- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
In Halo 3 there will be NO other Spartans, BUNGiE already said the game has no relation with the book. In the FAQ. So, will you all quit fussing about other Spartans being in Halo 3???? Nothing will happen. BUNGiE also said there was not going to be any new characters! (Also in FAQ.) Try reading the FAQ before making foolish posts!
Posted by: Namiko Spartan
But BUNGiE cant do more Spartans since a lot of Halo players have not read the books and have no knowledge of the other Spartans.
For better evidence go here:
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=7388480
Shiska: The Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike are official books. Yes, Bungie had say in their writing Yes, the writers did some of their own work nothing was published without first receiving Bungie's approval.
However, what you fail to realize is that the books act as flavor for the hardcore. Guess what? Out of the millions that have bought and played the second Halo, only a tiny handful have actually READ these books. As such, it'd be unwise to reference the books directly in the game, as the reference would be obscure and misunderstood by the majority of players
The books enhance the games, not the other way around.
The mistake in your thinking is that Halo 1 doesn't "reference" anything that happened in The Flood. It's the other way around. And, Halo 1 didn't reference anything that happened during Fall of Reach, just as Halo 2 didn't reference anything that happened in First Strike.
Shiska: Something I must point out, now that this thread has grown...
The Cortana letters are not canon. They're a relic of a time when the first Halo wasn't even a first person shooter, yet. I suggest you do not read too deeply into them to find secrets about the games- there's nothing there to find
Halo Story Page: Would the books make the cut?
Joseph Staten: The books are, for better or worse, part of the canon. In the future we may choose to revise or flat-out ignore some of the less appealing ideas (Johnson's biological immunity to the Flood, for example), but folks should treat them as defining elements of the Halo universe.
[Edited on 6/17/2006]