Halo Infinite's Campaign Review: A Campaign Worth A Playthrough - FictionTalk

Halo Infinite's Campaign is back with a new story, some great graphics, some fantastic music, and Master Chief ready to kick butt yet again.

[Flawlessmic]

6.5 is a bit rough, i literally just finished the campaign mode a few hours ago, it was pretty fun to play the whole way through.

Gameplay and soundtrack was the strong point for me, graphics and story were servicible.

I think 343 has built a solid foundation here so looking forward to seeing the endless.

[TheDoomedGuy]

Right but 343 has 3 halos or more under their belt. The solid foundation was already set before. This is them finally getting a real feel for what halo was years ago. In other words it's made very little progress which is fine but it's not really their doing. Bungie set that foundation and improved it with destiny.

I played the campaign the whole way through and not a single mission was memorable. The open world is all very samey. The way to engage with enemies is samey but let's you get creative if that's what you're going for. Essentially it feels like the mutliplayer but against AI.

Campaigns in halo always had a different feel than the multiplayer but that's not the case here. Most of the time I was wondering why I'd bother with the single player when you have mutliplayer that does the same things but better.

I think 3/5 for the campaign is fair. It's average but nothing really all that special in a good way. Or in a way that works well for halo. I literally just played this campaign and I can recall moments halo 1, 2, 3, 4, ODST and 5 more than halo infinite.

The campaign is half of the game in terms of score. I say half because it really feels like the focused half their time in it. So for me it makes up 50% of the score. Which is already a negative since I'm single player gamer primarily and the campaign is what I look forward to in halo. So it should have been 75% focus on campaign.

[OMNlPOTENT]

You had me until you said they improved it with Destiny. I have played a lot of Destiny, more hours than I am proud of. It is not an improvement over Halo, not even a little bit. If we were comparing strictly single player experience, any Halo game is more enjoyable than Destiny. Even the worst ones.

[Orchard]

“Right but 343 has 3 halos or more under their belt. The solid foundation was already set before. This is them finally getting a real feel for what halo was years ago. In other words it's made very little progress which is fine but it's not really their doing. Bungie set that foundation and improved it with destiny.”

Bungie had set the foundation, but you assume it’s easy to just lift an existing game/IP and shift it to a new development team - it isn’t.

Do you think a new team could just pick up Uncharted or Elder Scrolls (or any other large successful IP) and make an overnight success of it? Probably not - it would take them a few tries to get it right.

[TheDoomedGuy]

@omnipotent

Right with you there about playing more hours than I should've. I didn't mean the campaign as that's kinda all over the place. I was referring to the gunplay. The reason many people play destiny is because of how good it feels to play it. Same with the halo.multiplayer.

@orchard

I whole heatedly agree. But the point is that the reason they didn't nail it before is because they were trying to add onto it and make it their own. I personally liked halo 5 multiplayer quite a bit. I loved the amount of strategy involved.

But the point is they had to add and remove then add and remove and now finally they're at a good place.

And btw yes I do think a new talented team could pick up a game and nail it.
Kotor 2 and fallout new Vegas comes to mind.

[dmN_114]

Was it really that fun to play? Especially towards the end of the story? The gunplay and grappling is solid fun but beating the same enemies the whole run and running in a one way hallway into a room of enemies to another linear one way hallway to another same enemy encounter but now you have to get some door or bridges open is pretty bad level desgin imho and it dragged out alot. Comparing the beginning and the ending of the game i would personally say a 7 is max score. Glad that it has MP because of the gunplay which is the most fun.

[Jin_Sakai]

I would just look past this review. The game has a 87 Metascore and a 85 Userscore. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve played so far. Great game overall.

[CaptainHenry916]

I actually agree with this review. The story was mediocre just like Halo 5. But better than Halo 5 story. Definitely not the best Halo game.

[Orchard]

“The best halo game” is an extremely high bar though when you consider that the first 3 pulled in scores of 97, 95 and 94 and are in the top reviewed games of all time.

I mean for context, the original scores higher than legendary games like HL2, UC2, RE4 etc - that’s an insanely high bar to beat.

The game is a fun play, and it deserves the 87 score it got, making it one of the best games this year.

But frankly, I don’t expect them to beat the original 3 ever.

[OMNlPOTENT]

One of the points in the review was that the grappling hook was “too reliable”. How is that a complaint? Game is at the very least an 8/10.

[TheDoomedGuy]

I'm on the lower end and I'd give it a 7/10 or 3/5. I know it doesn't translate the same but 7 is considered average and my 3/5 is meant to be that average.
For me campaign was 3/5 and mp is 5/5

A younger version of me would be playing the mp nonstop. Unfortunately I have much less time nowadays. But I'd did play it all the way until campaign release.

Anything below a 7 is considered garbage. This review is exaggerating it for clicks I think.

There's also nothing really all that bad in the campaign either. So it doesn't warrant less than 7.

[BehindTheRows]

Anything below a 7 is NOT considered garbage. They don’t call it garbage, either.

[TheDoomedGuy]

@behindtherows

To each their own but I doubt people would want to play games that score lower then a 7 and how many great games out there have ever scored lower than a 7.

The fact is that the only scores worth considering are 7 or higher and anything below that is a big wide pass. And yes it is considered a garbage score. Just think about it. If a game scores a 7 people are okay with it...but drop it to a 6 and suddenly that gives a much worse picture of the game by number alone.

It's a problem with the /10 system. Many numbers aren't ever used and the distinction between 5 and 6 or 3 and 4 or 2 and 3 are kind of immensely vague and uncertain which makes all those numbers kinda mean the same think except for the lower end like getting a 1 or 2. That's understood as broken and unplayable no doubt at all.

/5 is a much better scale. Every number matters and is quite representative of a game and understood.
1 is broken 2 is bad game 3 is average 4 is good 5 is great

No such thing as a perfect game which the famous 10/10 makes it seem like there is because it so rare.

[rippermcrip]

That initial statement was badly worded, but the point they made was spot on. The whole game revolves around the grapple. Travel, mobility, evasion and it is even the easiest way to kill enemies that are near you.

[BenRC01]

It's a solid 9 for me. Sucks to be that reviewer

[OMNlPOTENT]

I agree, I would personally rate it a 9. I don’t see how anyone could rate it lower than an 8, it’s a fantastic single player experience.

[Jin_Sakai]

I’d give it and 8.5/10 myself. Great game overall. Multiplayer portion needs more maps though.

[Rachel_Alucard]

Because focusing too much around one gadget makes the player only ever use that gadget instead of the others ones for more interesting firefights. You have all these gadgets you can use but the hook is way too required to not be used. They would have to make it a long cooldown if they ever wanted anyone to use other gadgets.

[BenRC01]

Who cares. That gadget is so awesome why use anything else.

[Rachel_Alucard]

"Why use anything else"

That's exactly the problem. Why use anything else? That is bad game design in itself.

[Shiore2u]

It's 343's best effort so far, which isn't really isn't saying much.

[CaptainHenry916]

Facts

[iplay1up2]

Really? Many other reputable game sites gave this minimum of 8/10. My play through it is minimum an 8.5/10!

[Stanjara]

You know how media publisher relationship works right?