(The one that doubles the size of explosions is always a perennial favorite of mine.) Skulls are definitely in Halo Infinite. There’s also the matter of skulls, gameplay modifiers usually make situations more difficult but sometimes just add hijinks for the heck of it. Without an option to quickly replay Halo Infinite’s missions, they might not attain a similar staying power as the greatest hits. But the reason so many key moments from the original Halo games-the revelation of the Flood, the scene in which Chief leaves Cortana behind, the moment where Gravemind betrays Chief and the Arbiter-stick like glue is, at least in part, because you can easily retread them over and over and over again. Halo Infinite’s campaign is loaded with awesome scenes and set pieces and, yes, plot twists. When I’d asked about it at the time, a Microsoft representative said only that they were looking into it. Initially, as I played through the campaign last week, I thought this was an oddity of the build made available for reviewers, which was totally bifurcated from the currently available, and free-to-play, multiplayer portion. You’d be able to get any remaining FOBs, targets, audio logs, but the main story missions would not repeat. The postgame does give you the option to keep exploring the wider environment, but for missions like the first two, where you’re not on the ring yet, you can’t replay from the same save file. Grimes Would Like Elon Musk to Sail 390.4 Million Miles AwayĬontroversial Assisted Suicide Pod Cleared for Use in Switzerland It's Unacceptable That People Are Still Worrying About Their Student LoansĬhinese Rover to Investigate ‘Mysterious Hut’ Spotted on Far Side of Moon There’s no mission selection screen, in another deviation from series tradition, and no apparent way to replay any of the campaign missions (which are for the most part thrilling, I’ll note).

It’s also the first that bucks a linear design, with the bulk of the game transpiring in a widely open area you can explore at your own discretion. Halo Infinite, out Wednesday for Xbox and PC, is the seventh mainline Halo game and the first in six years since 2015’s Halo 5: Guardians. Sadly, at least at launch, you can’t do any of that stuff in Halo Infinite. Ask any devotee and you’ll get some story about endlessly rerunning “The Library” in Halo: Combat Evolved, or replaying Halo 2’s “Delta Halo” to get out of bounds and explore that uncannily Canada-looking mountain range. One of the joys of Halo is its replayability. Master Chief holds an assault rifle in a Banished base in Halo Infinite.

Halo 1 campaign