Master Chief doesn’t want to hang with Marcus Fenix
Matt Hawkins The dude from Halo is apparently too good for the dude in Gears of War, or so says the dude behind Gear, Cliff Bleszinski.
In a recent interview, the dude who used to go by Cliffy B explained why the Xbox 360′s two biggest gun-toters never got around to hanging out and shooting off rounds together. It’s not like Cliff wasn’t into the idea itself… but: “I actually approached Microsoft on getting Master Chief into the game, but those guys are kind of squeamish.”
Though it’s not like Cliff doesn’t know why: “One of Halo’s successes is that it’s a soft M… Gears pushes it further. I’m creatively comfortable with that, though it can limit what you do. If you had to break it down, I’d say that Gears is like Mortal Kombat and Halo is like Street Fighter.”
That’s actually quite the astute summation. And to be honest, one could perhaps creatively find an even ground for the two to interact with. Though Bleszinski clearly had his own ideas, which might have scared those protective of Master Cheif: “”if we were to get Master Chief, we’d get his model, put him in a COG suit, make it blow up, and do some test animation work. We’d have to see what his head looks like being blown to smithereens or how his arm would look getting sawed off.”
Yeah, I don’t think you have to a MS executive to figure out how, given how they’ve gone to great lengths to make sure that we’ve never seen the Chief’s face in Halo, that the powers that be won’t want to see half of it… with the other half on a wall, or dripping from the ceiling.
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