Publication Date: March 11, 2007 | Series: Smart Pop series
Halo Effect is a collection of essays on the bestselling video game Halo and is not authorized by Bungie, Microsoft, or any entity associated with Halo.
Examining the Halo phenomenon from every angle—from profiling the greatest Halo player who ever lived to providing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the wildly popular, virtual-reality Halo movies—this guide is the ultimate companion for anyone who wants to truly understand this amazingly successful video game. With discussions on the role of religion and science in the game, this collection of essays also looks into the creation of and community reaction to the launch of the Halo series. Speculations on the upcoming movie and a rigorous analysis of the vehicles of Halo are also included.
Glenn Yeffeth is the editor of Farscape Forever!, Seven Seasons of Buffy, and Taking the Red Pill, as well as coeditor of Finding Serenity. He lives in Dallas.
I spent fifteen years consulting and running management consultancies in Chicago, Dallas and London. In a burst of mid-life crisis, I chucked it to start BenBella Books, a traditional publishing house. Starting a old-fashioned publishing firm in the 21st century is crazy, I know, but it's turned out to be one of the best things I ever did.
This review is from: Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time (Smart Pop series) (Paperback)
This book appears that it was written by someone who knows very little about the Halo canon. It is as if he wrote it as he was playing through the game and based his observations on the Master Chief on how HE played the game, not how the MC actually has been portrayed.
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This review is from: Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time (Smart Pop series) (Paperback)
Just look at Amazon's preview page on this one. The book reads like it was written by a hyperactive 8-year-old, tossing around big words while having no idea what they mean, including at least one self-reference on every page, and with a compelte obliviousness as to any sort of fact- source material or otherwise.
If you see a single positive review for this book, you can rest assured that person was paid for their endorsement.
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Like everyone else says, read the preview and you will see that this "person" has NO CLUE to the HALO universe and absolutely no writing skills. Rambo and Master Chief, PLEASE!!! Anyway read this review, chock the book up to crap and don't even waste your time reading the review, I wish I had listened to the other reviews that said don't bother.
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