I haven't tried as I already own it. But I've just had my Xbox on and there is a tile on the right side of the dashboard offering 'Play Halo 5 for free' (or along those lines).

I can still play the campaign of this. What's going on??

Jesus's been downloading this on and off for 2 days. Only at 70 %.

Can I not lend the disc off my mate install it give him it back and play it?

I am a new Xbox one owner and have a 12 month live subscription, I am able to download the free monthly Xbox 360 games onto the Xbox one even if I don't own them? Every time I try it shows as free with gold but when I click through it shows a price. Heat added for the post

​then what does that make of your opinion?

It took 4 hours to download via a wired 76mbps fibre connection, just to give people a rough idea.

Personally I never buy new releases anymore and generally I'm a few years behind (just finished Assassin's Creed 2 ha!), so playing this for free for a week is great for anyone like me!

​Same here but before i got fttp this would of took 4 days straight to download.

Depends if you have fibre, personally it will take me less than an hour to install using my wired connection.

I haven't tried as I already own it. But I've just had my Xbox on and there is a tile on the right side of the dashboard offering 'Play Halo 5 for free' (or along those lines).

Yep, same here, xbox.com still £22.50, how are folks getting this free? Direct from their xbox one instead?

People that ain't got halo 5 by now probably have no intention of buying it, this is a bad move by Microsoft as its just giving the not fussed players a free campaign and a week to realize how under par the multiplayer has become.

​what ?

It got rated pretty well on release. But it's pretty lackluster campaign and it's bare-bones features hurt it a lot. (Though saying that, it's definitely one of the best playing multiplayer in a long time)

False!

80 plus gig, by the time i dl that on my 16 meg the 6 days will be over. lol

​If you can manage to play it without getting bored you should be able to. Possibly the worst halo for me.

Yikes...87Gb, free is free, cheers op.

81gb is a huge download if you haven't got fibre broadband

I can confirm that it's now free. Thanks again for posting.

It's finally showing up and installing! Heat added! :wink: ​

I started downloading it at 11pm, just search for Halo 5 on the console itself and there will be an option to install it! Heat added!

Still showing as £22.50 for me!

Free!! My ****

Still showing as £22.50 for me!

I can't seem to find this free trial.

​ok thanks I'll check later

The free play days generally kick off tonight. Looking back at the NBA 2K16 one, it will be around 8pm.

Showing as £22.50

ok ok i was slow. :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah, you're not really getting the joke are you?

Whilst i agree people are dumb for not trying this becuase of the file size of the game. I do not agree 500gb is uselss. I have had no need to buy an external hard drive and i have around 50 digital games. I don't see how having all games available to play at once is a necessity. I just keep a couple of regular multiplayer games downloaded and then just download/play campaign games as i when i get to them.

As a pretty big Halo fan gotta be honest here. The campaign was absolute cack! Seriously who was the genius that write the story for the campaign. You defeat Warden Eternal once, ok that was irritating ESPECIALLY on legendary, fine. But then you fight him again but in a more condensed location, err ok? Then you have to face another 3 clones of him!! Seriously come on theres a difference between putting a challenge for the player and just making it flat out irritating for one to proceed. Getting killed in one hit lol.

Multiplayer is great though, finally starting to get used to the speed. Its insanely fast especially compared to previous Halo games, still hate that awful radar though. Its stupidly inconsistent and many times someone can be right beside or behind you and won't even alert you till the last minute, Apart from all that its a great Halo.

Thanks. Just me getting confused. Thought I read someone was going to download it :neutral_face:

It's only free to play for a week. It's not a time scale download to keep forever.

If I sign up for a 1 month Gold subscription. Can I download and keep this game even after my subscription ends? Hope so.

It seems a little crazy that people prepared to take a walk down to Game or enter their credit card details to buy a game online but haven't got the common sense to leave this one downloading while they are asleep. It's a free game for a week so why not? I'm presuming most people do actually already have an external hard drive. Pretty useless stuck at 500gb especially the way Games With Gold are coming thick and fast.

now what about your punctuation? :-p

Great game very under rated

Lol what do you mean not going to happen?

81g for a week not going to happen

You do realise that they are not actually giving Halo 5 away for free? ​

​ Lmfao.
Them 2 sheets of metal are STILL in the box.
Fingers crossed the digital version drops n we can sell this s**t at a profit.
But I am not holding my breath. :wink:

Nfft, just paid a tenner for a limited edition version.
Feel robbed.

Cool, what will you do for the other 115 - 175 minutes though?!:P

​Got your priorities in correct order, games then 'your woman'. :smile:

you clearly knew what I was on about didn't you ****

Its like the highest sized xbox one game going. can't see many being up for a 81gb download for a week trial.

I have loved the Halo series from day 1, and have played FPS from the days of PC Doom etc. I still rate that first time on Halo 1 campaign as a pinnacle console moment. I am one of those 'odd' creatures that has no interest in MP whatsoever. I only recently obtained an Xbox One, having owned the previous MS consoles from day one, and am really enjoying the hardware.
I was less enamored with Halo 4 to be honest, and was so, so disappointed with the opening level of Halo 5. I would encourage any genuine Halo fan to persevere. It really gets back to that 'old' Halo feel soon after that first level. I am just past the superb Swords of Sanghelios level and (imo) rate some of Halo 5 up there with the best of the series.

Cool story bro

this has to be the worst business decision ever no one will buy it after giving it a go it's awful

I have loved the Halo series from day 1, and have played FPS from the days of PC Doom etc. I still rate that first time on Halo 1 campaign as a pinnacle console moment. I am one of those 'odd' creatures that has no interest in MP whatsoever. I only recently obtained an Xbox One, having owned the previous MS consoles from day one, and am really enjoying the hardware.
I was less enamored with Halo 4 to be honest, and was so, so disappointed with the opening level of Halo 5. I would encourage any genuine Halo fan to persevere. It really gets back to that 'old' Halo feel soon after that first level. I am just past the superb Swords of Sanghelios level and (imo) rate some of Halo 5 up there with the best of the series.

Far too slow.

I think Halo 5's strength is definitely the multiplayer and worthwhile to purchase.

81gb! Would be nice if we could download and install beforehand.

So basically a free game! Sort of lol

campaigns isn't that long a few days should be plenty

Sweet, only really interested in campaign hopefully i can get through that in a few days.

Nice! Now I need to get an Xbox One! :smiley: