In an interview with Complex, famed game designer, Cliff Bleszinski, has revealed that he wanted Master Chief to feature in the upcoming finale of the Gears of War franchise, Gears of War 3 and how he even tried to convince Microsoft, but it was to no avail.
He said,
I'll let you in on a secret. 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 [rating]. Gears pushes it further. I’m creatively comfortable with that, though it can limit what you do.
He then went on to compare the franchises by saying, "I'd say that Gears is like Mortal Kombat and Halo is like Street Fighter."
He later explained what Epic would've done to include one of the most popular FPS protagonists in Gear of War 3.
But 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. Then we'd package up the test footage, put it on YouTube, and let the fans get a kick out of it because everything is meta these days.
That’s why Gears is packed with Easter eggs. That’s the kind of metagame we have to think about in a post-Red Dead Redemption world.
Gears of War 3 is scheduled to release exclusively on the Xbox 360 September, this year.
