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Home News 343i Hesitant To Reveal Master Chief's Face, Discusses The Possibility Of Killing Him Off

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343i Hesitant To Reveal Master Chief's Face, Discusses The Possibility Of Killing Him Off

Posted on Monday, October 8 @ 14:42:11 Eastern by Alex_Osborn

343 Industries' Frank O'Connor has made it clear that Halo 4 will give gamers a much deeper look into the humanity of Master Chief. However, it doesn't look like they're going so far as to pull back the mask currently veiling the super soldier's face.

In an interview with Eurogamer, O'Connor explained that despite the fact that the novels do a pretty solid job of fleshing out exactly how Spartan 117 looks, they're "not ready to show the Master Chief's face."

The funny thing about the Chief is he’s actually really well-described. If you went down into that line and found a nerd with a deep cannon Halo t-shirt and said describe the Master Chief to this police sketch artist, that police sketch artist would then produce a perfectly accurate rendering of an older man, almost painfully pale, almost albino white, with pale blue eyes, reddish hair, close cropped to a skin head, and maybe the last remnants of freckles he had when he was a kid.

The conversation then took a dark turn, when O'Connor was asked about the possibility of killing off the iconic hero. “That’s a conversation I can’t get into," he replied. "I’ll say that in Halo 4, things happen. Previously we’ve been scared to commit to difficult paths in our game, but good interesting stories have things that happen in them that are not comfortable and that are meaningful and that are permanent.

“I’m not trying to hint at something other than our general philosophy and the shift in the attitude we’re taking about storytelling. We can make the story matter more to people by doing things that matter.”

Halo 4 launches on November 6th for Xbox 360.
Related Games:   Halo 4
Tags:   343 Industries, Halo


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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
    Yes kill him off! Not because I hate him or anything but I just want to make my roommate(Who is a halo religious nut) **** his pants in sadness every time I bring it up.
    1 1
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Oct 9th, 2012 at 5:47 am
    My Roomates reply "If they kill Master Chief everyone will hate them"
    0 0
  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
    Even if they kill him off, Microsoft will hire another company to continue the Halo storyline and find some way to bring Master Chief back.
    1 2
  • NitemareSlasher
    NitemareSlasher
    Joined: Oct 2012
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
    Master Chief can never die thus they can't kill him off (also if they did millions of people would be in an up roar)
    0 1
  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
    Ah yeah, all the kids and fans that grew up on Halo would storm the studio.
    0 1
  • UghRochester
    UghRochester
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 4:02 pm
    See, after reading this article, I didn't know Master Chief was a ginger.
    2 2
  • napsterxxl
    napsterxxl
    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
    surprisingly enough you get a decent description of him all the way back In Halo: The Flood (Which is the worst Halo book imo), though I don't recall it mentioning freckles. It did mention he had scars on his face.
    0 2
  • UghRochester
    UghRochester
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Oct 9th, 2012 at 2:41 am
    I never read the books, just played the game.
    0 0
  • Guernica
    Guernica
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
    Sooo... The Covenant was correct when they call him a demon?
    3 3
  • ADX182
    ADX182
    Joined: Aug 2012
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
    Spartans Never Die
    1 1
  • napsterxxl
    napsterxxl
    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
    They Just Go To Hell To Regroup...
    1 1
  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
    I thought it was confirmed in his origins story comic book series he was a generic blond white guy?
    1 1
  • UghRochester
    UghRochester
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Oct 9th, 2012 at 7:01 am
    Hitler's genocide?
    0 1
  • oblivion437
    oblivion437
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
    I honestly prefer faceless and/or voiceless protagonists where and when I can have them. Put on certain sets in Dark Souls and it's as though your character is completely insulated from the world. One cannot even tell if the character is hollow - the set covers all and assumes its shapes as it will. Leaves freedom to the imagination.
    0 2
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Oct 9th, 2012 at 3:53 am
    Agreed, I hated the fact Isaac talked in Dead Space 2. Let the main character be my imagination. Also the people thumbs downing the ginger jokes need to chill out. Kick a ginger, it'll calm you down.
    0 1
  • oblivion437
    oblivion437
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Oct 20th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
    Why did the ginger cross the road?

    Because gingers have no souls.
    0 0
  • BigTruckSeries
    BigTruckSeries
    Joined: May 2006
    Posted: Oct 9th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
    Master Chief is a faceless entity because they want players to believe they are him. giving him a voice was a stupid decision. Honestly, I'm so sick and tired of these lackluster Halo releases, I don't give a **** if MC turns out to be a cybernetic Jimmy Hoffa.
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