Reviews for Halo #2: The Flood

The average rating for Halo #2: The Flood based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-08-04 00:00:00 Daniel Hoey This book was such a let down and unworthy of the sequel to "The Fall of Reach". This book was a novelization of the first Halo game (Combat Evolved). That said, it reads like the author played the Xbox game and wrote play-by-play what happened, where he goes, what he shoots, etc. You're not reading a story, just a re-telling of what happens in the video game. If you play the video game, it's fine, because you're playing the video game, not reading a page of words of what someone did in the video game without any stunning detail. It's that boring. Very boring I was originally going to give this book half a star, but there were some good tidbits of info scattered in the book like the events of the UNSC people while Master Chief was running around Halo shooting everything that moved. Stay away from this book. Stay very away. The good thing is the next book in this series ("First Strike") is authored by the guy who wrote "The Fall of Reach" so at least you'll know the series gets right back to where it's supposed to be.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-11-08 00:00:00 sean gillespie In order to understand this book, you have to read the first book in the series and play the Xbox game Halo: Combat Evolved. Even if you don't get it half the time, it's a good read! This book is set in 2552, in the middle of a great war between humanity and a collective of alien races calling themselves the Covenant. This war reaches its peak intensity when a human ship discovers an ancient ring-world named Halo (hence the name of the book). The ship crashes there, and among the survivors is SPARTAN-117, the Master Chief. He is a bioligically enhanced cyborg-soldier clad in special armor. He traverses the ring with the remaining Marines, fighting the Covenant and unlocking the secrets of the ring. But when the Master Chief finds a subterranean laboratory in the middle of a swamp, the galaxie's greatest horror is unleashed . . . Read it for yourself, and discover why this book is called "The Flood". To this day, I still have nightmares about them. When you read this book, you will, too.