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Halo: The Rubicon Protocol
by Kelly Gay
8/10.
This works really well as a prequel to Infinite, and fills in some of the gaps that surround the game's audio logs and collectibles. It gives a lot of context to the things you can discover in the game itself, with some of the dialogue from those audio logs being used word for word in the book. This also functions well as a standalone story that could be read for its own sake. It was a little hard to keep up with the number of characters, but as the story got more focused over time that problem went away. It's hard to hit it out of the park when you're writing within constraints of something that happens immediately after your story in most cases, but I think the author did a great job here. I'm not sure if this was written in conjunction with the game as it was being developed, or if writing began after the game's plot was finalized. Either way, hopefully it sets up new campaign content in the future and some of the characters here are in the game.
This works really well as a prequel to Infinite, and fills in some of the gaps that surround the game's audio logs and collectibles. It gives a lot of context to the things you can discover in the game itself, with some of the dialogue from those audio logs being used word for word in the book. This also functions well as a standalone story that could be read for its own sake. It was a little hard to keep up with the number of characters, but as the story got more focused over time that problem went away. It's hard to hit it out of the park when you're writing within constraints of something that happens immediately after your story in most cases, but I think the author did a great job here. I'm not sure if this was written in conjunction with the game as it was being developed, or if writing began after the game's plot was finalized. Either way, hopefully it sets up new campaign content in the future and some of the characters here are in the game.