DO NOT BUY Halo Infinite Campaign - Disappointing Game

Hello, welcome back to a new video game

review. Recently, I've been playing the

new Halo Infinite campaign mode, and as an

avid fan of the Halo series and sci-fi

shooters in general, I just had to play

this game. Unfortunately, I was very

disappointed. So it's been a few years

since the last installment of Halo, and,

and with this Halo, in the beginning it

starts off just like any other Halo, and

then you start to realize that it's a very

different game. The game begins in typical

Halo fashion where Master Chief gets

knocked out and then he's floating around,

then he gets rescued by some random guy.

And then Master Chief's systems come back

online and you have to do this really

annoying test where you look to the sides,

up and down. I don't know why, but it

seems like in every Halo game you start

off the game by having to look left and

right and up and down. What is the point

of this? It's really annoying. And then

you have to make your way through some

kind of ship and everything starts blowing

up and exploding, taking out packs of

enemies. And this is just like the intro

of the first Halo game when the ship

starts exploding, you've got to try and

escape. And it kind of feels like they're

trying to make the game feel nostalgic for

us players who played the first games,

but it just feels a bit like a copy and

paste. Maybe you could say it's like a

homage. Also, the game doesn't really do a

very good job explaining what's happened.

I haven't played a Halo game in years.

Last thing I remember, the humans and the

Covenant became allies and teamed up to

fight against the Flood. But now you're

fighting against these Covenant which are

called the Banished. So technically

they're not the Covenant, but they have

exactly the same kind of troops. And I

think the humans have been defeated or

something like that. The game just did a

really bad job at explaining the story and

setting things up. And then you reunite

with this kind of copy of Cortana, and

somehow they've managed to make Cortana

look really weird. Her facial expressions

are very derpy and goofy looking, which is

strange because in Halo 4 and 5 I remember

she was really hot. And because she's

supposed to be this dumbed-down version of

Cortana, she's very annoying and she has

these kind of cheesy one-liners all the

time. So after the introduction of the

game is over, you are plunged into the

main meat of the game, and basically

you're just put into this open world kind

of setting, and there's a load of

checkpoints on the map that you have to go

to and fight the enemies, take control of

the area, save Marines, that kind of

stuff. And I can kind of get that they're

trying something new with the Halo games

instead of what they always used to do,

but this open world gimmick is basically

just a gimmick. I find it very lazy game

design when developers just go, oh, let's

make an open world and let's put some

checkpoints and enemy bases he has to go

to and take control of. It just feels like

a very lazy way of making a game. I

remember in the original Halo series, it

was kind of an on-rails shooter. You just

went from checkpoint to checkpoint

following this map and then events would

happen, different characters would appear

and the story would be told to you in that

kind of way. Along the way, there'd be

bosses and different set pieces, and that

was really cool. It felt like you were in

a movie. But with this new Halo, You're

just going around this big map from

checkpoint to checkpoint, and it just

doesn't really have that same cinematic

feel. Remember all the cool stuff that

happened in the original Halo games, like

saving Captain Keyes and boarding the

Covenant flagship and trying to find the

Autumn of Pillar wreck sites to

self-destruct it? There was just so many

cool missions in the original Halos. And

then this new Halo Infinite just feels

like you're going from checkpoint to

checkpoint, killing the enemies and saving

Marines. It just doesn't really feel the

same. All the gameplay so far is just like

you go to one base where the enemy is and

then you press X on the control panel or

you have to carry the power seed to the

generator and then the boss appears and

then you take out the boss. It's very

repetitive and very grindy kind of

gameplay. It reminds me a bit of Destiny.

Destiny also had this sort of gameplay

mechanic where you're just on this big

open map. It's got a bunch of stuff on it,

a bunch of enemies and bases and

checkpoints and random missions here and

there. And then you just go and choose

which one you want to do. It's kind of

strange because Bungie was the one who

originally made Halo and then left Halo to

make Destiny, and now 343 Industries, who

took over Halo, are now copying Destiny.

It's just kind of weird. It feels like

they ran out of ideas and they thought,

oh, what's Bungie doing now? We'll just

copy them. Now for the gameplay, I guess

it's okay, but it's nothing really new.

It doesn't really feel anything different

from previous Halo games. If you like the

Halo shooting experience, then you'll love

this as well. There's quite a lot of new

grappling hook. I'd say the grappling hook

is the, the main new feature attraction of

the game. And yeah, it's quite fun.

There's a lot of cool things you can do

with it. You could grapple hook onto

enemies and then melee attack them, or you

could grapple hook onto ledges and swing

up there. Feels a bit like being

Spider-Man. And for the weapons, you've

got the traditional bog-standard Halo

weapons like the Needler, the assault

rifle, the rocket launcher. Then you got a

bunch of new weapons, and these weapons

are kind of like in the theme of the

Banished, who are the new enemy faction

now. And these weapons have a very

primitive kind of feel. They don't feel

very futuristic. Almost all of them fire

metal slugs, metal bullets, and they have

bayonets attached on the end. I guess it's

supposed to reflect the brutalness of the

Brutes. I don't know, I just wasn't really

that impressed with these weapons. I

thought the weapons from Halo 4, from the,

the Prometheans, had much more interesting

weapons with all the orange globby effects

and the way the weapons would transform

and stuff. And in Halo Infinite, you've

got this kind of metal slug firing harpoon

gun and a revolver gun and this kind of

flamethrower grenade launcher thing. They

aren't terrible. It's just I wasn't very

blown away or impressed by the new

weapons. Also, the new main villain of the

game is not very interesting or

intimidating. I don't really feel this

impending sense of doom that the original

Halo games had. In the original Halo

games, you kind of had this desperate

struggle and fights for survival of the

human race against this technologically

superior alien race that was held

hell-bent on our destruction. And you

really felt like, how are we going to win

this? How are the humans going to survive

when all we have is Master Chief? I love

that whole atmosphere of humanity having

to fight for their survival and retreating

back to Mother Earth planet by planet,

losing each planet on the way back. And

this new Halo Infinite just doesn't really

have that same feeling. We're just on this

Halo ring for who knows what reason.

There's a bunch of Marines scattered here

and there. I don't know what's going on.

And the side characters are just kind of

annoying. You've got this new version of

Cortana who's just really annoying and

cheesy. Then you've got this whining

Spanish guy who's the pilot, and you rely

on him to take you around to places and to

drop off weapons and vehicles, but he's

always complaining and whining like a

baby, saying stuff like, Chief, don't

leave me here alone, I need you to come

and save me. He's just really negative and

a bit of a wet tissue compared to cool

characters from the previous games such as

Sergeant Johnson and Captain Keyes, who

had such a can-do attitude. So in general,

I'm not really that impressed with this

new game. It looks good, it plays like a

Halo game, it looks like a Halo game, it

feels like a Halo game. And if you're just

looking for something simple,

pick-up-and-play, dumb shooting game,

then it's fine. If you want like an epic

sci-fi cinematic experience, it just

doesn't really deliver like the previous

games used to. So unfortunately, I don't

think I can recommend buying this game,

and I have to give it a 4.2 out of 10.

Very lackluster and not quite up to my