It’s no question that Mark V has been a fan favorite helmet since Halo began, with more iterations then perhaps any other helmet in the franchise. Despite this helmet having 8 variants (CE, Halo 3, Reach, CE Anniversary, Halo 4, Delta, Alpha, and Zeta) none of these helmets truly captured the classic design. Zeta is a very nice interpretation of the Mark V, though it seems to have taken some Mark IV inspiration as well. I kind of gave up hope to see a classic Mark V in Halo Infinite, thinking the style wouldn’t translate well, until I saw this:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/halo-mk-v-model-ff8a4e4f9d1f4fdeb3a1d887f6f70dae
An absolute beast of an Artist (Named Pep?) had recreated the CE Mark V in a high poly model which looks absolutely smashing. He has a 3D model online that you can view and pan the camera around, I highly recommend checking it out! Massive props to him, honestly the model looks exactly like Master Chief in Combat Evolved did to my tiny six year old brain all those years ago. Then I came across another recreation:
https://twitter.com/game_fabricator/status/1443396719270531079/photo/1
Made by none other then the father of the Master Chief himself: Marcus Lehto.
People will argue which interpretation of Mark V is the best all day, but you CANNOT argue that these are not the most faithful recreations of the classic Mark V. Seeing as the second image was created by the original designer of the armor. My question to the Halo community is would you like to see something like this in Halo Infinite? Do you want to see a true reproduction of the armor that started it all in this series going forward? It doesn’t have to take anything away from the other interpretations, or Mark V iterations, I just think personally it would be an amazing homage.
- Yes, I would like to see a faithful Mark V set!
- Yes, as long as we get to keep the other iterations as well!
- I don’t really mind either way.
- No, more options is not always better.
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