In the first mission, “Winter Contingency”, Noble team is seeing the covenant for the FIRST TIME on REACH! In the book, this was excentuated to be a catastrophic offensive and completely surprised the UNSC. However, in the game, Jorge just says, “it’s the covenant” which is a line said with such a lack of enthusiasm or exasperation, I can only imagine he was thinking to himself, “ugh…the covenant…not these losers again…”
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He said it as if the unpopular kid in school went to the teacher at recess and she forced everyone else to play with him. Overall, the narrative just doesn’t seem convincing. Instead of emphasizing the desperation and fear of the UNSC, the dialogue makes me feel like the Spartans know exactly what’s going to happen and they’re just rehearsing their lines until they can go home. Reach had a good campaign with some cool missions, but the dialogue left much to be desired.
The Campaign of Halo: Reach and the story of The Fall of Reach are completely different. It’s kinda weird. I don’t think it’s possible to make them both make sense. It just doesn’t work.
Jorge was likely having a lot of emotions at the time. He defaulted to just giving the information even though he was in shock fear and awe. Like someone that hits their head and quickly says I’m good i’m good.