Halo Infinite

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6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1199 Ratings

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  1. P43YM
    Dec 10, 2021
    2
    Infinite boredom
    OMG! I can't believe how boring this game is. Awful copy/paste openworld. I can't force myself to play it.
    It looks like they literally took one "halo" mission from halo ce and stretched it out for the whole game. Yes gunplay is nice, but where is the rest? Even Super Mario bros from NES had at least a water level and more gameplay variety Update: I finished the    Infinite boredom
    OMG! I can't believe how boring this game is. Awful copy/paste openworld. I can't force myself to play it.
    It looks like they literally took one "halo" mission from halo ce and stretched it out for the whole game.

    Yes gunplay is nice, but where is the rest? Even Super Mario bros from NES had at least a water level and more gameplay variety

    Update: I finished the game and they managed to impress me: This is even more boring and empty than I thought at the beginning.
    Everyone's favorite "press three buttons at different ends of the map" mission and immediately "press four buttons on even more distant ends of the map " - WOW "Defeat 3 waves of enemies in the room "and immediately do the same thing again. Love it. And my favorite: the big boss in the little room with one hit kill. Wonderful.

    Story is ok i guess, but it just starts when game ends

    And the Bad Guy... omg... it's even less then onedimensional... I'm evil and i have a deep voice and i'm gonna talk and you can't skip blablabla... Just shut up, please    … Expand
  2. Sim11sar
    Dec 9, 2021
    0
    Stuttering, cutscene stuttering, frame rate issues, extremely repetitive level design.
  3. amirabbas488ik
    Dec 9, 2021
    0
    you got to be kidding me with this game. outdated as .... guns have no wight
  4. Lord_Volta
    Dec 28, 2021
    2
    Halo Reach was released a decade ago and Infinite can't support the three things I loved about Halo:
    --Collect Armor (Linked to challenges which are broken)
    --Play Big Team Battle (Servers keep dropping connection and causing error loops)
    --Mess around in Forge (Doesn't exist)

    The gameplay is fantastic, but I have no reason to keep at it.
  5. metacritiques
    Dec 31, 2021
    0
    This is a mangled, destroyed mess of what original Halo games used to be. The campaign is desperate attempt to stay relevant, and the open world portion is nowhere near as good as other open world games. The multiplayer servers don't even work right, more than half the games that you try to join try to work for a minute before booting you out saying that you can't connect to the server.This is a mangled, destroyed mess of what original Halo games used to be. The campaign is desperate attempt to stay relevant, and the open world portion is nowhere near as good as other open world games. The multiplayer servers don't even work right, more than half the games that you try to join try to work for a minute before booting you out saying that you can't connect to the server. They also don't allow you to customize your playlist so you may be playing slayer, capture the flag, or oddball, you never know. When you break down the gameplay its a call of duty ripoff, except no pre-selecting your loadout. The game modes are often based around an RNG factor where the game pretty much just decides to hand one team the win by placing all the objectives closest to them. The server issues spike constantly even when you have a fantastic connection through an ethernet wire (seriously, I've cloud streamed multiplayer battlefield games with a smoother connection than this). The optimization is also pretty shoddy, no other game, including Crysis Remastered, has made my computer heat up so fast. It seriously sounds like its going to melt itself when running this. If you want a great game, go play any halo before 343 got a-hold of it.… Expand
  6. Dumboy
    Dec 24, 2021
    2
    2 is the perfect score for this game. Equivalent to the transit time of the prologue, where I had adequate fps.

    But then... I have 21: 9 (3440: 1440 144Hz) monitor and rtx 3070 Ultra: 39-43 fps High: 45-49 fps Medium: 50-55 fps Low: 55-65 fps Should I buy an xbox to get optimization? I do not think so. Great port 343 Industries, great optimization. By the way, the game    2 is the perfect score for this game. Equivalent to the transit time of the prologue, where I had adequate fps.

    But then...

    I have 21: 9 (3440: 1440 144Hz) monitor and rtx 3070

    Ultra: 39-43 fps
    High: 45-49 fps
    Medium: 50-55 fps
    Low: 55-65 fps

    Should I buy an xbox to get optimization? I do not think so. Great port 343 Industries, great optimization.

    By the way, the game looks amazing! (sarcasm)
    It is quite obvious why the game is so demanding on pc resources. (sarcasm again)    … Expand
  7. legendofmike
    Dec 31, 2021
    0
    A lot of these low reviews are pretty accurate just feels so unfinished. Story mode is very short and the rest of the game like side missions and whatnot fee like a copy and paste job.
  8. TW1TCHYGAM3R
    Dec 14, 2021
    4
    Even though there are many holes in the Halo Infinite Campaign story. Being able to jump in in the middle of the excitement is really nice. Zeta Halo is vast and full of life making it a pleasure to simply explore with some challenging firefights in between. The game is all action with that authentic Halo feel.

    but... The most disappointing part of Halo Infinite is how 343 decided to    Even though there are many holes in the Halo Infinite Campaign story. Being able to jump in in the middle of the excitement is really nice. Zeta Halo is vast and full of life making it a pleasure to simply explore with some challenging firefights in between. The game is all action with that authentic Halo feel.

    but...

    The most disappointing part of Halo Infinite is how 343 decided to handle progression in multiplayer. It is clearly the focus on milking the players for more money instead of awarding us with customization items for being good at the game. This will leave a lot of the Original Halo Trilogy fans with a bad taste in our mouths. Halo was supposed to be different than Fortnite, Warzone and Apex Legends and not only that but 343 did a really bad job at monetizing like the mentioned Battle Royales.

    I think this will be talked about a lot with the Post Release Development team and hopefully they will find a better solution than a 'Battlepass' and over priced customization items.    … Expand
  9. InsaneCheese
    Dec 25, 2021
    4
    Story is compelling, the environments look great, but suffers from Halos typical anaemic gunplay.
  10. WheresTheLitch
    Jan 18, 2022
    3
    Pretty average campaign really had some highlights but it all feels the same the map doesn’t change no different environment. MP is fun but riddled with cheaters and the cost of everything is absurd. But also kinda feels like just a bad destiny if you ask me
  11. BlackSteelApexx
    Dec 31, 2021
    4
    The campaign is fun for what it's worth, but it still has its flaws. Contrary to pretty much every other Halo game besides ODST, there's almost no biome diversity. The entire game either takes place in one of three places - a forest, a Forerunner interior, or a Banished interior. That's it. The previous Halo games had their standard faction interiors and forests, but they also hadThe campaign is fun for what it's worth, but it still has its flaws. Contrary to pretty much every other Halo game besides ODST, there's almost no biome diversity. The entire game either takes place in one of three places - a forest, a Forerunner interior, or a Banished interior. That's it. The previous Halo games had their standard faction interiors and forests, but they also had snow-covered canyons, dark and haunted swamps, desert plateaus, jungles, lakes, sprawling cities, ancient ruins, oceanside vistas and cliffs, islands, winding valleys... there's none of that in Infinite. Nevermind that 90% of the games' missions boil down to "go here, press button, then go there, press another button, then go there, press that button, then fight a boss all while shooting things along the way." There's no creative use of vehicles, no creative use of the open map to build compelling and interesting stealth missions, recon objectives, etc. Instead of making HVT's just bosses surrounded by some enemies, why not create a mission that's more elaborate where you have to draw them out of hiding or collect clues as to their location? Capturing FOB's is laughably easy, as each "base" is just a single elevated platform with some fancy fabricator crates lining them. Perhaps the worst part is that none of this is replayable, so once you finish the campaign and all the side missions, there's literally nothing to do. Other games like Just Cause allow you to repeat enemy bases and areas. Games like GTA have side activities that can be enjoyed after hitting 100% completion. Infinite has nothing. Again, the campaign is not BAD. It's actually extremely fun to play through! The problem is that once you're done with it, you're REALLY done with it, and there's nothing to keep you coming back to this vast open sandbox space that 343 spent so long building.

    As for the multiplayer, I'm not even going to say whether Infinite's PvP formula is good or bad, as I don't play PvP, so any opinion in that regard is out of my scope. However, I feel perfectly qualified to say that the PvE and progression in multiplayer is pathetic at best. After 20 years, we finally got bots in Halo multiplayer. Unfortunately, unlike other games like CoD: Ghosts and Gears 4/5 that have multiple PvE playlists separated by difficulty levels, Halo: Infinite only has ONE PvE playlist, "Bot Bootcamp", which runs on Marine-difficulty - the second-lowest difficulty in the game. As a result, matches feel less like matches and more like racing other players to get the most kills on hapless AI. This quickly gets old and neuters any sense of replayability the playlist would otherwise have if it were populated by bots running on ODST or even Spartan difficulty. I've played private matches with bots on Spartan difficulty and at that point, it feels like you're up against MLG pros. THAT is a fun and challenging difficulty. Marine is not. This is an easy fix, but I sadly don't think 343 will do it.

    The progression in this game is truly awful. What's baffling is that 343i already had a GREAT template to go off of with the MCC. It's meritocratic and incredibly rewarding. You can earn more XP by being really good at the game and stomping all over your enemies, but you can also come out of a match with good gains by being a great teammate and racking up Teamwork XP by driving a Warthog for your teammates. Infinite has none of that, and XP per match is strictly capped to fixed payouts with diminishing returns that actively *discourage* extended play sessions. Why in the world is 343 trying their hardest to get people to STOP playing their game?

    Perhaps the worst part of Infinite (okay, it's DEFINITELY the worst part of Infinite) is its business model. This just might be the most insulting business model I've ever seen in a full-price AAA game. And don't tell me "the multiplayer is free" because anybody who cares about Halo is paying the $60 for the campaign anyway. Cosmetics in this game can ONLY be earned by either buying the battle pass with real money or buying them from the store with real money. That's right, there is currently no way to earn in-game cosmetics with in-game currency. There are a few skin sets you can earn by retrieving collectibles in the campaign, but that's it. The rest is all locked behind an atrociously overpriced paywall. Everything from the prices to the structure of this game's cosmetics is absolutely abhorrent. The current battle pass has a Halo: Reach theme, but instead of including the HAZOP helmet in the battle pass, it's a separate store item with a TWENTY DOLLAR price tag! Twenty dollars! And keep in mind, you can only use it with the Mark V armor core, a system which severely and needlessly hampers customization.

    Halo Infinite is a 4/10 masquerading as a 10/10 while being defended as at least a 7/10. It's a deeply flawed, mediocre game that will probably only become fun to play a year or two from now when changes are made. Disappointing.    … Expand
  12. Oxygent
    Feb 13, 2022
    0
    Боевка и графоний 20тилетней давности. Я не знаю откуда такой рейт, но там не во что играть: захватываешь вышки и вышки... Иногда врубаются заставки с каким-то невменяемым мексикашкой и каким-то архи врагом. Реально даже не уровень Дестени 2. А ну еще доча Кортаны мелькает, когда ты захватываешь эти вышки. Ну и иногда появляться Джагернауты - все.Боевка и графоний 20тилетней давности. Я не знаю откуда такой рейт, но там не во что играть: захватываешь вышки и вышки... Иногда врубаются заставки с каким-то невменяемым мексикашкой и каким-то архи врагом. Реально даже не уровень Дестени 2. А ну еще доча Кортаны мелькает, когда ты захватываешь эти вышки. Ну и иногда появляться Джагернауты - все.
  13. Bushido95
    Feb 10, 2022
    2
    Наиграл 60ч в мультиплеере. Механики игры занимательны, но система прогрессии нету вообще. Компания игры это позор за который уничтожают какой ни будь Far Cry.
    Омерзительное качество русских субтитров это безумие.
    Почему отсутствует русская озвучка у флагманской серии Xbox не понимаю и не принимаю.    Наиграл 60ч в мультиплеере. Механики игры занимательны, но система прогрессии нету вообще. Компания игры это позор за который уничтожают какой ни будь Far Cry.
    Омерзительное качество русских субтитров это безумие.
    Почему отсутствует русская озвучка у флагманской серии Xbox не понимаю и не принимаю.
  14. Kazook
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    If not for the brand, this is just another generic first person shooter game. Lack of contents at launch (forge and co-op) which is the first time in the series. Brings nothing new to plate for an already saturated genre. Although the game has been delayed for a year, more time is needed especially to overhaul the graphic or even making new in-game engine to take advantage on the power ofIf not for the brand, this is just another generic first person shooter game. Lack of contents at launch (forge and co-op) which is the first time in the series. Brings nothing new to plate for an already saturated genre. Although the game has been delayed for a year, more time is needed especially to overhaul the graphic or even making new in-game engine to take advantage on the power of the new gen consoles.… Expand
  15. Crapcrap
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. most overrated and most boring game of all time, game crashes every 15 min, the graphics aren't that great, it's overhyped by fanboys !… Expand
  16. adam2345
    Mar 17, 2022
    0
    Worst FPS game with micro transactions and bugs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  17. Andon
    Jun 21, 2022
    3
    "Hm... this door requires power seed. Let's look around!"

    The guy dies from two water pistol shots and his ammo runs out faster than my salary...

    PvP can be fun. There the stars come from.
  18. Gotthosue3
    Jan 24, 2022
    2
    I went into this game so excited to have questions answered and instead I was left with more questions and the questions I had before were just done away with as if they were never apart of the story.. what the?? I don’t understand the good reviews. I’m a long time halo fan since it’s release and I’m so sad…
  19. futuredegree0
    Jan 31, 2022
    0
    Buggy, crashes, bad story and the game feels old. They should stopped doing Halo long ago.
  20. benhoward8
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    343 should be ashamed. This game would have had so much potential had the developers just cared a little bit about their fans and the quality of their game. It was great when it first came out, I loved it. It had its flaws like any other game, but it was still Halo and I just expected that 343 would be active in communicating with their community and fixing issues with the game. Fast343 should be ashamed. This game would have had so much potential had the developers just cared a little bit about their fans and the quality of their game. It was great when it first came out, I loved it. It had its flaws like any other game, but it was still Halo and I just expected that 343 would be active in communicating with their community and fixing issues with the game. Fast forward 4 months, and I can honestly say, I could not have possibly been more wrong. 343 still, as of right now (March), has essentially done nothing whatsoever to fix their game, let alone, added any content besides the occasional new, and usually awful, temporary game mode! Don't worry though everybody, the battle pass is still getting a weekly update by these awesome developers. You know? The thing that they charge their fans $10 a month for? All for items that should be free, and made Halo so much fun to play 10 years ago? Look, I understand that the game is free, and the battle pass is how they make their money, but the fact that the battle pass is more polished than the actual game itself is downright comical. It's almost like they said: "The game isn't finished, but I want money, so let's make the battle pass, and release it before Christmas because we know parents are gonna buy it for their kids, and then after that, we can go on vacation for four months." All jokes aside, I will say, Covid has been a big issue for companies, especially 343. Totally understandable, I also can only program games in an office setting, and could never do so at my house, especially with Covid and its cyberattack tendencies. Apparently, Covid has been actively targeting and attacking the routers at the homes of the developers of 343. Scary stuff. Anyway, I'll be back to check on the game in about five years when it might be good, which is still one year less than it took 343 to make an unfinished game.… Expand
  21. samichsupernova
    Dec 13, 2021
    4
    Terrible optimization. Worst Halo campaign. Lacking in modes. No way to pick what kind of MP match you'll be getting into. Gross and underwhelming.
  22. huasdad222
    Dec 20, 2021
    0
    Overrated retro boomer game for xbox mankids. EVERYTHING in this crap is exactly the same as it was 20 years ago! 1:1! The only new things are grapple hook and far cry 3 - style open world. yes, old far cry 3 - not even 6. it was once a nice and unique series but 343 sucks and made halo IRRELEVANT mid-budget retro crap with no new content since halo 2. graphics are ugly, gunplay is joke,Overrated retro boomer game for xbox mankids. EVERYTHING in this crap is exactly the same as it was 20 years ago! 1:1! The only new things are grapple hook and far cry 3 - style open world. yes, old far cry 3 - not even 6. it was once a nice and unique series but 343 sucks and made halo IRRELEVANT mid-budget retro crap with no new content since halo 2. graphics are ugly, gunplay is joke, game pace is slow, vehicles are still sliding bricks, multiplayer is boring and it has like 4 game modes and customization sucks, open world is so repetitive and boring, story is same cringe again. same shallow crap for marvel mankids. this may be ok game only if you are 7-11 years old.… Expand
  23. Remu
    Dec 19, 2021
    0
    Most **** optimization have i ever seen. ryzen 3700X and RX 580OC 8GB start this **** briliant game in 20fps. **** you microsoft and 343i. 1 month and zero optimiztion patch
  24. BradPig
    Dec 21, 2021
    0
    Copy and paste of all the previous halo, on PC it suffers blatant stuttering despite far exceeding 60fps, artifacts everywhere, history copied from the previous ones, art and design silly of apes and grunts, old graphics, zero innovation, they call it nostalgia or classic, it feels dead and empty, and yes the same tree all over the map what a shame.
  25. tdebug
    Jan 2, 2022
    3
    Repetitive. Extremely repetitive game with a joke of “open world “, respawning enemies and incredibly weak friendly AI. Nexus level worth below zero points, as it 10x more repetitive and same looking endless corridors.
  26. price23341
    Dec 14, 2021
    0
    No body collision, no recoil, sh1tty server, ridiculous micro-transaction, mediocre campaign
    Literally the worst FPS I've ever played
  27. Lilkingnoar
    Dec 27, 2021
    1
    Once again, Halo is absolute garbage. One of the most overrated games of 2021. Even Battlefield 2042 is a better shooter and that says a lot about this game.
  28. Stasyan39
    Dec 13, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Я понимаю, что довольно много игроков присоединилось к вселенной Хало именно с этой части, и всем абсолютно плевать, что там было до, и это выглядит крайней печально. 343i убила вселенную, превратив её в far cry, и не надо говоритья что это не так. Доказательства- две прошлые части, которые студия просто не вывезла. Хало от bungie rip.… Expand
  29. ArrogantKiwi
    Dec 13, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 1. Gameplay - amazing! Definitely a 10.

    2. Plot - The story is weak to say the least. The characters and plots from the previous two are games are basically ignored, and it boils down to the same old "stop the ring from firing". And how does 343 rectify Cortana's actions in Halo 5? She, the galaxy spanning ruler who is in control of the Guardians, is somehow killed by Atriox (never explained how) and then replaced with a new Cortana. If that isn't the definition of lazy writing, I don't know what is. The whole story should have been a small DLC.    … Expand
  30. FrostbyteKnight
    Dec 17, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I finished playing this campaign yesterday, but I wanted to wait a day before writing this review to make sure my analysis was more grounded. I was massively disappointed in this campaign. The only thing about the experience that makes it salvageable is the core gunplay. It's very polished, and while some weapons are clearly better than others each has a niche it can be useful for.

    Moving on to the shortcomings. The story is bland and uninteresting. The writers clearly have no idea how to push the story forward, and it becomes more apparent the longer you play. There is a huge reliance on nostalgia and annoying holograms to fill in the blanks for the story when those blanks desperately needed more screen time than what was actually focused on. Killing Cortana offscreen was incredibly dumb, since it wastes all the time spent building up to her conquest during Halo 5. The villain of the story satisfies every cliche you can think of. 95% of his screen time is spent gloating to the Chief about how he has won and that he is big and tough because he beat the UNSC. It gets old very fast.

    Moving on to the level/world design: it's not that great. Sure, it LOOKS great and the world the Chief explores looks very polished (except for the massive frame drops you'll experience; seriously, the game dropped below 30 FPS at times while I was playing), but there's no substance to anything. You spend way too much of your time just walking from place to place, and the interiors you explore are uninspiring and copy-pasted all throughout the game. There were several times where I wasn't even sure if I was going in the right direction because everything looks the same (despite using the navigation tool). Most of the side activities boil down to 'go to this place and kill this enemy' which is exactly what you do in the main story, so it just comes off as padding.

    I could go on, but I think I've made my point. In the months leading up to this game's release I was so excited to play this campaign, but I mentally checked out around halfway through and only finished it because I spent $60 and wanted some form of closure however unsatisfying it was. If you haven't bought this game, i strongly recommend waiting for a price drop or getting it through Xbox game pass so you don't have to pay full price for it. This game is incomplete and unsatisfactory, and it is not worth the price tag.    … Expand
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#80 Best PC Game of 2021
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#6 Most Discussed PC Game of 2021

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Feb 21, 2022
    90
    Halo Infinite is the best shooter of 2021. With much anticipation from the fans, 343 Industries brought a great multiplayer experience and a story as a love letter to the Halo series. With some bold innovations, the game pulls all the best from previous iterations and makes it into one of the best FPS games in recent history.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Jan 22, 2022
    65
    Halo Infinite was supposed to become a flagship title for “the most powerful console in the world,” but in reality we got an interlude of a story devoid of epic set pieces, a template for something greater that may or may not arrive in the future, an empty “open world” punctuated with interior design circa early 2000s. If not for the awesome shootouts, Master Chief should have been jettisoned back into space.
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  3. Games.cz
    Jan 13, 2022
    70
    The new Halo game is far from flawless. There’s no co-op, even though there should be, and there’s a boring open world, even though there shouldn’t. The multiplayer feels unfinished as well. Still, at its core, it’s a solid story-driven shooter with a more-than-acceptable Cortana replacement.
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