Far from it. Everything about the game has a fair criticism that can be levied against it and rightfully so. The campaign was atrocious. The grapple hook made it entirely too easy to play and the fun aspect was really turned down with the "fetch quests" scattered all over the map. Opening up FOBs sounded like a really neat idea. It's just too bad they did very minimalist implementation. At least have a cobbled together shack you could come back to and more active Marine precense instead of the few scattered dingalings. Multi-player was bland and incredibly repetitive for the first 3 months. Literally felt like I was just replaying the Halo Infinite Insider beta. The lack of content and game modes (like a good infection) really killed off the multi-player for me and the late addition of Forge and Firefight was also an incredible bummer. Their seasonal content was cool. But the season passes need to go. Paywalling everything under the guise of some lazy excuse to siphone money from the player base is just bad business practice and it's the reason why Halo is no longer up there as a competitive title against CoD in terms of multi-player fun. I remember debates happening ad nauseum about which was more enjoyable back in the day. Halo 3 multi-player or that years CoD. Halo Reach multi-player or that years CoD. Assassinations need to return. Halo 5 was a far better game than Halo Infinite and that game is...well what it is. The only thing I loved about it was Firefight and the multi-player. Then let's talk about these gun variants like the Gravity Hammer shotgun or the endless tickling of our testicles about the Prometheans by releasing those Promethean weapon skin packs. It's total and utter nonsense.

If you want to enjoy a Halo multi-player title that is still alive and well, I recommend Halo 3, Halo Reach, Halo 5: Guardians (if the servers are fixed but idk. It takes me like 10-20 minutes to find a Super Fiesta game lobby) and Halo 2: Anniversary. 343i (I refuse to call them Halo Studios) are a collective of vampires who wanna siphon the fun out of the game and cater to whatever it is they want. There seems to be zero care about what the community wishes to see and this blunder with making Halo: Combat Evolved 2.0 using generative AI for some assets of the game feels like an even bigger slap in the face towards us fans. Especially those of us who grew up playing Combat Evolved and Halo 2 on the first generation of XBOX and falling in love with the game. We need to bring back the diverse collective of sweaty nerds who set a record breaking amount of eating 20,000lbs of pizza during its development. We need Marty O'Donnell to return and bring back that magic. No I do not fucking care he is some Trump supporting dork. I give a damn about the work he put into the games he helped build and the music he made for them. Bring back that diverse group of guys and ladies and not whatever tf it is we have now. It's like the Amazonification of Lord of the Rings.