Making Halo 4: A Hero Awakens

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Halo 4: A Hero Awakens is a video documentary by 343 Industries, about the development of Halo 4's storyline and character performances. It was released on YouTube on 1st September, 2012.

Transcript

• Armando Troisi: "I'm giving you the tools, right? I'm giving you the sandbox — i'm setting the table for you. But it's up to you to decide what you want to eat."

• Kiki Wolfkill: "Master Chief is human, he's not a machine, he's not a set of armor with a big weapon. He's a human with resilience and courage."

• Steve Downes: "Y'know I was so looking forward to this moment because for Master Chief, y'know the stoic soldier, the man of few words — all that. But there was this progression in terms of his emotional side. Even to the first three game. But this was going to be the great leap."

• Armando Troisi: "What happens when that soldier starts to discover his humanity?"

• Christopher Schlerf: "We had to create a situation that was gonna knock him out of his comfort zone; the Master Chief has settled into this comfort zone of being 'the hero'. It's interest early on how we discussed about the heroes' journey. How do you have a heroes' journey when he's already a hero?"

• Kiki Wolfkill: "What are the sacrifices that you have to make in order to preserve something as precious as humanity?"

• Christopher Schlerf: "The journey is the important part, the growth is the important part, and so really where does he still need to go as a human? That became the key not just the story of Halo 4 but the entire trilogy.

• Lindsay Lockhart: "We're really examining what sorts of burdens a guardian carries."

• Josh Holmes: "In a lot of ways, the story that we're telling in Halo 4 is about putting Chief in circumstances where he's forced to change, he's forced to take stock of himself."

• Lindsay Lockhart: "In a way, Chief is a guardian, Cortana is Chief's guardian, the Forerunners were the guardians of their own universe. And they might have to make a decision not everyone is going to agree with, and that some people might even condemn."

• Bruce Thomas: It's almost like you're a little kid, and you you're just playing make-belief again. So you imagine everything. The table's here, the plinth for Cortana is here, there's a window here. Ready, go."

MAKING HALO 4
A HERO AWAKENS
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