11/1/2023 0 Comments Halo infinite campaign review![]() As an interactive text it is still primarily a celebration of shooting with a variety of space guns, but even as someone who doesn’t often gravitate to the so-called “shooter” genre, “Halo Infinite” exemplifies the category at its approachable best. Return to form, reboot - whatever descriptor one wants to use - “Halo Infinite” plays as a bit of a “Halo” greatest hits, merging the Master Chief narrative existentialism of the very fine “Halo 4” with the early games’ patient level design, silliness and sci-fi slickness. So far, every minute I’ve played of the “Halo Infinite” campaign takes flight. ![]() But when “Halo” embraces itself as sci-fi gobbledygook - wrapping a warm hug around its cheesy dialogue and reveling in the weirdness of its core storyline of one man’s relationships with artificially intelligent female holograms - it soars as pulpy, timeless, space opera fantasy. There are times “Halo” tries to be serious, though those moments are best left at the tip of an eye roll. ![]() The whole of “Halo Infinite” is somewhat ridiculous. It’s hard, after all, to put down a controller in frustration when, after watching the man-turned-war-machine Master Chief get slain by an unseen alien brute with a pulsating blue sword, a squealy voiced rodent-like-reptile creature yowls, “I got dibs on the helmet, guys!” No one is as gleefully brain-dead going into battle as the creatures in the “Halo” franchise - and especially those in the campaign of “Halo Infinite,” a sort of reset for the massive sci-fi franchise after 2015’s bonanza of impenetrable intergalactic war threads that was “Halo 5: Guardians.”
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