- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I'm not sure it's fair to base your predictions off the books... Since only a small percent of their market has read the books. I'm sure if anything is brought over from the books, it will presented all over again in the game itself, so the player (who has not read any of the books) can become familiar with whats going on.
So, Does anyone remember the cutscene where cortana finally comes back out and explains that you have been helping that !#@$ guilty spark destroy the galaxy....
Well, go back and watch it again. Remember the guilty spark talks about how halo has a containment protocol for the flood, and that being a massive explosion. He mentions that the effective blast radius of halo is only (not sure how big) light years, "but the other installations will follow suit"... meaning there are MANY more halos.
Master cheif might visit the halo remnants, but why? I Think that perhaps there is something on earth that the covenant want. What if it is eath itself? Maybe the forerunner built earth? And since all of the Forerunner artifacts are "sacred" I'm sure the covenant would like to get rid of us for polluting, and depleting the resouces on the artifact... "hey! quit wrecking our artifact! Get off there!" Why else would they be so interested in earth?
Remember in Halo, how the covenant are trying real hard to find earth, there is no other good reason for them to find earth unless it had some importance to them.
They clearly have one goal... finding and protecting forerunner artifacts while merging other races into their own collective. So, of course us humans are not going to just join them, as there does not seem to be any mention of free coffee. So since we are wrecking the artifact, and we won't join them, they want us dead, and badly, but maybe amidst this battle we gain knowledge of the locations of many of the other artifacts aound the galaxy... including the other Halo's, and possibly even a master halo controller... that controlls all of the Halos. And in finding this, maybe master chief stumbles across (I know he wouldn't REALLY stuble, I mean, hey, he's Master Chief!) the location of the forerunner homeworld, and starts to uncover all of the mysteries of the Forerunner, Halo, and the Covenant.
Halo was just an introduction to this whole thing. Anyone who has played Marathon 1 + 2 can see how they really get in depth with their stories, and now that they have a much more increased budget (thanks microsoft for funding creativity) they can really make Halo 2 into exactly what they want.
Aside from that... interesting theory on the hyroglyphics and pyramids. And If I'm not mistaken with Geography... Parts of Halo 2 take place in east Africa... isn't that pretty damn close to Egypt? Makes some sense so far!
Ultimately, I think Humans and covenant alike were made by the Forerunner, and good old master chief finds a way to bring this knowledge to the attention of humans and covenant, and creates a galactic-wide sense of peace. Wouldn't that make him the ultimate hero?
Aside from that, as far as a small list of things I think should be included in Halo 2:
1. Flamethrower (c'mon, remember Marathon's flamethrower fun?)
2. Ability to pilot all covenant craft... such as the Tank, and the dropships (that would be cool)
3. We've all heard about the covenant version of the warthog that didn't make it into the the final version of Halo, c'mon, let's use it!
4. Covenant Sniper rifle, Plasma Rocket launcher.
5. Use of headlamp in multiplayer
6. Human equivilent to Banshee
7. Blood Gultch (why not?)
8. A level in space with low gravity (you marathon fans know what I'm talking about)
9. The ability to go into a store on earth, buy a replica of the guilty spark, and destry it with glee.
10.Marines that don't stand in front of your sniper rifle, and sound confused when one of them gets shot in the face.
11.Jump kicking
12.Ability to throw a frag grenade that has a plasma grenade stuck to it!
13.more than 2 player co-op... C'mon bungie, you worked so hard on the storyline, even though I only have 1 friend, give me the opprtunity to play through the storyline with 3 friends if I ever find them.
14.Counter-co-op (you know one Master cheif, and Player 2 picks any of the covenant they want to control... I'd love to play as a grunt... I mean Hunter!)
15.Brutes, and Hunters ,and flood in multiplayer... I'd be fun to make a game of oddball, where the person with the ball becomes one of those big, stumbling, bloated flood guys that explodes.
16. BOTS BOTS BOTS BOTS
17.Ability to make your own custom physics models
18. Ability to rip off the helmut off of the hunter... what does it look like under there?
19. A level or 2 with very extreme weather conditions... like tornado, hurricane, blizzard, thunderstorm... something that master chief might have to worry about a little.
20.Ability to self destruct... using your sheild's power to overload itself and pull a kamikazee on a multiplayer game, or just a fun way to revert to saved in the single player game.
Good work, bungie! I blame you for the fact that the other day I backed my car out of the driveway, by placing a plasma grenade under it, then firing a rocket under it. Just kiding, you guys rock!