To celebrate the release of Warzone Firefight next week, the full game of Halo 5: Guardians will be available to download and play FOR FREE to all Xbox Live Gold members from June 29 to July 5 as part of Xbox Live’s “Free Play Days” program. Additionally, Halo 5: Guardians will be on sale for 50 percent off during this same time. There’s no better time to join the Spartan ranks!
Note that the game is more than 80GB in size. Maybe closer to 90GB.
I should get 1-2 days of gameplay as long as I download it straight away and dont let anyone or anything else use my internet while it downloads….where is my NBN!
Hahah, I downloaded this game in about 4 hours the other day. Gotta love the NBN.
Sorry. It'll come soon enough :)
it took me around 8hrs to download a 5 gig install just two days ago from the PS STORE.
I highly recommended giving H5 multiplayer a shot. I was skeptical at first as I rarely play games online these days (I prefer SP campaigns) but I gave Halo 5 a bash over the pre-E3 Xbox Live weekend and it blew me away. I originally intended to spend that weekend playing Halo 2 MP (nostalgia ftw) but I ended up playing H5 non-stop instead. It's really good and at least on par with the original Halo trilogy online IMHO. Jump in if you haven't yet.
Shame. With XB Live metered that would kill more than HALF my peak or off-peak quota (150/150). Great idea…..if you're not living in Australia on off-net (Telstra forced). Will have to do without.
Oh, this is the perfect opportunity for me to thank Mr Turnbull for such a bang up job on the NBN too :-(.
Have your say in this upcoming election in a few days time. :)
Yes, much better have Conroy spending the hidden tens of billions that he wasn't smart enough to be able to calculate.
Is only the multiplayer available to play? Or do I have a week to finish the single player campaign?
It includes both the multiplayer component and full single player campaign. So you'll have a week to get through that if you choose to. From what I've read, the single player component is about 5 to 8 hours long depending on the difficulty.
Awesome! Cheers.
You can do it in one sitting if you're prepared. It's about 6-7 hours or so on normal.
Agreed, I easily finished within that timeframe on Heroic…in retrospect I should have chosen Legendary to at least get some value out of it! :/
This should boost the online numbers. Plus, Xbox live should give us a preload period of say, 1-2 days prior to download.
i finished the campaign on heroic in 6.30 hours that wasnt rushed at all , also the multiplayer is extrememly fun and addicting i love the new warzone
I wonder if we can earn achievements for it or will it be like a trial?
You can indeed.
Halo 5 has always been xbox one exclusive, the game isnt on xbox 360.
Yes and if you're not into Halo but have a Live account you automatically know this because???
And I get 5 downvotes for asking for clarity in the deal. @#$% Ozbargain!!!
Am I missing something here? I can't find it?
Yeah same here! I checked the xbox website and had a look at the store on the Xbone and Halo 5 is $49.95
Up Now. 87.5G - wow. Lucky iinet is unmetered for XBL.
Through the store on the console you can either 'install' or 'Buy a copy for 49.95'
How people play FPSes with game controllers is beyond me, but kudos to you if you can. :)
I finally started downloading this this morning, but my downloads are painfully slow. I am on a 100mbps connection, but its a good 15 hours later and im still at 70%. What on earth is going on?
For reasons unknown I got to finish single player this weekend. Good game. I didn't play multiplayer anymore so just uninstalled it.
The free to play period would have been long over by the time I finished downloading the game on my shit net. Good initiative though.