”I’ll let you in on a secret,” Bleszinski said. ”I actually approached Microsoft on getting Master Chief into the game, but those guys are kind of squeamish.”
”One of Halo’s successes is that it’s a soft M,” he added. ”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.”
Bleszinski did say the team did want to experiment with treating Master Chief like a meat puppet. “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.”
Ooh, fun.
