According to a number of individuals who were able to view the pilot episode of the upcoming Ridley Scott-produced Halo television show, Halo: Nightfall isn’t looking too good.
For those unfamiliar with Halo: Nightfall, it is essentially a prologue, in the form of a digital video series, to next year’s highly anticipated game, Halo 5: Guardians, and is, as previously mentioned, being executive produced by Ridley Scott (of Alien, Blade Runner, and more, fame). Nightfall is set to launch next week alongside Halo: The Master Chief Collection, exclusively for the Xbox One.
Back to the topic of discussion, recently, some of The Verge‘s employees were given the opportunity to watch the first episode of Halo: Nightfall, and as aforementioned, the majority of them were largely unimpressed by the show – main gripes including low-quality CGI, bad acting, and weak storytelling.
Read more details on what early critics of Halo: Nightfall had to say about their first impressions of the show.
Halo: Nightfall – Not As Good As Expected
According to The Verge‘s senior video director and self-proclaimed Halo aficionado, Jimmy Shelton, the show is a generic science fiction show with some of the worst CGI seen in recent years:
“This show was only green-lit because of the Halo name and it will die after this season because if this pilot is any indication it’s not only a bad Halo adaptation, it’s just a bad show. We now expect brilliance from our television. You can’t ride the Halo brand and expect poor storytelling, bad acting, and horrible CGI to get you anywhere. I want the industry to stop trying to adapt Halo because they’re doing it for all the wrong reasons. Just make an entertaining show and stop destroying my hopes and dreams.”
Many of the other people who viewed Nightfall’s pilot episode shared Shelton’s sentiments towards the game. However, some stated that hardcore fans of the Halo franchise may be able to stomach through the show’s apparent weaknesses:
“Nightfall just doesn’t seem accessible in any way to people who aren’t up to speed with the franchise — but Halo diehards will probably have a very different experience.”
“I’m not a Halo fan, I haven’t played since the first one or two, so I’m not super well versed in the storyline. As far as it goes as a show, Nightfall feels like a typical SyFy original, with stilted acting and corny dialog. The CGI was ironically pretty obvious in a lot of places…felt like I was watching 300 with guns in a lot of places.”
One of the more openly negative responses to Nightfall came from news editor, TC Sottek, who stated:
“…Nightfall is a live-action video game with none of the benefits of a video game. Its creators took what is already one of the most boring sci-fi universes in gaming and then built a show around its extras; disposable UNSC grunts that manage to have even less personality than the video game’s faceless protagonist…You know what? This is my review: “This show is so bad I’m buying a PS4.”
Fans looking forward to Nightfall may not really have anything to look forward to, should the impressions shown above be taken to heart. However, it is up to the viewer to form their own opinions on any form of media – be it movie, television series, video game, et cetera.
With that said, you can form your own opinion on Halo: Nightfall when it releases alongside The Master Chief Collection on November 11th.
What are your thoughts on early viewers thoughts on Nightfall? Are you looking forward to the show? Why or why not? Do you expect it to be as bad as they say, or as good as you may hope?
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