- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
if you guys read the books, the elites were usually a good 2 page battle. those things are SUPER strong and their shields are just like the chief's. they are smart and fast and don't pay too much attention to pain. the game really dumbs them down. and as for brutes? in the book the chief battled a brute and...if memory serves...the brute was stronger than the chief and i don't even think the chief beat him head on, i forget. point bieng that the chief had it a lot easier in the game than he had it in the books. in the books when needles exploded near marines...even single needles that got stuck in a tree or something...sent micro shards and did tons of damage. in the books when plasma went by your face you got bad burns. and in the book, the chief didn't even bother to take on hunters. they were practically indestructable. when they shot a spartan with thier feul rod guns the spartan was disintegrated. every fight with the aliens, except with the grunts, took every bit of the chief and his team's skill, strength, ingenuity, training, determination, and luck. the war in the book is a lot more bloody and horrible than anything in the game.