So in your typical Ubisoft game (or pretty much any pin-filled open-world-busywork game now), you head to radio towers like it’s a part-time job, then piss off and never visit them again, as their purpose is to just be scaled and forgotten. My first inkling was to think of FOBs like radio towers, but they’re almost nothing alike. From there, you can wander around, collect stuff, kill stuff, go conquer forward operating bases (FOBs) which highlight more stuff and create fast travel points, or run to critical path missions (which have a cutscene transition and often take place in a bunker or structure). After a few intro missions elsewhere, Chief and his pilot are thrown into Zeta Halo, which has a world map. I should say up front that the open world does not suck. This is all-Chief-all-the-time, which is going to delight a lot of people who were tired of side stories of other Spartans. This is an arena action shooter at heart, and you’re destroying everything to a fantastic soundtrack as a one-man army. Sometimes it’s rather cartoony in nature how much you’ll need to blow things up, which is a compliment.

Chief comes back online and meets a lonely pilot, and immediately learns that he needs to take on more aliens to avoid some bad outcome. Cortana, Zeta Halo (the game’s world/setting), the Banished: all of these things are thrown around, and explained as you play. Forget that it has the perceived trappings of a modern open-world setup, as it doesn’t detract from the core message in the slightest: which is, of course, to wreck stuff, and blow it up, if possible.įar from a reboot, Halo Infinite continues the story of past games, but it does feel like a soft reset. Halo is notorious for cliffhangers, but the payoff for this one, and how Chief recovers from unrelenting odds and forges ahead sets the stage for Infinite‘s forward momentum. Halo Infinite ( PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S )Īfter Halo 5, Master Chief is rescued and resuscitated from the depths of space, and has a job to do.

This is the first major Halo game in six years, let’s get right into it! So I’ve talked about my extensive history with Halo already in our Halo Infinite multiplayer review.

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