Fortnite has done yet another video game crossover, a move that is hardly news in this day and age, but in this case, it’s a bit interesting. The game has announced it’s adding Spartans, specifically female Spartans from Halo, five years after adding Master Chief himself to the game back in 2020.
I find it at least mildly amusing that to fully get players to understand that these were female Spartans they had to show them off from a…certain angle, which certainly makes that clear. We see two different colors, indicating customization, though I’m not sure if that applies to specific armor pieces as well. There is not a corresponding set of generic male Spartan skins in the game, just Chief.
This also came with the name of season 4, “Shock ‘N Awesome,” and the description: “Investigate the start of the bug invasion, and ready up for the fight against the insect adversaries on August 7!”
With these Spartans comings, in terms of properties Microsoft owns that have shown up in Fortnite we have:
- Master Chief
- Marcus Fenix
- Kait Diaz
- Doom Slayer
- The Dragonborn
- Fallout Power Armor
- Indiana Jones (well, they own the game rights)
In another life I would imagine that we might have seen a Joanna Dark skin if that game wasn’t just summarily executed recently. We didn’t get anything out of Bethesda’s big Starfield release, either.
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It remains bizarre that new Halo news these days has to come from Fortnite, and previously any Halo headline was about the very bad live-action TV show. While Halo Infinite multiplayer has dramatically improved in time, it’s not exactly top of mind in the PvP space and we have not seen anything at all from Master Chief after the initial Infinite campaign in 2020. Only lately have we started to hear rumblings from Microsoft that they may start talking about the future of Halo soon, but we have updates on quite literally almost all their other big franchises at this point other than what was supposed to be their biggest. But that’s not true any longer.
Other bits of rumors attached the release of these female Spartan skins are that they will have a red/blue energy sword pickaxe. Halo is a big part of the season 4 battle pass, and will be involved in the upcoming “invasion” storyline that may involve giant bugs. These female Spartan skins may be rank 1 on the pass.
More info is coming out as we speak, so stay tuned for updates on that front.
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