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Real-Life Halo Armor Creators Quizzed

Posted by simoniker on from the shiny-faux-bulletproof-baubles dept.

Thanks to Bungie.net for their interview with the creators of a painstakingly-crafted real-life reproduction of Master Chief's Mjolnir armor, as originally seen in Bungie's noted FPS Halo. The interview comes with exclusive pictures, and the official Nightmare Armor site also has pictures from their previous armor reproduction project, the Deepeyes armor from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The armor creators discuss the "good amount of time and devotion [it takes] to complete an entire armor costume", but the guys at Bungie conclude the article with a bang: "After seeing the kind of passion and dedication that the guys at Nightmare Armor had put into the Halo armor project, we were too embarrassed to tell them that in Halo 2, Master Chief's costume will be made of dyed mink fur."

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  1. Halo's a good game and all... by Bagels · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but really, come on, calling it "the biggest milestone in videogame history" is going a bit far, don't you think? There were *tons* of other first person shooters before it, and most (if not all) of the gameplay elements in Halo had been done before. It was very much an evolutionary game (as evidenced by its subtitle - "Combat Evolved") rather than a revolutionary game. That's not a bad thing, but there are games out there much more worthy of being called "milestones."

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    1. Re:Halo's a good game and all... by Lightwarrior · · Score: 2, Insightful

      > ...calling it "the biggest milestone in videogame history" is going a bit far, don't you think?

      It might have been, was it released FOUR YEARS AGO ON THE PC like it was supposed to be. I don't even think it was evolutionary, and I can't figure out why it got such amazing reviews.

      Can somebody explain this to me? What I played was an average FPS with mediocre graphics (*from a PC gamer's POV on the Xbox version). The two things remotely interesting about it was Co-op (a big plus, but they removed it in the PC version - WTF?) and the ability to pilot vehicles. I fail to see how this warrants a near-perfect score, as neither of these are innovations.

      -lw

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  2. Nightmare Webdesign by MalachiConstant · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The armor looks great, I love the deepeyes set, but for the love of god someone buy these boys a decent digital camera and some web design skills.

    No offense to those guys, but that weak website looks like someone on geocities made it. Hire a studio photographer to get some good shots of someone wearing the armor, how much could it cost?

  3. Hey, I bet you could market it as snowboard gear.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd buy it. Hell, I'd board with it.

  4. bah halo is just mararhon 4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Halo = Marathon 4 nothing new same old marathon just not on mac