I would usually find myself far ahead of the pack. They aren't particularly great combatants either, since they seem to prioritize clearing an area over sticking close to you or finding a good angle. They all just run towards you like an excited puppy chasing a ball into traffic. would mark the closest ally to act as medic as the others lay down cover fire, but no. If you go down, they don't seem to realize your death is a fail-state: they'll come revive you if you're conveniently close, but otherwise they're happy to let you bleed out. You can instead order them to come revive you, in which case all three of them will run directly into oncoming gunfire and fall like dominoes. Halo's combat puzzle loop has always led to lots of deaths as you figure out your approach, and the ability to revive teammates means you have a little more flexibility if something goes wrong. However, your teammates oscillate wildly between situational blindness and overenthusiasm. These Spartans-the best of the best of the UNSC military-are idiots. This was my single biggest frustration with Halo 5, and one that came up repeatedly throughout: your bot co-op teammates are only occasionally helpful, and more often act as useless liabilities. This means you can play through the entire campaign without ever going online, but you probably shouldn't. If you play without a band of friends to make up your fireteam, you'll still have three teammates following in the form of A.I. The size of the maps, the scale and greater number of enemies, and even an increased focus on targets that require flanking, make for a Halo game that is very much built around group encounters. This is a squad-based shooter first and foremost, and it's clear that everything is built around that. It's the focus on the squads itself that makes Guardians feel so different. Though Master Chief is canonically the more experienced Spartan, and Locke's history is in stealth and assassinations, the pair play identically, aside from some visual cues like animations and the visor overlay. The two squads-Master Chief's Blue Team and Locke's Fireteam Osiris-don't actually show very much differentiation. As it reached its climax, there was even a moment that was genuinely chilling. I felt a stake in the plot because I understood where everyone was coming from. Still, the performances carry it through and give everything that follows a more personal feeling. It feels like 343 rushed the premise to get to the conflict. Buck, played by Nathan Fillion, puts in an especially human performance in this regard.Īll of this happens fairly early, and the decisions are made so quickly that they could have hit with more weight. Locke's Fireteam Osiris feels conflicted about targeting the legendary Master Chief at all. Blue Team has just enough banter to justify their decision to go along with him, out of respect if not genuine concern for their surrogate brother. Master Chief's decision to go AWOL is motivated by his care for Cortana, a relationship that has been built slowly over the course of four games. Halo 5: Guardians addresses this head-on by putting the focus on individuals and relationships. I've been critical of the story in Halo games, mostly because its generous dollops of space-magic and lore has overshadowed its characters. 343 has finally claimed authorship with its own clear vision of where to take the series. All this is to say Halo 5: Guardians still had a lot to prove about the franchise's new caretakers, and I was pleased to find it succeeds with aplomb.
The Master Chief Collection was a great anthology of Halo campaigns, stymied by buggy multiplayer that took months to fix. Halo 4 was a decent hand-off that we classified as stage-setting, but it wasn't an unqualified hit. 343 Industries' ownership of the Halo franchise has been inconsistent.
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