Nicole (Dead or Alive)
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| Nationality: | Martian |
| Gender: | Female |
| Birthdate: | December 19th |
| Age: | 21 |
| Blood type: | O |
| Height: | Without Armor: 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) With Armor: 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in |
| Weight: | Without Armor: 139 kg (307 lb) With Armor: 445 kg (980 lb) |
| Measurements: | B89 W54 H85 cm (B49 W30 H41 in) |
| Fighting Style: | CQB (Close Quarters Battle) |
| Occupation: | Commando |
| Favorite Food(s): | Halo-halo (Filipino dessert) |
| Hobbies: | Watching Anime, Competition shooting |
| Voice Actor(s): | Lyssa Browne |
| First Appearance: | Dead or Alive 4 |
Nicole is a fictional character from the Halo universe. She is a Petty Officer Second Class, codenamed Spartan-458, and appears in the video game Dead or Alive 4.
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[edit] History
[edit] Dead or Alive 4
Nicole was born in the year 2531 in the city of New Legaspi on Mars. At six years of age, she was abducted by agents of the Office of Naval Intelligence and conscripted into the SPARTAN-II program. The SPARTAN-II program was the UNSC's highly successful military project to augment and hone perfect soldiers.
Spartan-458's unit was preparing for a classified mission on Nassau Station when the ONI stealth ship Apocalypso tumbled into real-space – being carried along in the wake of a freak slipspace anomaly. The anomaly intersected Nassau Station; creating a semi-stable "bubble" in the space/time continuum on its way back to the 21st century.
For the time being, Nicole is trapped in the 21st century; guarding Nassau Station's secrets with all but lethal force (she realizes killing someone in the past could have dire consequences), waiting for the "bubble" to collapse and hopefully returning her to the year 2552.
[edit] Personality
Spartan-458 is a ruthless and efficient fighter who has killed countless times in the name of humanity. Like all other Spartans, she is dedicated to the mission, straying from it only to fulfill a more dire cause.
[edit] Gameplay
Nicole's fighting style is very quick and powerful, a variation of standard military close quarters combat. It is a style meant to incapacitate an armed opponent in a matter of seconds and take advantage of the Spartan's enhanced strength, as well as exploit any environmental advantages. Many of her moves have names alluding to the Halo universe such as "The Great Journey" and "The Grunt Punt", the former of which is a powerful move to send an opponent down stairs or off a ledge. Several technologies from Halo also appear in Nicole's repertoire including active camouflage and the plasma grenade.
[edit] Development
Nicole is the result of a collaboration between Tecmo's Team Ninja, and Microsoft's Bungie Studios. Team Ninja originally approached Bungie asking to use the Master Chief. That proved impossible due to storyline restrictions. But the staff at Bungie were intrigued with the idea and wanted to go forward with something similar. As a result, Bungie developed the concept of a Spartan not entirely connected to the Halo storyline that could conveniently (and somewhat plausibly) be inserted into the DOA universe. This concept evolved into the character of Nicole. Nearly all of the resources for her design came straight from the Halo 2 game data. The data was modified to work in the DOA game engine as a female combatant but keeping with the traditional Spartan design, as a feminine figure would not be very plausible for such a heavily armored individual pushed well beyond normal human limitations in regards to fitness and power.
[edit] Trivia
- Nicole is the only character in DOA4 to speak English. (Other characters in the game speak in Japanese.) However, she also speaks Japanese in two of her victory phrases. Though the reasons for this are unknown, it is quite possible that learning Japanese was part of her training as a SPARTAN-II.
- The ship Nicole is from, the Apocalypso, is also featured in the story The Haunted Apiary, as being the ship in which the AI Melissa took refuge, or was taken from.
