Rating
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo 5: Guardians delivers epic multiplayer experiences that span multiple modes, full-featured level building tools, and another chapter in the Master Chief saga. The Master Chief saga continues, with solo and up to 4-player cooperative experience that spans three worlds. A mysterious and unstoppable force threatens the galaxy. The Spartans of Fir...
Details
- Released
- October 27, 2015
- Series
- Halo#5 of 9 by critics
- Developer
- 343 Industries
- Publisher
- Microsoft Studios
- Platforms
- Xbox One
How it plays
Time to beat · 6 player times (IGDB)
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Halo 5: Guardians Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Halo 5: Guardians is a fantastic and incredibly polished title that's only slightly held back by its lack of expected features and limited multiplayer content.
Halo 5 Guardians is one of the most anticipated titles of 2015 for the Xbox One and its developers 343 Industries really throw some curve balls at the fan in
Halo 5: Guardians is the next installment in the saga of the Master Chief, with more content, and larger in scope than its predecessor, built from the ground up with a brand new and more powerful engine.
Halo 5: Guardians deserves credit for taking chances and trying some new things. It would be safest and easiest to simply modify what has worked in the past and gloss it up and send it out, but modes like Warzone in multiplayer and the shift to a party structure in the campaign are chances that mostly work out well.
Halo 5 is powered by bold changes and new ideas. Blasting through walls, scurrying up walls and smashing enemies into pieces is great fun with friends and against other players. The campaign ends with a whimper and with so much potential wasted it’s heartbreaking knowing we’ll have to wait until Halo 6 to see if 343 Industries can create the intense drama that Halo 5 could’ve been. Despite all it faults Halo 5: Guardians firmly sets Halo’s position as one of the best FPS games ever.
Review of an apparently next generation first-person shooter video game developed by 343 Industries. This worldwide known world described in many games, books and even TV series got attention of uncountable players and sci-fi lovers. So what about the latest game?
“Halo 5: Guardians is great if you’re a big fan of its multiplayer modes, but its campaign is the weakest of the series.”
The visuals in this game are some of the best the Xbox One has to offer. Each level is visually catching for its own reasons; whether you are on a planet with rain pouring heavily down on you or in a ship moving through the hallways slowly as you wait for enemies to be found, you can always stop, look around and appreciate the graphics. The CGI cutscenes between the levels are some of the best and it feels like you are watching a AAA movie and not a videogame. The voice acting is top notch, done by some of Hollywood’s best. Each character is voiced so well and moves so fluidly that you can fee...
If you’re growing tired of the franchise and were really hoping Microsoft and 343 would hold true to their promise to evolve the formula a bit, be wary that the newest stuff is where the game gets a bit shaky. However, if you’ve loved the Halo blueprint up to now and are looking for an updated current-gen version, there’s more than enough here to offer a solid recommendation. It’s not the best Halo game I’ve ever played, but it is good, delivering most of the Halo essentials without compromise.
Halo 5: Guardians is a game chock full of change. Not only is it a new Halo for a new(ish) console - and by new, we mean new and not remastered - but it's a whole new era. There's a new protagonist joining Chief, there's a new approach to some of the multiplayer and many more things that are also new. Change isn't always good though, and that's where Halo 5: Guardians comes unstuck somewhat. Not completely, but enough to sully the overall experience.