While most Halo fans have been patiently waiting for 343 Industries to wrap up development on Halo Infinite, others are creating new content to fill the gap. One fan in particular has begun creating their own, custom mini-series that follows a new Spartan on a mission investigating a broken ship sometime before the events of Halo Infinite.
Normally, machinima wouldn't be anything new to YouTube, especially in the case of Halo which has been responsible for a huge amount of this type of content over the years. The difference in this case is that the content creator going by HaloVFX is a visual effects artist that is creating these CGI animations from scratch, as opposed to borrowing assets or animations from the game.
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Titled "Operation: Charity Falls," the mini-series follows a lone Spartan on a mission to investigate the High Charity and retrieve a Covenant artifact that is supposedly on their ship. As this unnamed Spartan searches, they find some creepy corridors, as one would expect to find in a crashed shipped that is supposedly devoid of life. However, to add to the suspense, and eventually slip in some action-packed scenes, it seems that the classic Halo enemy the Flood has grown while the ship was otherwise abandoned.
So far, the first two episodes of the mini-series are available to watch on YouTube, each ranging between one and two minutes of quality animation inspired by the Halo series. A teaser for a third episode is also available on HaloVFX's YouTube channel, which kicks off the action as the Spartan first runs into the hoard of Flood that have slowly taken over the High Charity. From what has been shown off so far, the mini-series is a tense, cinematic adventure within the Halo universe, even if it's a non-canon experience.
As far as new content coming to YouTube goes, Halo has always been a strong series for viewers, usually with gameplay footage and machinima having dominate the platform at one time. HaloVFX definitely has an audience on the site, even if the algorithm isn't necessarily kind to these types of short-form narratives. However, fans of the Halo series might still be interested and finding this hidden gem on the platform and supporting the visual effects artist as they continue to deliver more of these short, tense episodes.
Halo Infinite is set to release fall 2021 for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.