My husband played this game series. He said Master Chief has always been 117. In the games, he didn't necessarily break through brain washing against a corrupt warmongering system. He was the hero in the stories, but wasn't the best, just the luckiest. Master Chief found out that kids were stolen and replaced by sickly clones that died so the parents wouldn't know to look for them. The stolen kids were trained as Spartan soldiers from kids, and then put through a superhuman program to become supersoldiers for their intergalactic wars. At first they fought separatists, then got invaded by aliens and fought aliens. The separatists teamed up with the aliens. He said the TV show deviated from the games quite a bit to add the storyline you mentioned. He said he's only seen the one season , so no idea if they'll go back to the game storyline or not.
My husband played this game series. He said Master Chief has always been 117. In the games, he didn't necessarily break through brain washing against a corrupt warmongering system. He was the hero in the stories, but wasn't the best, just the luckiest. Master Chief found out that kids were stolen and replaced by sickly clones that died so the parents wouldn't know to look for them. The stolen kids were trained as Spartan soldiers from kids, and then put through a superhuman program to become supersoldiers for their intergalactic wars. At first they fought separatists, then got invaded by aliens and fought aliens. The separatists teamed up with the aliens. He said the TV show deviated from the games quite a bit to add the storyline you mentioned. He said he's only seen the one season , so no idea if they'll go back to the game storyline or not.