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Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games design director, tried to get Master Chief into Gears of War 3, he revealed to Complex.
“I’ll let you in on a secret. I actually approached Microsoft on getting Master Chief into the game, but those guys are kind of squeamish,” said Bleszinski. “One of Halo’s successes is that it’s a soft M [rating]. 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. [Laughs.]”
While it doesn’t look likely to happen, Bleszinski already has ideas on what he’d do if given the green light.
“But 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. Then we’d package up the test footage, put it on YouTube, and let the fans get a kick out of it because everything is meta these days. That’s why Gears is packed with Easter eggs. That’s the kind of metagame we have to think about in a post-Red Dead Redemption world.”
Master Chief in Gears would have been very cool, but we can understand why Microsoft wasn’t so keen – it would seem at odds with the tone of Halo to see the iconic character beheaded in a gory fashion.
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