User blog comment:Mark-118/The Stranded SPARTAN/@comment-1009967-20100514021125

Hah, if this was a forum, topic about to be derailed, but ah well.

The same has been said about Halo, just by those that haven't even heard, much less read, the novels. Karen Traviss, who also wrote the Republic Commando novels, has written two Gears books, Aspho Fields and Jacinto's Remnant. Halo and Gears are similar, both are humanity at their brink against a genocidal enemy, but Gears is on a world scale rather than galactic.

On the same note, Borderlands. Excellent character voiceovers, enticing backstories for the players, but nothing ever came of them. But, it opens up great potential for Fanon!