Downes has never appeared at Bungie or Microsoft events, and believes that the Master Chief is left masked because " is really in the eye of the player". Downes never interviewed for the part, describing his acceptance as "a phone call". 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 only previous experience with video game voice work was a small part for Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator. Steve Downes, who voices the Master Chief, is a disc jockey and voice actor who had never played video games before Halo. He's a space Marine in really cool green armor." 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. 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. The Master Chief was subsequently bulked up to the version currently found in the games. 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". Eventually, Shi Kai Wang was hired for conceptual art. The task of developing the Master Chief for the character's first appearance in Halo: Combat Evolved fell on Rob McLees and the project's Art Director, Marcus Lehto. Reviewers such as Kotaku have pointed to the Chief's silent and faceless nature as a weakness to the character, while other publications have stated that this attribute allows players to better assume the role of the Master Chief. While a widely known figure, the Master Chief has received mixed reception. The Master Chief has been called an icon, a relative newcomer among more established franchise characters, such as Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Lara Croft. Steve Downes built his personification of the Chief off a character description which called for a Clint Eastwood-type character of few words. Originally designed by Marcus Lehto, Rob McLees, and Shi Kai Wang, the character is a towering and faceless cybernetically enhanced supersoldier he is never seen without his green-colored armor or helmet.
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The Master Chief is one of the most visible symbols of the Halo series and the video game universe. He is voiced by Chicago disc jockey Steve Downes in the video games in which he appears. Outside of video games, the Master Chief appears in the novels Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, Halo: First Strike, and Halo: Uprising, and has cameos in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx and the Halo Graphic Novel. Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, commonly called the Master Chief, is the main protagonist of the Halo universe, created by Bungie Studios, and is a player character in the science fiction first-person shooter video games Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians, and Halo Infinite. The Master Chief as he appears in Halo Infinite
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