Preface: Go get Halo: Master Chief Collection and play this campaign there if you're thinking of buying this.
Do not buy this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The only thing it has is nostalgia. The engine sucks. The game is horribly desynced online. Enemies literally just disappear and rubber band around. The consistency of enemy health and their damage doesn't seem to be there. Like, why does a flood brute take 3 rockets to kill but they also take 8 shotgun shells to the face and 3 rockets to kill? In a lot of cases, when fighting the flood especially, shotgun shots go straight through them doing nothing. The sentinels are obviously bugged doing way more damage than intended without even showing them shooting a beam at you. Idk how many times sentinels were looking away from me and I'd come out of cover to immediately start taking damage like they're shooting a laser at me. I mean, one time I had just applied an over shield, came out of cover by jumping and was dead before I hit the ground. The Warthogs float and slide across the ground much more than they ever have. The inputs have delay when driving the warthog. Idk if it's the newer graphic engines devs are using but games just feel like clunky ♥♥♥♥ nowadays.
A lot of times I don't have a frame of reference to compare it to so It's harder to notice, but I played the original 3 Halo games many times, none of them felt like this. I don't think they bothered testing this for playability on Legendary, and I firmly believe if you just go play the original Halo CE you'll enjoy it more than this, if you can get past the graphics, I swear the older games are worth it. I've played plenty of wonky unfinished games and very seldom do they try to charge $50 for them, and I get way more playtime so it's fine. This is like 8 hours of mediocre gameplay for $50.... You'll have more fun playing any of the original 3 Halo campaigns, so like 90% of the world, they're making slop to fleece people. Capitalism is ruining everything. 3/10
