It could have been one of the better Halo releases in recent years, as I found the base multiplayer experience somewhat enjoyable, but of course it's marred by poor decision-making and communication on all fronts. Ya gotta love the corporate hustle.

Some graphical updates in exchange for worse sounding audio (why does it sound so tin-can like?), the loss of gun game queues, loss of tdm queues, and private lobbies only being possible via dedicated server hosting. What I'm trying to say is that it's an early access marketing stunt at the time of this review.

If you want your double-expresso shot of 90's action media culture stirred into an NES action-platformer, you can't go wrong with this one. It oozes attitude and has a kick-ass OST, just be aware there's still the classic cons of the era in this bad boy (aka cheap shit).