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When Halo Met DOA
The official Bungie site is running an article entitled The Making of SlugFest, the story of how a Spartan ended up in Dead or Alive 4. From the article: "Initially, team Ninja wanted, and asked very politely, for Master Chief. Well, we balked at that. Master Chief is busy, fictionally speaking. We left him at the end of Halo 2, involved in a very large scale galactic conflict with world-ending repercussions. Fictionally speaking, he just wasn't available for fisticuffs. But we loved the idea of seeing a Spartan fight, unarmed. You have to figure they'd be pretty serious pugilistic contenders right? Half ton of bio-mechanically enhanced armor-clad uber-trained soldiering nightmare? Has to have at least a decent right hook."
We don't have Mjolnir armor yet.
Let me put it this way: Would Bruce Lee win against a tank?
It's really hard to say how this should work. A Spartan punch, if it lands, should go straight through anything human. You'd not only have to block it, you'd have to block it with a sort of throwing reversal, essentially a dodge -- anything to avoid taking that much force directly.
The only reason you can whack Spartans to death in the back of the head in Halo is the fact that you're doing it with another Spartan. What would happen if a human tried that? Clonk!
It's a bit more fair than actually using Master Chief, though. The Chief has a personal shield. I doubt there's anything like that in DOA.
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