Loved Halo 1, 2, 3, ODST, Reach and Wars. Even Spartan Assault was a good bit of fun.
For me the decline began with Halo 4... Although to Halo 4's credit, it did look good for a console game at the time.
Halo 3 was the most played game on Xbox for months and months, it took a massively long time for Call of Duty to dethrone it from the most played game.
It was clean, it was fun and it was content rich and the campaign was fun, it broke records at the time.
Halo 5 though, isn't a bad game... That is reserved for titles such as Superman on the Nintendo 64, but it's also not genre-defining like the first Halo game or Goldeneye/Perfect Dark. - But to be fair, I don't think I have ever played a sequel that has been able to shake up and define a genre, so that kind of expectation is unfair in my eyes.
It's an average game.
Graphically it's horrible.
Pop-in abounds, bad quality shadowing, aliasing, poor texture filtering... And characters in the distance seem to be rendered at like 10-15fps.
And I hate the dynamic resolution. Give me 720P or 1080P, not everything in between. (Being a PC gamer I am a little more picky.)
Where it's graphics does hold it's own is... With the geometry, they used the Tessellator to it's full extent and it shows and they should be applauded for that.
The Micro-transactions are a grind, Warzone sucks with it's limited amount of maps which gets stale fast... Forge and Theater and other Halo-staples were only just recently added to the game, long after a chunk of the population had moved onto "greener pastures".
The story was a convoluted mess, relying on the expanded universe that 90% of people have no clue about... And then it ends.
The campaign had so much more potential to give, the camp/quiet area's full of NPC's were a massively missed opportunity to flesh out characters and story and there needed to be more Chief.
With that said. It's not a bad game. But it's not a fantastic one either, it's right in the middle... And I will still probably buy Halo 6 and Halo Wars 2, it's certainly better than the bore-fest that is StarWars: Battlefront. (Although StarWars has better graphics by a mile.)
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