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Wouldnt it be fun if you could be covenent and fight the human race? this would give another perspective playing the game.....the storyline could be changed to suit the covenent also..different campaign = variety....dont you say? You would get another version of the game.....

  • 05.21.2004 1:22 AM PDT
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that would make it more interesting, but how could you set about killing those poor defensless marines!!!

  • 05.21.2004 1:25 AM PDT
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who cares sbout those marines....by that time...those are your enemies.....they are not defenceles...they got armor plating but very weak ones...

  • 05.21.2004 1:41 AM PDT
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which covenant would you be thou? jackel, grunt, elite, hunter or brute. if they did do that then i think you should be able to choose what type of covy bastard you are and that also depends on what role they play in the game, such as jackels are used as assasins, grunts as connon fodder hunters as big guns or elites as the strong all rounders.

  • 05.21.2004 1:45 AM PDT
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It would be like half-life, and it would be a cool campaign, maybe you could download it on Xbox Live...

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haha

  • 05.21.2004 1:58 AM PDT
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destroy all humans!!! Muhaha-ha

  • 05.21.2004 3:29 AM PDT
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Ever thought about the fact that all Covenant just have a small roll in the game...?
If you were a Jackal or say a Grunt, you would be killed like a bug !
Youre not important or strong enough to survive the whole game !!!
Even an Elite would not survive, and just one Grunt, Jackal, Elite or Hunter is just one kill in Halo, however the MC has an important role in the game, that cannot be forfilled by just any other soldier ;)
This all does not mean that i dont WANT to play as a Covenant, i would love to do that, its just that it wouldnt be logical...

  • 05.21.2004 4:03 AM PDT
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good point and i feel that its just not the game that we know of halo and playing as cov's should stay multiplayer

  • 05.21.2004 4:27 AM PDT
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if you could this is me *Starts as elite. first mission sees a alot of covies. Starts shotting at them and killing them all. wait wait didnt i pick the covies this time? damn those marines i thought i was mc*

  • 05.21.2004 4:31 AM PDT
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yeah but it would rock to be the covenant in multiplayer imagine,...it'd be like the attack of the clones battle with all the vehicles and grunts on a headon collision of death! har har har!

sorry got a bit carried away there!

you get the picture!

  • 05.21.2004 5:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: Victorious
Ever thought about the fact that all Covenant just have a small roll in the game...?
If you were a Jackal or say a Grunt, you would be killed like a bug !
Youre not important or strong enough to survive the whole game !!!
Even an Elite would not survive, and just one Grunt, Jackal, Elite or Hunter is just one kill in Halo, however the MC has an important role in the game, that cannot be forfilled by just any other soldier ;)
This all does not mean that i dont WANT to play as a Covenant, i would love to do that, its just that it wouldnt be logical...


I suppose you've never played X-Wing, then TIE Fighter. Both games exaggerate the strength of their side's ships. In X-Wing, you have to TRY to let a single TIE Fighter kill you. In TIE Fighter, you and your TIE Fighter can smoke X-Wings all day long. It's a fun game too.

Maybe the next Halo series game could involve you being a Covenant. That'd be cool. Though I'd want a turn playing as every single covie combatant. It'd rule, but it would be best if it took place before Halo, and maybe even in another war against another race.

  • 05.21.2004 5:47 AM PDT
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perhaps there couldl have been a covenent version of MC and his mission is to assist the covenents in every possible way to dominate Earth...............

  • 05.21.2004 5:46 PM PDT
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theres a cartridge to put in your controller called action replay and you can download something whichlets you play a level as an elite

  • 05.21.2004 5:49 PM PDT
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It would be cool to play as covenant. Maybe what they could do is something like you are the "leader" elite. You go on all these missions chasing after MC, but he is always one step ahead. Finally, you catch him on the last level and duke it out.
It could work, might not be as fun as being MC, but it would definitely work.

  • 05.21.2004 6:13 PM PDT
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it would be cool but stange i would still want it in like if you beat legendary as a reward or something

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No way man! I just could not do it....killing humans as aliens. Just couldn't do it.

  • 05.21.2004 7:00 PM PDT
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I'll be a bandana-wearing, dual needler and fuel-rod gun toting, black armored, badass Grunt with a 'tude, out to save the universe by biting the Master Chief's kneecaps off! And it will be a side-scroller for the GBA!

All joking aside, I think it would be absolutely awesome to play as a black SpecOps Elite, fragging Marines, ODSTs, and maybe a SPARTAN-II as the last boss. It would be an awesome expansion pack for the PC version of Halo...

It might be too easy though, without a tuneup in the Marine AI.

/me imagines infiltrating a human cruiser as a lone Elite with armor toggleable between active camo and shields. w00T!

  • 05.21.2004 7:03 PM PDT
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it would be dumb we r sopposed to destroy halo not defend it

  • 05.21.2004 7:09 PM PDT
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We wouldn't be on Halo. We'd be on, say... Earth, plundering and murdering and all that other stuff the Covies do.

I'd have it set early in the conflict, though, so you don't feel guilty about weakening Earth's forces by a chunk or two.

  • 05.21.2004 7:14 PM PDT
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It wouldn't necicarraly be impossible. While they couldn't let you kill MC, lots of the Covies are going to live through the invation of earth, and only some will die - the ones MC fights, and some other unlucky ones killed by marines. :-)

If you think about it, the majority of covenant fight marines, not the MC, and a jackle is aproximatly equal to a marine, so it would be you as an elite (because that is the closest to MC) taking on a buch of marines, which is the same as MC taking on a bunch of jackles. If you know the story, MC is actually supposed to be equal to an Elite, the game just exagerates it to make it easy for the easy people. Leagandary is more acurate.

I agree it would be fun to play as a black elite, get to sneak around and frag (plasma?!?) all the marines out of their hiding places!!! :ph34r: I deafinantly hope Bungie allows us to do this, whether through a content download or it coming with the game - it would make the game that much better and give it a new perspective.

  • 05.21.2004 7:14 PM PDT