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@Claydog19 completely agree, Japan would be an excellent location. But I'm happy with Mexico, it'll be a refreshing change from the UK.

They've not sold it to me yet as it just looks like more of the same. While I don't want a battle royal mode I would like something large scale and more like Battlefield 1942 with a Halo dressing. Or... a spec ops squad vs AI with a strategic objective rather than just waves of enemies. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think any Halo game has had either of these game modes before.
The world has moved on since DM, TDM and CTF and while they are still enjoyable, I'd like a fresh new experience.

On the plus side, the graphics are much better than last years trailer.

I've been looking forward to finding out what they'd done with Halo Infinite Multiplayer, but after watching this I didn't see anything new... As a Halo fan I found myself wanting to play the new Battlefield game instead. EA simply presented their game better I'm sure, but MS really need to work on getting people excited about this game, rather than just waxing lyrically about the heritage of Halo and how popular it is.

Edit: Just read some of the comments and @Grumblevolcano has pointed out there is another session for Halo, so fingers crossed thats a good one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-O7OuliQRY

£70 for 7 maps plus expansion pass for the rest of the game... I'm actually speachless.

Played it on the PC, I tried using the XBox controller which was frustrating enough that an hour later I climbed into the loft to dig out my HOTAS. I'm hoping there is some kind of joystick support on the console.

I used to get lost in games like this for hours, endlessly lapping my favourite tracks shaving of tenths of a second. I love the detail, but after sinking a load of time into Forza Horizon I think I much prefer the entertainment and silliness.

That being said, I am still very much looking forward to the new Forza Motorsport.

@The-Chosen-one This game is so much better than the initial release so any reviews you read from that period please disregard. As for whether it's good or not, if you enjoy exploring, harvesting, building bases and space flight then yes it's excellent. However, I've always thought there was a lack of urgency and danger in the game, so I tend to play it when I want a care free and chilled experience.

I'm probably in the minority but I think the Xbox OS has gotten worse, especially the advertising tiles.

Back on topic, I really liked snap mode, I found it useful when following a guide or just keeping an eye on the news while I played. I missed it when it was removed, but admit that I'd forgotten about it until this article.

Umm.... No, no thank you. I won't be supporting this kind of paid for upgrade.

@VenomousAlbino fair comment. But voice actors are a special breed of actor, similar to fashion models vs hand models.

Seriously though I did consider voice acting but the PureXBOX questions specifically said 'see' so I decided to go with that. Voice acting in games is absolutely essential, a decent voice actor can really bring a character to life.

Again, I love the effort they're putting in, but trying to play twitch based games over cloud with a controller is just about OK if you're patient and don't mind getting killed a lot, touch controls just make the experience incredibly frustrating.
Personally I'd like to see a turn based RPG using cloud and touch, I think that would be well suited to the technology.

Would you like to see Tom Cruise in Starfield?

No. The beauty of games is the characters are only limited by the creators imagination, so why use real life actors?

This game looks fun, but some of the surfaces look a little flat.. For example during the fight sequence the floor textures. I know this is nit picking, but I was expecting it to look better.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that if they do a X|S version it'll be more than a simple resolution boost.

@101Force I already jumped the gun and pre-ordered. No idea what version they're providing and the internet doesn't seem to know either. But you're right, widescreen support would be a decent enhancement, personally I'm not fussed about the resolution as the SNES version was quite playable and I never had the opportunity to try this on the Mega Drive. My hope is that they've taken a little time to sensibly enhance these games much like the way Blizzard have with their recent retro collection.

@Kilamanjaro I also wish I could turn the adverts off, far too many of the home screen tiles are advertising, I didn't buy an xbox to see this.

It's subjective, but I don't think it looks very interesting and I think there is a severe lack of creativeness going on here. It's also shockingly expensive for what looks to be a standard controller.

Still overpriced but at least the other controller looks like they put some effort into how it looks: https://www.razer.com/p/ELDSXBWCR-0MNWR

I've been enjoying Immortals Fenyx Rising recently and was hoping to see a sequel. I'd hate to see a game this good spoiled by F2P money making mechanics.

Love this game, I haven't played it in years but I still catch myself humming the music from time to time.

I managed to get myself a Series X at the beginning of the year and don't regret the purchase, higher and more stable frames per second is always nice to have. But for me it feels like they launched too soon, the hardware is great but where are the next gen games?

One word: Cretins.

There is no way I'm encouraging this practice. Look at the mess buying DLC/loot boxes got us into, as customers we should have said 'no' at the beginning.

I love the effort they're putting in, but I just can't get on with touch controls.

It makes me sad to hear how buggy this game is, it stopped me picking up a copy after release day. Still, I can wait until it's fixed and then CDPR can have my money.

On a slightly different note, this is exactly the kind of release that put me off pre-ordering games. I just don't do it anymore after being burned in the past.

@Kilamanjaro I had some similar issues when xCloud was in Beta, even when my phone was within 1m of my wifi router. Anyway, I found the issue in the end was with my phone not being up to the task for whatever reason, my Wife's phone and tablet worked fine and then when I upgraded my phone that also worked fine, for reference I'm currently using an Sony Xperia 1ii whereas the older phone that had issues was a CAT S41.

They don't make it clear in the tweet, but you need to check the Forza in game messages and look in the gifts tab.

I think the problem here is that the names are not intuitive. The Xbox Series naming convention doesn't clearly rectify this either, although using the word Series implies that there could be future consoles in the Series... Let us hope they have some clear kind of naming strategy.
On the other hand Nintendo don't have intuitive naming either, but other than the Wii and WiiU they have radically different names between console generations, so when diddykins asks for a Nintendo Switch a parent will have to try really hard to confuse this with a Nintendo WiiU.

Xbox/Windows Mixed Reality Headset or something like the dual sense feature the PS5 has.

I'd really like to play Forza in VR.

This is welcome news, I recently started playing it from scratch after abandoning my save game several years ago. Stupid life used to get in the way, but now due to the lockdown I have all the time I need to revisit my back catalogue.

Really nice addition, but is this going to be on console and PC, or just the console?

Just vote with your wallets. Moaning online doesn't matter a damn.

Great news, it will stop my wife kicking me out of xCloud games when she turns on the xbox to watch netflix.

Does that price include the sales tax? It's not always shown upfront in US stores.

Does it have crossplay with steam?

Wasn't even aware Facebook gaming was a thing. At least I'd heard of Mixer and Twitch.

I don't think the original Xbox One UI was terrible, but the new UI irritates me everytime I use it simply because of the advertising space. I don't just mean the Microsoft advertising either, I've had several adverts appear on the home screen entirely unrelated to gaming or Microsoft.

I really don't like the current Xbox UI. It seems to me that Microsoft got it's priorities wrong and gave too much of the initial screen layout to advertising, which I really don't want to see.