anybody read videogame book's

currently reading gears of war which is good just trying to find some more and ive found novel's on halo and mass effect anybody know anymore i'm gonna order a load to keep myself entertained.

not videogame books but equilly as geeky and bloody good imho is
necromunda ive about 8 of them but there are sh1tloads more

necromunda what kind of book is that.

The Halo books are surprisingly good actually, when I saw the opening clip to Halo with the Pillar of Autumn fighting against the Covenant cruisers I was curious about the ships, their technology, how they came to be fighting etc. and the Halo books answer all those questions and a lot more. I think Eric Nylund is a decent author as I've enjoyed his non-Halo work.

Necromunda is a Warhammer tabletop game, it's set within the main WH40K universe within the overpopulated hive cities where there's considerable and brutal short range combat between rival gangs. I haven't read any of those books but I do read a lot of the Warhammer 40K books which is the main game, I enjoy the universe and there's a good selection of books to choose from. The Gear of War soliders are very similar to the genetically enhanced power armoured Space Marines within the Warhammer 40K universe so I definitely think it's worth a look.

If do fancy this route I'd recommend Horus Rising as this is the first of the Horus Heresy series set ten thousand years before the current time. Within this universe the Emperor of mankind created 20 legions of Space Marines and sent them out to reunite mankind. It was all going well until his favourite son who'd been Warmaster basically turned to evil (or Chaos as it's known) and along with almost half the other legions turned against the Imperium pitting Space Marine against Space marine. This may seem like a spoiler but it's always been one of the most defining and well known events within the universe.

John

i'm not keen on warhammer tbh bit too geeky for me though there seem's to be a load of the halo book's so i might just get them and the mass effect one's.

I wouldn't say it's too geeky for someone who has started a thread on videogame books, while the origins are different (one's a computer game, one's a tabletop game) the books are similar except there's a lot more to dig into with the Warhammer universe. I find it a bit frustrating with video game books as there's rarely more than a handful available.

In case you're wondering about order for the Halo books, in release order they are:

Fall of Reach - starts off a few centuries before the computer game but finishes at the start of Halo: Combat evolved
The Flood - The story of the computer game basically although also follows what the humans and aliens were doing on Halo as well as the MC
First Strike - Immediately after the end of Halo: Combat Evolved although doesn't tie in to any of the other games

All three of the above feature John-117 from the games, after this point however he is no longer involved.

Ghosts of Onyx - Starts off around the time of the earth invasion although doesn't tie in to Halo 2 at all and goes its own way

Contact Harvest - A prequel book set at the very start of the Covenant invasion although no Spartans feature at all (aside from Johnson although that's debated), while it's a prequel I wouldn't read it first as it assumes you've read the main trilogy.

Cole Protocol - Another prequel set after Contact Harvest, I've not read this one.

I thought the original trilogy was extremely good, Ghosts of Onyx not bad but I didn't think much of Contact Harvest hence I'm not planning on picking up Cole Protocol until it's out in paperback.

John

i've bought the first four halo book's but i'm struggling to find cole protocol and apparently theres a new un coming out too which i'll pre order and i've just seen that the author of the first gears of war book is doing a sequel out in a coupla months so i'll be all sorted for a while it's much cheaper than buying videogame's and they last longer awesome.

I got both the Mass Effect books cos I hadn't seen them in a bookstore before and didn't want to miss out (love Mass Effect). Haven't read them yet, I'm still making my way through the entirety of Dune.

I also read the Wing Commander novel (based on Secret Missions 2) and the Resident Evil 2 novel. Both were average at best.

I've read the three main Halo books (The Fall of Reach, The Flood and First Strike) and I've just started reading Ghosts of Onyx.

They're all a really good read and if you're interested in the games and Halo universe they help you to understand so much more.

The only disappointing thing I find is that they're not all written by the same author. Most of them are written by Eric Nylund who IMHO is teh best of the authors they use.

There's also a Halo Graphic Novel.

What's the new Halo novel?

Necromunda is a great 'universe' (well, part of the WH40K universe ), but I've not read any of the novels set there. Good game mind, nice to have something so playable that doesn't require £200+ worth of figurines per player to have a decent battle.

I like Delaques with hair/heads from Goliaths, so that they look like characters from Syndicate. Not played any Warhammer in about a decade, but it's all still up in my parents' loft.