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==Early weapon designs== | ==Early weapon designs== | ||
While ''Combat Evolved'' ultimately did ship with a diverse set of weapons, these final designs went through a large amount of iteration throughout the game's progression from strategy to shooter. | While ''Combat Evolved'' ultimately did ship with a diverse set of weapons, these final designs went through a large amount of iteration throughout the game's progression from strategy to shooter. This section covers the early iterations and radical redesigns that some of the weapons went through, before ending up at the versions ultimately found in the final release. | ||
===Assault rifle=== | ===Assault rifle=== | ||
Early revisions of the [[MA5B assault rifle]] seemingly take influence from a number of sources, including the [[marathongame:MA-75 Assault Rifle/Grenade Launcher|MA–75B assault rifle]] from the ''[[Marathon]]'' series and the [https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/M41A_Pulse_Rifle|M41A Pulse Rifle] from ''Aliens'' - a film which ''Halo'' is heavily [[List of references to Aliens in the Halo series|based upon]]. Some of these early RTS and third-person era assault rifles also displayed obvious outward similarities to the [[Wikipedia:Objective_Individual_Combat_Weapon|Objective Individual Combat Weapon]] (OICW) program which was active in the 1990s (around the time ''Halo'' began development) and the [https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Morita_Assault_Rifle Morita assault rifle]] from 1997's ''Starship Troopers'' - the former of which likely inspired the MA5's in-universe designation "Individual Combat Weapon System" (ICWS), while the latter was similarly-influential on the ''Halo'' series as ''Aliens''. This early OICW-inspired design can be seen firing an underbarrel [[grenade launcher]]. | Early revisions of the [[MA5B assault rifle]] seemingly take influence from a number of sources, including the [[marathongame:MA-75 Assault Rifle/Grenade Launcher|MA–75B assault rifle]] from the ''[[Marathon]]'' series and the [https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/M41A_Pulse_Rifle|M41A Pulse Rifle] from ''Aliens'' - a film which ''Halo'' is heavily [[List of references to Aliens in the Halo series|based upon]]. Some of these early RTS and third-person era assault rifles also displayed obvious outward similarities to the [[Wikipedia:Objective_Individual_Combat_Weapon|Objective Individual Combat Weapon]] (OICW) program which was active in the 1990s (around the time ''Halo'' began development) and the [https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Morita_Assault_Rifle Morita assault rifle]] from 1997's ''Starship Troopers'' - the former of which likely inspired the MA5's in-universe designation "Individual Combat Weapon System" (ICWS), while the latter was similarly-influential on the ''Halo'' series as ''Aliens''. This early OICW-inspired design can be seen firing an underbarrel [[grenade launcher]]. | ||