When it comes to system exclusives, the idea of a £40 game helping increase sales of a £400 console often seems ridiculous with them very few giving in to the temptation to buy the new system for an exclusive. One of the biggest exclusives in recent years has been the Halo series, offered to Xbox owners while PC releases stopped after the first game. Now it would seem Microsoft want to encourage even more games to bring together Xbox and Windows users with Halo 5 getting a PC release, with a twist.
The version of Halo 5 that will launch on Windows 10 “later this year” will be free for everyone and goes by the name of Forge-Halo 5: Guardians Edition. The catch to getting the latest game in the series for free? Firstly you’ll be stuck without a single-player campaign, putting all of your time into the games multiplayer. The multiplayer however won’t include matchmaking with random opponents, instead forcing players to play with people on their friend’s list on any Forge map they create / download.
Forge mode was created in Halo to let you lay down objects and rules in a map and then play their custom game as long as they want with custom kill counts, time limits or your very own win conditions. With support for mouse and keyboard set-ups, the PC version is coming with everything from 4K resolutions to the ability to share your custom maps from the PC to Xbox One.
Are you excited about this? Will you hold out for the next game in the Halo series and hope that it comes to PC in its full glory? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
nice sensationist headline /10
Congrats on not knowing halo and halo 2 were the pc release versions of halo.
Fucking multiplayer! Would you read a book or watch a movie (besides porn) that had no story?
No, but people watch sports all the time and those offer no story or participation. Don’t like something? Don’t play it.
if you don’t like it you don’t have to get it. I mean its free its not as if they’re charging you to take it XD and I’m happy I’ll be able to get in and mess around with the forge. Most likely they’ll bring story and matchmaking out for a price later on. Which is totally cool I mean you wouldn’t want to make a product and get nothing for it.
Yea, I just find it lazy, like the Starwars Battlefront game.. a programmer can slap together a 3D environment in a few minutes. I don’t care too much for multiplayer
I would hardly call the StarWars Battlefront environments “slapped together in a few minutes” its one of the most visually impressive games i have ever played, it really does capture the sights and the sounds of StarWars very well, the game play is however vapid and lifeless, I would have liked a story mode, but unfortunately, EA made the game, sorry, EA destroyed the franchise, all so they could release before the new moves so they could make a “Battlefront 2” which will include a story and a lot of new film universe content.
Yea I know, I exaggerate a little. It’s just that multiplayer-only games remind me of the Dark Basic Programming package where you could add a half dozen lines of code and you get a ready made randomised map and a first-person-shooter system already implemented, just add textures!! I played a bit of the Battlefront beta alright, and you’re right, it looked great but I got bored after about 20 minutes. It’s like playing Mario with no kidnapped princess.. :-)
SWB didn’t have a single player campaign because they needed it to be released side-by-side with the movie.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/159387/20160518/ea-gives-the-real-reason-star-wars-battlefront-didnt-have-a-campaign.htm
I am not an online multiplayer kind of guy. My main game playing (99%) is done through single player campaign mode so the new Halo will be useless for me, also having the games from the windows store is just a pain in the ass. I prefer steam.
this is retarded.