He does a good enough job at differentiating the various characters through inflection and accent without sounding too forced, although a few do feel a bit overdone and he slips every so often.
And for the most part, his delivery matches the weight of the story very nicely, though it does feel a little flat at times. I could listen to him for hours at a stretch. Normally I find Todd McLaren's smooth and dulcet tone addicting. Objectively the performance is pretty good, but not great. The characters feel real, their interactions and actions are genuine and the world is so detailed and honest that you buy every second of it. Its so grounded and believable, yet fantastic at the same time. The entry point into the extended lore of my all-time favorite fictional universe, this story is so superbly written that I can disappear into it completely and not notice the hours flying by. Phenomenal story - problematic performance
This is the electrifying origin story of Spartan John-117 - the Master Chief - and of his legendary, unstoppable heroism in leading the resistance against humanity’s possible extinction. And Halsey could never guess that this child will eventually become the final hope against an even greater peril engulfing the galaxy - the inexorable confrontation with a theocratic military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant. Catherine Halsey has been hard at work on a top-secret program that could bring an end to the conflict.and it starts with 75 children, among them a six-year-old boy named John. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething colonial insurrections from exploding into a full-blown interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope. But the United Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command is struggling to control this vast empire. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth’s system to hundreds of planets that colonists now call home. The New York Times best-selling origin story of the Master Chief - part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!
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