Halo Legends on DVD - don't bother, IMO.

[FormerDittoHead]

These are a collection of animated shorts (each are about 14 minutes long, and then each with 7 minutes of CREDITS - I kid you not)

The first SEVEN OF EIGHT episodes are straight Anime.

The Matrix was ripped straight from Anime, so the Animatrix was a logical extension, but Halo's got nuthin' to do with Anime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animatrix

The first four (half) of the episodes are REALLY SLOW and boring. The "animation" (in quotes) is little more than zooming in and out of illustrations with a LOT of voice over. They gives some back story on the HALO story, but you'd find out as much playing the games.

The last episode is the only one worthy to be compared to the games. Fully computer generated, it's more like "Final Fantasy" or "Appleseed" and if they were all like episode 8, I'd say it would be worth it.

[Joe the Liberal]

1. I just watched it earlier tonight......

and I agree, it really wasn't that great. One of the little episodes looked so similar to a Dragon Ball Z episode. Another one of the episodes seemed to be set in a ancient samurai setting/theme which kind of surprised me. Especially the armor that one of the elites was wearing looked so similar to actual samurai armor. in this same episode I heard the main arbitor elite talking to his elites in training and say something like "We are MEN of...." aren't the elites aliens, not men? Big mistake they made there. The rest of the episodes were ok but nothing special, If you're really into Halo then I'd say give it a rental.