Halo TV show trailer has Cortana and Covenant – still no UK release

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The newest trailer for the Halo TV series offers more characters and plot, including a first glimpse at Cortana and the alien Covenant.

Last month’s trailer for Paramount+’s Halo series didn’t reveal much, but it did show off an impressive looking and game accurate Master Chief. Now, a second expanded trailer has dropped alongside an air date of March 24.

Arguably the main takeaways from the new trailer are the first appearances of the Covenant, the main alien antagonist of the games, and Chief’s AI ally Cortana.

Much like Chief, the Covenant look practically identical to their game counterparts, although we only get to see the standard Elites. No sign yet of any of the other species like the smaller Grunts or the spindly Jackals.

As for Cortana, while her voice actress from the games, Jen Taylor, is reprising the role, she isn’t playing the character in any physical sense. Cortana is completely CGI, almost offputtingly so, and she doesn’t seem to have any of the usual blue-hued computer effects to highlight that she’s an AI construct.

We also get some teases for the overall plot, which seems to involve Chief searching for the titular Halo and the Covenant having a human woman as an ally, who demands humanity’s surrender and, at one point, appears to set a tentacled monster on someone.

Nothing’s confirmed, but we have every reason to suspect that the monster in question is part of the Flood, the parasitic race that serves as an enemy to both humanity and the Covenant.

It’s already been confirmed that the show takes place in its own continuity, rather than fitting into the already established lore, but these departures are nonetheless surprising, and it’ll be interesting to see how much it diverges from canon – and how fans