Popular Post Adam91 Posted July 24, 2014 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 343 Industries revealed at their San Diego Comic-Con panel that Agent Jameson Locke will be a playable character in Halo 5: Guardians. The main topic 343 will be discussing with the community today is Halo: Nightfall a digital series produced by Ridley Scott and starring Mike Colter who will play the lead role as Agent Locke who 343 confirmed to be a playable in Halo 5: Guardians. Agent Locke made his first appearance in the Halo: The Master Chief Collection announcement trailer at E3 last month. He is a Spartan that was sent by ONI to find Master Chief and was seen speaking with the Arbiter in the trailer to gain information on Chiefs whereabouts. 343 Industries will be showing a preview of the show at today's panel which will be available to watch at a later time. Halo: Night fall will be released as a part of the Master Chief Collection package on November 11th and Halo 5: Guardians will be released towards the end of 2015. Are you excited to hear that Agent Locke will playable in Halo 5: Guardians, are you looking forward to seeing Halo: Nightfall? Source: IGN This post has been promoted to an article 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrhuntington Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 This should guarantee a much longer campaign than Halo 4. Unless I somehow find out you can't play as Master Chief, which would be a real surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Intel Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 This is, interesting I guess. I wouldn't have expected him to be a playable character but I think it'll turn out well. I'm really looking forward to Halo: Nightfall, especially with the new trailer out. So Agent Locke is a Spartan-IV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadly Just AL Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 So, he is not a LOCKEd character? That is fabulous news indeed... Just wondering what his gameplay will be like, with the new Spartan Abilities, it's a curiosity to find out if he wields any himself... Or if he's like chief, hyper lethal with merely a sidearm. We shall see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckoningZebra1 Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 Cool! Now I have a reason other than loving Halo to watch Nightfall. Really big news, Great Job Adam! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedStarRocket91 Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 So Agent Locke is a Spartan-IV? Looks that way, although that said he could be a recovered washout of the Spartan-II programme like Osman, or an enhanced Spartan-III like the members of Noble Team, as both generations of Spartan have also worked for ONI in the past. I wonder if, assuming that they're both playable protagonists, there's going to be any notable gameplay differences between Locke and the Chief? Certainly the armour that Locke's wearing looks quite radically different to anything we've seen before, so perhaps he'll have different Spartan Abilities, and of course being ONI he might have access to different equipment. From the trailer we saw at E3 showing Locke trying to trace the Chief's history, I'm wondering if Halo 5: Guardians could perhaps be set up as a Halo 3: ODST style of thing? You play as Locke in a big overworld or at least quieter versions of the regular missions tasked with hunting down the Chief, with an emphasis on stealth and exploration. When you get to a relevant clue or piece of evidence there's a flashback where you to get to play out what happened as the Chief in the traditional linear Halo style of mission, and at the end of the game both Spartans reunite to save the galaxy/try to kill each other. It would definitely form a nice narrative device, and since Locke is a fully fleshed-out character rather than just a player avatar like the Rookie, it could create some great storytelling opportunities. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WonderWombat Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 (edited) Has anyone seen the first look? Looks like this is before he is a Spartan or something like that. Also wonder if they are talking about flood related something. Warning, speculation incoming! What if this element who-ha has something to do with the flood. The precursors are all mad at humans for some reason, so now they have this thing which only targets humans. Fast-forward x amount of years and we find out this thing is now threatening humanity and it is discovered to be flood related. And who defeated the flood in the past? Master Chief! So now Locke, who has first hand experience with this thing has been hand picked to find Master Chief and get his help. But Master Chief is all sad now and won't help unless Cortana is back. Something will happen where Master Chief realizes that he doesn't need Cortana and decides to help humanity. Somewhere the Didact will also be involved. Edited July 24, 2014 by WonderWombat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrhuntington Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 Ridley Scott and the flood. A match made in heaven. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WonderWombat Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 Ridley Scott and the flood. A match made in heaven. I think it is my duty as the SUPER Arbiter to inform you that my title is better than yours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Is not JL Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 Wow. Who could have guessed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WonderWombat Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 (edited) Wow. Who could have guessed. Edited July 25, 2014 by WonderWombat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowFiend216 Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 This sounds very interesting. If it's like Halo 2, with a split-campaign, that'd be pretty great. But I also liked what Red had said about it being like ODST, which I enjoyed very much as well. If the Chief wasn't in it at all though, I'd be very shocked, which then again, ODST nor Reach had the Chief in them, and they were still good games, so who knows how it will turn out. I am very excited for the new series as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODST N Tarkov Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Halo 5 will be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldfreeze Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 I play Halo for the chief, Halo 2 also had a campaign that switched between protagonists all the time. let's hope 343 pulls it off better than bungie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Is not JL Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Looks that way, although that said he could be a recovered washout of the Spartan-II programme like Osman, or an enhanced Spartan-III like the members of Noble Team, as both generations of Spartan have also worked for ONI in the past. Considering that Nightfall has been billed as an origin story for Locke, it takes place after Halo 4 and prior to Halo 5, and Locke is seen wearing ODST armor, I'd assume he's a Spartan-IV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Intel Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Looks that way, although that said he could be a recovered washout of the Spartan-II programme like Osman, or an enhanced Spartan-III like the members of Noble Team, as both generations of Spartan have also worked for ONI in the past. I wonder if, assuming that they're both playable protagonists, there's going to be any notable gameplay differences between Locke and the Chief? Certainly the armour that Locke's wearing looks quite radically different to anything we've seen before, so perhaps he'll have different Spartan Abilities, and of course being ONI he might have access to different equipment. From the trailer we saw at E3 showing Locke trying to trace the Chief's history, I'm wondering if Halo 5: Guardians could perhaps be set up as a Halo 3: ODST style of thing? You play as Locke in a big overworld or at least quieter versions of the regular missions tasked with hunting down the Chief, with an emphasis on stealth and exploration. When you get to a relevant clue or piece of evidence there's a flashback where you to get to play out what happened as the Chief in the traditional linear Halo style of mission, and at the end of the game both Spartans reunite to save the galaxy/try to kill each other. It would definitely form a nice narrative device, and since Locke is a fully fleshed-out character rather than just a player avatar like the Rookie, it could create some great storytelling opportunities. Thanks for the reply. I'd also think he might be a Spartan-III, I doubt a Spartan-II though. If he was a Spartan-II it's likely that we'd already know about him, Chief certainly would. He's most likely to be an ONI agent that's suited as a Spartan-IV, or previously an ODST like JL suggested. I'd also expect there to be a noticeable change in the HUD. A Spartan-IV HUD, and a Spartan-II (with MJOLNIR Mark-VI Armour) HUD. Different layout, different options with it. Agent Locke's HUD would be far more advanced. I like where you're going with the Halo 3: ODST idea. I doubt it'll be anything like that but I see what you mean. When ever Locke get's to an area the Chief was at, it could take you back to a mission where Chief was actually killing whatever enemy there was in that area. He'll keep tracking these until he finds him in the end. I don't think it'll work out well though. It could just show two different sides of the story like what was done with Halo 2 between Chief and the Arbiter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose The Ace Posted July 26, 2014 Report Share Posted July 26, 2014 Well considering what we saw in the Halo Nightfall teaser he is either a Odst or more likely a Marine before he become a Spartan IV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Kenway Posted July 26, 2014 Report Share Posted July 26, 2014 Well considering what we saw in the Halo Nightfall teaser he is either a Odst or more likely a Marine before he become a Spartan IV. or a spook like Dare but wearing an ONI ODST variant like Dare did in ODST 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainCaboose Posted July 26, 2014 Report Share Posted July 26, 2014 When's the release date for halo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose The Ace Posted July 26, 2014 Report Share Posted July 26, 2014 ^ 2015, we know nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rue Posted August 2, 2014 Report Share Posted August 2, 2014 This is very exciting for me. Personally I think Halo is overdue for another playable character, it should make the game more interesting. I'm also hoping the Arbiter will return (I'm very sure he will) and be playable as well. I've always loved being a Sangheili(: Maybe eventually in later Halo games we will get to choose which characters we want to play as (similar to Borderlands maybe?) and they could each have different stories? Or maybe that could be a Halo spin-off? That would be cool, but it's just a thought of mine(: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Intel Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 When's the release date for halo 5 ^ 2015, we know nothing else. It'll release in Autumn (Fall) 2015. Most likely November, but November isn't for certain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterchief1996 Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 sounds great, i am mostly excited for the nightfall series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depressant Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 The trailer shows The Arbiter in the corner of Agent Locke's visor, so maybe The Arbiter is returning? I hope so, that will be AWESOME 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apoc Video Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 I wonder how his gameplay will be... I'm guessing Assassin like? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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