- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: MorrZero89
The Covanent are sometimes referred to as religious zealots, and in starcraft one of the unit types is Zealots. There is also a unit called the Arbitor, and then there is Overmind for the zerg and Gravemind for the flood. And weren't the Protoss and the Terran at war in the beginning but made an alliance to stop the zerg. Kinda sounds like halo...I can't think of anymore...haven't played starcraft in over 2 years...
In a nutshell, yes. There is a lot more story involved with Starcraft, and Halo probably is really simplified.
With Starcraft, you've got your different Protoss tribes, (Haven't played single player for a long, long time), then your whole Dark Templar conflict, and the Terran military factions that aren't particularly narrated about, except for the Sons of Korhal (or was it the Terran Dominion Armada now? Told you. Complicated.) and the UED (Brood War).
Halo mixes and matches what Starcraft was. The Terrans were originally at war with Zerg-- trying to stop infestations. Along come the Protoss fleet, and attack a colony which was infested, in which the Terran living on it didn't know. They thought the Protoss were hostile.
With Halo, the story is pretty straight-forward. Humans. Covenant. Covenant=Crazed Humanity Killers. They are set out to destroy them from the beginning. Big war. The Chief finds Halo. The Flood are introduced. Halo is explained. After a little while, the Covenant splits, and allies with Humans (Or so we hope).