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Most Halo players just want to play the game how they like. Forget your four-kill “Killtacular” streak that was good for bragging rights and little else.

Currently, the only way to progress through the season pass is to complete challenges. This may be the biggest complaint I’ve seen out of the Halo community: Experience progression is way too slow.The mode is a welcome way to change up the pace, but two rounds is too long for what the game entails. But Oddball, wherein teams compete to hold a ball for the most amount of time, is a bit of a momentum killer with two rounds needed for teams to win. Still, the selection of game types in the default playlist are almost all great, including the low-scoring and strategy-heavy Capture the Flag, which feels like the soccer of Halo game modes. I don’t know why that feature is missing here I hope it’s added eventually. Early signs of 343 Industries’s mastery of the Halo formula were in its strong support of “The Master Chief Collection,” which allowed players to enter into playlists customized to their tastes. But candidly, there needs to be a Slayer-only playlist, where players can choose to engage only in deathmatch-style games. The various playlists seem determined to force players to try a variety of modes.Moving around the maps feels great, but even a simple change of scenery would do wonders. The first “Halo” had the cold, wind-swept expanse of Sidewinder, while Avalanche, one of the best-designed and most fun maps in “Halo 3,” came with snow particles kicking up off players’ feet. But past Halo games made effective use of a variety of biomes.

“Halo Infinite” takes place on the very Earthlike Zeta Halo installation, which would explain all the pine trees and grass. Every map is either some sort of industrial interior (a rocket base or a factory) or outdoorsy in a way that mirrors the woods of the Pacific Northwest. While the map designs are solid, the aesthetics often leave something to be desired.This is a great quality of life feature, and 343 deserves praise for this, though the battle pass also factors into one of the game’s most glaring faults. In “Halo Infinite” (and “The Master Chief Collection”), seasonal rewards can be earned at your leisure at any point. “Fortnite,” the game that popularized the seasonal pass of rewards, only gives you a few months to earn rewards.Even the lasers have some oomph to their pew pews. Sometimes, the weapons leaned too realistic other times they were too cartoonish, like the submachine gun’s popcorn rattle in “Halo 2.” “Halo Infinite” finds a happy medium between distinctive and powerful. Halo games, even the original Bungie five, are famously uneven in their treatment of the game’s arsenal. The clang of the battle rifle gives each shot real weight and power. The guns don’t just feel good - they sound good too.Much of this is due to great map design that keeps the landscape easy to read and near symmetrical - while also changing just enough to keep players on their toes. Deadlock, in particular, works well both for Big Team Battles overall and the smaller, PvP engagements that flare up in different corners of the map over the course of a match. Every map so far is very solid, particularly the maps for Big Team Battles, from the brooding Brute structures of Deadlock to the Seattle-tinged forests of Fragmentation.Sprinting now just feels like an additional tool kit for players to access, whether they’re shooting or dodging bullets. But in “Halo Infinite,” the game’s 10 maps feel balanced and large enough for faster movement. That way, every firefight is a free-flowing battle of gunplay and positioning, since everyone moves at roughly the same speed. Classic competitive players (myself included) have always appreciated and preferred a slower pace. Sprinting has been a divisive addition to recent Halo games.