What the hell is going on with these new Halo 3 armours?

I have a lot of fondness for Halo 3’s art style, especially when it comes to multiplayer armour designs. The game manages to instill your faceless space marine with personality using relatively simple shapes and themes, painted in bold bright colours with strong silhouettes. 

I say this only after spotting that the next season of The Master Chief Collection will let you fight as an armoured Skeletor, as revealed in a Halo Waypoint blog post last night.

As art director Horia Dociu explains, Halo has always traded in old martial terms like Spartan, Mjolnir, Valhalla, and so on. It’s not that much of a stretch to turn Halo into For Honor, especially considering the base game already had a samurai-inspired outfit with flaming helmets and a functionally-useless katana strapped to the back.