Hellz yea.

Well I mean basically because I never got all the stuff about Halo after the second game. ODST looks cool, though.

@Monodi
Yeah I feel ya. 3 sucked. ODST was decent. I'm just a really big fan of the book mostly. :P

I felt ODST was worth what it cost, it had a campaign which may not have had epic action but was probably better than Halo 3 and Firefight mode is very fun. Plus you got all Halo 3 multiplayer maps, which makes Halo 3 link-up games easier than ever.

If Reach can have firefight or something better, I will do a happy.

@Xzyliac

What is with the book, by the way? I am not a bookworm but I cannot imagine how it could envelope a good story out on it. Are they just text versions of the game or they have their own chapters?

Wow I never had much chance to play Halo PC multiplayer. I don't think I even put 50 hours into Halo 2 multiplayer, but then I did get XBL in early 2007. I thought Halo 3 multiplayer was rather good, I hated people who played it but it looks great, has great variety and is supported by the forge and theatre modes.

I love Laser.

You know those images were confirmed fake by Bungie?

oh Snap its Toneman!

@Zeta- Agreed

@Electrium

I'm not going to speculate on them until Bungie confirms, if they were fakes I'd have expected Bungie to dismiss them quicker.

If they were fakes why did bungie ban everyone who talked about them? MMM...me thinks they real.

I think Bungie reacted this way to similiar leaks in the past, but they could easily be blurry mock-ups using Halo 2 PC mods or Halo 3 hacks.

@Tarvu
Actually I think Bungie did confirm them fake.

HOWEVER...

Bungie confirms everything, and I do mean everything, fake unless they say it. Not even a "Maybe." Everything's always "fake" with Bungie. Even if it turns out to be true the 6 months before Bungie said it, it was fake.

I thought book was terrible. Cliche after cliche. Steal material from Ender's Game, steal material from GI Joe cartoons (and not the Eric Fensler PSAs, unfortunately), steal material from other sci-fi books. Thankfully Eric Nylund will not likely write the story for this. I wish Jason Jones would.

Still, I hope this game turns out well. Not an expansion pack like ODST.

Hopefully Project Needlemouse or Kane & Lynch or No More Heroes for 360 are there too

"I thought book was terrible. Cliche after cliche. Steal material from Ender's Game"

I once read a sample of one of the Halo novels in a gaming magazine and my impression was that is was pretty lame. It ended with a reveal that this spartan we'd seen fighting was actually a 12 year old girl.... apparently trying to rip off Ender's game like you said, but completely missing the point that the "child soldiers" in Ender's Game did not act as actual foot soldiers. Yes, in the sequel taking place on earth they did participate in combat, but this was not their planned role, and such a thing would make no sense. Child soldiers exist in real life, but again, this is done out of desperation, not an ideal arrangement. Just a stupid idea in the case of the Halo novel; a misguided attempt to rip off EG that compeltely misses the point.

I'm really, reeeeeally ready to see what ELSE Bungie can Fing do. I think they're afraid they can't come up with another successful franchise. Hell, even just some ACTUAL INNOVATION on Halo would be good enough. I consider the advances made on the formula with each sequel so far to be about the equivalent of Malibu Stacey getting a new hat. And who actually cares about the story? Could the campaigns in the last 2 games have been any weaker and more boring? I couldn't have cared less what was supposed to be happening in Halo 3, my memory of it is just a confusing mess.

@Mousse420
So it was a failed attempt at ripping of Ender's Game? Now at all , oh I dunno, just a coincedence? Since clearly you've shown flaws in the "ripping off" as you say.

I mean god forbid two pieces of work on the same medium share any similarities. In which case every alien movie is clearly a ripoff of War of the Worlds since they all have aliens and War of the Worlds had aliens.

More like Halo: Reaching.

@ Xzyliac

I don't KNOW that he ripped off Ender's Game, that was just a theory that occurred to me when i read his story; I could easily imagine this hack writer reading EG and saying "oh, child soldiers, that's a nifty little plot device that would make my story appear more unique" while completely missing the point.

You do realize that the people writing the writers of the Halo novels were "inspired" by truckloads of money from Microsoft, right? This is the truth, doesn't matter if they said in an interview that they care about the material. It's all stuff they were getting paid to say. Your money is all they care about, so maybe real sci fi writers are more worthy of your attention. Just a thought

@Mousse420:
So you imagined that they ripped off EG and decided to post here about it? And are you implying that authors shouldn't get paid? or that "Real Sci-Fi authors" do it for free? Just because these books weren't the literary form of the original Star Wars trilogy means that they were "lame"?
Y'know you cant really make a literary critique if you've never read more then one or two chapters. Also, the Spartan IIs didn't really do any fighting till many years after they were originally recruited as children.
honestly if you just hate Halo, why dont you just come out and say it? I dont hear you complaining about Battlestar Galactica ripping off Star Trek due to the mind melding thing. (which btw doesn't happen in real life unlike the child soldier thing.)