Very fun and replayable with good graphics and intense gore.

magine

This game plays well, but feels like a half baked attempt at a full Halo game. You can't choose game modes and are stuck with whatever terrible game mode it chooses for you. 343 harps on player choice, customization, and freedom, but in the end is very restrictive, and you can't choose anything for yourself. Progression shouldn't be solely locked behind your payment information, I'd rather just pay for a full game that included these basic features from the start.

Does not follow Valve regional price for the base game or multiplayer, which makes the cost of in-game currency and cosmetics ridiculous. The predatory system in place is made just to make you populate their servers to grind all day or give up and spend.

Don't waste your money on cosmetics, simply play it for free and finish off the campaign on the game pass when it arrives.

On top of that, the game is packed with all manner of cosmetics that can be bought, from armour colour schemes, AI buddies, armour pieces, vehicle colour schemes, cosmetic effects (such as fire), and so on and so on and so on. It's clear that the store is going to be completely packed, and with a single armour bundle costing £16 / $20 (roughly double what it costs to have a full armour ornament set in Destiny 2), it's very clear that the game is free because it allows them to set these prices, rather than having these prices because the game is free.

While the game-to-game gunplay feels very crisp, and the classic utilitarian halo art style is back, the whole game has clearly been designed from the ground up to vacuum money out of players.

There is a battlepass system, but you don't even get experience towards it for completing matches. You *have* to complete daily/weekly challenges to get any experience, but even then that's only 100xp per completion, while even trying to get the first level up requires 1000xp. I played for roughly an hour and a half and wasn't able to get past a single level up.