NEWS:Peter Jackson's Halo 360 Game [untitled]

Peter Jackson's team will work with Bungie to co-write, co-design, and co-produce what Microsoft says is a "completely new and original chapter" in the Halo series

Halo Ghosts of Onyx

The latest book in Eric Nylunds Halo series is released

October 12, 2006 - Few books based on videogames are worth reading. I know, I've read a bunch. The Halo books, however, The Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike, are worth your while. Based on Bungie's Halo games, these books explore a unique sci-fi universe that's deep, intriguing and imaginative. Yeah, yeah, I know, books based on first-person shooters have no depth. And Del Rey books often have a rather mundane formula -- they're packed with terse muscular sentences, and in the case of the Halo books, they're filled with all sort of futuristic military speak.

But the Halo books do something more than just flesh out a fruitless videogame story arch. The Halo universe is deep with both biblical and mythical allusions, and the game barely scratches the surface of the real story. The books explore the history of the SPARTAN program, give real human elements to the characters, and create tension between the military and the likes of Master Chief. In short, while it's true, these are action-based books, they provide real and needed depth to the Halo games.