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If you have played the game, or read the previous books, you'll know
where you are. You've just destroyed the Halo installation and are the
last surviving Spartan. But there is a problem. You don't have a
Slipspace capable ship (no getting home in a hurry), and added to that, you don't know where you actually are. And there are big bad evil aliens around.
Halo: First Strike picks up there. It also covers some of what happened
on Reach, the UNSC planet that had ONI headquarters and was heavily
defended. Most of the other Spartans were deployed to fight on the
ground at Reach, which was "glassed", i.e. had the surface destroyed, by the Covenant.
So you have to look for survivors, find a way home and stop a Covenant
fleet from attacking earth. A tall order. But then, you are Master Chief.
The first Halo book, The Fall Of Reach, was well written and quite
enjoyable. The second, The Flood, was basically the game in story form,
but without as a friend put it "all the fun shooting bits". First Strike is back to the author of The Fall Of Reach, Eric Nylund. The Flood was written by William Dietz. Nylund is the better writer.
Anyway, as you can imagine, there is some fairly standard thoroughfare
in the book, shooting aliens, folk dying, heroically of course. However, there is a few things that dramatically alter the story. There is a welcome discovery. There is an inexplicable event or two. And at
the end, there's something unaccounted for.
Halo had a good plot, even if it was rather unoriginal. But this has
taken where the franchise was going, and turned it around. I've realised the extra possibilities that now exist for Halo 2, and I'm even more excited now.
If you like science fiction, if you liked Halo, then you'll love this.
where you are. You've just destroyed the Halo installation and are the
last surviving Spartan. But there is a problem. You don't have a
Slipspace capable ship (no getting home in a hurry), and added to that, you don't know where you actually are. And there are big bad evil aliens around.
Halo: First Strike picks up there. It also covers some of what happened
on Reach, the UNSC planet that had ONI headquarters and was heavily
defended. Most of the other Spartans were deployed to fight on the
ground at Reach, which was "glassed", i.e. had the surface destroyed, by the Covenant.
So you have to look for survivors, find a way home and stop a Covenant
fleet from attacking earth. A tall order. But then, you are Master Chief.
The first Halo book, The Fall Of Reach, was well written and quite
enjoyable. The second, The Flood, was basically the game in story form,
but without as a friend put it "all the fun shooting bits". First Strike is back to the author of The Fall Of Reach, Eric Nylund. The Flood was written by William Dietz. Nylund is the better writer.
Anyway, as you can imagine, there is some fairly standard thoroughfare
in the book, shooting aliens, folk dying, heroically of course. However, there is a few things that dramatically alter the story. There is a welcome discovery. There is an inexplicable event or two. And at
the end, there's something unaccounted for.
Halo had a good plot, even if it was rather unoriginal. But this has
taken where the franchise was going, and turned it around. I've realised the extra possibilities that now exist for Halo 2, and I'm even more excited now.
If you like science fiction, if you liked Halo, then you'll love this.
*any real literate skill
OH THE IRONY!
OH THE IRONY!
'The fall of reach' was reasonable.
'The flood' was to put it technically "pants" - it was just the exact same story as the game, with a couple of extra snippets in it.
Neither book really read like something created by anyone with any really literate skill anyway. I found them a tad boring to be honest, although the first was much better than the second.
And that's my two penneth! :D
Note : If you like books about this kind of stuff, I HEARTILY recommend you get 'The forever war' by Joe Haldeman.
It's not set in the halo universe, granted, but as a space-marine adventure, it beats the halo books by a mile.
'The flood' was to put it technically "pants" - it was just the exact same story as the game, with a couple of extra snippets in it.
Neither book really read like something created by anyone with any really literate skill anyway. I found them a tad boring to be honest, although the first was much better than the second.
And that's my two penneth! :D
Note : If you like books about this kind of stuff, I HEARTILY recommend you get 'The forever war' by Joe Haldeman.
It's not set in the halo universe, granted, but as a space-marine adventure, it beats the halo books by a mile.
I'm very excited about Halo 2, believe me, just not enough to go out and read a story book of it.
Don't you want to know where and how you'll be blowing his head in Halo 2?!
Nah, I'll settle for blowing Snuggly's head off from the other side of Blood Gulch thanks.
If you have played the game, or read the previous books, you'll know
where you are. You've just destroyed the Halo installation and are the
last surviving Spartan. But there is a problem. You don't have a
Slipspace capable ship (no getting home in a hurry), and added to that, you don't know where you actually are. And there are big bad evil aliens around.
Halo: First Strike picks up there. It also covers some of what happened
on Reach, the UNSC planet that had ONI headquarters and was heavily
defended. Most of the other Spartans were deployed to fight on the
ground at Reach, which was "glassed", i.e. had the surface destroyed, by the Covenant.
So you have to look for survivors, find a way home and stop a Covenant
fleet from attacking earth. A tall order. But then, you are Master Chief.
The first Halo book, The Fall Of Reach, was well written and quite
enjoyable. The second, The Flood, was basically the game in story form,
but without as a friend put it "all the fun shooting bits". First Strike is back to the author of The Fall Of Reach, Eric Nylund. The Flood was written by William Dietz. Nylund is the better writer.
Anyway, as you can imagine, there is some fairly standard thoroughfare
in the book, shooting aliens, folk dying, heroically of course. However, there is a few things that dramatically alter the story. There is a welcome discovery. There is an inexplicable event or two. And at
the end, there's something unaccounted for.
Halo had a good plot, even if it was rather unoriginal. But this has
taken where the franchise was going, and turned it around. I've realised the extra possibilities that now exist for Halo 2, and I'm even more excited now.
If you like science fiction, if you liked Halo, then you'll love this.
where you are. You've just destroyed the Halo installation and are the
last surviving Spartan. But there is a problem. You don't have a
Slipspace capable ship (no getting home in a hurry), and added to that, you don't know where you actually are. And there are big bad evil aliens around.
Halo: First Strike picks up there. It also covers some of what happened
on Reach, the UNSC planet that had ONI headquarters and was heavily
defended. Most of the other Spartans were deployed to fight on the
ground at Reach, which was "glassed", i.e. had the surface destroyed, by the Covenant.
So you have to look for survivors, find a way home and stop a Covenant
fleet from attacking earth. A tall order. But then, you are Master Chief.
The first Halo book, The Fall Of Reach, was well written and quite
enjoyable. The second, The Flood, was basically the game in story form,
but without as a friend put it "all the fun shooting bits". First Strike is back to the author of The Fall Of Reach, Eric Nylund. The Flood was written by William Dietz. Nylund is the better writer.
Anyway, as you can imagine, there is some fairly standard thoroughfare
in the book, shooting aliens, folk dying, heroically of course. However, there is a few things that dramatically alter the story. There is a welcome discovery. There is an inexplicable event or two. And at
the end, there's something unaccounted for.
Halo had a good plot, even if it was rather unoriginal. But this has
taken where the franchise was going, and turned it around. I've realised the extra possibilities that now exist for Halo 2, and I'm even more excited now.
If you like science fiction, if you liked Halo, then you'll love this.