Mod makes Halo’s Master Chief into a Yakuza enforcer
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1980s Tokyo—the glitz, the glamor, the excesses of the postwar economic miracle, the… genetically enhanced super soldier from 2551?
ModderKashiiera over on Nexus Modshas traded one gaming sex symbol for another, replacing Yakuza 0’s sensitive hunk Kiryu with Halo’s sensitive hunk, Master Chief Petty Officer John 117. Thanks to a simple model swap, you can now rough up thugs, teach important life lessons, and unravel the mystery of the Empty Lot as a 7-foot-tall, one-ton killing machine from the 26th century.
I almost forgot to upload this pic.twitter.com/DD0cgmdgfDAugust 9, 2022
Kashiiera specializes in modding theMaster Chief Collection, mixing and matching assets and maps across the various games in the pack. Their other projects let you play through the entirety of later Halo games with theweapons and HUD from Combat Evolved, for example, ortransplant weapons and vehiclesfrom Halo Reach into Halo 3.
The modder used that expertise to hack Mister Chief’s Halo 3 character model into Yakuza 0 in playable form. They also seem to have tried out porting the Arbiter in similar fashion, but his gnarly alien proportions make for a less clean transition, and so far Kashiiera just has ashort demonstration of the idea up on Twitter.
Arbiter is out for blood pic.twitter.com/sctDtssn1qAugust 11, 2022
Honestly, the Chief fits into Yakuza pretty well—it’s already such a fun, absurd romp, and you get the added benefit of seeing the stoic future warrior going clubbing and doing karaoke. That’s way better than seeing himhave sex.
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Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister’s copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he’s not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch.
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