‘Halo Infinite’ is good, everyone says

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Halo Infinite technical testing is still ongoing, as players get their hands on the game for the first time. As expected, it’s riddled with many technical issues that need to be sorted out before launch, and it’s a test point like this in the first place, including particularly poor PC performance, that requires optimization.

But when you cross all the technical hurdles, and try to get a general idea of ​​how testers feel about the game, the temperature is… very warm. practically scalding.

Almost all the impressions I see from the players on the artistic journey have been positive. Head to Twitter, reddit, anywhere, and the reaction is generally the same, this is probably Halo’s best multiplayer outing yet, and it has echoes of the “golden age” of Halo 3 or Halo CE.

The game is supposed to be less “updated” than it was Halo 5, with cutbacks to things like enemy, while still retaining the “feel” of the original games. Even in these early bot matches, the general feeling is that 343 really got things right this time around, and the extra year to get this game into combat shape was well worth the delay.

Halo Infinite is a very important project for Microsoft and Xbox, as it is supposed to be the “platform” to unlock all future Halo content for at least the next generation. Whether that means an “evolving world” type deal or real sequels is unclear, but whatever is added in time will undoubtedly all be in Game Pass, while multiplayer Halo remains free this time, even without Game Pass.

Halo Infinite is entering a very crowded shooter market that has moved away, away from the traditional Halo gameplay over the years, toward battle kings, tactical shooters or hero arenas. It will have to re-establish itself as a big player, and Microsoft has its sights set on returning to esports. From the looks of Infinite, it looks like he’s definitely on that path.

We still don’t have a final release date for Halo Infinite, which everyone more or less assumes will be in late November. The longer this goes on, the more thought we might have that we might have another delay this year, but Microsoft has confirmed that this won’t happen again. So we’re just waiting until we get an announcement to confirm it. With Sony delaying Horizon Forbidden West until next year, Xbox has a completely empty stage, and if Halo Infinite shines? This will be one of the biggest success stories for the Xbox brand in a number of years.

There will undoubtedly be more tests, alphas, and betas before launch so more players can enter. I’ll say yes, diehard fans who managed to sign up for Waypoint and get into this test are more likely to like Halo more than the general audience, so there’s probably some bias here. However, if die-hard Halo fans love the new Halo game… that also seems like a good sign to me.

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