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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10:00 PM on 11.27.2009
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You look at all the non-game literature versus the videogames... and its just sad.
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.
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.
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"
Anyway, Karen Traviss is my jam.
Are you too stupid to avoid buying stuff you don't want or something?
Halo blows.
Haha. Love it. CoD games are fun as shit to play but they have about as much personality as a loaf of bread.
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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