- gamertag: An0nz
- user homepage:
CoD is a good game, even if the Halo series are better in some aspects. Anyone who insults either is just bad in that game. Grow up.
Did you really need to start another thread on this? Then again, I suppose it wouldn't be a surprise for you that I would be siding on the opposite end.
No, I do not think the Covenant is portrayed as "Overpowered" in the novels. In fact, it's much more likely that everything portrayed in the games are watered down and "underpowered". Some examples have already been given about the tiny size of the fleets in games, but there are others, even for the Spartan protagonists. However, I won't go into those since it's not directly on topic.
The Covenant was supposed to be powerful. It has always been said that the only thing stopping humanity from being devastatingly destroyed was secrecy. Secrecy via the Cole Protocol, to be precise. Honestly, I fail to see how you can even describe something as "overpowered" in terms of fictional novels, but the Covenant definitely deserves to be so in comparison to the UNSC.
Seriously, the Covenant had way better technologies (a whole tier higher than UNSC on the Forerunner tier system), and I can't stress that enough. As well, they have been an interstellar force for longer than the humans. They are also composed of several species instead of just one (meaning they had WAY more population and resources), many types of which have naturally superior physiques than the Humans. The only advantage that the UNSC had was that up to that point, they developed everything on their own; Humanity was imaginative, not just imitative. That was how the Spartans came about, and how they developed AIs. That being their only advantage, however, it doesn't give enough weight to turn the tide of the war.
So no, the Covenant are not overpowered in the novels.