Without Halo, there wouldn’t be an Xbox. Bungie’s seminal shooter single-handedly made Microsoft’s first home console worth owning back in 2001. Not only that, it proved that the first-person shooter genre could thrive on consoles, not just PCs. Halo is a pretty big deal.
Halo Infinite promises to be the biggest Halo yet. Six years after the mixed reception to Halo 5: Guardians, developer 343 Industries wants to prove that it’s a worthy inheritor of the franchise. After being delayed an entire year, Halo Infinite arrives on Dec. 8, 2021 as the newest blockbuster game for the next-gen Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
We’ve already sampled some of Halo Infinite’s competitive multiplayer (available now for everyone for free) and we know exactly how beefy our PCs will need to be to run it. However, for many people, the single-player campaign is just as important. We don’t just love shooting random aliens and space marines, we love following Master Chief’s and Cortana’s adventures.
For the longest time, Halo Infinite’s campaign has been shrouded in mystery, offering only the vaguest glimpses of a slightly more open-world format inspired by the original game’s expensive opening levels. However, our sister site IGN recently got the chance to play Halo Infinite’s revamped campaign for the first time. On this episode of The Pop-Off, IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey gives us a preview of what we can expect. Will the grappling hook change everything? Find out in the video above.
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