- SEAL Sniper 9
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Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.
Listen guys, I know this has been done before. No need to tell me. The forum, however, has gotten painfully slow and there's rarely any decent topics anymore. Not saying this is a much better topic, but I digress. Inspiration for this thread comes from here. Reply, discuss, have some fun in that thread too.
Anyway, to the actual topic -- The Mona Lisa has to be my favorite short story in Evolutions. It really grabbed me by the balls and made me not want to put the book down. The way the Flood is portrayed in that short story is truly superb. I'm not saying this to sound like a tough guy, but the Flood never scared me in the games. Not the tiniest bit. In the Mona Lisa, however, they were some scary, SOBs. I greatly admired and was very fond of how the author wrote the Flood.
Aside from the Flood, another thing worth mentioning was the characters. Henry and the prisoner, the spook, the Marine squad, that b1tchy A.I...All fairly well-done characters that you were drawn to and cared about.
The whole element of mystery was also a key factor of what drove me to keep reading. Overall, I could say a lot about this story, but I think I got my point across.
Now, what is yours? And why?