It's finished. This game truly is the culmination of everything Bungie was building up to this point. Everything from the gameplay to the story has been given the just amount of polish and attention to keep players engaged and satisfied.
The story takes off right after the ending of Halo 2 and loses no time to keep going. Many great moments and even really natural and cool callbacks, something really difficult to achieve. While the characters can be argued to be simple, everyone has a strong personality and this is the game where their story truly concludes. Love you Arbiter.
The gunplay is amazing, you can feel the power on pretty much all weapons when you get used to them, even if some are underwhelming at first like the magnum. There's also more grenade types and now we have access to equipment. Equipment can be simple things like throwing down a shield or some support items, as well as invincibility or so, and while I didn't use them much they still come in handy when needed. You can also yank off big turrets to delete anything in your sights for a while, basically being the Team Fortress 2 Heavy.
The enemy and ally AI seems to talk a lot more and their gameplay lines are super fun to listen to, I felt very attached to them while playing and would get sad when my marines died, or amused when enemies reacted to me. This is of course an element from previous games, but it feels much more natural in here.
The mission design is basically Halo 2, linear but grand in scope, except this time extremely polished. Many memorable set pieces and the most fun vehicles in the series aid playing through them to be super fun as well.
I was so absorbed in this game that I couldn't stop playing whenever I had the opportunity and would often stop to admire what was going on-screen or around the game feel itself. I am really happy that I finally played it after losing interest on Halo when it stopped getting PC ports way back when, and have to give props to everyone who worked on it for making the best thing possible on top of what CE and 2 gave us. It's finished, and we really didn't need more Halo games to happen, but I'll continue on and see how that goes.
The story takes off right after the ending of Halo 2 and loses no time to keep going. Many great moments and even really natural and cool callbacks, something really difficult to achieve. While the characters can be argued to be simple, everyone has a strong personality and this is the game where their story truly concludes. Love you Arbiter.
The gunplay is amazing, you can feel the power on pretty much all weapons when you get used to them, even if some are underwhelming at first like the magnum. There's also more grenade types and now we have access to equipment. Equipment can be simple things like throwing down a shield or some support items, as well as invincibility or so, and while I didn't use them much they still come in handy when needed. You can also yank off big turrets to delete anything in your sights for a while, basically being the Team Fortress 2 Heavy.
The enemy and ally AI seems to talk a lot more and their gameplay lines are super fun to listen to, I felt very attached to them while playing and would get sad when my marines died, or amused when enemies reacted to me. This is of course an element from previous games, but it feels much more natural in here.
The mission design is basically Halo 2, linear but grand in scope, except this time extremely polished. Many memorable set pieces and the most fun vehicles in the series aid playing through them to be super fun as well.
I was so absorbed in this game that I couldn't stop playing whenever I had the opportunity and would often stop to admire what was going on-screen or around the game feel itself. I am really happy that I finally played it after losing interest on Halo when it stopped getting PC ports way back when, and have to give props to everyone who worked on it for making the best thing possible on top of what CE and 2 gave us. It's finished, and we really didn't need more Halo games to happen, but I'll continue on and see how that goes.