One lucky Destiny fan can now roam around his neighborhood wearing custom-built Titan armor after winning a contest held by Sony.
Sony commissioned effects artist Frank Ippolito and a team of designers to create the armor just for the contest: that creation took nearly five weeks, but the result was incredible: this is probably one of the most realistic versions of armor ever created from a video game.
Sony posted a video that describes the lengthy creation process, as well as shows how the team constructed the suit of armor. The build required a lot of materials, including leather, vinyl, foam, fiberglass and a lot of super glue.
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the video is the winner stating that he plans on giving the suit to his brother. No word if he'll keep the limited edition Destiny PlayStation 4, though, that he also won. Initially, Sony gave the winner his choice of armor: Warlock, Hunter or Titan.
Destiny is a first-person science fiction shooter MMO by Bungie, initially released in 2014. Players take on the roles of Guardians, who protect the last safe city on Earth. They use Light, a special power, to protect that city from invading aliens. They also travel to other planets to take out alien threats before those threats reach Earth. Since its release, Bungie also delivered three expansion packs for the game, the most recent being "The Taken King," which came out in September.
Since its release, Destiny received mixed reviews, but as of last year, the game had over three million players. Now that the game has been out for more than a year, though, it's likely that interest in it has begun waning, resulting in Bungie making some controversial moves, particularly in its new offering of paid-level boost packs to gamers who want to level up quickly. Many players criticized this decision, with critics saying that it's a sign that Destiny's time might soon come to an end.
"A pay-to-win game is not an attractive prospect for gamers, as this kind of environment trivializes in-game achievements and discourages those who expect that progress to come from proficiency," writes Polygon. "The thing that makes something a game has been fundamentally compromised. When this happens, the game is dead to us."
Destiny is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
