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The latest Halo novel from Thor Books has been released in stores this week. Halo: Evolutions is a collection of stories from multiple perspectives within the Halo universe. The book features multiple authors, such as Eric Nylund, Tobias Buckell, Karen Traviss and several more. 

The one thing Halo 2 and Halo 3 did horribly wrong was the story. Rather, the lack of story. The Halo novels, for the most part, fill you in on what has been going on in the Halo universe. The books have covered very important things such as how the Covenant wars started in the first place and how the SPARTAN IIs were created.

The books really do a great job at getting you sucked into the Haloverse. I highly recommend that any Halo fan should at least read the first Halo novel, The Fall of Reach. If that doesn't do it for you, then I don't know, go play Modern Warfare II or something.


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Stratus's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 22:02
Stratus
First 4 were okay but Cole Protocol and Contact Harvest were god awful. Will have to give it a looksee.
JesterHead's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 22:09
JesterHead
The Halo novels are pretty much the only books I've read in a long time that managed to really entertain me, so I'll probably be reading this.
mr spooky's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 22:17
mr spooky
Master Chief is a terminator inside that green helmet.
Ghost Maker's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 22:21
Ghost Maker
Yeah for me the opening cutscene in halo 3 just pissed me off... their was SO much unexplained backstory that could of made the Halo games SO much better... and that cutscene was just terribly indicative of how the games almost blatantly ignored everything to that effect.

You look at all the non-game literature versus the videogames... and its just sad.
RoboLeader's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 22:31
RoboLeader
Casual fan of the games, big fan of the books.
Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 22:52
Tarvu
I'd agree that Halo 3 starts off with a very uninformative cutscene which most people would misinterpret.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 22:53
Necros
"The one thing Halo 2 and Halo 3 did horribly wrong was the story. Rather, the lack of story."

You forgot Halo 1. Of the three, Halo 2 had the best story (not that it was great or anything), with the two perspectives playing off each other.
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 23:04
Hamza CTZ Aziz
Eh, I liked how Halo 1 presented the story. Just throw you in, big mystery and learn about it as you go.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 23:13
Xzyliac
I'm with Hamza.

God I hope Reach is heavy on plot. If it isn't I think I'll lose faith in the series entirely. Although ODST did at least try. I'll give them that.
Yehat's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/27/2009 23:14
Yehat
Spoiler: the Humans win.

Also I agree with Hamza, the fun of Halo 1's story is it didn't try to throw any number of subplots at you and interfere much with the gameplay. It was simple but mysterious with side comments that some characters made like Guilty Spark 343 and Cortana.

"Less is more"
Schizoid's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2009 00:46
Schizoid
I got Fall of Reach for free,someone just kind of ran off and left it along with Need for Speed Underground 2.
Necron117's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2009 04:20
Necron117
Love the Halo novels, at least the ones written by Eric N. I think what MS and 343 is horrific, they are taking one of my most beloved games and are holding it down while taking turns gang raping it. I really can't ponder it for too long, I find myself getting worked up.
Infneon's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2009 06:00
Infneon
Another nod for how good the books are. The last one (Cole Protocol) has to be the worst of the bunch, it might just be me though, didn't like the new authors style of writing. I'd highly recommend reading "The fall of Reach" though, before the new Halo Reach comes out and ruins how good it is
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2009 07:11
Sharpless
Actually, I think all the Halo games had a decent story. Jam them all together movie-style and it's not that bad.

Anyway, Karen Traviss is my jam.
bunnyrabbit2's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2009 08:04
bunnyrabbit2
@Sharpless indeed she is. Add in Eric Nylund and I am so sold on that book
aZZmodan's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2009 08:40
aZZmodan
No more Halo..., please...?
Mulk Calathar's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2009 09:52
Mulk Calathar
aZZmodan,

Are you too stupid to avoid buying stuff you don't want or something?
Fiat Mediocrity's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2009 10:11
Fiat Mediocrity
I'm already way ahead of you on playing MW2.

Halo blows.
mrcecilman's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/01/2009 03:06
mrcecilman
"I highly recommend that any Halo fan should at least read the first Halo novel, The Fall of Reach. If that doesn't do it for you, then I don't know, go play Modern Warfare II or something."

Haha. Love it. CoD games are fun as shit to play but they have about as much personality as a loaf of bread.
socialnorms's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/08/2009 11:18
socialnorms
Gosh, I despised Fall of Reach. Cliche after cliche, and battles that sounded like a technical reference. But Nylund's books progressively got a little better until they were tolerable.

If you play through the Marathon series or just read the plot, the story there was awesome. It's sci-fi nerd awesome, but at least it's not 6th-grade level. For that reason the books really let me down, even if I felt compelled to read 'em.
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