10 TERRIBLE Games That Got Great Reviews

With an 84 Metascore, Halo 5: Guardians appears to be a business-as-usual entry for the franchise - not the best, not the worst, but dead-in-the-middle, right?

You'd first need to ignore the game's atrociously miscalculated single-player campaign, which both trivialises the central marketing hook of the rivalry between Spartan Locke and Master Chief, and boasts the single worst recurring boss in the franchise - the Warden Eternal - who almost single-handedly makes replaying the game a non-starter.

That's without even getting into the sheer nonsense that is the actual story content of the campaign.

But Halo's multiplayer has always been its bread and butter, and while it's certainly the game's saving grace here, Halo 5 is still harangued by unnecessary changes made to the core gameplay and, worse still, the introduction of microtransactions. 

343 Industries' decision not to include local multiplayer functionality also sparked a significant and thoroughly justified backlash, cementing that Halo 5 took the series too far from its brilliant roots.