Halo 5: Guardians
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Halo 5: Guardians is a shooter developed by 343 Industries, released 27 October 2015 on Xbox One. The main story takes about 10.4 hrs to finish.
What Halo 5: Guardians is
Halo 5: Guardians is a shooter game developed by 343 Industries and released in 2015. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When the UNSC can't track down their most valued asset (Spartan 117: The Master Chief), they send a highly trained ONI soldier (Agent Locke) to bring him back. Master Chief is in search for something very important and will allow nothing to stand in his way, while Agent Locke has vowed to uphold justice and hunt for the truth. As these two titans fight their way through Forerunner and Covenant forces, the fate of the universe hangs in the balance yet again.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It supports multiplayer for up to 24 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Halo series
Halo 5: Guardians is the 37th of 55 entries we hold in the Halo series. The next entry was Halo 5: Guardians - Limited Collector's Edition in 2015. Its critic score of 84 is 3 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Halo 3 at 91.
How it was received
Halo 5: Guardians holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 274 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 65 hrs, roughly 6.3 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Halo 5: Guardians launched on 27 October 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Halo 5: Guardians yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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