I had not missed the game on the screen, and I have all the "hype". I've often tried to play Halo, so I never got warm. Lack of alternatives, and currently, a great desire to play a console game on my new PS4, I jumped, but the signs were bad. As I said, not a big shooter fan, nor a Halo fan, player disappointed.
After 3, 4 hours, it had been totally captivated me. Why?
Graphics & Sound: I personally have not seen anything better. I'm a big Weltraumfan. I find it more than once down the jaw, how great this game looks. If, for example. is on the moon, and can see the earth. Unbelievable. The soundtrack is a stunner, and could come from a space epic. Sometimes you get served right goosebumps sounds. The weapons and sound effects are also really good for my taste. The atmosphere in this game is very dense.
Gameplay: Although I'm not the big shooter fan, this game attracts me tremendously. It's fun to shoot because it just works perfectly, and is also challenging. The addiction mechanisms, always to get hold of better weapons and armor, as well as to make more and more his character, takes really good so far, and you can feel at any time to improve.
What I like right: Sometimes I'm just on a planet traveling to see myself, see other players. It happened an event, the players who are in the vicinity, all rush to the scene and fight against the aliens. Such a situation I had already repeatedly.
Story:
The story here would have been more in it a lot, I can not understand why the developers expected that the player will be kicked out from the flow of the game, and have to read the story on a homepage. Too bad! In the game is little explained and everything just cut. The story is far from epic, but it creates this game, to stimulate my imagination if, for example. an alien race in an ancient library pray. The game manages often to tell a story without telling them. Much happens in the head. And I like that. Only with the Grimoire cards. This should have taken place in the game, not on a website. I hope here is nachgepatcht. This makes a much better Assassins Creed, despite cutscenes.
Online compulsion: I think that is wrong, because it is sometimes kicked out of the game because the servers just do not work. As the game will be an MMO that has just been made so.
Variety is in this game, unfortunately, not as good as given, perhaps, with the DLC's to come. Personally, I notice it hardly because I have too much fun with the thing. Although I'm actually a sophisticated player who wants to change, it is not bothering me. And I've already invested a lot of time in this game, and am still far from through. I can not explain. Online I have not yet played against other, that will come. Has previously never interested me. Here I test of time.
give the game a try, it's really good, but by no means a masterpiece, as it was advertised. I have a lot of fun with it, and that is after a long time a game where I would stand still times and enjoy the atmosphere.