Halo 5: Guardians Review | PixelPerfectGaming

Despite being a significant upgrade to past sequels, Guardians preserves many core features and gameplay mechanics that made the series popular. For example: The MJOLNIR powered armor that Master Chief and his fellow Spartans wear still provide deflector shields that deplete when struck by enemy fire, but replenish after a brief recovery. The player is still limited to carrying two firearms, but they can be swapped for different weapons (including ones dropped by the Covenant). The player can toss grenades by pressing the Left Shoulder button, and pistol-whip enemies by pressing the Right Shoulder button.

[SlavisH2]

great game I hope it come to windows 10 too

[MachuchalBrotha316]

Something tells me Halo and Gears main games will be exclusive to the console. Maybe PC gets Halo MCC and Gears Ultimate, it would be cool if you could also play backward compatible games on Windows 10 via Xbox app. Lord willing, I will build a powerful rig this yr to go with my Xbox One.

[Hunkaloverbear]

Best shooter of this generation on any console.

[spicelicka]

Have to agree on that. I have not played a better shooter than this.

[3-4-5]

No for me that would be Plants vs Zombies:Garden Warfare.

Halo 5 is boring now.

[MaxCompiler]

Excellent mechanics, bad campaign (probably the worst in the series). Multiplayer is ok, not excellent.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Halo 5 has the best multiplayer of the entire series.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

I think for it's time Halo 2 does. I am still irritated by Halo 5 not having non forged big team maps.

[Eliseo676]

@Sciurus_vulgaris

You have got to be kidding me.

Halo 2 was a BR fest with little to no use for almost every other weapon.

Halo 5 has a very impressive weapon balance, regardless of opinion.

Your dislike for Halo 5's maps is one thing, but ignoring Halo 2's equally terrible campaign (Got to love cliffhangers) and terrible weapon balance which shaped the entire multiplayer is something else.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Eliseo676 I didn't say I disliked the maps. I dislike playing on Forge maps cause the visual gap between a standard map and forged one is enormous. I play in Onyx league free-or-all and I'm ranked platinum in both slayer and swat. I have no issues with the games weapons balance. I do however think that there should be greater power weapon diversity in slayer (I personally hate the plasma caster and hydra).

Halo 2 has a better story than Halo 5. A bunch of pointless characters weren't slapped in and new characters in Halo 2 were important to the overall plot. If Halo 2s' cliff hanger ending ruined the campaign, by that same logic Halo 5's story and ending must of ruined its' campaign as well?

[vickers500]

Gotta disagree there. I'm no Halo purist, so I don't think halo 1 - 3 are the only good halo games, but I very much dislike halo 5s mp. Warzone is a total bore, req packs suck (and wreak of sleaze due to microtransactions).

And ads, oh boy. I always thought ads would make halo better. Boy was I wrong. It ruined the dmr, as well as a few other weapons, and I don't see the point of them taking away loadouts if the weapons are so "balanced".

As I said, I'm not a Halo purist, so Halo 4 imo actually had the best mp, but I really do not enjoy halo 5s mp at all, and the first half of the campaign sucks while the second half is just okay (so far, only have 2 missions left till I finish it).

I feel like when I'm playing slayer, I play on the same 3 cheap ass forge looking maps over and over again, very ugly maps. I don't know why they dropped weapon loadouts in favor of pick ups, the people who cared about that stuff probably avoid halo 5 for all the other numerous huge changes made, I doubt someone is gonna look at the weapon pick ups and think "hmm, halo 5 may have just gone back to its roots if they did that".

I mostly bought it for the campaign though, which sucks. Way too linear.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

@vickers500 The campaign is less linear than previous campaigns, there are more branching paths and hidden areas. Loadouts were imbalanced, weapons are on maps cause the game is an arena shooter. Only 1 forge map is in slayer. All the precision weapons are well balanced and the dmr functions like it did in Halo 4.

[vickers500]

It's not less linear. It's small and cramped the majority of the game. Loadouts were not unbalanced. Weapons are only on the map this time around because 343 thought they could score brownie points with the halo hardcore by doing so. There may be only one forge map technically, but nearly all of them are ugly enough that you can't tell whether they were made by the devs or some random forge amateur. The dmr feels nothing like the one in halo 4.

[Trekster_Gamer]

Loved Halo 5!
Please let Halo 6 have a MUCH more diverse group of enemies to fight.

Really tired of Covenant and forerunners.

Also more Masterchief and forget Locke and let Buck join Masterchiefs Team.

[Elit3Nick]

Would love to see Insurrectionists, Brute raiding parties and Jackal pirates.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

I would of much rather ONI been the new enemy in Halo 5 than Cortana. I personally hated that Brian Reed had the nerve to bring her back and throw away the emotional ending of Halo 4.

[Khaotic]

Story DLC incoming. Locke and his entire team get surrounded by the flood, Buck and Locke are the last ones alive . Locke gets attacked and infected, Buck puts a bullet in Locke's dome and turns the gun on himself and at the last second chief comes through the smoke and fire , clears flood and rescues Buck. Buck joins cheif. The end. I should of wrote Halo 5 ending.

[MasterD919]

I wish more people would realize how good this game is. I've been playing since Halo 1 way back when and I've had to put up with my friends who suck at the newest Halo's tell me how much they hate the newer games. This game stands on it's own as the best entry 343 has made. It's just pure fun.

[fsdgf]

I've been very vocal about my dislike for Halo 4 and my apathy towards Reach, but Halo 5 is excellent.

It fixed all the questionable design choices from Reach and 4, while greatly improving the mechanics and multiplayer map design.

The campaign was far from the trainwreck everyone makes it out to be. There were a lot of fun levels and the soundtrack was great. The story wasn't nearly as bad as everyone says, it could just use more Chief and less Locke. It didn't really have the incredible setpieces of the other games (2 in particular), but it was still quite enjoyable to play.