I didn't think I'd made a prediction but in the metascore thread it shows I said 86. Halo Infinite is right on the edge of being 86!

967th - 88 (Lowest 88 score)
1212th - 87 (Halo Infinite)
1239th - 86 (Highest 86 score)

Will probably end 86-88 so could go either way.

Well, from what I have seen it begins just after the war that 5 set up. Halsey created the new Cortana, the weapon, to stop the old, evil one by trapping her within Zeta Halo, which she succeeded at, but during the war the Infinity gets destroyed and Chief is left floating in space for 6 months. The Pelican pilot from the earlier trailers saves Chief and they realize that the Banished have came to the ring in the 6 months that Chief has been out for, and plan to fire it. Chief decides to stop them. Story about the prior 2 years between 5 and Infinite is learned bit by bit via collectibles around the open world as well as cutscenes with the New Cortana, the weapon.

Halo Infinite MP is better than Halo 5 MP IMO.

I do agree with Angelus that it was very good mechanically and the gunplay was good but I sorta feel like, Halo Infinite feels more 'Halo' than Halo 5 did, I'm glad they've dumped all those inherent Spartan abilities and bringing back equipment, Halo Infinite MP feels like a modern evolution of Halo 3 while Halo 5 felt like something else...Still good but I get the Halo feeling more from Infinite if that makes any sense.

Progression in Infinite is bad, REQ system was trash too in Halo 5 though, about even there.

In terms of playlists, Halo 5 sorted its playlists better but they both launched with around 6 core game-modes in total, so there's not much difference there, Halo 5 had 21 maps but that was extremely deceiving, 3 were Warzone Assault which were exactly the same maps as Warzone which takes us down to 18, 7 were Forge maps which brings us down to 11 and 2 were remixes which brings us down to 9 original maps, I don't particularly think Halo 5's maps were that good either whereas I'm enjoying most of Halo Infinite's.

And Warzone was a poor replacement for BTB.

Halo Infinite MP is better than Halo 5 MP IMO.

I do agree with Angelus that it was very good mechanically and the gunplay was good but I sorta feel like, Halo Infinite feels more 'Halo' than Halo 5 did, I'm glad they've dumped all those inherent Spartan abilities and bringing back equipment, Halo Infinite MP feels like a modern evolution of Halo 3 while Halo 5 felt like something else...Still good but I get the Halo feeling more from Infinite if that makes any sense.

Progression in Infinite is bad, REQ system was trash too in Halo 5 though, about even there.

In terms of playlists, Halo 5 sorted its playlists better but they both launched with around 6 core game-modes in total, so there's not much difference there, Halo 5 had 21 maps but that was extremely deceiving, 3 were Warzone Assault which were exactly the same maps as Warzone which takes us down to 18, 7 were Forge maps which brings us down to 11 and 2 were remixes which brings us down to 9 original maps, I don't particularly think Halo 5's maps were that good either whereas I'm enjoying most of Halo Infinite's.

And Warzone was a poor replacement for BTB.

And it will only take us until December for Halo Infinite to have more modes than Halo 5 did (and a better playlist selection if they fix that).

Ugh. So apparently there is currently no way to replay Halo Infinite's 14 campaign missions without restarting the whole campaign. If you miss a collectible like a skull on one of the 14 missions you are SOL. For a game 6 years in the making it sure does feel like they are missing an awful lot of important features. It honestly feels like we are in for at least another 1 year wait before the game is where it should have been at on launch; raytracing, campaign co-op, mission replay, weather, Forge, lifetime career progression system, fan favorite playlists, more biomes; all are coming sometime after launch.