Halo 4 won't reveal Master Chief's face
Not that we don't know what Master Chief looks like – he's described in detail in the 2001 novel Halo: The Fall of Reach.
"The funny thing about the Chief is he's actually really well described," O'Connor tells Eurogamer. "If you went down into that line and found a nerd with a deep canon 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."
O'Connor wants to keep the mystery alive and doesn't want fans to feel alienated by an official face. "That's a device to keep the player invested in the character and keep the player from constantly being reminded that they're not a hero or that they have to be a boy or they have to be a girl, or whatever that is," O'Connor says.
Maybe it's better this way, super fans. More often than not, on-screen adaptations of book descriptions are supremely disappointing.
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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/08/343-turns-the-other-cheek-halo-4-wont-reveal-master-chiefs-fa/#comments
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ImNotPhlegmAnymoreOKPosted:
OvenMittPoolInstinctFX-Jr I think showing his face would make the mystery of halo no longer fun. People can imagine how he looks kinda like a book (without pictures)
Yeah I love the mystery of imagining what his face looks like
What if hes a girl?
I agree with InstinctFX-Jr, it would kind of ruin the "saga" of Halo. I'm actually glad they aren't releasing his face, because it would cause so much "Wow he's what, 343 is racist!" And stuff like that...
OvenMittPosted:
PoolInstinctFX-Jr I think showing his face would make the mystery of halo no longer fun. People can imagine how he looks kinda like a book (without pictures)
Yeah I love the mystery of imagining what his face looks like
What if hes a girl?
PoonPosted:
He takes off his helmet in the very end after the credits in Halo 4. But the screen goes black :(
ChugJugPosted:
InstinctFX-Jr I think showing his face would make the mystery of halo no longer fun. People can imagine how he looks kinda like a book (without pictures)
Yeah I love the mystery of imagining what his face looks like
RazourArtsPosted:
I think showing his face would make the mystery of halo no longer fun. People can imagine how he looks kinda like a book (without pictures)
MawderzPosted:
AR15 Not showing his face is a real cocktease.
Not really. I don't really care what he looks like :P
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