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MCPON John-117, or "Master Chief", is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ''Halo'' fictional universe created by Bungie. Master Chief is a playable character in the series of science fiction first-person shooter video games: ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', ''Halo 2'', ''Halo 3'', ''Halo 4'', and ''Halo 5: Guardians''. Outside of video games, the character appears in novels— ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Halo: The Flood'', ''Halo: First Strike'', and ''Halo: Uprising'' —and has cameos in other ''Halo'' media, including ''Halo: Reach'', ''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'', ''The Halo Graphic Novel'', ''Halo Legends'' and ''Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn''. The character is a towering and faceless biochemically and cybernetically-enhanced supersoldier, raised and trained from an early age to be a weapon; he is almost never seen without his green-colored armor and helmet. He is commonly referred to by his naval rank, rather than his given birth-name or serial-designation. The character is voiced by Steve Downes, a Chicago disc jockey, in the video games in which he appears. Downes based his personification of the Chief on an initial character sketch which called for a Clint Eastwood-type character of few words. The Master Chief is a video game icon, a relative newcomer among more established franchise characters, such as Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and Lara Croft. The character has received a mostly positive reception. While some have described the Chief's silent and faceless nature as a weakness of the character, other publications have suggested these attributes better allows players to assume his role. ==Character design== The task of developing Master Chief for the character's first appearance in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' fell on Rob McLees and the project's art director, Marcus Lehto. Eventually, Shi Kai Wang was hired for conceptual art. One of Wang's sketches was accepted and became the basis for the Master Chief; however, after Wang's version was converted to a 3-D model, it was decided the character looked too slender, "almost effeminate".〔 The Master Chief was subsequently bulked up to the version currently found in the games.〔 Similarly, the Chief's armor went through various changes, such as the addition of an antenna, which was removed later in development, and a green tint. In an interview on creating believable video game characters, Bungie's Joseph Staten noted that, "Master Chief is really what kicked off the creativity," he said, "in terms of how people react to him. He's a space Marine in really cool green armor." The character's perspective changed as the game itself changed from a real-time strategy game to a first-person shooter, but the Chief was always intended to be a soldier in the last part of a long and bitter war. For much of the game's development, the character had no name. The developers spent time considering what rank and branch of the armed forces the Chief would belong to—naval ranks grabbed them as "different" from ones the developers had heard of before. "Master Chief" was intended to be a placeholder while a real name was finalized, but the moniker stuck.〔—approx. 0:17:00–0:19:00.〕 Downes, who voices the Master Chief, is a disc jockey and voice actor who had never played video games before ''Halo''. Downes only previous experience with video game voice work was a small part for ''Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator''. During production of ''Halo'', Martin O'Donnell, Bungie's music director, recommended Downes for the part of the Chief based on his experience working on ''Septerra''. Downes never interviewed for the part, describing his acceptance as "a phone call". For years Downes never appeared at Bungie or Microsoft events and believed that the Master Chief is left masked because "(character's identity ) is really in the eye of the player".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Master Chief (Halo)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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