Rss

Halo 5 – Behind the Scenes

I know I have practically vowed to stay away from Xbox for the moment, but it is still nice to reminiscence about the many hours of enjoyment certain games like Halo have provided over the years. Since Halo 3, the franchise has felt…burned out. At least on the online side of things. Everything felt like a clone of 3 as they attempted to squeeze its success for everything they can. A little light inside shines in hope that Halo 5 will bring it back.

We will have to wait until later in 2015 to know for sure (when the game will be ready for launch). There are new Spartan abilities, better graphics and the obvious chance that this game will only be available on the Xbox One.

Since I still have a pile of games I haven’t even touched yet in my position, it’s best to assume that it is going to be awhile before I invest into the new system. I have also enjoyed my escape from the game world by filling it with friends, traveling, hiking and so much more. I guess I may just have to wait to see what you other games feel about the game before I dive in 🙂

What are your thoughts now? Comment box is below! ↓↓↓↓ Do share!

Share

Comments (146)

  1. Fotus Knight

    Are they copying Destiny now? LOL. And yes, all the weapons from Halo 4.
    Nothing new. Just a bit new armor types… 343. Nothing unexpected…



    …wait… o.o
    0.0
    O.O
    FUUUUUCKKK! WHAT?? INFINITE SPRINT? AIMING WEAPON? WHAAAAAAAAAAAT????
    I DON’T SEE ANY HALO HERE! IT’S FUCKING PRIMVITE MODERN SHOOTER!!! FUCCK!
    COOD WITH ARMORS!!

  2. PsychoSeal1

    The biggest crutch of Halo is its overtly negative, TeamBeyond Forum
    dwelling community that wants nothing more from a Halo 5 game than a Halo 2
    with spectator mode. Well the hard reality is that’s not want the rest of
    us (the majority) want. We want skill based ranks, we want spectator mode,
    we want a nerfed (halo 5) sprint, we want equal starts, we want to control
    power weapons on the map and we want arena focussed gameplay like Halo 1, 2
    & 3. But we also do want some changes, I mean Halo CE came out THIRTEEN
    FUCKING YEARS AGO, we do want some innovation. Ghandi, Formal, Goldenboy,
    Ghostayame, Bravo, Ninja all have faith in Halo 5 why cant you? Oh because
    the competitive community is supposed to be some bastion of truth and light
    in the Halo community? no you’re all just stuck in the past…Halo 5
    Guardians is a massive improvement on Halo 4. It’s about give and take,
    this community just takes takes and takes.

    #Embarassing #CouldntBeMoreExcitedForHalo5 #ImACompetitivePlayer

  3. Wayne Kerr

    343i as much as I like what you’re doing to Halo 5, there are some issues
    that are glaringly obvious about this game:

    1. Ground Pound is only limited to 1 kill.

    2. Get rid of clamber – It completely ruins skill jumps.

    3. Nerf sprint – You should only be able to sprint when your shields and
    health are at 100%.

    4. Jumping with smart scope – Make it so that when you scope in while
    you’re jumping that the player base jump stays the same so you don’t boost
    in midair and so that the player doesn’t get disoriented.

    Other than these issues I think Halo 5 could be a great game!

  4. cdv1qa

    I don’t really like the graphics or the sound effects and I think all the
    new stuff that they added isn’t very good and it doesn’t really look next
    gen. I think 343 have ruined Halo and I just wish they would release all
    the other Halo games for the Xbone cos I don’t want to play anything new
    cos Halo 2 was the best game ever and all the other games aren’t as good.

  5. Spencer Hutchens

    First reaction: OMG HALO IZ RUINED! FUCK 343! ITS CALL OF DUTY NOW!!!!!!
    GAY IT LOOKS SO RETARDED!!!!

    Halo is not ruined, I promise. Almost every successful game has always
    evolved different features or different ideas etc. Let’s just go off what
    we see and how people act like unintelligent l33t spammers.

    1)The title, do you see the title? It actually says, (shit you not) “BETA”
    Now a beta gives people to see what they like and what they don’t like.
    They don’t always keep what is shown. Most of it can be place holders.

    2)What ever is new in a huge game like Halo is brought to the table of
    consumers like us. Are first instinct is to judge what we see. Which is
    what 343 Industries wants. They want feed back, they want to know how to
    please the fans. I’ve personally played halo form the start. I see a lot of
    new and different things there adding and I think it looks really good. It
    actually look like a lot of fun and balanced. Most Halo fanboys would want
    this.

    3)Change is for the better it makes a game like Halo better. We had the
    classics it’s time to move on have more features and a new style that looks
    just as kick ass as this gameplay looks. Over all I’m very happy and
    excited for Halo 5 I really want to see how it will turn out, and what they
    will add.

  6. jcardinals15

    I mainly play Halo for the campaign, so I don’t care that much anyway. 343
    did an awesome job with Halo 4’s campaign. If you want to play the old
    style, just keep playing the MCC. Calm down.

  7. Tristan Florance

    I think I will love this beta… And Halo 5 in general ! I love all
    abilities ! But the Smart Scope… No ! Please 343, we play Halo no Call
    of, keep the three basic things of the original Halo gameplay please, this
    is more difficult without Smart Scope and it’s why we love Halo !

  8. HaloArt

    *HALO 5: Guardians*
    For those that missed it, here is the Multiplayer experience in HALO 5.

  9. Omega117a

    What is with this ‘ultra clean, ultra shiny’ graphics style? It’s like they
    wanted to make all of the textures as low-res as possible so they just
    shoved solid colors on half the surfaces and called it done. I could kinda
    understand it with Halo 4 with the Xbox 360 being nearly dead in terms of
    its already low graphical potential at the time, but why is it still like
    this? Where are the depth, the dirt, and the details? Halo Reach excelled
    at those graphical elements and the previous Halo games had a decent
    balance of them, but Halo 4 and, at least the beta of Halo 5, are simply
    horrifically clean.

  10. Im Judd

    wtf have they done to our game….they havent listened again…

  11. MrJuan219

    Everything was fine until I saw the way you point the weapon and ran, I
    realized that this is a copy of COD
    Everything else well least that detail … I think 343i has to change that
    or would lose the sense of what really is halo

  12. Honey Badger

    Sprint is still in, and now Halo has ADS. The game looks like a call of
    duty titanfall rip off. Halo is officially dead.

  13. Silent Arbiter

    I think you should press a certain button which can change from the old
    mode to ads

  14. Sam Weingart

    Wait, so does everyone have access to all of these abilities at one time,
    or do you choose one kinda like armor abilities?

  15. Colin Velius

    I see tons of fanboys complaining about how Halo is “becoming more like
    COD”. TBH, I see more Crysis aspects than COD aspects here in Halo 5.
    Sliding existed in Crysis long before COD ever had it. Ground pound
    reminds me of the air stomp from Crysis. Even mantling/clambering existed
    in Crysis before Cod had it. Not to say that Halo ripped off Crysis (and
    I’m NOT saying that at all), but I totally see a few aspects that both
    games have in common, and these upgrades to Halo intrigue me, for they make
    me rethink what Spartans are capable of in-game.

  16. HaloMortal

    Was worried. Then I saw this and YES PLEASE!

  17. HiIeric117

    So smart scope is just ADS right? Except you get knocked out of it when
    hit. Why would a long time Halo player choose to use it then, if theres not
    really an advantage. I mean I guess it looks cool xD Thats something. I
    think I’ll stick to hip-fire though.

  18. Chris

    please tell me we can have sprint and clamber and slide at the same time,
    or at least two at a time.

  19. CHAO5 Animations

    Ok, just to be clear I love Halo it’s basically my favourite game. But when
    I see this gameplay it’s… To much like CoD, like holy shit 343 I thought
    you learned from your mistakes from Halo 4. Now don’t say “Ohhh Ignorance”
    or “Oh shut up kid Halo needs change.” But, really? This looks just like
    Advanced Warfare and AW was in devlopement for 3 years since Mw3, And I’m
    not joking play Advanced Warfare for yourself and see if I’m wrong. This is
    a bad change I mean like ADS WTF!? I would be fine if they didn’t add that.
    The reason why I loved Halo was because it was different from your typical
    FPS, it was a different type of multiplayer experience and people loved it!
    I just feel deeply betrayed by 343. I’m just gonna play it for it’s
    campaign but not multiplayer, Good day.

  20. Alex R.

    Just thought of another idea, keep armor abilities but have them as
    earnable equipment to use in combat (similar to ordinance drops from Halo
    4).

  21. Osama bin swaggon

    No please no god no nooooooooo

  22. Colin Velius

    What if sprint was replaced by variable speed? If any of you ever played
    Splinter Cell on a console, you’d remember how your movement speed depended
    on how far you moved the analog stick (i.e. move the analog stick slightly
    forward, and you creep forward; move it all the way forward, and you run).
    And when you ran in SC, you didn’t sprint like Usain Bolt. Perhaps this
    concept could be applied in-game with Halo, for further balancing purposes.

  23. EliteWarrior600

    At first when I saw gameplay of this (not this video), I was worried of how
    similar it looked to CoD. After watching the trailer, I was dead wrong and
    I love the new additions while the game keeps its roots. This games needs
    to compete with the new multiplayer games of today: Destiny, CoD: AW,
    Titanfall, ect. The standard for multiplayer is becoming more fast paced
    than ever. Halo 1-3 were great but everyone is right when they say it
    doesn’t fit todays standards anymore. They are sluggish compared to todays
    games and I think of iterations of games like great players in sports.
    Comparing Terry Bradshaw to Tom Brady is illogical and down right stupid.
    Why? They played in completely different times when the NFL was way
    different from one another. They are both great in their respective times
    and the same goes with Halo. Instead of comparing all the Halo games, we
    should compare the Halo games to games that came out during their times
    respectively. All the previous Halos are great and those games will always
    be some of the best of their time and always hold a special place in my
    heart. But as a loyal Halo fan, I accept change and it is definitely time
    to start changing for the better. I welcome this game with open arms and
    cant wait to play it December 29th! See you all on the virtual battlefield!

  24. Ammar Ahmed

    Halo is dead…………

  25. Master Chief

    Fuck it. You know what? I’m okay with this. That’s right, I said it. I’m
    gonna say it again. I’M OKAY WITH THE CHANGES TO HALO.

  26. BM The Hero

    As Ninja, the Halo professional, said, “Take the thrusters out of Halo 5
    and the game would be great.”

  27. Andrew Conroy

    sigh* This was disappointing to watch…

    RIP Sweet Prince

  28. Elite X17

    To be fair, 343 have just released the MCC with classic Halo multiplayer,
    so you can’t blame them for wanting to do something different

  29. shay campbell

    halo has had sprint before, halo has had thruster packs before halo has had
    jet packs before, now everyone hast them. it makes it more balanced stopped
    complaining

  30. Andy Tate

    OMG can’t wait for Halo 5 it’s gonna be so awesome!!!!!!!

  31. JJ Runswick

    Finally they are listening, now you can play halo and feel like a spartan.
    The thing about halo is that each halo feels different. Im a true halo fan,
    i want to see this game grow and add new things. You other fans out there
    who are stuck on halo 2 are just like cod fans. Why would want a game to be
    the same game for ten years and no changes with each game? I pepersonally
    am a true gamer. immerse my self in whatever game i play. So when i pay
    halo i visualize i am a super soilder. If i was to be one i could sprint
    really fast jump high take no fall damage be a parcore pro have amazing
    strength great aim and so on. So the more they add features to make you
    feel more of a spartan the better. I love halo because im a true gamer and
    i love that each halo gets better and better. Except when bungie crashed it
    with reach. The armor lock was to op.also not everyone had the same
    ability. Reach was still good but in my opinion halo reach was the worst
    halo they made. I like halo 4 it made halo pop for me. I’ll admit there are
    allot of stuff that need fixed but I loved it. I still play it. I like that
    it was a change for once. It still had its power weapons on the map but it
    also made it where people could get another sword if they wanted to.
    Remembering halo 2 when the other team had all the power weapons and thats
    all what they used. It was so not fair for your team. Halo 4 broke that.
    With this new halo coming out. I’m Really stoked because they are fixing
    halo 4but adding more stuff. So quit crying about halo 2 that halo 5 should
    be like halo 2. Go play cod then, they make the same game every year. Halo
    is not cod and will never be cod. The game has always gotten better and
    different each game. I like cod because im agamer but halo has always been
    my favorite since day one.

  32. Pokelantislv999

    I’m ok with experimentation so long as it’s with a new ip not halo

  33. sharpshooter740

    At least the music is much better, I actually really like that.
    Skeptical about this whole smart-scope thing. I am weirdly intrigued.

  34. Josh Boykin

    YES! Good job 343, good job. I wanna play. I don’t care what the haters
    say, Halo 5 looks really.. really fun.

  35. Angel Westbrook

    Yes yes yes this what I wanted thanks you 343 for make me up for your
    mistakes in the past and making awesome multiplayer

  36. Liam Matthews

    Is it me or is that strange high pitched noise that plays after every shot
    and jump or any action very annoying? Is it the rattling of the armor or is
    is it something else?

  37. cptbirdwalker

    6:02 DMR DMR DMR DMR DMR DMR!

  38. VicariousSchism

    Remove smart scope, bring back the old zoom animations. Slow down the
    sprint speed too.

  39. iVoltScopez V2

    I just don’t know how I feel about this… I like it, but if that’s gonna
    be the new BR and DMR… Eh, I don’t agree.

  40. 99FAILURES

    thruster pack and ground and pound… ripped straight from COD advanced
    warfare lol. and no, im not a cod fanboy. just saw their gameplay stuff
    haha

  41. little devil

    I like how no ones comparing it to titanfall. Cod: AW had the same stuffs.
    so what up?

  42. mike bski

    FUCK U 343..U HAVE DESTROYED A LEGACY

  43. TX51

    The Music is sounding really good. . . I haven’t been this pumped of a Halo
    game for a long time.

  44. The One Trickster To Trick Them All

    Am I the only one excited for this game? It just seems like people are
    crying over little changes that they’ve made to make the game BETTER and
    more innovative than the last Halo games.

  45. Arcanineisthebest

    Would you guys really buy halo 3’s multiplayer AGAIN? for like, the 4th
    time? It’s time for some changes, isn’t it?

  46. tyler cecire

    i love the music sounds very african beats at some parts like halo 3 but
    also futuristic

  47. Steve Urkel

    Ive been a ps kid my whole life and have only played halo at friends house
    and even I know there fucking ruining halo.

Leave a Reply