Real-Life Halo Armor Creators Quizzed

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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Halo's a good game and all...

[Bagels]

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."