I hope not. Disappointment.

I really really hope it's not just Halo 2 anniversary. Frig that, move on. I want another ODST game or a game with ODST's becoming Spartan IV's leading up to Halo 4 or something. Or another Halo Wars, it had a surprisingly good story that kind of ends like Halo 3, what is happening to those characters now?

Read Glasslands (not because you have to, it's just awesome). You are technically not fighting the Covenant in Halo 4 as mentioned very super briefly by MC while escaping the Forward Unto Dawn "These look different" or something like that. You're fighting a splinter group of the covenant who are mostly comprised of…

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Definitely catch up on Karen Traviss' books, blow your mind!

In this case the books are way better than the games. Karen Traviss' books will blow you away. She also wrote all the Gears books which take a meat head shooter and turn it into something I could tear up over while reading Aspho Fields. I agree that Halo 4 should have been explained better, but not that the book…

I agree it was badly explained in Halo 4. It was in Glasslands that the situation in Halo 4 is really explained.

Perhaps MC is on a downward slide, a difficult journey on the other side of things than he normally is. Etc etc. It's undoubtedly done on purpose.

Not really, but if you need to read the books to get the story at all then yes, that's bad storytelling. However, you can get things in Halo 4 about as much as any of the other Halo games, a subtle/barely existent story that Bungie had no ability to flesh out apart from what the authors of the books did for them.

I think a game should be good, and it should fit well in with canon in a universe that had grown larger than just games so that everything isn't a standalone piece of crap. Halo reach was fun multiplayer but a halo disaster, it's story was simply "we're attacked, go here, go there, fail, and die." If they hasn't…

It's a little different when Star Wars had hundreds of books to deal with as potential canon. Also, I just disagree entirely, we're coming more and more into an age of integrated tech and entertainment forms. I have no problem with other Halo material being developed that IS canon and isn't games, like Forward Unto…

Read the core books and you'll find Halo has never been more alive. Bungie got lucky with a hit, the real story starts in the books and into Halo 4

Read the core books and you'll feel different, if you want to like it again.

Read the core books, it makes Halo 4 make alot of sense.

Not to mention for every Breaking Bad there's another Breaking Bad, why do people like crap television. Go watch Sherlock.

I'm actually surprised he hasn't been killed yet and the US government just issues the statement, "Yes, it was us. No questions."

I agree.

His point is if you didn't preorder ask the little bonuses you like so much would just be in the game for everyone. All of them from every retailer.

Karen Traviss' Republic Commando books. Incredible insights into the clones and their experiences. Don't spoil anything I'm only just past the second book.

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