There are very few Game franchises I can think of that have captured my attention at my youngest of years. There has yet to be a phase of my life where I have not played halo, I have played every game in the mainline series. With that explanation out of the way ill just say what I think of the game: its a seven out of ten, its a marked improvement over halo 5 (which I would rank as average 5/10) and overall the campaign is pretty solid. The gunplay feels weighty enough and there are several new weapons. There is also some decent additions to movement like being able to slide and to use a grapple hook for traversal and you can throw various different types of explosive containers at enemies to spice up combat. The enemy roster is well standard halo enemies and they all behave fine and the music is decent though I miss the scores of the older games. It certainly feels like im playing Halo, however there seems to be a void of content here the world feels unfinished, there is a lack of differing environments and it all feels too short and I worry there was still crunch during the development its certainly possible that crunch was reduced compared to halo 4 and 5 but I doubt that and there is little to ensure that any company promising this will actually do so. There is also another disappointing aspect to this game it was presented as a "live service" title a contemptible concept designed to allow publishers to put out broken unfinished games and to keep devs chained to an infinite unending chain of updates and fatigued, well very quickly reality proved that this Upper management wet dream will never work as it appears this game probably wont have support for longer than one presidential term. finally some things I want to illuminate about this game: No this is not some sort of halo themed reskin of Far Cry, it has little to no pointless busywork simply because you can experience everything this game has to offer within three days (which is not a negative frankly i would prefer a simple concise open world instead of a bloated slog that never ends). Next: No its not as good as the original Bungie trilogy and its an impossible request to expect it to be as good and I think its a bit of an overreaction to assume that everything not made by Bungie is automatically bad. Yes I would have preferred to get something as good as Halo 2 but how much can I separate my love of that game from nostalgia? There is no use in having impossible expectations sometimes its okay to have a seven out of ten game and if the actual meat of this game is its downfall rather than the exterior problems inherent to the industry then I don't know how we could ever get anything good again.

I've played this game to completion more times than I can count more than any other game in the series more than any of the X games (not to say any of these sequels are lesser) and I'll say it's a classic there's nothing I can say that other people haven't the controls are very tight the soundtrack has excellent composition it's intuitive and it's simple but breezing through this game is so satisfying. However I am going to outline some criticisms I have (with the caveat that this is literally the first game so they aren't going to get the formula perfect the first time) 1. The disappearing block sections while there are about three of these sections in the game they are just tedious it feels good to finally finish them but in stages like Iceman's level they seriously drag on.
2. The foot holders are very aggravating (also at their worst in Iceman's stage) they are very random in movement and they are incredibly buggy and when there is a long stretch of them it just gets aggravating (which is why I just use the magnet beam but I genuinely wanted to do the platforming it's just so fucking easy to fall through what should be a solid platform)
3. The yellow devil is a bit of a slog he's fun to fight once you learn the patterns but it just takes so long and it's very static I still like this boss but I had much more fun with the others. But in the end this is a classic play it if you haven't already.