Posted by: ODST 032
Posted by: Adragalus
If anything, I'd say the armor on the reprint of the flood [with the new-style Halo logo and the black arc at the top] looks like Mark VI, not IV.
Flood reprint
First Strike I have to agree with you. The shoulder pieces are identical to Mark IV. The only other thing I can think of is that they sorta resemble John's new armor from the Halo 4 trailer, maybe they're retconning his armor appearance?
First Strike reprint
Edit: I just noticed... what the hell is the Chief doing with SMGs in a novelization of Combat Evolved? They hadn't been introduced yet. Curses, more inconsistencies.
Finally, someone else who cares about canon as much as I do :D Yea I noticed the SMGs too but hey what can you do? And maybe yea it might be John's new armor, do you reckon it's Mk.VII?
The only reprint cover I've seen is The Fall of Reach, and that cover makes PARTIAL sense.
In Halo Lengends, Spartans wear Mark four. In Halo Wars, they wear Mark four. The cover looks more like Mark six than five because the Mark four and Mark 6 armor are almost identical.
As for the Halo Wars Spartans having shields, it's easy to ignore if you realize the shields are only part of the gameplay experience. In the cutscenes, you never see the shields of a Halo Wars Spartan flicker. So imo, the shields can be ignored as just part of the gameplay.
...but that leaves Jorge's Mark four helmet to be questioned...
Looks nothing like the Halo Wars Mark four.
...but maybe Jorge's is a Mark four [B] varient?
EDIT: Wait, I just remembered. The Halo Legends helmet looked more like Mark 6, so maybe it was a prototype helmet like the one in Reach.
So yeah.
...or Legends is uncanon, which is also believeable.
[Edited on 07.28.2011 8:54 AM PDT]