
Halo has always put style before substance, but the substance is better now than it has been in over a decade. If you skipped Halo 5 because you heard bad things and/or have never touched a Halo Wars game, Halo Infinite is going to be as disorienting for you as it is Master Chief’s anxious new sidekick, a bearded pilot who goes suspiciously unnamed. This comprehensive campaign overview can also help get you up to speed. So what the hell happened? Who’s alive and who’s dead? Who’s good and who’s bad? How can one man take on an army of Banished? Chief’s former beloved AI Cortana is MIA, and in her place is a cheery doppelganger Chief calls “The Weapon.”

This ring-like planetary structure was the site of a massive battle between the human UNSC forces and the Banished, a warmongering alien faction. Three years after the events of Halo 5: Guardians, a random pilot discovers Master Chief’s body floating in space around a severely damaged Zeta Halo. Just like that, I feel like I’m 12 years old again, doing silly things in a genuinely great Halo game. “You tryin’ to get us killed Chief?” a third grumbled as we fell to our deaths. “Aaaah!” another marine screamed out of genuine fear. The wheels crackled across the dirt and stone and left the ground entirely. I knew the gap was too wide to make, yet there was a clearing through the forest and a grassy ramp right at the highest point.Īfter a few botched attempts getting the initial angle right, I pinned down the accelerator and jolted forward, channeling my inner Evel Knievel.
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The only time I hit an invisible wall in Halo Infinite was when I tried to drive a Warthog full of marines across a chasm. The best open-world games give you a sandbox that encourages experimentation with few limits.

Master Chief chats with “The Weapon” in Halo Infinite.
