Halo Infinite Campaign Gameplay Footage Out Now With New Enemies, Locations, RPG System, And More

@illegal_peanut: @gamerbum I didn't like Halo 4 and 5 as Halo games but they were good games otherwise. You put Halo 4's campaign with Halo 3's Humor and skipped that end game quick time I would have considered it a proper Halo campaign albeit with somewhat boring Prometheans. Throw in Halo 5's Forge editor some actual good MP maps with proper Halo weapon spawns and your done.

Halo 5 campaign had a lot of fun but it was definitely not what most existing players wanted from Halo and let's be honest by this point everyone started realizing how boring fighting Prometheans (even though improved), with their fancy skinned feeling weapons pool, really was. Multiplayer maps were too large and relied too heavily on the Forge editor to make up the difference. This wouldn't have been so troubling if the editor was a full fledged editor. Still there were plenty of amazing community maps that fought to compensate for 343's love for the get anywhere from anywhere in seconds game design philosophy. Halo infinite still seems to love this philosophy but at least it's feeling a bit better than it has in the past and the MP maps are giving us hope so far.

@illegal_peanut:

Well said. 343i's Halo's are great games. Certainly gameplay wise. Stories could perhaps be better but I play these games primarily for the gameplay. Gameplay is king as they say.

Currently playing through Halo 4 on MCC at 120FPS and it's a different game because of the higher FPS. Its surprised me. I actually think it's easily up there with the Bungie Halo's. I might think differently if i was to go back and play it at 30FPS but right now? It's awesome.

@skyhighgam3r: Yeah, it's a real bummer about the co-op. I know they say it will come later, I hope they follow through on that, (I'm guessing they will).

@hardwenzen:

You need to get your eyes checked. HZD on ps4 is a shimmering, noisy mess. And boring to boot. Gave up after 3 or 4 hours of trying to get into it. Just didn't hook me. Halo Infinite isfar better graphically. It's not even a question. But everyone here knows your an Xbox hater so it's no surprise you'd have a horrible take.

@hardwenzen: No way does Horizon look better than Infinite. Also not running in 4k or 60fps. What else ya got.

@hardwenzen:
Halo isn't exactly the graphical marvel of a franchise, regardless what platform it is on... It has always had a very geometric/bland look and this game in particular is trying to go back to it's roots, so it essentially looks like modern-day update to the original title.

Also, if you are using this video as your basis of comparison, I think it only renders at 1080p and even if it was 4k (which is one of the big visual benefits of this title) you would need a 4k display to even view it as such. This also doesn't account for any degradation that may occur from video compression when they posted it.

@H0RSE: Think it wouldn't matter if the different versions were more segregated, but it still does matter because of cross-play. The Series X and One S versions of the game have to be compatible with each other and "be the same game" to an extent that throws a wrench into things.

@kabloe: The game is not held back by those decisions. Give me an example of a PS5 game that uses dynamic lighting in an open world and renders 4k 60. The closest thing is Miles Morales which does not have a dynamic lighting system. Time of day is fixed so you can bake in lighting. There is literally nothing on the PS5 or even first party PS4 that is using a dynamic lighting system in an open world that I can think of. If you want to compare something to Sonys linear story driven games then wait for Hellblade 2 .

@kabloe: Series X is the most powerful console available. That is a fact. A PC could wreck all consoles. That is a fact. Why harp on it?

Maybe a developer could make the prettiest game ever, running on last gen hardware running at 1 fps with all lights, AI, and physics precomputed. Would that be enjoyable?

No one will know how "pretty" Halo: Infinite is until it is released. Point is, it appears to be a rather open world with the evolution or continuation of Halo AI and physics. There is a target for a alien architecture and world, similar to older Halos. The enemy designs are confined by what fans expect to see in a Halo game.

Maybe if HI was native to Series X and PC we would see some more ambitious features (destruction, further advanced physics, ships), who knows. To compare it to games based in our world, with little to nothing dynamically calculated, running at sub 30 fps at 1/4 - 1/2 the resolution is somewhat disingenuous.

@kabloe: You are connecting things that don't need to be connected.