That isn’t to say that there’s no connection between Halo Infinite’s campaign and multiplayer. ![]() “ Halo Infinite Multiplayer is ‘effing good.” Taken on the whole, Halo Infinite’s overall release is already fated to be the most fractured in franchise history. Even farther afield is the eventual release of the latest incarnation of Forge, the franchise’s custom level-creation mode, which, according to developer 343i, won’t arrive for an additional 3 months after the addition of campaign co-op. Halo fans who value those components still have a long wait ahead of them. With the recent announcement that franchise staples such as online co-op and split-screen co-op in Campaign Mode as well as offline, local multiplayer options have all been delayed to May 2022 at the earliest. Never before in the history of the franchise has a new entry seen its multiplayer completely decoupled from the release of its story campaign (which in the case here, as Halo Infinite is set to drop on December 8 th). Let's hope this little fun flourish from Microsoft gets the series back on track a little bit and gets the game in consumers' good books once again.Last week, on the 20 th Anniversary of both the original Xbox console and its most celebrated launch title, Halo: Combat Evolved, the Halo franchise officially entered uncharted waters with the public stealth drop of its long-awaited, free-to-play multiplayer component. Halo Infinite was initially set to launch alongside the Xbox Series X/S in November 2020, but it was pushed into 2021 after a less-than-stellar gameplay showcase in July last year. ![]() To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Hmm.īoth Tom Henderson and Jeff Grubb chimed in on social media, saying the rumours about a planned early launch of the multiplayer were – indeed – correct. Once this got around the internet, the release date on the store was quickly and quietly changed back to Halo 5's proper release date of December 8. The reveal isn't quite as shocking as it could have been, though over the weekend, curious internet sleuths dug into Halo Infinite’s official store page and found references to a November 15 'release'PreOrderReleaseDate' date' tag. This early launch lets you play on all the game's maps, enjoy all the weapons and get a look at the full Halo Infinite Battle pass, too. Given that Halo Infinite supports multiplayer cross-play and cross-progression between PC, Xbox Series X/S, this is a surprise drop that a lot of players can enjoy – or at least start enjoying ahead of the full release of the whole game next month. It's a pretty big deal, this early launch – Xbox is no doubt expecting Halo Infinite to be huge on Xbox Game Pass, and if it's anywhere near as popular as Forza Horizon 5 ( which managed to attract 4.5 million players in its first day on the service), then the company is going to enjoy a bumper November, for sure. ![]() Way ahead of the game's planned release date of December 8, Microsoft has shadowdropped Halo Infinite's multiplayer portion, allowing fans to log in and play the already-hyped multiplayer mode almost a month a head of schedule. In a surprise move, Microsoft has made Halo Infinite multiplayer live as part of the Xbox 20th anniversary celebrations.
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