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Halo 3 ODST female character quandary

September 8th 2009 21:19
Bungie and Microsoft love the Halo franchise, but what both companies seem to be ignoring is that despite the macho imagery within the game itself, some of us female gamers love the Halo franchise also. Prior to Halo ODST being officially shown I had fingers crossed that both MS and Bungie would actually include a female playable character in Halo ODST, but they didn't, the main Rookie character is a guy. Now given the armor clad nature of Halo ODST it has to be asked just how hard it would be to have changed up the voicework a little to include both genders so the player could choose their gender before starting a game? A little extra work yes, but not a huge amount. Bungie and MS seem to be trying to appease the female gamer community by once more including what can only be termed as peripheral story aiding characters, such as Dare, the female commander. Judging from the clips thus far released however, Dare is not treated as a commanding officer, but rather undermined by those she commands. There's an entire thesis on gender politics here, but the upshot of it seems to be that MS and Bungie are being sexist, given the futuristic setting of the game. We can cross fingers that perhaps one of those flashback levels we've heard about will feature Dare as a playable character, but given the latest live action advertising campaign for Halo ODST from MS, it looks like it's going to be one big grunt fest, with not a single female soldier seen in the advert, odd given Halo does feature female combat troops. Looks like whoever was in charge of putting that ad together needs a little slap.



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Comment by Jose

September 9th 2009 03:04


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Good post. Ironically, there's an ad for Evony right in the middle of it, a game which for all its supposed progressiveness is actually part of the problem. "Hey, we're the first free online game to have a large number of female players! We'll celebrate . . . by holding a beauty contest." Fail, facepalm, etc.

Comment by Hugo Guzman

September 10th 2009 17:29
Honestly I think they just didn't think about adding female characters up until now. They were probably more worried about not seeming racist than sexist since racism is usually abigger issue. I agree with you on the fact that they advertised poorly to attract female gamers though. Good post.

Comment by Troy Barden

February 23rd 2010 12:35
I'd date rape her!!!!!!

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