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Watching the SPARTANs calmly disassemble the Covenant Elites is admittedly thrilling, but it’s also over pretty quickly-leaving behind an impression of well-choreographed action, but cheap CGI. – Jesse Schedeen, IGN Moviesįor a show based on an action franchise, though, Halo tends to be pretty skimpy on the shooting in the early going. Even after one episode, it’s clear that approach was the right call.

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However, this live-action series breaks tradition by establishing its own continuity separate from that of the games and their various tie-ins. Halo has always taken the Star Wars approach of emphasizing a unified, cross-media shared universe. Up until now, all the Halo media - the games, the novels, the comics, the previous live-action web series - has taken place within the same continuity. Paramount+’s Halo series marks an interesting departure for the franchise. – Caroline Framke, Varietyīased on the two episodes provided for review, developers Kyle Killen ( Awake) and Stephen Kane ( The Last Ship) have opted not to straightforwardly adapt the scope and grandeur of the games to a television format, but to graft the lore, characters, and aesthetic of Halo onto the rhythms and tropes of sci-fi/fantasy streaming shows that came before. But as another entrant in the ever expanding “Halo” universe, it at least has enough ambition to make it worth a closer look. In its first two episodes, “Halo” doesn’t quite have that yet. Seeing the world through a vacant perspective might work for a game in which the audience has its own agency, but not for a show that requires its own point of view. The result is a series that manages to evoke many of the core themes and the visuals of the video games while also delivering a compelling narrative that’s more driven by its character’s motivations than chasing objective markers highlighted on a Heads-Up Display. The notes and some of the lyrics are immediately recognizable, but the shell wrapped around it is entirely original. Watching the first two episodes of the series feels similar to listening to a song that has sampled an iconic piece of music. What I can say is that it is more ambitious in scope than I expected, but in becoming so it veers away from the original games. So, does the sci-fi series live up to the hype? Here’s what critics, who were provided with screeners of two episodes for review, are saying about Halo: Paramount+ has already renewed the program for a second season, showing the streamer has high hopes for the project.

Catherine Halsey, Yerin Ha as Kwan Ah, Bokeem Woodbine as Soren-066, Shabana Azmi as Admiral Margaret Parangosky, Danny Sapani as Captain Jacob Keyes, Charlie Murphy as Makee, and Jen Taylor as the voice of Cortana. Pablo Schreiber ( American Gods, Orange Is the New Black) steps into Master Chief’s boots and armor and leads a diverse cast that includes Natascha McElhone as Dr. The program follows Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 - known simply as “Master Chief,” the franchise’s iconic cybernetically-altered super-soldier - as he defends humanity from a militant alliance of alien races known as The Covenant.

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Nearly 21 years after the first Halo video game hit Xbox (and changed the gaming world forever), the highly-anticipated Halo TV series is finally set to arrive on Friday, March 24, on Paramount+.

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