Sweet Warzone Firefight Multiplayer Co-Op Mode Comes To Halo 5: Guardians

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, March 21, 2016, 06:49 PM EDT

Action From Halo 5: Guardians Warzone Firefight

Halo 5: Guardians’ Warzone multiplayer mode is one of the main reasons gamers keep coming back to the title. The large maps and intense action are one of Halo 5’s mainstays. But in an update due to be released soon, 343 Games and Microsoft are kicking things up a few notches and introducing a new mode, dubbed Warzone Firefight, that takes the multi-player Warzone concept and scales it up to what they’re claiming is “the biggest Halo cooperative experience ever in franchise history”.

In Warzone Firefight mode, up to eight players can work together in a co-operative effort to complete five rounds of objectives, which get increasing more difficult as you progress through them. In addition, the team is also fighting against the clock -- a timer adds another layer of complexity to the action. You can get a taste for how intense Warzone Firefight can be in this epic gameplay trailer that was just released...

Not only does Warzone Firefight introduce a new gameplay mode to Halo 5: Guardians, but a new “Mythic” tier of enemy bosses is inbound as well. Warzone Firefight also gives gamers the ability to leverage all of their REQ System, including all armor, vehicles, weapons and power-ups, etc.

An exact release date wasn’t given, but the Warzone Firefight DLC is expected to hit Halo 5: Guardians on the Xbox One this summer.

Tags: Gaming, Microsoft, halo, NASDAQ:MSFT, xbox one, 343-industries, warzone firefight

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com