There’s a reason you aren’t seeing a whole lot of review scores for Microsoft and 343’s Halo 5: Guardians today, even though the review embargo has been lifted and people are free to say whatever they want. In short: we’ve been burned before. The last few years have made it abundantly clear that any game with a major multiplayer component can’t really be reviewed properly until servers go live and the public gets to try things out: sure, we can play various game modes, give things a roll and figure out how it would look if it were playing perfectly, but we can’t know that it actually will. There are plenty of counter-examples out there, but the obvious one here is Halo: The Master Chief Collection, an epic romp through every one of Master Chief’s remastered adventures so far that launched with such broken multiplayer that it took months to get it to something that approximated working order. Everyone involved is hoping that doesn’t happen again.

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