Why 'Halo Infinite' is the franchise's most fun adventure yet

Halo Infinite leans into the sci-fi silliness of the premise, making for a rip roaring shooter while showing off the graphical prowess of the latest gen console. — Microsoft/dpa

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!”