It's hard to believe a game studio that's backed up by a multi billion dollar company that just acquired Activision/Blizzard with a whopping 68.7 BILLION dollar deal and yet they can't seem to fix Sync issues or big team battle 4 months after release. Also with a 7 year development time including a 1 year delay with yet Forge, technically custom games and Co-op campaign unavailable till next year. I understand low staffing issues but that wasn't a problem until post release.

They removed assassinations, not sure if it was for "classic old school game play" (Please learn to cope and move on, nostalgia has you by the nut sack and its sad.) or if they just didn't bother because "Artistic choice." But way to make the game play even more bland.

Going back on what I meant by "technically custom games." Apparently you still cant create custom game lobbies with specific settings as of 3/22/22. Without Forge there's really no imagination for it. So In my opinion that means its still not released even if its in the main menu.

If you don't believe me about sync issues, whether its on PC or console, just scroll through the Halo discussions on Twitter and you'll either see the same complaints that I have or video proof of this.

As of right now I have yet to play the campaign so I have no comment on it.

Going back on this review, 5/20/22. The game is still lack luster in content but has a OVER haul of cosmetic buyouts and specific armor layout colors that cant be used with any other preset, all of which has a price tag on it. Pretty sad when you look at the history of what we were promised with this game and then the actuality of what we got, lackluster game with a ♥♥♥♥ ton of cosmetics, really paints a brim picture of what this "free to play" was actually made for.

They may have to somehow make money, I understand this to a degree, but when you have more shop items then actually variety in the game, there's a problem.

It's hard to believe a game studio that's backed up by a multi billion dollar company that just acquired Activision/Blizzard with a whopping 68.7 BILLION dollar deal and yet they can't seem to fix Sync issues or big team battle 4 months after release. Also with a 7 year development time including a 1 year delay with yet Forge, technically custom games and Co-op campaign unavailable till next year. I understand low staffing issues but that wasn't a problem until post release. They removed assassinations, not sure if it was for "classic old school game play" (Please learn to cope and move on, nostalgia has you by the nut sack and its sad.) or if they just didn't bother because "Artistic choice." But way to make the game play even more bland. Going back on what I meant by "technically custom games." Apparently you still cant create custom game lobbies with specific settings as of 3/22/22. Without Forge there's really no imagination for it. So In my opinion that means its still not released even if its in the main menu. If you don't believe me about sync issues, whether its on PC or console, just scroll through the Halo discussions on Twitter and you'll either see the same complaints that I have or video proof of this. As of right now I have yet to play the campaign so I have no comment on it. Going back on this review, 5/20/22. The game is still lack luster in content but has a OVER haul of cosmetic buyouts and specific armor layout colors that cant be used with any other preset, all of which has a price tag on it. Pretty sad when you look at the history of what we were promised with this game and then the actuality of what we got, lackluster game with a shit ton of cosmetics, really paints a brim picture of what this "free to play" was actually made for. They may have to somehow make money, I understand this to a degree, but when you have more shop items then actually variety in the game, there's a problem.