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Critics Recommend
Multiplayer
Classic Halo multiplayer with fun, modern upgrades.
Memorable Campaign Moments
The campaign successfully engineers some stand-out fun.
Continuing Growth
343 is demonstrating its commitment to updates, rapidly addressing player feedback.
Halo Infinite's multiplayer is nearly perfect, presenting a free and cross-platform offering with genre-defining potential. In the contrast, the campaign is sufficient for any fan of the series.
Halo Infinite | Campaign Launch Trailer
Halo Infinite | Carry On
Halo Infinite | Forever We Fight - Official Full Length
Halo Infinite's multiplayer delivers a spectacular modern version of one of gaming's most esteemed first-person shooters.
Halo Infinite's move to sort-of open world is a largely successful jumping off point for Halo's bold new future.
Halo Infinite's multiplayer sees the series emerge from its decade-long existential crisis as something radically familiar.
Halo Infinite's single-player campaign is exactly what this series needed. It brings out the best in Master Chief's unique and satisfying combat style while leveraging old ideas to create memorable new moments. Its story falls short for both new and veteran players, but it was worth the six-year wait.
Halo Infinite is inevitably going to see a ton of play thanks to its day one inclusion on Game Pass and the campaign is well-positioned to impress. There are plenty of mechanical, enemy, weapon, and story throwbacks for longtime fans to smirk at and the game is approachable, exciting, and endearing enough to potentially win over a whole new generation of Halo fans.
Halo Infinite can't quite deliver on being an open-world throwback, but it's the best shooting the series has seen to date.
If the campaign will continue to be built upon with similarly intimate stories revolving around Master Chief and The Weapon then I cannot wait to see them, since the potential here for expansion is limitless. Multiplayer is spectacular, even as it struggles with teething issues associated with becoming a live-service model. At its core the punchy gunplay, reactive movement, and reliance on teamwork remains, and that’s all Halo Infinite needs to become a winner. As someone who grew up as a blubbering fangirl, it feels so good to see Master Chief deliver an adventure that is once again worthy of his iconic status.
The studio responsible for creating some incredible cinematics for Halo, as well as other notable IPs, is unfortunately shutting down.
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