Halo 5: Check Out This Incredible Boss Battle Mode Made With Forge

Ever since 343 Industries released the Forge map/mode-making tools for Halo 5: Guardians in December, we've seen the community create some incredible content. This continues with a map called "Mitake Machine," which was created by Xbox Live user TOKETAKE and recently spotlighted on the Forge Labs YouTube channel.

This is basically a boss battle in which one player controls a huge machine while a team of Spartans try to bring it down by shooting rocket launchers at its power cores. The machine is modeled after Master Chief's helmet and has two massive arms with "kill balls" attached to them. The player controlling the machine does so by pressing buttons that make it go forward or backward, or swing its deadly arms. Check out the video above to see it in action.

If the attacking players can destroy four outer power cores, the visor will open, exposing the final power core. Destroy this and the machine-operator will fall onto the battlefield where they will be very vulnerable.

As explained in the video, this map is an experimental project that suffers from issues, some of which include poor frame rate, which leads to lag that can make it difficult to shoot the core.

This project has caught the eye of Head of Xbox Phil Spencer, who linked to the video on Twitter today, saying, "What people do in Forge is pretty incredible."

GameSpot also spoke with 343 Industries recently about Halo 5's impressive Forge creations, which before this included Star Wars podracing and a terrifying-looking avalanche minigame, among other things.

Studio head Josh Holmes told us that the studio continues to be surprised and impressed.

"It's been amazing to see the creativity of the Halo community unleashed with the new Forge toolset in Halo 5: Guardians," he said. "We have an ongoing email thread going here in the studio where people share new discoveries every week and it never fails to amaze us what people have managed to build."