What would happen if the greatest stars in the gaming world dressed up as each other?

I wanted to find out, so Ichose to take everyone's favorite kid friendly plumber and dress him up as the not so kid friendly Kratos from the God of War game franchise. The textures are a simple 512 diffuse and 512 alpha map.  Both were created using a combination of hand painting and photo manipulation techniques. The model uses 2996 tri and was created in the course of a week during my free time.  Total work time would be around 20-25 hours including textures, rigging and putting together the final presentation. Mario was modeled in 3ds Max and textures were created with Photoshop. Renders are real time screen grabs from Max viewport using the Xoliul Shader.