The original Halo resonated with me as one of my favorite games of all time because it was a story about the dying light of humanity. The Brute has humanity on the run, and he’s a real villain. He leads what is left of The Covenant, the traditional foe whose aim is to wipe out all humanity.
It’s just a new enemy in the form of a Brute war chief, Escharum, who has taken control of a Halo ring and is part of a faction from Halo Wars 2 dubbed The Banished. In Halo Infinite, the new enemy isn’t a friend. In the eight minutes we saw yesterday, no vestiges of that convoluted plot were visible. In Halo 5, she returned as an AI gone mad. That’s a more complicated story, but Cortana sacrificed herself in Halo 4 in what was a touching ending to a love story. The reason that Master Chief went off the official path, to Locke’s consternation, was to save Cortana, or what was left of her. I also had a hard time believing that Master Chief and his, um, AI love interest, Cortana, had also become enemies.
MetaBeat will bring together metaverse thought leaders to give guidance on how metaverse technology will transform the way all industries communicate and do business on October 3-4 in San Francisco, CA. I didn’t believe for an instant that Master Chief was a traitor, just as I had a hard time swallowing in The Last of Us Part II (spoiler alert) that one of the major characters was more like a villain than a hero. So you realize that what these two really needed to do was to get together and have a nice talk. Because you play Spartan Locke for some missions and Master Chief for others, you gain knowledge about each character’s intentions. In Halo 5, Master Chief went rogue, and it was up to another Spartan, Jameson Locke, to hunt the hero down. 16 in the Halo franchise, has to overcome if it wants to get all of the Master Chief fans back on board. As one of 15 Halo games, it felt a lot like Halo 5 hit creative exhaustion with an overly convoluted narrative.
They’ve had five years since Halo 5: Guardians debuted with excellent multiplayer mechanics and a lousy story. But the creators of Halo Infinite have taken their time in coming up with this bigger and badder Halo. Maybe that’s not the most productive avenue for discussion. It’s similar to how the bow-and-arrow became popular in games for a few years, and it’s one of those video game conventions that designers pull out when they don’t have enough going on to entertain players. But that’s not particularly special, especially for people who played Doom Eternal, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Just Cause 2, and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. For the most part, it succeeded in convincing me that Master Chief is back in the hands of storytellers who know what they’re doing.įor many fans, Microsoft and developer 343 Industries had them with the grappling hook, the new tool that gives the Spartan supersoldier some serious air mobility. Microsoft had eight minutes to convince a world of gamers that they should get excited about the gameplay of Halo Infinite yesterday during the start of the Xbox Games Showcase. Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next.
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