- ISBN13: 0883929099023
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Description
This 8 episode anthology of 10-15 minute length each, explores the origin and historical events of the HALO universe, and various characters inhabiting the world. Like Animatrix and Batman Gotham Knight, each of the 8 episodes will be created by a separate prominent Japanese anime producer.Amazon.com
For Halo Legends, various anime directors made eight short films that explore the universe of the popular video game franchise, just as the shorts in Animatrix expanded on the Matrix features. Although Halo ranks among the top first-person shooter games, the AI narrator of Hideki Futamura’s two-part introductory episode complains about humanity’s violent tendencies: “Like a virus, war is always with you.” “The Du… More >>
Halo Legends
I remember when I first got XBOX in 2001 and played Halo and it has no English subtitles and I got real mad and so does rest of my deaf buddies. I returned the game and my deaf friend returned whole thing the system and the game. He got Playstation instead. I stay with Xbox for long time then Halo 2 came then it only have half way english subtitles!!! Arggh!! I got real mad at Microsoft. So I fed up and sold my Xbox and then 360 came and I was hoping Halo 3 would be good enough but it turn out sucks! I fed up and sold Xbox 360 and I have Playstaion 3 and I love it every since. Sony games have subtitles which is good thing for me and my deaf buddies. This movie “Halo Legends” does not have english subtitles… nothing new with Microsoft. Bill Gates is really an ……. Rating: 1 / 5
HALO done in Anime — FAIL!
I will stick with the games. Rating: 1 / 5
I love HALO! Particularly the series Red V.S. Blue, which is how HALO should be! This doesn’t even look interesting! I got excited when I saw the title and thought it might be the HALO movie that had gone straight to DVD, but I thought that had halted in the process of filming… Oh well, won’t waste my $$ on HALO Legends, that’s for sure! You want HALO with GOOD graphics, a decent story (at times), and hilarious jokes, check this out!:Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles – The Complete Series Box Set Rating: 1 / 5
I would like to start off by saying I have not seen this so i’am not going to say that this is a bad thing or a good thing. But i will never never understand why they do eight little episodes when they can do a fully animmated movie about halo. This is the kind of thing that turns me off of buying dvds like this (the batman and animamatrix for example) do not buy this and hope it is a halo animated movie of halo because everything that i have seen about this it is not. Rating: 5 / 5
Ok I am not a PS3 guy that hates Halo and everything xbox. I LOVE Halo, I really do, I read all the books, even the bad ones. I really don’t mind that the stories don’t fit with the books and games because lets face it even when they say its supposed to it doesn’t ie. some Spartans survive reach in First Strike but I don’t get what the point of the series of shorts was about.
The first 2 retellings of the whole Halo storyline was cool and sort of a nice touch for every stoner that went straight to the multiplayer or skipped the cut scenes but the rest of the shorts are just awful. The Duel storyline flat out takes too many liberties by getting rid of the elites split jaw and making them Japanese and boring. The rest just hit every and I mean every anime cliché in the book. Even when there should be something cool about the short its ruined by hack unoriginal storytelling. Prototype is a good example of this, a fun action oriented story ruined by an intercutting story about a cold hearted guy having a heart to heart with a big softie who is a marine for some reason about him being “human” and this comes with loads and loads of quivering eye shots leading up to the predictable climax. In other words if you’ve seen any anime you’ve seen this a dozen times, the only thing it was missing was a strained relationship with his father.
I am not against Anime there are loads of good anime and I’m not complaining about the quality of the visuals except for the short “the package” which was a sub standard CG that felt more like power rangers with the Spartans all posing and yelling “lets go!” minus that from a technical standpoint these are all well done but then Gili might have had the best lighting and sound of that year but it didn’t help it.
Maybe it was just an experiment and they wanted to try something new but the whole thing really misses the mark for me. It all feels like a knock off bought at a dollar store the writing just doesn’t feel like a Halo story and leaves me feeling confused and unsatisfied.
Rating: 2 / 5