We have so many constituents to appease, that it’s always a careful balance and a fine line to walk.” It’s not meant to be subversive We’ve got a lot of people who only play multiplayer. “We’ve got a lot of people who love playing campaigns but skip all the cinematics. “We’ve got a lot of people who don’t care about the story,” says O’Connor. And in some ways I’m reminded of Return of the Jedi, where you have these perspectives that you switch between places and people, and each of the sets of people has a specific task in a specific place.” You can’t please everyone “I think the difference is that instead of being Odysseus this time, it’s much more of an ensemble piece. But when Chief’s with his team, there’s enough information coming that it does work as a kind of surrogate for Cortana’s absence, for her Virgil role where she’s leading you through the Inferno.” That’s in deliberate contrast to the much more chatty, less stoic Team Osiris. “They’re not overwhelming you with things in the game. “I don’t think any of Blue Team have particularly strong personalities,” says O’Connor when I ask about the challenge of maintaining emotional connection while jumping players between perspectives. So I’m not contradicting anything you’re saying, I’m just explaining the intent, and we certainly have got opinions contrary to yours, of people who enjoy that, and there are definitely Master Chief fans who’ve been literally asking for this.” The ensemble cast exists partly to replace Cortana “But we’ve also got lot of other players who, maybe they’ve read the books, maybe they’ve just followed the games very closely, and they’ve projected their ideals about heroism onto the Chief, and actually given him far more personality than we ever have.
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