Why ‘Halo Infinite’ campaign is the franchise’s slickest and most fun adventure yet
No one is as gleefully brain dead to go to 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.”
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!”
The whole of “Halo Infinite” is somewhat ridiculous. There are times “Halo” tries to be serious, though those moments are best left at the tip of an eye roll. But when “Halo” embraces itself as sci-fi gobbledygook — wrapping a
