Aaay, haven't done any of these in awhile.
So hello, this is your host Pip, and I will be reviewing

Halo 5 Guardians
One of the most hyped games of the year, and it turned out better than Halo 4.

Story:
I'll put it in spoilers so anyone who doesn't want spoilers don't have to read it.

Multiplayer/Extras:

Now that I am not talking about story, let's get to the special stuff!.

Multiplayer, in my opinion, is good. Sprint isn't OP as fuck, everyone has equal starts, the new zoom feature isn't anywhere near as bad as CoD. Halo 5 in my opinion is closer to previous Halo games than 4.
Matchmaking isn't horribly slow or glitchy now, very nice, and I haven't seen horrible horrible lag so the game is very playable. The playlist is okay even without Big Team Battle or Infection but it's still fun. The new Arena gamemode Breakout is really fun as well, elimination style 4v4 capture the flag is fast paced and intense. One game I was the last guy on the team against two, I got one of them and then it was 1v1 of us carefully watching all around us...then I choked and died but it was still pretty great. I recommend grabbing a friend or two and just playing the hell out of Arena.
Next up is Warzone, and my god is that a fun gamemode. Sure I wouldn't say Warzone is the most balanced gamemode out of all them, but it has a good system in place so that teams can go back and forth for the win without total domination.
Everyone starts out with an Assualt Rifle and Pistol, dropped into an arena with covenant and promethean enemies all around, take them out, capture points, take down the enemy team and defeat the enemy bosses to win. There will always be something going on to fight through, and it's pretty easy for two teams to get to a choke point between capture points trying to push forward. You can also use REQ cards to spawn in weapons, abilities and vehicles to help your team get the victory.

Speaking about REQ...


Yes, the Requisition system. Microtransactions in Halo....yep. The most controversial part of Halo 5...could've been worse.
Seriously, the REQ system isn't nearly as bad as some put it out to be. However I do hope they don't try anything else with microtransactions as this is the limit they can go without treading into Pay to win territory.
Basically, you use REQ points(or real money) to buy packs of REQ cards that give you weapons and weapon skins for Warzone, armor customization pieces, emblems, animations, etc. All the weapons you get from REQ cards only go to warzone while the only stuff allowed in Arena is cosmetic. Pretty harmless.
However, the amount of unlockable armor pieces is REDICULOUSLY LARGE, to the point of too many. Unless you played hundreds of hours of Warzone or payed hundreds-a thousand dollars of real money. You won't be unlocking everything...ever.

I can't comment on Forge as I brought back my rented copy of Halo before it was released sadly.


Overall, this isn't what we were all hoping for, however this is still a fun game to try out. I give it a 7.5/10

The first problem here is that if you never played through Halo 4's campaign and Spartan Ops, you would not understand this at ALL.

This is also a bullshit complaint.
It's the 5th main installment of the series, the second installment of the Reclaimer Saga. Of course you need to play the previous games.

It's like watching the second season of a TV series and complaining that you don't understand what's happening because you didn't watch season 1 first.

Nice. I'll add this.

That font colour is terrible.

Quote from: Lemnator on December 19, 2015, 01:37:27 PM

BTB is in Halo 5

Let's just say this review is of the base game. Not including updates or DLC

I rented it before the BTB

All in all I'll give this review a 7/10

I'll take it.
A 7/10 for someone who's only made 4 reviews? Good.

Dark Blue text on the sep7 background is nigh impossible to read fam, try something lighter. also it's spelt "Guardians" as opposed to "Gaurdians," for future reference.

>Gaurdians

Multiplayer wise, I think Halo 5: Gourdions is the best Halo's been since Halo 3.

Gotta say though. Halo 5 is the most enjoyable MP I've played in years. And imo, the best in the series, lack of gametypes aside, of course.
I think the last MP game I truly enjoyed this much was AC Brotherhood.

You said something nice about Halo 5?

I have to record this piece of history.

I hate the multiplayer.

The new settings made it a bit more tolerable, but literally every map in the game is awful to play on

Quote from: Merry Pipmas on December 20, 2015, 07:23:06 AM

You said something nice about Halo 5?

I have to record this piece of history.

But he's one of the biggest Halo 5 shills on this site tho.

The story is shit though