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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. Lets see the whole thing by bigman2003 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know if they have the whole thing done yet, but what they have so far looks like it took an insane amount of time.

    They have a page saying that there will be real-life videos in the future- I hope they can keep up the quality, and move a step or two beyond Power Rangers.

    How is it that they find time to do this stuff, and it seems like all I can do is come home, and make dinner? Oh yeah...I play video games..

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  2. 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 hibiki_r · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't forget Bungie's innovations on level design: no other game to date has reused corridors and rooms to the same degree as HALO. Even Penny Arcade made a strip out of it.

      All in all it's not a bad game, but the huge amount of praise the game has gotten from most media seems completely unjustified IMO.

  3. I want to hire these guys... by Khamura · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... so they can make a fullblown Varia suit for my girlfriend!

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  4. 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?