are the halo novels any good?

Okay so I've really started getting into game tie-in novels after having read Mass Effect: Revelation, Mass Effect: Ascension, and Gears of War: Aspho fields, all of which I found to be surprisingly well-written. Are the Halo novels good or are they insulting to the intelligence of an adult?

Halo: The Fall of Reach - Amazing book, really get into the life and hardships the Spartan's have faced. Best one out of them all :D

Halo: The Flood - Skip, skip, skip. Hated this book. Pretty much retells the story of Halo 1. Sucks.

Halo: First Strike - A must read, not as good as TFoR, but creates a bridge between Halo 1 + 2.

Halo: Ghosts of Onyx - Loved this one as well, nearly as good as TFoR in my opinion. Awesome stuff.

There are still Halo: Uprising and Contact Harvest which I haven't read. I only enjoy the Halo games for their storyline and even that can't compare to the storyline in the novels. Great books if you're interested in the Halo series and want to know how Master Chief became the person he is in the games.

Hey, yes the first one, Fall of Reach, was good but don't expect it to be the next "great American novel", but for a Halo fan should be worth the time to read it. I started the 2nd one which is a remake of the 1st game, and stopped since it didn't tell me much more then I already knew. I have the 3rd one but haven't read it.

I did read the 1st Mass Effect book and it was good. I knew they were coming out with a 2nd one but didn't know it was out. I'll have to go get it!!

The idea of making a novel of a game seems weird..EddieTheGreat

Halo: The Fall of Reach - Amazing book, really get into the life and hardships the Spartan's have faced. Best one out of them all :D

Halo: The Flood - Skip, skip, skip. Hated this book. Pretty much retells the story of Halo 1. Sucks.

Halo: First Strike - A must read, not as good as TFoR, but creates a bridge between Halo 1 + 2.

Halo: Ghosts of Onyx - Loved this one as well, nearly as good as TFoR in my opinion. Awesome stuff.

There are still Halo: Uprising and Contact Harvest which I haven't read. I only enjoy the Halo games for their storyline and even that can't compare to the storyline in the novels. Great books if you're interested in the Halo series and want to know how Master Chief became the person he is in the games.

SolidKeevo

I agree with what you said and I enjoyed them all. The second gives you some more detail as to what was going on around the chief in the first halo like were he kept getting from place to place and were all his backup kept coming from but it would be more fun to just play the campaign again.stay away from the graphic novel though that was terrible

I read the first two, and they were so good that it actually ruined the Halo 2 and 3 single player experiences for me, if that makes sense. The Halo universe, because of the awe and mystery set up by the first game, and then the addition of these books, is amazing and deep. These all get you incredibly excited. When you play the campaigns in 2 and 3, you will think the gameplay is ok (not as intense, hard, or engrossing as CE), but you will think the storytelling is laughable. I absolutely LOVE Halo 3 multiplayer (Gamertag: NOVA PR0SPEKT (The O in PROSPEKT is a zero)), but I do not see how anyone can give it (or Halo 2 for that matter) anything all time worthy in terms of videogames. The singleplayer experiences are just plain laughable, sloppy, and boring.

So...post rant. You will enjoy the heck out of the books, which may make you even go replay Halo: CE (you should, it's still amazing). All of these will make you, like me once, think that Halo has one of the best stories in videogames. Once you play the garbage singleplayer games in the other two however (again, the multiplayer components are amazing) you will probably laugh at some of the plot points and just get plain mad at others. I Don't know how or why Bungie destroyed the singleplayer, the story, and ultimately the Halo Universe, in Halo 2 and 3, but they did, and you will not appreciate the story anymore once you play them.

[QUOTE="EddieTheGreat"]The idea of making a novel of a game seems weird..Iqen

Im ok with the halo books because no matter how you play the story stays the same. Mass effect gives you too many choices in game to expand upon like that. My Shepard might not be anything like yours. I haven;t read it but the only way I can see it working was if it was based on other secondary characters