Bungie is 10 seconds too quick to close a thread,
but 10 years too late to answer our questions;
Posted by: bowens13
Posted by: Saioshi
The armor is entirely different, it's a different studio after all, look at the difference between the Spartan II's from Halo Wars.
Legs are a little different, shoulders are different entirely, helmet's front is slightly altered, the helmet to me looks a little smaller in general, the back is broader (probably to support the thrusters) hands and arms are slightly different, so yeah I'm going to go with different studio, slightly different armor.
as for the "symbol" looks to me like armor detail.
Lets not forget Reach is BEFORE HALO, that could be a NEWER model grenade launcher, no reason to try to compaie them to each other.Reach followed canon so stop trying to stop arguments dude. Also there is a canon reason for MC armor change. One more thing nothing in canon said it was onyx and if it is there will be the other spartan ll
Should we not forget the that wether Halo Wars was made by a different company or not, the fact of the matter is Cheif's armour is different because the Spartans in Halo Wars sports the Mark IV(4) Armour, not the V or the current VI.
[Edited on 06.20.2011 9:13 AM PDT]