REVIEW: Halo Infinite is the franchise's return to its best 2e4y2k

Halo Infinite is the sixth game in the Halo franchise, the main IP of the Microsoft in the gaming world, as well as being one of the biggest FPS franchises in general. The game was revealed last year and arrived for the new generation of consoles and PC on December 8th… or almost.  4l5f3f

The game suffered from some delays and in fact the campaign, which is the focus of the review, was only launched on December 8th. But when no one expected it, the 343 Industries, which develops the game, and Microsoft have released the game's multiplayer completely Free-to-Play on all ed platforms.

I had the opportunity to play through 18 hours of Halo Infinite's campaign, getting to the end of the story and exploring side quests from the open world of Zeta Halo. So, without further ado, let's get into the analysis of this new adventure of John, or rather, Master Chief. 

What is the story of Halo Infinite?  6k264g

If you're a Halo fan, you know that this franchise is anything but simple. There are 6 games of the main saga, 6 spin-offs, books and even a series live action in production for release on Paramount+. 

So, it is quite clear that this story it is far from simple. But oddly enough, there is no better time to start exploring the Halo gaming universe.

The main reason is that the Halo Infinite campaign was developed as a kind of reboot spiritual in the franchise. That's because, with the sea of ​​criticism of the Halo 5 campaign, 343 Industries chose return to origins — and I can say that it was a huge success. 

The game starts right after the end of Halo 5, with a cutscene of Master Chief being thrown adrift in space to his inevitable death. The villain so far is atriox, leader of banned – alien race – who seek to dominate a Halo ring to exterminate humanity from the galaxy. 

After what would be months adrift and the inevitable defeat of humans, a pilot, which we will call Echo-216, rescues the Master Chief from the wreckage of the ship Infinity and reactivates his armor, which has gone into survival mode, keeping the Chief alive. 

With that, we found that in the period that the Chief was off, Zeta halo, the ring that the Outcasts had mastered, had been badly damaged and Atriox was dead.

Your first mission, which ends the story's introduction, is to rescue an artificial intelligence called ARMA. It had been created to help with the process of deleting Cortana, who in the last game had become one of the villains. 

ARMA is an AI created to study Zeta Halo and infiltrate the code of the Outcasts, so she becomes your faithful partner throughout the campaign. 

So, you and your new partner Echo 216 begin the journey to defeat the Outcasts, exploring Zeta Halo and slowly defeating the Outcasts and discovering the secrets of what happened to Atriox and especially Cortana. 

These are all, at best, the first few hours of the Halo Infinite campaign. The game has many twists and turns and makes you care about ARMA and Echo 216 more and more. Another character that gains a little more humanity is precisely Master Chief. 

In addition to the jokes and funny team moments between Arma and Echo 216, the Chief also gains a little more depth and space, becoming a much more interesting character — a very grateful and welcome change. 

But even though Echo 216 saved the Chief, two relationships are the focus of the plot — aside from saving the universe, of course. Cortana and Chief's past relationship, as well as the new relationship with ARMA, are hotspots and given special treatment, gaining depth and an epic and emotional finale. 

The game ends with a hook for a sequel and even a post credits scene. 

Gameplay  7232z

As said, this is a game that is in open world, which differs a little from what we are used to in the franchise, but just like the main news, they are changes that we didn't know we needed.

Halo Infinite has its first hours as a great contextualization of the story and after this more traditional beginning, with combat in a ship, you are introduced to the beautiful open world of Zeta halo.

Of course at stake completely openworld, you expect everything to lose a bit of linearity, however, gameplay can be approached both ways still. 

Aside from the 100% linear beginning, you can, as usual, just follow the main story quests and they are very evident, without forcing you to follow a side quest unwanted. 

I'm not a big fan of experiments myself. openworld, but Halo Infinite has created a vast map of beauty, content, and fun to move around, which even with fast travel, I insisted on using the vehicles and Gadgets available. 

The main missions are very simple and traditional, you usually face aliens and in some stages you face Boss fights. The bosses aren't that remarkable and, most of the time, they don't give you much reason to want to fight them before the battle. boss fight happen.

On the other hand, side quests are a very good added point. As much as I'm not a completionist, exploring the world saving human soldiers from the Forsaken's encampments and taking over an outpost is quite fun every now and then as you traverse from one mission to the next. 

In addition to the open world, you have the famous Halo gameplay present, with some new features. The main one is a hook, which you shoot at walls, or enemies, to move around. 

The hook is one of the main items in the game that, without it, would become extremely tiring. I said I didn't use fast travel? In addition to the wide variety of human and Forbidden vehicles, using the grappling hook to move quickly and climb mountains is extremely practical and fun.

It is worth noting that the customization and possibility of different approaches to Halo Infinite's gameplay is huge — or would it be infinite?

During your exploration of Zeta Halo, you may find Spartan Cores, used to upgrade equipment and Gadgets Master Chief utilities such as the hook itself. 

With this type of customization, you let the gameplay best suit your playstyle. In addition, the game has a complete arsenal, with pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles and more. 

So you are in control of your exploration in the open world and how you want to proceed through the story and building your loadout. The game nailed the way you feel the weapons and movement, as well as all the Gadgets available are extremely useful to the point that you want to improve them all.

Performance 58a2u

Halo Infinite is a next-gen game that, thankfully, had some delays in its release. It was evident from the small amount of bugs e glitches that the game was released extremely optimized. 

I played it on PC with an RTX 3060, with everything maxed out at 1440p. Even so, outside the performance target of this video card, I couldn't notice any drop in frames and my counter was constantly between 72 and 59 fps.

Because it's a very cinematic experience at times, I've opted for the maximum graphics, but I'll definitely go back to medium for Multiplayer, focusing on reaching 90 fps.

Worth it?  6g6672

Absolutely yes. Halo Infinite has one of the best campaigns I've played this year, a vast world to explore with beautiful graphics and extremely optimized.

The franchise has been given back a concise story that puts the Master Chief's adventures back on track, being for sure the reboot spirit that the devs sought.

But one of the points that makes this game even more necessary is the value. It costs 250 reais, but because it is Microsoft's new exclusive, it was launched directly within the Xbox Game . 

That's right, you can use your Game hip and play Halo Infinite freely. It's worth noting that this is a great entry point into the franchise, and if you like it, Microsoft's game service library still has all the other games in the saga.

Halo Infinite launched on December 8th as a Microsoft exclusive for Xbox Series, Xbox One, and PC. In addition to free-to-play multiplayer, fans can look forward to a co-op campaign next year.

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