the game, but he said its will be better game in a few months.

spicelicka3481d ago

LOL paid review wtf.

Game is bigger than 90% of the shooters out today.

Let me compare since I've played the game and you probably haven't.

Battlefield 4/Hardline/Advanced warfare: Halo 5 has probably twice the size of the campaign, a story that's actually deep and important instead of "oh let's fight terrorists". Not to mention the environments are huge, you're not just fighting in a 5 inch linear space like an interactive movie.

4 player co-op, which surprisingly no one seems to give it credit for, since it doubles the replay value. You're saying "no split-screen" as a negative, but you're don't consider 4 player co-op as a positive?

Then you got Titanfall/Evolve: Halo 5 warzone mode alone is bigger than these games, even without the campaign and arena.

Star wars battlefront: Umm Halo 5 actually HAS a campaign, plus free DLC.

Destiny: Only with the Taken King is Destiny bigger, and that's because they re-released the same game as last year with an expansion for the same price. Still has 8v8 multiplayer only where Halo 5 has up to 12v12 Warzone, Arena, Custom games, Forge.

I mean how many games give you a campaign, 4 player co-op, multiplayer, custom games, let you make your own damn maps (Far cry 4 literally the only game that let's you do that), and FREE DLC all in one package?? Please enlighten me.

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Dewitt3481d ago

Sigh.... did you even play the game, do you even have an xbox. Stop trolling reviews that you don't agree with and play the game for yourself if you want to review it.

For me it has the best MP since H2, the graphics and gameplay are top notch in campaign, alot of big set pieces in story mode and frantic moments. Also, 15 free DLC maps and forge coming soon, finally Warzone seems to be the best MP mode Halo has ever released.

So this review is pretty spot-on for me, stop trolling.

boodi3481d ago (Edited 3481d ago )

@ corrois

you haven't even touched the game .. but fill entitled to troll like that
how much trollism in play with your head, did you ask this yourself ?

played review .. like 90% of 51 reviews, that came out on web until now , with scores well above 6?

go figure msft is payin and playin 90% of reviewers
dure , seriously , take your time to think about doin something better then troll a great game that you did not even touch ..

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mastaklla3481d ago

Pretty accurate review in my eyes. This review nails exactly how I feel about the game. The game is great but not perfect however it's a blast to play. Hoping for split screen add in next time though. That is honestly my biggest disappointment but isn't a deal breaker for me. The 60fps turned out pretty slick.

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Halo 5 dev recalls the “frustrating” marketing that misrepresented the series’ most-hated entry

Halo 5: Guardians lead concept artist Darren Bacon explains that the game's marketing was completely seperate to the game's development.

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FortWaba21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

No issue with the marketing. The story was complete garbage.

-Foxtrot21d ago

The marketing wasn't the issue, it just felt 343 were so bothered about getting Halo away from being known as a Bungie franchise that they tried to introduce so many changes to counter this.

It felt like they were trying to replace Chief as a character thus the big push on Agent Locke (he even got his own mini series). Chief was even in less missions in comparison.

Introduced squads which forced single player gamers to be paired up with 3 AI players over drop in / drop out co-op.

Cortana was butchered, ruining that relationship between Chief and Cortana we all liked. Would have been fine if the twist was the Didact was secretly controlling her or something but nothing. Did she come back in Infinite? Nope. Killed off screen in a sudden 180 to her villainous turn and replaced by a copy since they knew they screwed up.

Expected you to have read all the novels and the like to understand who Blue Team were and their relationship to Chief, had no build up to the characters and it felt like they expected you to like them without it being earned.

Everything they did felt like change for the sake of change, to mark it was a 343 game not a Bungie one and it's hilarious as they tried to f*** around with the multiplayer in Halo 4 to make it their own before reverting things in Guardians.

darthv7221d ago

I didnt mind the switching off between John and Locke... it reminded me of Halo 2 and having the Arbiter levels to trade off to.

The story was okay for me. They had to do something different as the first three games were done and there needed to be new story going in a new direction. I get the die hard fans may not have liked it, but playing it for what it is... its perfectly fine. Its a continuation of halo 4, which itself was a nice original take on the formula.

Now bring on the disagrees.

cl198321d ago

It reminded me of Halo 2 and I honestly dislike the switching in 2 and 5. The devs should of just had cuts scenes for the Arbiter and for Locke.

Elit3Nick21d ago

Booting the ur-Didact from the games was one of the greatest narrative mistakes they made (after bringing back a logic-plagued Cortana, of course). Even if you had to read the Forerunner novels to understand his history, he was one of the most complex characters in the series, and he should have remained as an enduring part of the universe.

I'm happy that he at least got a send-off in Halo: Epitaph, but it shouldn't have gotten to that point.

XiNatsuDragnel21d ago

No issues it's just wasn't good story at least my friend it wasn't well written.

Tacoboto21d ago

Yeah it says a lot about the management of 343 at the time that they could have a marketing campaign be so disconnected in tone and story from the game it's supposed to be about.

I'd imagine it would be frustrating for the developers that the marketing beats seemed far cooler than what you were stuck making. Maybe it would've been better if 343 just continued the story from their previous game but nooo they couldn't be bothered to do that even once

entra8021d ago

its the worst halo game the story the map all was garbage

cl198321d ago

I'd like to introduce you to Halo infinite.

coolbeans21d ago

You are off your damn rocker if you think Infinite's story is worse than 5's. Just by cleaning up 5's worse elements off-screen makes it a default improvement.

PhillyDonJawn20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

Campaign wise Halo infinite was better due to setting. (Open world, different approaches, setting and mission tasks)

story wise Halo 5 was better. Infinite was literally all over the place. It's like they scrapped the OG story and tried to piece some sht together. They unalived important ppl off screen!!! (Spoiler free) Ruining the main plot of Halo 5 and infinite like wth!!! That alone made the "story" worse than 5. They have to reboot the series now or pull some story where these characters are still alive. (I believe the end reveals 1 is.)

@Beans i disagree with that last statement doing it off screen when that was the main plot and a huge deal is the wrong move. We legit should've got a boss battle that did that. It seem so unsatisfying and anticlimactic. We were suppose to get an IRobot/terminator type of ending and instead we get some off screen sht 😒 We couldve had Halo 4 level emotion, instead it was done as filler

cl198320d ago (Edited 20d ago )

@Coolbeans and @phillydonjawn

Infinites story was so disjointed due to the level design. It wasn't and in my opinion still not replay able. It felt worse then the ending to Starfield.

I'm saying this as a person who's still going through playing the MCC to finish out playlists, and has Ten's of Thousands of hours in Halo since CE.

Tacoboto20d ago

The literal ending to Starfield or the closing missions? Because some of those missions were actually pretty great in my opinion. Especially Entangled.

Halo 5 had a worse story I felt than Infinite but I agree on its lack of replayability. The single PNW biome is tiring and everything not green and foresty outside is metallic and reflective inside.

Multiplayer is solid but lags behind 5 too I feel. At least it still does get some new content even as they're openly abandoning Infinite's tech for UE.

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Halo 5 Story Roadmap Was Abandoned After Poor Reception From Fans

Xbox Game Studios and Halo Studios' Halo 5: Guardians had a story roadmap that was abandoned after poor reception from fans.

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PhillyDonJawn117d ago

We didn't have an issue with the story, we just didn't enjoy the missions and the execution.

Tacoboto117d ago

The story was completely the issue. They made a villain out of Cortana with no context and killed off the main villain of 4 in a comic or book. The marketing painted a different picture versus what we got. 343 had no conviction in what they made for any of 4, 5, and Infinite.

So little conviction they even had to change name to save face.

PhillyDonJawn117d ago

You right, i had no issue with Cortana being the villain. It made for a good plot. That's basically what I'm trying say they just did everything else horribly and the marketing definitely led us a stray

-Foxtrot116d ago

What they did to Cortana was just...unforgivable, and then to make it worse in Halo Infinite they killed her off screen while saying she sacrificed herself after she realised she was wrong.

They gave us another Cortana to try and wipe the slate clean but that was also the issue, all the development the real Cortana had with Chief was now gone.

They could have saved the original Cortana from rampancy, they could have made an entire game where you find out she was being controlled because of the Didact or something and then she is cured from it. What about merging herself with the new Cortana to cure herself or just give the new Cortana her memories so she's pretty much the same in a way. There's so many ways they could have done it.

343 Studios issue is they keep trying to do things story wise to wipe Bungie's legacy away from the franchise in order for people to remember it as a 343 game. They tried to change the multiplayer in Halo 4, they tried to change the main character to Agent Locke in Halo 5 and then they try to get rid of Cortana.

JimBeans116d ago

What's crazy is how decent Halo 4 was. It wasn't amazing, but it was decent. And then it all went downhill.

KillaJamm116d ago

I agree, I really enjoyed 4, 5 was pretty terrible, Infinite was decent, especially the MP.

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Halo 5: Guardians PC Port Was Apparently Scrapped Due To Technical Issues

According to a Halo Studios dev, a PC port of Halo 5 was being considered but was ultimately scrapped due to technical issues.

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RaidenBlack199d ago

Still no Halo 5, Fable 2, Gears 2 & 3 on PC.
I like when we get whole franchise collection on PC ... instead of partial ones, disregarding how yucky the missed one(s) are.
We've got Fable, Fable Remastered, Fable III on PC but the best one, Fable II is stll missing.
Same with Gears 1, Gears 2 Remastered, Gears 4 & Gears 5 ... but no Gears 2, 3 or judgement on PC.
If not for MCC, PC would've been stuck with Halo 1 & 2 and then straight to Infinite.
Fix this MS.

just_looken199d ago

You forgot all the games for windows pc games that are dead because they are looking for servers that do not exist. Fable 3 on pc still is doa do too a server check the xbox version without internet still is busted no internet no fable.

https://youtu.be/QZYy9KzFT2...

Oh also lets all remind our-self every game made for xbox was made with direct x and a windows os version this should be a easy port job for the creator of everything even pc operating system but all what you listed had/have major issues.

Be it the gears pc games just went though those on max graphics they work but sometimes be like well 20fps is gone or halo mcc taking years to work games having no audio. console/pc same issues

I mean shall we talk about forza games being desisted the last one being so broken at launch finishing a lap was impossible to this day there are still game crashing bugs.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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XiNatsuDragnel199d ago

Yikes unfortunately ppl will emulate eventually

DarXyde199d ago

Why is that unfortunate?

If a company cares that little about game preservation they cannot be surprised when people explore alternatives and people donate to the emulation developer.

They're making money doing the work the actual developers couldn't be bothered to do. Sounds like an opportunity to me.

just_looken199d ago

This but don't open donate companies always try to find someway to shutdown all those sites and emulators. Heck Nintendo this week was caught using a emulator (rumor project64) in there museum ha ha but the creator can not take any action.