I've put in a handful of rounds in the Halo Infinite's Big Team Battle mode now, and all I can say is that it's chaotic fun.

The maps are just the right size that you don't need to run very far to get back into the battle, and there's just enough anonymity in the amount of players that you can't really blame any one person for a bad match.

I had a blast riding machine-gunner on a Warthog as my teammate tried to run down enemy players.

I'm looking forward to more maps in the future, and (hopefully) just plain getting better at this!

Xbox held a short online event today for its 20th anniversary. During the show, they released the first part of Halo Infinite, the multiplayer bit. The campaign for the game launches in December.

After work, I spent some time playing around with it - and it's a lot of fun. It reminds me of playing Unreal Tournament 2003 with my roommates, back in college. I think it has a lot of potential to be fun.

I'm more of a campaign guy myself, but I like having a casual game to have fun with my friends with in the evenings. We'll see if this turns into that, but in my opinion, so far, so good.