This game is honestly so good I wouldn't blame someone for thinking it was an official expansion or something. The writing, the puzzles, the art, It's borderline Valve quality. It's not perfect in some places but the problems it has are negligible and to bring them up would mostly just be nitpicking. If it weren't for some of those issues that make it clear it's a fan project I'd give it a higher rating, but still an 7/10 is a pretty solid rating I'd say. I can't believe this doesn't cost any money. I wish I could pay for this, it's that good.

Halo Infinite is such a hard game for me to write about, I just don't know how to get my feelings on it properly organized. I suppose that's also a fitting way to describe how 343 has handled this series since Bungie left to do their own thing, unorganized. Although, out of the three mainline entries 343 has made so far, this is easily the best one, which doesn't mean it's perfect but I can actually see myself having a good time replaying this one so it has that over the other two (especially Halo 5).

The sandbox is near classic Halo in quality, but it's bogged down by boring open world design that Ubisoft would blush at with repetitive side tasks that don't actually add any substance to the game. The writing is often pretty generic, sometimes annoying, and then at other times it's genuinely fantastic, most notably near the finale. I can't wrap my head around how Halo Infinite turned out this way, even with about an extra year of development time it still feels unfinished, and that's without bringing up the multiplayer.

I want to say that this is a sign of better things to come for this series, but 343 has messed it up so many times, and there are still a lot of worrying things about Infinite's game design that leave me less excited for the series' future... and just so tired.

As a fan of the first two Alien movies I really liked this game, although I think it's held back by some generic writing, some very of its era looking human models and a handful of glitches that really stood out at times. I'd say that those problems are mostly made up for with the atmosphere, the gorgeous environment design and the titular alien though. If you're a fan of the franchise you'll definitely get something out of it, even if it is just fanboying at being able to play around in a very faithful recreation of this universe.