{"id":23165,"date":"2015-09-23T07:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=23165"},"modified":"2015-09-23T07:02:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:02:09","slug":"halo-5-first-impressions-polygon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=23165","title":{"rendered":"Halo 5 First Impressions: Polygon"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a reblog from Polygon:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

35 DAYS OUT: HANDS ON WITH HALO 5’S CAMPAIGN<\/strong>
\nBy\u00a0Arthur Gies<\/p>\n

We spend more than two hours with Halo 5’s campaign to bring you our impressions \u2014 and video recaps of two full campaign levels<\/section>\n

After playing\u00a0Halo 5: Guardians<\/i>‘s campaign for, give or take, about two hours and change, I am both much more excited for it, and a little disappointed in what I’ve seen.<\/p>\n

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Please note that this text avoids discussion of\u00a0Halo 5<\/i>‘s story entirely, primarily because there are plot spoilers we’re prohibited from discussing and also because two missions isn’t enough to make any substantive sort of observation. Also, because it’s 2015 and there’s a tendency to label the lightest bit of impressions or thoughts about a game near its release a “review,” I need to say up front that this is not a review. I’ve played a fraction of\u00a0Halo\u00a05<\/i>‘s campaign, and what I played is a build a few months away from release. It was slightly glitchy in spots and it wasn’t final, so some things could change in either direction.<\/p>\n

That said, structurally, the build I played should be representative. And it was a lot of fun.\u00a0Halo 5<\/i>\u00a0is the first Halo title built around sixty frames a second in a series that has always set its flag at thirty, and while frame counting has become a spectator sport this console generation that can often feel overblown by platform partisanship, I think the distinction here is worth making.\u00a0Halo 5<\/i>feels like a faster, more physical game, even more so than\u00a0The Master Chief Collection<\/i>‘s retinue of previous Halo titles felt at the higher framerate.<\/p>\n

And the slightly disconcerting slipperiness that sat under the surface of\u00a0Halo 2<\/i>: Anniversary et al was not present in my time with\u00a0Halo 5<\/i>. In\u00a0MCC<\/i>, I often felt a little like I was an ice skater zipping along. In 343’s second, original Halo game, I felt like a linebacker.<\/p>\n