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Subject: Halo: Evolutions Volume II

I don't know if this is old or new but check it out. It comes out 11/30/2010.

Halo: Evolutions Volume II

  • 11.01.2010 7:13 PM PDT

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I'm excited for it. It's supposed to come with a few new short stories and new artwork for each short story. :)

  • 11.01.2010 7:32 PM PDT

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WHAT?! I had literally no idea about this, and it's only one long month away. Thank you!

  • 11.01.2010 7:39 PM PDT

ye Evolutions is an amazing book. i hope it has a continuation of 'The Return'.

  • 11.01.2010 7:40 PM PDT

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From what I understand though it's essentially a reissue that contains new artwork for the original stories with the addition of more short stories, but they didn't exactly elaborate how many new short stories are included.

  • 11.01.2010 7:42 PM PDT

Both Vol I and Vol II are 368 pages. Well I'm not 100% sure on this but it says the number of pages on the website. But at the bottom it shows a list of new authors, so we can guess at least 5 new short stories?

Halo: Evolutions Volume II

Halo: Evolutions Volume I

  • 11.01.2010 7:51 PM PDT

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Posted by: I Awgar I
Both Vol I and Vol II are 368 pages. Well I'm not 100% sure on this but it says the number of pages on the website. But at the bottom it shows a list of new authors, so we can guess at least 5 new short stories?

Halo: Evolutions Volume II

Halo: Evolutions Volume I


Wait. What? How is volume I only 368 pages? That's wrong. My Volume I is 500+ pages...

  • 11.01.2010 9:11 PM PDT

Brains beats brawn get used to it

Fear the Red Comet

Variety is the spice of life.
Long live games.
Death to all fanboys.

Indeed. Minus the foreward,acknowledgments, and "about the..." sections Halo Evolutions is about 510 pages (picture pages still included).

Something is amiss...Is it possible they cut the novel in half and split the original stories between the two volumes while simultaneously splitting the new stories as well?

If so it's a rather dirty underhanded trick to get people to purchase both.

[Edited on 11.01.2010 9:31 PM PDT]

  • 11.01.2010 9:29 PM PDT

ITS COMING OUT IN A MONTH?

*jizzes twice in one day

  • 11.01.2010 9:36 PM PDT

Brains beats brawn get used to it

Fear the Red Comet

Variety is the spice of life.
Long live games.
Death to all fanboys.


Posted by: Sniffy66
ITS COMING OUT IN A MONTH?

*jizzes twice in one day


Well darn. Skip to 1:23 for the relevant info. Looks like they are just taking the original stories from the initial Halo Evolutions and splitting them in half whilst adding in new short stories between the two. While it is cheaper individually you'd still have to pay essentially the same amount of money as a whole novel for both, and there really is no clarification as to how many new short stories are included in both volumes since chunks from the original make up both halves.

  • 11.01.2010 9:59 PM PDT
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Damn. I was so excited when I read the OP, and then I read the other posts... Oh well, still the forerunner series coming.

  • 11.02.2010 2:21 AM PDT


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Damn. I was so excited when I read the OP, and then I read the other posts... Oh well, still the forerunner series coming.
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  • 11.02.2010 2:38 AM PDT

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Posted by: privet caboose
Posted by: I Awgar I
Both Vol I and Vol II are 368 pages. Well I'm not 100% sure on this but it says the number of pages on the website. But at the bottom it shows a list of new authors, so we can guess at least 5 new short stories?

Halo: Evolutions Volume II

Halo: Evolutions Volume I


Wait. What? How is volume I only 368 pages? That's wrong. My Volume I is 500+ pages...

'Volume I' and 'Volume II' are basically re-releases, with several more stories, plus the winning community art on the original stories.

  • 11.02.2010 2:59 AM PDT
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Don't worry, I didn't, I just didn't know what to call her series since there isn't much info on it at the moment.

  • 11.02.2010 3:00 AM PDT


Posted by: I Awgar I
I don't know if this is old or new but check it out. It comes out 11/30/2010.

Halo: Evolutions Volume II



Holy -blam!-aki mushrooms!

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

  • 11.02.2010 3:24 AM PDT

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Original Evolutions: 528 pages.
Volume 1: 368
Volume 2: 368
Total pages: 736

That seems like enough for about 3, maybe 4 short stories. Depending on what's covered in them, I might still pick it up.

  • 11.02.2010 4:18 AM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact


Posted by: privet caboose
Original Evolutions: 528 pages.
Volume 1: 368
Volume 2: 368
Total pages: 736

That seems like enough for about 3, maybe 4 short stories. Depending on what's covered in them, I might still pick it up.


Are both volumes included in a single book or do you have to buy them seperately.

Wow 736,that roughly 200 pages more then the original one.



[Edited on 11.02.2010 4:37 AM PDT]

  • 11.02.2010 4:33 AM PDT

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Posted by: hotshot revan II

Posted by: privet caboose
Original Evolutions: 528 pages.
Volume 1: 368
Volume 2: 368
Total pages: 736

That seems like enough for about 3, maybe 4 short stories. Depending on what's covered in them, I might still pick it up.


Are both volumes included in a single book or do you have to buy them seperately.

Wow 736,that roughly 200 pages more then the original one.



Both volumes are being sold separately.

  • 11.02.2010 1:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: privet caboose
Original Evolutions: 528 pages.
Volume 1: 368
Volume 2: 368
Total pages: 736

That seems like enough for about 3, maybe 4 short stories. Depending on what's covered in them, I might still pick it up.

kinda sad you went to all that trouble just to get a number for a book, on the other hand you pass wisdom down to us so called "noobs"

  • 11.02.2010 1:13 PM PDT

Good players work together...and no matter how good you are, you're not physic. - blade6321


Posted by: privet caboose
Posted by: hotshot revan II

Posted by: privet caboose
Original Evolutions: 528 pages.
Volume 1: 368
Volume 2: 368
Total pages: 736

That seems like enough for about 3, maybe 4 short stories. Depending on what's covered in them, I might still pick it up.


Are both volumes included in a single book or do you have to buy them seperately.

Wow 736,that roughly 200 pages more then the original one.



Both volumes are being sold separately.

That's truly sad. I'm a diehard Halo fan, but I refuse to buy any re-released material when they still have glaring errors, or barely add anything. Great for people who haven't bought it before, but it kinda sucks for us now.

  • 11.02.2010 8:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: privet caboose
Posted by: hotshot revan II

Posted by: privet caboose
Original Evolutions: 528 pages.
Volume 1: 368
Volume 2: 368
Total pages: 736

That seems like enough for about 3, maybe 4 short stories. Depending on what's covered in them, I might still pick it up.


Are both volumes included in a single book or do you have to buy them seperately.

Wow 736,that roughly 200 pages more then the original one.



Both volumes are being sold separately.

That's truly sad. I'm a diehard Halo fan, but I refuse to buy any re-released material when they still have glaring errors, or barely add anything. Great for people who haven't bought it before, but it kinda sucks for us now.


2 new short stories in each volume as well as new artwork in each? Plus the fact that 343 said they're selling it in two, cheaper volumes rather than the more expensive single version.

It'd probably be about $15 for both volumes together. Not too bad of a deal for 200+ new pages of Halo canon and artwork.

  • 11.02.2010 8:49 PM PDT
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My best thread evar!

I may be the only to say it, but Evolutions was god awful with the exception of Mona Lisa, Human Weakness, Dirt, and The Impossible Life and Possible Death of Preston J. Cole.

I really hope they make sure whoever developed Hopalong is excluded from this book. And Palace Hotel. And everything else I didn't mention.

  • 11.02.2010 9:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: C SEC Agent
I may be the only to say it, but Evolutions was god awful with the exception of Mona Lisa, Human Weakness, Dirt, and The Impossible Life and Possible Death of Preston J. Cole.

I really hope they make sure whoever developed Hopalong is excluded from this book. And Palace Hotel. And everything else I didn't mention.


Honestly, I loved every story in Evolutions save for Palace Hotel, SotHoaF, and Midlothian. The Return was "meh."

  • 11.02.2010 9:19 PM PDT

Good players work together...and no matter how good you are, you're not physic. - blade6321

2 new short stories in each volume as well as new artwork in each? Plus the fact that 343 said they're selling it in two, cheaper volumes rather than the more expensive single version.

It'd probably be about $15 for both volumes together. Not too bad of a deal for 200+ new pages of Halo canon and artwork.
200+ pages makes it a sound like a sweet deal, but I'm still on the fence here. I'll probably end up waiting to hear the topics of the two stories. As for the artwork....meh =/ They'll wind up scanned and floating around the internet soon enough.

  • 11.02.2010 10:10 PM PDT

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Nice! loved the first one!

  • 11.02.2010 10:32 PM PDT

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