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So far weve seen alot of focus on Africa in Halo 2.....Im reckoning that if the Covis are after a major Forerunner artifact of weapon its in africa.
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  • 05.25.2004 12:13 PM PDT
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Maybe but the only information bungie has released is all from Africa though so you cant say that till you get the game

  • 05.25.2004 12:15 PM PDT
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Seems likley, or they don't want to look like egocentric americans and put everything in new york.

  • 05.25.2004 12:15 PM PDT

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adn you could maybe see lions attacking the little grunts

  • 05.25.2004 12:15 PM PDT
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Lions attacking Grunts make me warm and fuzzy inside.

Being the story nerd I am, when the Covenant glassed Reach, the only area left intact was the area surrounding the Forerunner relic there. So, it makes a good deal of sense for the Covenant to be focused on Eastern Africa (Zanzibar and New Mombasa) IF there is a Forerunner installation in the area. Otherwise, they would've just glassed Earth after detroying our military capabilities and kept moving along.

At the end of the 2003 E3 demo, the brief conversation between Cortana and the Chief points out that a Covenant cruiser nearby is there objective (this conversation is cut off by the arrival of the sword elites for those with poor memories), so it could also just be that the Covenant crashed in that area, like the cruiser that crashed on the level 'Keyes' in the first game.

  • 05.25.2004 12:29 PM PDT
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I think that the Covies are focusing on Africa because that is where most of the forerunner technology is - the same technology that spawned the human branch of the Forerunner species, that is. I keep repeating my mantra: we aren't Forerunner, we're monkeys gengineered to become sentient and Forerunner-like.

  • 05.25.2004 12:37 PM PDT
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I pay attention is Social Studies and my teacher said that Africa was once a very powerful country and it could be again someday so maybe they listened in social studies class and wanted to give a good representation of the future, and thats where early humans were found.

  • 05.25.2004 12:38 PM PDT
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I don't think that Africa is gonna be totally big in Halo 2. I think it will be playing an important role in the game, but we'll play campaign in all parts of the earth. Seriously, why would you have a warthog for icy environments if everything plays in Africa.
So far we can only guess, so let's see. The Forerunner theory sounds plausible though.

  • 05.25.2004 12:41 PM PDT
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'Africa was once a very powerful country '

i think you want to pay some attention to your geography teacher
africas a continent, not a country
and i can't see HOW it was powerful, unless if this is about britain

WE were powerful...

  • 05.25.2004 12:42 PM PDT
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ever heard of global warming, it should have a huge impact on earth that farin the future, by that time afica will be like australia.

  • 05.25.2004 12:45 PM PDT
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Africa was never very powerful. The North Africans were relatively powerful, but nothing a well-developed European nation couldn't conquer easily. I think the real reason Bungie is using Africa is because since right now it is the most underdeveloped continent with the exception of Antarctica and even in the future their construction will be lagging behind. If they were doing New York, the city would probably be so huge and detailed that the Xbox couldn't handle it. That would be friggin' awesome though - think massive apartment tubes like in Zion from the Matrix and skyscrapers that stick out of the atmosphere.

  • 05.25.2004 12:46 PM PDT
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I think they are using Africa because practically no one else does. Also, it has great variation in terrain, from desert to coastal to jungle to mountains to metropolitan areas to 'add your own terrain type here'. Africa really is a great place to put the majority of the Earth-based areas, if not the entire game.

  • 05.25.2004 12:59 PM PDT
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i think a lot of the focus on Africa is due to the fact that Bungie likes black people. and whats africa without black people?

  • 05.25.2004 12:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: T3chnicaLD3atH
i think a lot of the focus on Africa is due to the fact that Bungie likes black people. and whats africa without black people?


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  • 05.25.2004 1:37 PM PDT
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I think that man who orignated in africa may have come in contact with the forerunners. The ancient people in africa, may of stored an artifact or some object of the forerunners in an ancient tomb or something. So the covenant detected this artifact and want to go get it.

[Edited on 5/25/2004 1:42:52 PM]

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HEY maybe the cheif will go to Canada because the greatest weapon in the universe is in Ontario, or edmonton, yeah thats it the weapon is the West Edmonton Mall
(the largest mall in world)

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HEY maybe the cheif will go to Canada because the greatest weapon in the universe is in Ontario, or edmonton, yeah thats it the weapon is the West Edmonton Mall
(the largest mall in world)

Ya ! Thats great! Wait a minute I know why the coventant want Earth! The poutine of Quebec! BTW i'm quebecois, so i'm not being racist ot quebec or anything.

  • 05.25.2004 1:49 PM PDT
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...ancient african tribes against grunts???wonder who would win???well the zulu were powerful...

  • 05.25.2004 1:51 PM PDT
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Let's just say that bungie needed a place the make the covy land sssooooooo they took a map then they just threw a pencil on the map and the pencil landed on africa.

  • 05.25.2004 1:54 PM PDT
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yeah plus it couldnt be canada,they wouldnt win, we may not have the technology but we are i feisty bunch!


FINE YOU WIN! the only reason they wouldnt attack canada is because it too F***ing cold, and the grunts are from an ice world too!!!!

  • 05.25.2004 1:58 PM PDT
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If you think about it, what does Bungie pull a lot of story line from? The Bible, and other Mythologies, as well as, THEORIES. What's the best thoery for the beginning of evolution? The theory that it all started in Africa ;)

  • 05.25.2004 2:09 PM PDT
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this was the very first thread, cool

  • 06.23.2004 7:52 AM PDT
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I think they choose africa because of the wide range of enviroments. which is why i think russia or other large nations maybe Austraila would also be in it because of the enviroments and the industrilaization that we saw in the trailer shows how far in the future we are because africa is not that modernized.

  • 06.23.2004 8:02 AM PDT
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Why Africa? On reach the Covenant glassed everywhere except around the equator. This is where they dug for the Forerunner artifact. Part of Africa also happens to be located near the equator. Mombassa is located in Kenya, which happens to lie exactly on the equator. hmmm, i think we've stumbled on something.

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Well that just happaned to be where the Forerruner artifiacts were. N. Mombasa is south of the Equater... and actually I think south of even the Tropic of Cancer, (or Capricorn one of the two). So I don't think the Equator part comes into play. In a video interview on XBox.xom, Peter Parsons says that Zanzibar is one of 50 Forerunner installations on Earth. So, seeing as they may be widely spread out, the Covies don't want to risk glassing over any so they are invading in huge numbers.

Achilles

  • 06.23.2004 8:26 AM PDT

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