5 things I want from Halo Infinite

5 things I want from Halo Space

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Halo Infinite is coming Dec 8 and a good few of united states here at Tom's Guide couldn't be more excited for it. But while our Jordan Palmer got his easily on the multiplayer technical examination for Halo Infinite, at that place'south withal a adept bit we don't know about the game.

Programmer 343 Industries has explained there volition be large open up-concluded areas for Spartan 117, aka the Master Chief, to explore and consummate missions in different orders.

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Only bated from that, and how the Banished volition be at least one of the principal combative factions, we've not heard much more than about the single histrion or Halo Space as a whole.

With that in mind, here are 5 things I'd like to see from Halo Infinite.

A variety of ways to complete missions

Halo Infinite multiplayer — (Prototype credit: 343 Industries)

As mentioned, Bungie has said Halo Infinite will offer "and so much more flexibility to take down Banished bases from all different angles, to progress through the game in your own way." I hope 343i delivers upon that promise, by really running with the thought of an open-concluded approach to Halo action.

I want to be able to forge my own route around large Halo maps, so my playthrough can exist different to that of others. Merely I'd too like to come across a more creative approach to the game'due south action. While Halo is about running and gunning, I'd beloved the idea of being able to stealthily approach an enemy encampment under the cover of darkness with a silenced weapon, inbound the place and dispatching Brutes and other enemies quietly and efficiently. So in another playthrough I could to go flying into the aforementioned spot in the iconic Warthog, running downwardly Grunts and creating an atrocious amount of noisy carnage.

Looking at recent videos of Halo Space's campaign, it looks similar nosotros'll be getting just that, with a nod to the activity beats of Halo games of old.

While I'm not expecting Dishonoured in space, the power to improvise on the fly from stealthy sneaking to all-out action would be a joy and a proper refresh of the traditional Halo format without completely ruining it.

Varied weapons and vehicles

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The Halo series has some of the best weapons in gaming, from the bullpup set on rifle to the roaring shotgun and wacky Needler. Just I'd like to see some fresh guns for Halo Infinite, rather than reimagined versions of the current weapons; the last 2 Halo games arguably over-designed the simple elegance of the aforementioned weapons.

So far, we've seen the harpoon-like Skewer, free energy weapon Heatwave and grenade launcher Ravager as new guns to play with. Simply, ideally, I want something a little more outlandish or designed for specialist situations rather than guns that pop enemies a niggling faster and louder than others. I'd like to run into the power to combo weapons and abilities, or guns that offer alternative fire modes for a lilliputian more than tactical action.

The same applies to vehicles. There are enough of things to pilot or bulldoze in the previous Halo games, but I hope 343i has some fresh ones in mind. I'd beloved to airplane pilot a pelican, or maybe fifty-fifty a uppercase send in some large-scale space combat.

A lot of different environments

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Speaking of variation, I desire to run into Master Primary explore all manner of dissimilar situations in Halo Space. The previous Halo games manage that, to an extent, though some concluded up with maps that felt a fiddling same-y to playthrough in their activeness; the original Halo's Library mission comes to mind.

Ideally in every mission, specially if they're open up-ended, I want to accept something new to gawp at and grasp with each area nosotros move into. Sure that'due south asking a lot, but there's and then much rich lore now in the Halo Universe for 343i to tap into and get inspired past.

A branching story

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The offset three Halo games and Halo Attain had rather solid stories with a few twists and turns. But Halo iv and Halo 5: Guardians rather let folks downwardly, with rather weak or convoluted plots that needed some outside reading or tried to tell a story from too many perspectives or characters.

Then while I desire to see Halo Infinite focused on the Principal Chief, simply at the same time I'd like the open-end nature of the game also allow for the player to have more than of an influence over certain parts of the story. That would brand Halo Infinite experience more re-playable. I'm not saying it should go down the whole guns-and-conversion route of Mass Effect, but some small story beat changes based on the role player's actions would go a-ways to injecting some innovation in the Halo series.

A visual treat

Halo Infinite graphics — (Prototype credit: 343 Industries)

Halo Infinite volition be a cross-generation and cantankerous-platform game, coming out on the Xbox Series Ten, Xbox Serial S, Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs. But despite that, I'd really want to see 343i push the capabilities of the Xbox Series X. Nosotros'd like to see ray tracing enabled for Halo Infinite on the Series X and some of the best gaming PCs, as well as just a high level of graphical fidelity. And high-finish sound mastering, besides as a bombastic soundtrack, is also on my wish list. The original Halo did that for the original Xbox at launch, so I'd like to meet the same ethos applied with Halo Space.

At the same time, I'yard hoping 343i refines the fine art style of Halo Space to be more in keeping with the cleaner, less fussy aesthetic of the get-go iv Halo games fabricated by Bungie, rather than Halo 4 or 5. If Halo Space can hark back to the original's style only sport high-end 2021-era graphics then I'grand probable to exist left with a big ol' grin on my face up.

With just a few months to go before Halo Infinite finally arrives, I accept my fingers crossed that the yr-long delay will upshot in a new Halo game that sees a roaring return to the serial, while tickling my nostalgia glans, and takes the Halo serial into 2021 and across.

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Roland Moore-Colyer is U.K. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He often writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he's also got an interest in cars. When not at his desk Roland tin be found wandering around London, often with a await of curiosity on his confront.