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Subject: DOA Versus Halo?
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Guys, i know for a fact that the carachter is called Spartan 458, who is a spartan just like MC but is a female. I've seen screenshots in a book.

*Edit* Sorry guys apparently i'm not allowed to post that link, so i've removed it.

[Edited on 10/14/2005]

  • 10.14.2005 5:40 AM PDT
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Its a female spartan that looks much like the mc, named spartan 458 or something.

  • 10.14.2005 1:59 PM PDT

Q. What do you get when you add 1 man, 1 car, and 1 rocket built for a jet?

A. A black smudge on the side of a cliff.

Yeah, if you read the book, it's the last surviving spartan next to MC who, I hate to say, in both games hide saying "MC is the last."(Spartan)

  • 10.14.2005 11:51 PM PDT
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I think it should be a grunt, there would be class to play as. Also, eventhough there is a small chance of this happening, there should be a Halo arena for the match itself!

  • 10.15.2005 3:21 PM PDT
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i think it a cool idea

  • 10.17.2005 1:13 PM PDT
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mayby you can play as one of the flood or something. that would be kindo cool. or better yet mayby ajakel.
HEHEHE!!! the girls whould run away scremming while flipping their skirts up

  • 10.17.2005 2:19 PM PDT
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What a ***ing stupid idea that is!!!! it makes me soooo mad.what good is a halo character in dead or alive 4. Its soooooo gonna ruin the game. I am a dedicated dead or alive fan and i couldnt wait to play the 4th installment of the series, but now im not so sure. i mean on live we are going to get a bunch of halo prats who think they are great because they are using their special halo character.I am going to take much much much pleasure in kicking their asses!!!! i mean what will they do, they have know ighting style. If they use a gun then i will be soooooooo angry with you Bungie for one because of your meddling in my fave game series and also team ninja for their stupid ideas.Dont get me wrong i like the halo series aswell but i dont they should be mixed together.Now i know to just rent dead or alive 4 instead of buying it.Perfect dark zero it is then.
Laterz

  • 10.18.2005 10:26 AM PDT
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ok... uhm, why hasn't anyone thought of THIS:

Cortana could be Spartan 458.

It's DOA we're talking about. That means costumes, TONS of them. And I don't think it'll just be "RED SPARTAN", "BLUE SPARTAN", etc... I think we're dealing with someone under the helmet that we all know...

  • 10.19.2005 8:57 AM PDT
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Point Taken

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  • 10.20.2005 8:51 AM PDT
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Spartan-458 wasnt in any of the book's. Spartan creation ended with spartan 200. I think that is Kelly though. She was spartan 087 and at the end of First Strike she recieved 3rd degree burns. She was taken somewhere by Dr. Halsey which is never stated. I'm guessing that Dr. Halsey fixed her up and she renamed her becase she was somewhat of a newer version. The screen shots I saw of it look very sweet. Can't wait to get my hands on it. They were mag scans showing spartan 458 fighting herself and Ryu Hayabusa. There was a red and olive mjolnir suit shown. Oh, and they were fighting on Cairo Station.

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  • 10.20.2005 6:01 PM PDT
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you do relieze there was a secound generation of spartans? right? MC mentions it at couple of times, with inner monoluge.

  • 10.27.2005 6:14 PM PDT
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I love it how everyone thinks this is real.
Obviously no one remembers the little joke Nintendo had with Super Smash Bros' Melee.
They said that Sonic was a playable character, and they also had all kind of screenshots, and interviews, and employees saying that it's true, but in the end it was a joke.
My advice is to not believe everything you read or hear.
It's a joke people.
There isn't really a Spartan in DOA4.
Think to yourselves. How would it even work?
What did the covenant spawn from a DOA tournament and a Spartan came back through time to save the world by fighting in it.
Did a Spartan come back through time by accident and just decide to be a DOA fighter?
Come on you have to have more sense than that. Hey look it's gullibility!

  • 10.28.2005 11:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: morthaeus
I love it how everyone thinks this is real.
Obviously no one remembers the little joke Nintendo had with Super Smash Bros' Melee.
They said that Sonic was a playable character, and they also had all kind of screenshots, and interviews, and employees saying that it's true, but in the end it was a joke.
My advice is to not believe everything you read or hear.
It's a joke people.
There isn't really a Spartan in DOA4.
Think to yourselves. How would it even work?
What did the covenant spawn from a DOA tournament and a Spartan came back through time to save the world by fighting in it.
Did a Spartan come back through time by accident and just decide to be a DOA fighter?
Come on you have to have more sense than that. Hey look it's gullibility!


Ur so right go here

  • 10.28.2005 2:07 PM PDT
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It better be Sgt. Johnson, he's the kind of guy who would grab someone throw them to the ground and start beating the living daylights out of them. Plus his taunts would be hilarious!

P.S. There was only one group of SPARATANs altogether. The MC was their leader, and only about 4 or 5 others are still alive besides MC. There was no second generation.

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  • 10.29.2005 9:30 AM PDT
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Its mc
i saw the pictures

  • 10.30.2005 2:54 PM PDT
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Actually by what GI says it's a female Spartan named Spartan 458, but I know Bungie and Tecmo and they would never do something like this. It's a joke plain and simple. Their will not actually be any Halo related stuff in DOA 4. I don't know how anyone could be gullible enough to believe it, but I know better, but for all of the chowderheads out their....to quote their opinions..."Oh man it would be sooooo cool if the new char was like Cortana so we can see her holographic boobs jiggle!!"

  • 11.15.2005 11:44 AM PDT
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I get Game Informer also (and yeah that age old question of who would win in a fight between a Spartan and a ninja is answered: the ninja). I have the issue in front of me. Actually, in the third book, Eric Nylund wrote that there was supposed to be a third group of Spartans (Spartan-III; MC was part of the second group). So theoretically, Spartan-458 could be from father in the future and travelled back in time, but for what reason I'm oblivious to. It's not Cortana because of the suits override procedures that disallow any AI to gain control of it. And it's not the MC because the DOA universe is set much father back in time then the 2500's

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  • 11.20.2005 1:19 PM PDT
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Yes I remember that from the books, but like you said, why would a Spartan go back through time ? I mean it's not like she is fighting the Covenant in the DOA tournament. It doesn't make sense at all. A Spartan wouldn't waste all that time and resources to go back and enter into a DOA Tournament, unless it's like super future, and the characters are just clones of their former selves, now doesn't that sound bad? It can't be true. The statement that a Spartan is going to be in DOA 4 defies all logic of time and space.

  • 11.21.2005 12:23 PM PDT
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I'm sure the great developers at Team Ninja and Bungie with come up with a somewhat reasonable explanation as to why a Spartan would travel back in time. Or your DOA character clone theory could be right. Whatever the case, we must realize that ANYTHING is possible in the game world. Another thing...Most of DOA's star characters are female, and that everything but proves there will be a female Spartan in the game, for that will only increase DOA's reputation.

  • 11.21.2005 2:20 PM PDT
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i remember fighting with a daytona USA car vs Sonic on saturn, a spartan vs a ninja is'nt so surreal ! :-)

  • 11.22.2005 3:34 AM PDT
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Well that's understandable on Saturn, but this is Xbox 360, Tecmo, and Bungie we're talking about. Usually a series or system does something crazy like that in order to spark interest in other people. Take for example Soul Caliber. They added special characters that would appeal to certain people so that they would have more interest because that series would have a serious decline in the number of people who would play it without the special characters, but to agree with PeaceSword, if someone could pull off some crazy stunt like that it would be Tecmo, and Bungie, but in my opinion it will be fake until I see a fight between Ryu and Spartan 458 using the DOA 4 game engine. I want to see the actual fight, and not some CG bull that looks like it proves something. I mean any game developer can throw together a cutscene that looks like gameplay, but I want to see actual gameplay, better yet, I want to play a demo of the game being able to use Spartan 458 on the Halo inspired level. Since I have the incredible confidence that someone on this boar that is still active has gotten a 360 at midnight, and DOA4, I would like that person to beat the holy hell outta that game and find Spartan 458 if she is in there.

  • 11.22.2005 8:06 AM PDT
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I don't know if this is true or not, but apparently in an interview with 1up.com Itagaki (the man behind DOA) let the actual name of the Spartan slip. If this is true her name is Nicole.

  • 11.22.2005 8:15 AM PDT
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Damn me for finding new info, or at least new to me. This is what Bungie had to say about their character.

We’re going to tell you lots more about how this idea came to fruition in a future update, and we’ll tell you how this character fits into the Halo and DOA universe too. Don’t worry, Team Ninja handled the fighting style, and we handled the story aspects. You’ll be pleasantly surprised by the explanation for a Halo character in the DOA universe, even if it’s a bit tongue in cheek.

Now i'm starting to believe it. I hope this doesn't turn out like the time I started to believe in Santa Clause only to let the guy in and....he took me in his sleigh to do unmentionable things...he was arrested the next day and I found out his real name is Rory B. Wellows, a covicted rapist. Moral of the story don't believe in anything. If you believe in something you will be raped by a man with an incredibly weird name.


  • 11.22.2005 8:24 AM PDT
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someone tell me how is ayane and kasumi going to hit a spartan with his/her sheilds on and super powered up reflexes, strength and speed of the mjournir armor? I like the colour of the white green and red spartan-458 but yoo~! You just can't hit a sparten with a puny hand! ok I admit that ayane kasuni and other DOA charaters may be pretty or cool and that SP-458 is cool but I just don't get it...

  • 11.23.2005 6:27 AM PDT
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Like Bungie said. They have all of the details worked out. She is also linked into the storyline too. It will probably be some -blam!- where she lost her energy shield. If she is at all in the game Tecmo and Bungie will work out all of the little details. They always do.

  • 11.23.2005 12:11 PM PDT